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Normal Computing Corp., a startup that’s trying to reinvent the fundamental physics of artificial intelligence, said today it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Samsung Catalyst ...

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A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...