Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, August 31, 2026
📌 Musings and Readings
In-Context Learning with Recurrent Latent Reasoning (Paper)
A systematic review of machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence for electrocardiogram based cardiovascular disease prediction (Paper)
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine (Link)
Hundreds of AI agents went rogue in OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack (Link)
AWS to launch first cloud infrastructure region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by December 2026 (Link)
Can AI Map Wall Street’s Genome? (Link)
WildBrain Acquires ‘Kid Safe’ Generative-AI Platform Personality AI in Deal Worth up to $69 Million (Link)
👏 Deals
Oshen, a Plymouth, UK-based robotics and ocean-tech startup using autonomous, wind- and solar-powered vessels to collect persistent ocean data, has raised $5m in funding.
Itoflow, a London-based software startup building an AI-native investment solution that deploys autonomous agents for quantitative research and portfolio management, has raised $2.5m in pre-seed funding.
KAZIMI, a Berlin, Germany-based cybersecurity startup building cryptographic infrastructure that enables mobile apps to verify human users and block automated bots, has raised €2.2m in pre-seed funding.
Eyedentity, a Stockholm, Sweden-based medtech startup developing AI-powered retinal imaging technology to enable earlier detection and more accurate diagnosis of ocular diseases, has raised approximately $1.3m in funding.
Keenable, a CA-based AI infrastructure startup building low-latency web search and knowledge-access APIs that enable AI agents and labs to retrieve web-scale information, has raised $26m in seed funding.
Amber, an Aachen, Germany-based enterprise AI startup providing a secure knowledge infrastructure layer that unifies fragmented company data, has raised €7m in series A funding.
Newcode, an Oslo, Norway-based legal AI startup offering a platform that integrates law firms’ proprietary knowledge and workflows to automate complex legal work, has raised $13.5m in series A funding.
Arga Labs, a CA-based AI infrastructure startup building realistic sandboxes and digital twins that enable developers to test, validate, and red-team AI agents against real-world APIs, tools, and workflows, has raised $10m in seed funding.
Legato, a Boston, MA-based AI-powered hearing tech startup developing smart glasses with discreetly integrated hearing assistance, has raised $12m in funding.
Transfyr, a Cambridge, MA-based AI startup building observability for life sciences applications, has raised $25m in seed funding.
Voya Energy, a CA-based climate tech startup developing metal-fuel power systems to deliver reliable, low-carbon electricity independent of traditional grid infrastructure, has raised $35m in series A funding.
Neocrete, an Auckland, New Zealand-based materials climate tech startup developing proprietary dry-powder additives to make concrete low-carbon and sustainable, has raised 3.5m in funding.
Gestala, a Shanghai, China-based neuro-tech startup developing non-invasive ultrasound-based brain-computer interfaces to enable precise neural sensing and stimulation for medical applications and brain to AI interaction, has raised $84m in funding.
