Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, September 29, 2025

📌 Musings and Readings

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined (Link)

Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job (Link)

The new “CRESt” platform could help find solutions to real-world energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades. (Link)

Advancing the measurement of investments in artificial intelligence (Link)

Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world (Link)

👏 Deals

Unit 221B, a NYC–based company developing a cybersecurity intelligence platform specializing in threat intelligence, digital forensics, ransomware response, and advanced investigations, has raised $5m in seed financing.

Tilt, a FL-based fintech company offering an AI-powered direct indexing and thematic investing platform with tax optimization, has raised $7.1m in seed financing.

Salt AI, a CA–based company providing a contextual AI workflow platform for healthcare and life sciences, enabling multi-model orchestration with visual and code-based tools, has raised $10m in financing.

Veridox, a Manchester, UK-based company providing a forensic fraud detection platform for insurers that analyzes claim documents for manipulation, has raised £1m in financing.

Scindo, a London-based startup turning renewable and recycled feedstocks into sustainable high-value bio-based ingredients, has raised £4m in financing.

Mycroft, a Canada-based cybersecurity company that automates and unifies security and compliance management, has raised $3.5m in financing.

Genstore, a CA–based company developing an e-commerce platform that enables small businesses to launch and manage online stores through conversational AI agents, has raised $10m in seed financing.

Wexler.ai, a London-based legaltech company developing AI agents that assist law firms and legal teams in complex dispute resolution, has raised $5.3m in seed financing.

Cetasol, a Sweden-based greentech company developing decision-support tools to help maritime operators reduce fuel consumption, and emissions, has raised €2.3m in seed seed financing.

Lifeguard, a TX-based company providing a personal cybersecurity platform that combines AI-powered detection and active alerts, has raised $1.3m in seed financing.

Trismik, a Cambridge, UK-based startup offering an AI evaluation platform that uses adaptive testing to efficiently and accurately measure large language model performance, has raised £2.2M in Pre-seed financing.

Yasp.ai, a Munich, Germany-based startup building an agentic AI compiler that automates and optimizes deep learning model performance, has raised $5m in seed financing.