Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, September 22, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
‘Stargate of China’ plan emerges to challenge US as AI superpower (Link)
U.S. Navy Begins Search for Machine Learning Combat Assistants on Submarines (Link)
In ageing Japan, warehouse work becomes a job for machines (Link)
How AI could radically change schools by 2050 (Link)
TextMine: LLM-Powered Knowledge Extraction for Humanitarian Mine (Link)
VCBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Venture Capital (Link)
Made in Wisconsin: The world’s most powerful AI datacenter (Link)
👏 Deals
Spara, a NYC-based company providing an AI-powered platform that helps marketing teams engage leads across chat, email, and voice to boost conversions, has raised $15m in seed financing.
MedSetGo, a CA-based healthtech startup using AI to streamline hospital discharge and post-acute care coordination through automation, has raised $2.4m in seed financing.
Ethosphere, a WA-based retail tech startup offering voice AI to analyze in-store customer-associate conversations, has raised $2.5m in pre-seed financing.
uiAgent, a NYC-based company providing AI agents to automate repetitive accounting workflows, has raised $4.6m in seed financing.
Ordinal, an AR-based company providing an AI-powered research assistant that enables local governments to access information from official municipal documents, has raised $1m in seed financing.
Eve Security, a TX-based cybersecurity startup focusing on securing autonomous AI agents, has raised $3m in seed financing.
Fabrix Security, an Israel-based company providing an identity security platform that automates access across cloud and on-premise environments, has raised $8m in seed financing.
Senpi, a FL-based company offering an AI-powered crypto wallet optimized for the Base blockchain, has raised $4m in seed financing.
Ray Security, an Israeli-based cybersecurity company developing an AI-powered predictive data security platform, has raised $11m in seed financing.
Vibranium Labs, a NYC–based company developing an always-on AI incident engineer that proactively monitors, triages, and resolves IT issues, has raised $4.6m in seed financing.
Centari, a NYC–based company providing a deal intelligence platform that transforms complex transactional documents into structured legal and financial insights, has raised $14m in financing.