Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/05…
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…
Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
Davi Gama Hardman, Cesar Fran\c{c}a, Brody Stuart-Verner, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20407
DOJ announces takedown of record $14.6B in health care fraud (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377228-doj-health-care-fraud-takedown-dan-bongino/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p115#a250630p115
Interactive Adversarial Testing of Autonomous Vehicles with Adjustable Confrontation Intensity
Yicheng Guo, Chengkai Xu, Jiaqi Liu, Hao Zhang, Peng Hang, Jian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21814
Epstein grand jury transcripts include testimony from two witnesses, feds say (Jeremy Roebuck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/30/epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-include-testimony-two-witnesses-feds-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p49#a250730p49
Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb1315e8-27df-4a93-a4dc-11e2883fdde3
Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-content-moderation-changes-decrease-r…