SDI Presence is strengthening its AI and data game with the appointment of Garrick Schermer as AI Data Strategy & Governance Lead. Schermer, a 25-year veteran of enterprise data architecture and analytics, will spearhead the consultancy’s efforts to guide clients through the messy but mission-critical world of data governance, cloud modernization, and AI readiness.
Somite.ai, a biotech startup building foundation models for human stem cells, has landed a strategic investment from AMD Ventures. The deal follows Somite’s $47 million Series A raise in May, led by Khosla Ventures, and adds serious compute firepower to the company’s mission: using large-scale AI to transform the way cell therapies are discovered and developed.
Runloop, fresh off a $7 million seed raise, wants to end one of software development’s most maddening bottlenecks: environment setup. Today, the company unveiled Repository Connect, a feature that automatically provisions secure, production-ready environments from GitHub repositories in seconds—removing a major roadblock for teams deploying AI coding agents at scale.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot just took a leap forward—literally and figuratively. In a newly released video, Atlas performs a long sequence of packing, sorting, and organizing tasks powered by a Large Behavior Model (LBM), a neural network that treats locomotion and manipulation as one unified system.
Finch AI is doubling down on agentic AI—this time with two specialized agents designed to enrich its entity intelligence capabilities and sharpen text analytics performance in real time.
