Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup PIN AI announced today that it has raised $10 million in pre-seed funding for research and development, with plants to accelerate the launch of its open-source Personal Intelligence Network. Recently founded and a participant in the Fall 2024 a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, PIN AI ...

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has hit a new milestone, surpassing 1 million paying business users across its enterprise offerings, as the company continues to lead the rapidly growing generative AI market. According to Bloomberg, the figure includes the total number of people who have signed up to use ChatGPT Team and Enterprise services — both ...

Cybersecurity firm Absolute Software Corp. announced today that it has acquired Syxsense Inc., the developer of a unified security and endpoint management suite, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012, Syxsense specializes in providing automated solutions for endpoint and vulnerability management that help organizations improve their information technology security operations. The company’s platform offers real-time monitoring, ...

Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support open-source development and its new cloud platform aimed at simplifying application deployment. Founded in 2011, Laravel offers a PHP-based web application framework with elegant syntax and ...

Shares of Smartsheet Inc. rose in regular and late trading today after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings results and a report emerged that a private equity consortium was in talks to acquire the management platform company. For its second quarter ended July 31, Smartsheet reported adjusted earnings per share of 44 cents, up from ...

Open-source enterprise software firm SUSE S.A. today announced new observability capabilities for its Rancher Prime solution for Kubernetes environments that enhance full-stack visibility and troubleshooting. The company’s current release, SUSE Rancher Prime 3.1, is an enterprise-grade platform for managing and deploying Kubernetes clusters across any environment, whether on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge. ...

Phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. today announced the launch of Project Phantom, a new virtual stealth mode browser that offers advanced URL analysis and threat detection to its customers. Project Phantom is being offered alongside SlashNext’s messaging security platform and is designed to see through obfuscation techniques commonly used by threat actors. The browser also delivers ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning cybersecurity company Protect AI Inc. today announced the availability of a new free four-part video training and certification program on how to build security into AI and machine learning lifecycles using an MLSecOps Framework. Called MLSecOps Foundations, the program has been designed to equip organizations with the essential knowledge they need to ...

Cybersecurity compliance startup Vanta Inc. today announced new product features and enhancements designed to automate and streamline governance, risk and compliance processes for businesses. Leading the list of announcements is a new Report Center that provides a centralized, real-time view into the state of a business’ security and compliance program. The new Report Center includes six reports, ...

The U.S. departments of Justice, State and Treasury announced today sanctions and criminal charges in relation to claimed Russian government-sponsored attempts to manipulate public opinion ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election. Announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland (pictured, right), the claims, which some media outlets are referring to as “Russiagate 2.0,” include that two ...