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ESG compliance startup osapiens closes $120M funding round
Germany-based regulatory compliance startup osapiens Services GmBH today divulged that it has closed a $120 million investment led by Goldman Sachs. The Series B round follows a year in which osapiens claims to have more than quadrupled its installed base. The company’s software is now used by more than 1,300 customers, including Coca-Cola Co., Costco ...
Altana raises $200M for its supply chain analytics platform
Altana Technologies Inc., a startup that helps organizations fix regulatory compliance and reliability issues in their supply chains, has raised $200 million from investors. The company announced the Series C round today. US Innovative Technology Fund led the raise with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Alphabet Inc.’s GV startup fund and a half-dozen other institutional investors. ...
Midrange and open-source large language models earn top marks in new AI accuracy benchmark
Artificial intelligence startup Galileo Technologies Inc. today released the results of a benchmark test that compared the accuracy of the industry’s most popular large language models. The Hallucination Index, as the benchmark is called, evaluated 12 open-source and 10 proprietary LLMs. Galileo measured the models’ accuracy across three task collections. Some task collections were completed ...
X’s new AI training opt-out setting draws regulatory scrutiny
The Irish Data Protection Commission, the regulator that oversees X Corp.’s business practices in the European Union, has sent the company questions over a newly added privacy setting. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social network noticed the setting in question earlier today. When it’s enabled for an account, that account’s information can be incorporated into ...
Cyber insurance provider Cowbell reels in $60M to grow its product portfolio
Cowbell Cyber Inc., a startup that insures businesses against cyberattack-related losses, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding. The company announced the investment today. It disclosed that the capital was provided by Zurich Insurance Group Ltd., one of the world’s largest insurers. The cash infusion brings Cowbell’s total outside funding to $202 million. ...
US grand jury indicts North Korean hacker for role in Andariel cyberattacks
A Kansas City grand jury has indicated a North Korean hacker for participating in a cyberattack campaign that targeted the U.S. Air Force, NASA and other organizations. The Justice Department announced the development on Thursday. The indicted hacker, Rim Jong Hyok, is believed to be working for North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, a military intelligence ...
OpenAI debuts AI-powered SearchGPT search engine
OpenAI today previewed SearchGPT, a new search engine powered by its artificial intelligence technology. The company described the service as a “temporary prototype” in a blog post. According to OpenAI, the plan is to collect feedback about SearchGPT from a group of initial adopters and then integrate the best features into ChatGPT. That suggests the ...
Chainguard nabs $140M to secure enterprise applications’ open-source components
Less than a year after closing its last funding round, Chainguard Inc. today disclosed that it has raised another $140 million to support its sales growth. Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IVP jointly led the investment. The round, a Series C raise, also included Sequoia Capital and several other returning backers. Chainguard is now ...
Reddit blocks Bing, several other search engines from indexing its platform on AI training concerns
Reddit Inc. has blocked some search engines’ access to content from its namesake forum platform. The development was first reported by 404 Media on Wednesday and Reddit confirmed the move in a blog post this morning. The company’s new search engine restrictions don’t apply to Google LLC, with which it recently inked a content licensing deal ...
Researchers find that AI-generated web content could make large language models less accurate
A newly published research paper suggests that the proliferation of algorithmically generated web content could make large language models less useful. The paper appeared today in the scientific journal Nature. It’s based on a recently concluded research initiative led by Ilia Shumailov, a computer scientist at the University of Oxford. Shumailov carried out the project ...