Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) April 20, 2025 by appcompact
Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios) April 20, 2025 by appcompact
Revel, which builds software for controlling critical hardware like rockets, emerges from stealth with $30M in funding, including a ~$23M Series A led by Thrive (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) April 20, 2025 by appcompact
Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt (CTech) April 20, 2025 by appcompact
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a "content coin" on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens (Ben Weiss/Fortune) April 19, 2025 by appcompact
Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave (Sri Muppidi/The Information) April 19, 2025 by appcompact
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) April 19, 2025 by appcompact
A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is "a big breakthrough" (Every) April 19, 2025 by appcompact
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots (Wall Street Journal) April 19, 2025 by appcompact
Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration's removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space (New York Times) April 19, 2025 by appcompact