Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, November 24, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
California DMV expands permitted areas for Waymo robotaxis (link)
Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business (link)
EU to delay 'high risk' AI rules until 2027 after Big Tech pushback (link)
group chats in ChatGPT (link)
Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities (link)
Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT (link)
Each Time AI Gets Smarter, We Change the Definition of Intelligence (link)
👏 Deals
RebuilderAI, a Seoul, South Korea-based startup developing a product that transforms 2D sketches or scans into production-ready 3D models, has raised early-stage financing.
VoizeAI, a Berlin, Germany-based startup providing an AI voice assistant that enables caregivers to dictate care notes via smartphone, has raised $50m in Series A financing.
No Barrier, a CA-based company providing an AI-powered, HIPAA-compliant medical interpretation platform for healthcare providers, has raised $2.7m in seed financing.
AlertD, a CA-based company developing an AI-native SRE and DevOps platform that uses specialized agents to give engineers instant visibility, insights, and automation across their AWS environments, has raised $3m in pre-seed financing.
Span, a CA-based company offering a developer intelligence platform, has raised $25m in seed and series A financing.
Cellbyte, a Munich, Germany-based company providing an AI-native platform for pharma pricing and market access teams, has raised $2.75m in seed financing.
GetVocala, a Paris, France-based developing a conversational AI platform, has raised $26m in series A financing.
Freya, providing a voice AI platform that provides human-like, compliant virtual agents for enterprises in regulated industries like banking, insurance, and fintech, has raised $3.5m in financing.
Jiga, a CA-based company offering an AI-powered manufacturing platform, has raised $12m in series A financing.
CraftStory, a CA-based company developing an AI-video platform, has raised $2m in financing.
Orion, a CO-based company developing an geospatial risk intelligence platform that provides real-time threat assessments, has raised $3.5m in financing.
Kaaj, a CA-based company offering an agentic AI credit intelligence platform that automates and accelerates small-business loan underwriting, has raised $3.8m in seed financing.
alphaXiv, a CA-based company developing an interactive platform that helps AI researchers and engineers explore, discuss, and translate preprint papers into practical, production-ready insights and tools, has raised $7m in seed financing.
Relixir, a CA-based company offering a Generative Engine Optimization platform that enhances brand visibility and lead generation through AI-powered search content optimization, has raised $2m in seed financing.
Cassidy Bio, a Tel Aviv–based biotech company developing an AI-driven genomic foundation model to design safer and effective gene-editing therapies, has raised $8m in seed financing.