Some 1.4 million records relating to students, staff and patients at the Texas Tech University’s Health Science Center and El Paso Health Sciences Center have been stolen in an apparent ransomware attack. Officially, the attack is described as a “cybersecurity event” by the university and took place in September. According to a statement from Texas ...

Artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the launch of Palmyra Creative, a AI large language model purpose built to elevate creative thinking and writing across various professions. Palmyra Creative has been designed to bring depth, variety and originality to tasks. The LLM supports professionals in brainstorming fresh ideas, refining creative outputs and solving complex ...

Nexla Inc., a data integration platform for generative artificial intelligence, today announced the integration of Nvidia Corp.’s NIM microservices and accelerated computing to enable faster, simpler and more cost-efficient development of production-grade retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Production-grade RAG pipelines for enterprise AI applications combine advanced data retrieval and generative AI capabilities to create highly accurate, context-aware responses. ...

Artificial intelligence-powered marketing platform company Jasper Inc. today announced the launch of Jasper Studio, a new service that gives marketers the ability to design and deploy AI apps and workflows, along with new native Slack integration. Jasper Studio has been designed to “democratize AI” for every marketer by giving teams greater agility while ensuring that ...

An unknown threat actor has stolen data belonging to potentially hundreds of thousands of residents of Rhode Island in a cyberattack and is threatening to release the data if a payment is not made. The cyberattack was first detected on Dec. 5 when Rhode Island state officials were informed by its technology vendor, Deloitte Touche ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly developing a giant foldable iPad that could come to market around 2028, according to the latest reports of the iPhone maker exploring foldable devices as the technology matures in Android products. The latest claim comes from the usually reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who claims that Apple is developing ...

Voice artificial intelligence agent startup Vapi announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its engineering team and its infrastructure and reach new enterprise customers. Founded in 2023 as Superpowered Labs Inc., Vapi offers a developer platform for deploying AI-powered voice agents. It gives developers access to flexible application programming interfaces ...

Artificial intelligence-powered email security platform provider Sublime Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $60 million in new funding to support its continued investment in its platform and community. Founded in 2019, Sublime Security offers an email security platform designed to protect businesses from evolving threats such as phishing, malware and business email compromise. ...

OpenAI today announced that it’s finally giving ChatGPT the ability to observe screens and live video to provide comments and feedback, a day after Google LLC launched similar features in Gemini 2.0. The features, which essentially give ChatGPT eyes, were first teased in May at the launch of the multimodal GPT-4o model, with fans waiting for ...

A new study out today from tech research site Comparitech delves into the online apps ahead of the holiday shopping period, revealing alarming privacy concerns for consumers. The study analyzed 91 popular shopping apps and discovered that the average app requests 26 permissions, with eight of those classified as “dangerous” by Android standards. Permissions that are classed as “dangerous” ...