Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, August 11, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
What's next for AI at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence lab (60 Minutes)
How Llama helps Biofy Technologies in the fight against antibiotic resistance (Link)
Will your job survive AI? (Link)
You Are What You Eat: Why Your AI Security Tools Are Only as Strong as the Data You Feed Them (Link)
IBM Report: 13% Of Organizations Reported Breaches Of AI Models Or Applications, 97% Of Which Reported Lacking Proper AI Access Controls (Link)
👏 Deals
Streamline AI, a CA-based company that helps in-house legal teams automate intake, triage, workflows, and reporting, has raised $8.6m in Series A financing.
Deep Cogito, a CA-based startup developing open-source, self-improving AI models to advance toward general superintelligence, has raised $13m in seed financing.
Resolvd AI, a NYC-based enterprise automation startup offering AI agents to automate manual reconciliation workflows, has raised $1.6m in pre-seed financing.
August, a NYC-based legal-tech startup providing configurable AI tools to help midsize law firms automate document-heavy tasks, has raised $7m in financing.
Raise Robotics, a CA–based startup building mobile robotic platforms that automate high-risk construction tasks has raised over $7m in early financing.
OLarry, a CA-based tax advisory startup leveraging AI to provide flat fee-based tax planning and compliance services for high-net-worth individuals and businesses, has raised $10m in Series A financing.
Kontext, a CA-based company developing an AI-driven advertising platform that delivers real-time ads within generative AI apps, has raised $10m in seed financing.
Bhindi.io, a Singapore-based AI startup providing an intent-driven interface powered by autonomous agents to help users automate tasks across apps, has raised $4m in pre-seed financing.
Menos AI, a CA-based startup automating workflow operations in asset management, has raised $5.2m in seed financing.
Elion, a NYC-based company developing an AI-driven platform that helps healthcare organizations discover and assess digital health vendors, has raised $9.3m in seed financing.
Translucent AI, a NYC-based company providing an AI-powered financial platform that helps healthcare organizations instantly analyze performance, generate forecasts, and make data-driven decisions, has raised $7m in seed financing.
Perle, a CA-based company developing an AI training-data platform that combines expert human annotation with modular workflows, has raised $9m in seed financing.