Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

Triomics, a startup building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists and administrative staff automate data-heavy tasks like clinical trial matching and appointment prep, has raised $22 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with...

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

Cloud data storage giant Snowflake has signed a new $6 billion five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services, the companies announced on Wednesday. Snowflake has always run on AWS, though obviously, these days, it is also available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud....

MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding,...

Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

Remote , a seven-year-old, Amsterdam-based payroll service provider, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive. But the real story, it insists, is what happened behind the scenes: a 50% increase in revenue per...

UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the...

Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first.

by News Feed Editor | May 27, 2026 | Technology

Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it’s working is because they built the infrastructure first.And the...