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Vega raises $120M Series B to rethink how enterprises detect cyber threats
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store…
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Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip
The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits,…
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Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records
A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps,…
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Tem raises $75M to remake electricity markets using AI
As AI data centers drive up electricity prices, London-based startup Tem thinks AI might be able to help…
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Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company has filed a court complaint saying it was already…
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The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
OpenAI announced last week that it will retire some older ChatGPT models by February 13. That includes GPT-4o,…
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How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated.…
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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and…
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Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors
Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had…
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ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI
ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI – the…