Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, July 14, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
🎥. My latest conversation is with Adam Baron, Head of Quantitative Research at StarMine, London Stock Exchange. We discussed the latest StarMine Holdings model and best practices in building robust quantitative / machine learning models. (YouTube)
📌 Musings and Readings
Meta plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure (link)
Many Americans turn to AI for health answers despite accuracy warnings (link)
Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare (link)
European Commission publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (link)
👏 Deals
Parter, an Israel and NYC-based company developing a platform that unifies hardware and supply chain data, has raised $5.5m in seed financing.
Synfini, a CA-based company providing a drug discovery platform that combines neuro-symbolic chemistry models and automated synthesis for small-molecule therapeutics, has raised $8.9m in financing.
Pimloc, a London-based AI video privacy company that automatically redacts sensitive information from video and audio with accuracy and speed, has raised $5m in financing.
XerpaAI, a Singapore-based company that uses AI assistant tooling to help replace the traditional CMO role with focus on user acquisition, engagement, and business outcomes, has raised $6m in seed financing.
Polimorphic, a NYC-based company providing AI-powered tools to help local governments digitize services, has raised $18.6m in series A in financing.
Sundia, a CA-based company developing an analytics platform that helps quickly generate insights and build dashboards, has raised $16m in series A in financing.
Parspec, a CA-based company that automates product selection, quoting, and documentation for construction distributors, has raised $20m in series A in financing.
ZeroEntropy, a CA-based company developing secure document search optimized for RAG and agent-based applications, has raised $4.2m in seed financing.
LGND AI, a NYC-based company developing a geospatial AI platform that transforms satellite and Earth observation data into geographic embeddings, has raised $9m in financing.
RealSense, a CA-based AI-powered 3D vision company specializing in depth-sensing cameras and perception systems for robotics, automation, and biometrics, has raised $50 million in Series A funding.