Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, June 2, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
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📌 Musings and Readings
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse (Wired)
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back. (WSJ)
The Real Reason the OpenAI-Jony Ive Partnership Is So Strange (Link)
For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here (NYTimes)
How AI use impacts the environment and what you can do about it (WEF)
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery (MIT)
👏 Deals
WorkDone, a CA-based startup developing an AI platform to enhance healthcare compliance by integrating with EHRs to automate billing, enforce protocols, and reduce audit risk, has raised $1.8m in financing.
Clear Current, a NM-based company developing an energy management platform that helps large energy users optimize costs, validate utility bills, and streamline procurement through real-time data and centralized tools, has raised over $4m in seed financing.
Bito, a CA-based company developing an AI-powered platform that automates code reviews and developer assistance, helping software teams improve code quality, speed up pull request merges, and reduce errors, has raised $5.7m in seed financing.
Superblocks, a NY-based company developing a solution that enables enterprises to quickly build and manage secure internal apps using natural language, a visual editor, and extensible React code, has raised $23m in series A in financing.
Cerby, a CA-based company developing an identity and access management solution that secures and automates access to non-standard apps by enabling SSO, MFA, and user lifecycle management, has raised $40m in series B in financing.
Pillar Biosciences, a MA-based company developing advanced cancer diagnostics with FDA-approved sequencing technologies for tumor profiling and liquid biopsy testing, has raised $34.5m in financing.
CloudZero, a MA-based company developing a cost intelligence platform that helps engineering and FinOps teams gain visibility into cloud spending, optimize costs, and improve unit economics, has raised $56m in series C in financing.
Atomic Canyon, a CA-based company leveraging advanced AI to modernize the nuclear energy sector by enabling rapid, accurate access to complex regulatory data and improving operational efficiency, has raised $7m in financing.
Creatify, a CA-based company developing an AI platform to quickly transform product links and descriptions into professional, engaging video ads, has raised $15.5m in series A in financing.
Hex, a CA-based company developing an analytics solution that combines code, no-code, and real-time collaboration to help teams analyze and visualize data in a unified workspace, has raised $70m in series C in financing.
Vivodyne, a CA-based company focusing on revolutionizing drug discovery by using lab-grown human organ models and AI to generate scalable, human-relevant preclinical data, aiming to replace animal testing and improve clinical trial success, has raised $40m in series A in financing.
Vima Therapeutics, a MA-based company developing innovative treatments for dystonia and related movement disorders, has raised $60m in series A in financing.