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Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A (Reuters)

Reuters:
Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A  —  Lace, a Norway-headquartered chipmaking equipment startup which is backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million in funding …

Xbox Partner Preview to highlight Stranger Than Heaven, The Expanse, and more

The March 26 Xbox preview event will focus on third-party titles, including The Expanse: Osiris reborn and RGG Studio's next big game

Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)

Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal:
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed  —  Doctronic, which just raised $40 million, links patients to human doctors in virtual visits and has a pilot program that refills prescriptions.

Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first "multi-silicon inference cloud" for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A  —  Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup …

Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more  —  Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT.  Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.