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McKesson, Merck back Atropos Health’s $33M round to accelerate drug development with AI

Atropos Health, a healthcare technology company focused on generating personalized real-world evidence, announced today that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round included strategic investments from healthcare giants McKesson, Merck, and Cencora Ventures, signaling strong industry interest in Atropos’ mission to bring automated, high-quality evidence to patient care…
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Mojo Rising: The resurgence of AI-first programming languages

Blink, and you might just miss the invention of yet another programming language. The old joke goes that programmers spend 20% of their time coding and 80% of their time deciding what language to use. In fact, there are so many programming languages out there that we are not sure how many we actually have. It’s probably safe to say there are at least 700 programming languages lingering in…
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Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan

Stability AI is finally bringing its generative AI technology for text and video content to Discord. The new Stable Artisan Discord bot service officially launched today, enabling users to generate images with Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and video with Stable Video Diffusion…
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Runway’s LA film festival marked an inflection point for AI movies

The 2nd Annual International AI Film Festival (AIFF), which took place in Downtown Los Angeles on May 1st, marked a pivotal moment for generative AI’s Hollywood integration.  The showcase, which was produced by New York City-headquartered generative AI video startup Runway, also included partnership support from the well-established Tribeca Film Festival and Geneva International Film Festival…
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Espresso AI emerges from stealth with $11M to tackle the cloud cost crisis

Espresso AI, a stealthy Silicon Valley artificial intelligence startup, has raised over $11 million in seed funding to bring the power of AI to perhaps the biggest challenge in enterprise computing today: reining in runaway cloud costs. The funding includes a seed round led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, and a pre-seed round led by Matt Turck at FirstMark, with participation from industry…
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