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The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security

The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to do something close to the opposite. Glow has emerged from stealth with […]

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AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth

The artificial intelligence industry has no shortage of users. The harder problem is turning that usage into a sustainable business. As generative AI applications spread across consumer and enterprise markets, developers are confronting an unusual combination of opportunities and pressures. AI can make software faster to build and easier to distribute, but the costs of […]

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Substack adds AI detection to fight ‘Claudefishing’

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an AI-detection feature. In a pointed post titled “Against Claudefishing,” chief […]

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To prove the anti-AI Pope’s words were human, his camp used AI

To defend an anti-AI Pope from claims a machine helped write his words, his camp reached for an unlikely tool: AI. An Australian firm has certified Pope Leo XIV’s writings as human-made, using a suite of the very detectors the technology has spawned. Pope Leo XIV has made AI one of his defining themes. His […]

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Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents

Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led fintech behind Square and Cash App, […]

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Databricks’ cofounder just raised $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

The company came out of stealth on Tuesday. The founders built it at UC Berkeley, in the same lab that produced Spark, Databricks, and Anyscale. The team includes Zongheng Yang and Databricks co-founders Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. The star-studded cheque Lux Capital led the $20 million seed, Fortune first reported. Coatue, Amplify, Foundation, Race, […]

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Fig Expands Platform Across the Full SecOps Engineering Lifecycle, Making Resilience the Default

Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve security, they can also create unintended consequences by disrupting detection pipelines and leaving organizations with visibility gaps. Fig believes the problem […]

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Empirical Security raised $25M to predict which flaws hackers will actually exploit

Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief executive Ed Bellis told Axios, which first reported the round. It takes […]

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This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software

The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Backers include Touring Capital, Principal VC, executives at major […]

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Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner

Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […]

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