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Vijay Pande’s New AI Biotech Venture Bets on Fewer Deals, Deeper Involvement

Vijay Pande explains why his new AI biotech firm is making fewer bets, using AI internally and focusing on healthcare delivery and trials.

Lambda’s AI debt spree includes a $1 billion loan to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft, highlighting the boom in AI infrastructure financing.

Artist scraping hit Cara in August, but the first scraper is now helping build Lantern, an open-source tool to track AI dataset use.

AI assistant startup Instinct raised $250 million in Series B funding, reaching a $2.5 billion valuation amid privacy concerns.

Bill Gates backs a robot tax and Human Reserved jobs, adding new urgency to the robot tax debate over AI, labor and policy.

Physical AI startups are booming, but robotics still lacks the data and reliability needed for a true breakthrough in physical AI.

Arga Labs raised $10 million to train enterprise AI agents in realistic software twins built for Salesforce, Workday and more.

Runable raised $21 million to expand AI agents that help small businesses build websites, run ads, and grow customers.

Robotics startup Generalist reached a $3 billion valuation after fresh 8VC-led funding, bringing its Series B to $600 million.

AI presentation startup Gamma acquired Lica to build a new design research lab focused on multimodal, personalized visual communication.