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TechCrunch May 18, 2026 at 11:00 Startups Rising Hot

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era.

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Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family...

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Momentum is building quickly, so this card is a good early entry point into the topic.

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