We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists. Now we […]
Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app
Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not […]
Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B, says it’s ‘ready’ to start developing drugs
Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery. On Tuesday, […]
Women in AI: Allison Cohen on building responsible AI projects
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve […]
Is AI good or bad? A deeper look at its potential and pitfalls
Is AI good or bad? It’s an important question, but the answer is more complicated than “yes” or “no.”
Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Artificial intelligence can find hidden signals in data across healthcare, and companies like Nvidia are leaning into what this can mean. For example, it announced two dozen new […]
Cure51 raises a €15M Seed round aiming to crack the code on cancer survival
Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had another idea. They decided to turn the model around 180 […]
Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as […]
Innovation Endeavors closes $630M for Fund V to invest at intersection of science, tech
Innovation Endeavors joins other venture capital firms like Thomvest Ventures and Myriad Venture Partners in announcing a new fund. This is the firm’s fifth fund and a whopping […]
Alphabet quantum spin-out Sandbox AQ acquires Good Chemistry
Sandbox AQ, the AI and quantum firm spun out of Google parent company Alphabet in 2022, has acquired Good Chemistry, a Vancouver-based quantum and computational chemistry startup, for […]