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Nabla, which offers an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, raised a $70M Series C led by HV Capital and says it now supports 85K+ clinicians (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/nabla-ai-copilot-agents-healthcare-funding/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p25#a250617p25
Anysphere debuts a $200/month Ultra plan for Cursor with 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI vs. its $20/month Pro plan (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/anysphere-launches-a-200-a-month-cursor-ai-coding-subscription/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p24#a250617p24
Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p23#a250617p23
Waymo expands its coverage area in San Francisco and LA by 80 square miles each, bringing its total coverage area in California to 250 square miles (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688202/waymo-sf-la-service-area-expand-robotaxi
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p22#a250617p22
Google makes Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro generally available and introduces 2.5 Flash-Lite, which it says is its most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p21#a250617p21
Salesforce says it will increase prices on many products in August, including Slack; major product lines will see a 6% increase on average (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/salesforce-increases-prices-as-it-promotes-new-ai-features
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p20#a250617p20
Eigen Labs raised $70M via a token purchase by a16z and launched EigenCloud, which helps developers cryptographically prove what happens in off-chain apps (Liam Wright/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/06/17/eigen-labs-raises-70-million-from-a16z-for-ethereum-restaking/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p19#a250617p19
Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-amazon-advertising-partnership-1236291883/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p18#a250617p18
AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sword-health-nabs-40m-at-4b-valuation-pushes-ipo-plans-to-at-least-2028/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p17#a250617p17
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise $4.3B via an equity investment on top of the $5B it has recently been trying to borrow from debt investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-in-talks-to-raise-4-3-billion-in-equity-funding
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p16#a250617p16
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is in talks to raise $4.3 billion through an equity investment on top of the $5 billion it has recently been trying to borrow from debt investors, according to information the company shared with investors who asked not to be identified because it is private.
