Funding
AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment (opens siliconangle.com)
Bristol Myers Squibb led the Series E at a $3 billion valuation.
Funding
Ex-OpenAI science chief Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M for drug chemistry (opens siliconangle.com)
Kevin Weil, formerly OpenAI's science lead, is building a chemistry contract research organization; TechCrunch says human chemists will train robots for lab tasks.
Funding
Robotics startup Enact Intelligence nabs $30M funding round (opens siliconangle.com)
Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence today announced that it has raised $30 million in pre-seed funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Yann LeCun, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers.
Launch
Google Cloud introduces Agent Compute Engine to host AI agents (opens siliconangle.com)
Google LLC’s cloud unit today introduced Agent Compute Engine, an infrastructure service optimized to host artificial intelligence agents. AI agents run in technology environments called sandboxes. They host the applications, data and user instructions that agents need to carry out their work.
Launch
Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals (opens siliconangle.com)
Anthropic PBC Wednesday introduced Claude Duet, a proactive artificial intelligence agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in.
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