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Lasso Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises ensure their workers use large language models securely, launched today with $6 million in funding. The capital was provided by Entrée Capital, the lead investor in the round, and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Next …
AI coup: Sam Altman fired from OpenAI after board finds he wasn’t ‘consistently candid’
Updated with potential reasons, new statements, departures and other developments: Sam Altman will step down from his role as chief executive of OpenAI LP after the company found that he “was not consistently candid” with the board. The artificial intelligence developer announced the …
Amazon lays off hundreds from Alexa unit amid generative AI refocus
Amazon.com Inc. is letting go hundreds of employees from the business unit that develops its Alexa voice assistant. Daniel Rausch, the vice president of Amazon’s Alexa and Fire TV unit, disclosed the move today in an internal memo that was published by …
FinOps Foundation debuts first major release of its FOCUS cloud billing standard
The FinOps Foundation today introduced the first round-number release of FOCUS, an open-source standard designed to help companies more easily track their cloud costs and forecast future spending. The FinOps Foundation is an industry consortium that was launched by the Linux Foundation …
Databricks debuts AI-powered Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks Inc. is rolling out a new offering, the Data Intelligence Platform, that uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises process their information. The company debuted the platform on Wednesday. It’s based on Databricks’ flagship data lakehouse, which integrates the features of data …
Onehouse open-sources its OneTable data tool with support from Google and Microsoft
Onehouse Inc. today open-sourced OneTable, a software tool designed to help companies more easily manage data stored in different formats. Menlo Park, California-based Onehouse is backed by $33 million in funding from Greylock Partners and other investors. It provides a data lakehouse …
Google discovers high-severity vulnerability in latest Intel server processors
Google LLC researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel Corp. processors that could enable hackers to crash virtual machines and potentially steal data. The search giant disclosed the flaw, which is tracked as Reptar, in a blog post published this morning. Intel, …
Stack Infrastructure raises $290M in debt financing to build more data centers
Stack Infrastructure Inc., a company that builds data centers for cloud providers and other organizations, has secured $290 million in fresh debt financing. The company raised the capital through a sale of securitized notes, or loans marketed to investors, that it announced …