Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 12, 2025

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📌 Musings and Readings

A Potential Path to Safer AI Development (Link)

Walgreens doubles down on prescription-filling robots to cut costs (Link)

AI Has Upended the Search Game. Marketers Are Scrambling to Catch Up (Link)

Insurers Begin Covering AI Mishap-Related Losses (Link)

Agent Development Kit: Making it easy to build multi-agent applications (Google)

👏 Deals

Windfall, a CA-based company developing consumer insights, wealth screening, and predictive modeling using a secure, machine learning-powered platform to help organizations make data-driven decisions across various industries, has raised $65m in series A in financing.

Hostie, a CA-based company developing an AI platform that automates guest communication for restaurants — handling calls, texts, and emails to manage reservations, orders, and inquiries, has raised $4m in seed financing.

Anysphere, a CA-based company developing tools for software development to boost coding speed and intelligence, has raised $900m in financing.

Atlas Data Storage, a CA-based company developing DNA data storage, providing a solution for encoding and retrieving digital information using synthetic DNA, has raised $155m in funding.

Armatus Bio, a OH-based company developing RNAi gene therapies for rare neuromuscular diseases like FSHD and CMT1A, has raised $3m in financing.

Rentana, a NYC-based company developing an AI platform for multifamily property owners, offering pricing insights, lease renewal management, and predictive analytics to optimize revenue, occupancy, and efficiency, has raised $5m in seed financing.

OX, a MA-based company developing an AI-driven platform for Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), integrating various security tools to enhance visibility, prioritize risks, and automate remediation across the software development lifecycle, has raised $60m in series B in financing.

Lovelace AI, a PA-based company developing AI-powered solutions, including its flagship platform Elemental, to deliver real-time, actionable insights for national security, disaster response, and complex commercial operations, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed financing.

Statsig, a WA-based company offering a unified product development platform with tools for experimentation, analytics, and feature management, enabling faster, data-driven decisions at scale, has raised $100m in series C financing.

Parloa, a Berlin-based company developing an AI agent management platform to power virtual agents for customer interactions across multiple channels, integrating with enterprise systems for real-time data and security, has raised $120m in series C financing.

Inductive Bio, a NYC-based company developing AI-driven tools for small-molecule drug discovery has raised $25m in series A financing.

Pathex, a TX-based company developing investigational devices for sepsis treatment, including PATH EX Therapeutic, which removes pathogens from blood, and PATH EX Diagnostic, which rapidly isolates pathogens for identification, has raised $5m in financing.

Clarium, a NYC-based company developing an AI-powered platform, Astra OS, to optimize hospital supply chain operations, has raised $27m in series A in financing.