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White House publishes new national cybersecurity strategy
The White House has released a national cybersecurity strategy that seeks to make the digital ecosystem more resilient against hacking campaigns. Officials outlined the strategy in a 39-page document published this morning. The document, which was created with input from more than 20 government agencies, has five primary sections. One section focuses on making software ...
OpenAI makes its ChatGPT and Whisper models available via cloud APIs
Developers can now integrate OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT and Whisper models into their software thanks to new application programming interfaces that became available today. An application programming interface, or API, is a channel through which programs exchange data and instructions with one another. It allows one application to have another workload perform a task when certain ...
Dremio upgrades its data lakehouse to streamline analytics projects
Dremio Corp. today introduced a new version of its data lakehouse that aims to ease several common analytics tasks for customers. Dremio is a Santa Clara, California-based startup backed by more than $410 million in funding from Cisco Systems Inc., Insight Partners and other prominent investors. Its namesake data lakehouse enables companies to analyze large ...
TigerGraph rolls out new features to its cloud-based graph database
TigerGraph Inc. is updating its cloud-based graph database, TigerGraph Cloud, with new features designed to help customers more easily collect and process information. The company detailed the update today. It also disclosed on the occasion that the number of companies using its software has increased significantly over the past year. It says the TigerGraph Cloud installed ...
Thoughtworks tops fourth-quarter estimates, but stock tumbles 17%+
Nasdaq-listed technology consultancy Thoughtworks Holding Inc. topped revenue and earnings per share estimates in the fourth quarter, but its shares nevertheless lost over 17% of their value during today’s trading session. The selloff may be connected to the company’s pessimistic first-quarter outlook. In its earnings report today, Thoughtworks projected a low single-digit revenue decline for ...
Microsoft updates Windows 11 with Bing chatbot and new enterprise features
Microsoft Corp. today debuted an update to Windows 11 that introduces an integration with Bing’s artificial intelligence chatbot and new features for business users. The update, which was detailed by Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay in a blog post, also brings a slew of other enhancements. Many of the enhancements are rolling for Windows ...
SlashNext debuts generative AI tool for detecting phishing emails
Venture-backed cybersecurity startup SlashNext Inc. today launched Generative HumanAI, a software tool that uses generative artificial intelligence to detect phishing emails. SlashNext claims the tool can detect phishing emails with 99.9% accuracy. Pleasanton, California-based SlashNext is backed by $40.5 million in funding. It sells a suite of products for protecting employee devices from hacking attempts. ...
Drone startup Skydio secures $230M investment
Drone startup Skydio Inc. today announced that it has closed a $230 million late-stage funding round. The Series E round, which values the startup at more than $2.2 billion, included contributions from more than a half-dozen investors. The participants included Linse Capital, the lead investor, as well as Nvidia Corp. and Andreessen Horowitz. It has ...
Fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz raises $300M in fresh funding
Wiz Inc., a cybersecurity startup that passed $100 million in annualized recurring revenue last year, has raised $300 million from investors to support its business momentum. Wiz announced the Series D funding round today. The round was jointly led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital Partners and Index Ventures. The company is now valued at ...
GSMA debuts open API toolkit as AWS and Microsoft roll out new carrier offerings
The GSMA Association, the influential telecommunications industry group, is rolling out a new toolkit for creating applications that integrate with multiple carrier networks. The technology is known as the GSMA Open Gateway and made its debut today at MWC Barcelona 2023. MWC, formerly known as the Mobile World Congress, is the telecommunications sector’s largest trade ...