OpenAI LP, the company behind the highly popular generative artificial intelligence service ChatGPT, is reportedly talking to investors about a share sale that would value it at between $80 billion and $90 billion, roughly triple its valuation as of earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the deal is expected to allow employees ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning model testing startup Kolena Inc. announced today that it has raised $15 million in new funding to fuel its mission to revolutionize how AI systems and tested and validated. Founded in 2021, Kolena offers an AI and ML testing platform that allows teams to rigorously test model behavior. The platform ...

Security intelligence and management solutions startup Exabeam Inc. today announced new cybersecurity features designed to address the limitations of traditional and legacy security information and event management solutions. Announced at the company’s Spotlight23 annual user conference, the new features include enhanced threat detection, investigation and response innovations that leverage artificial intelligence, generative AI and machine learning that increase ...

Data security platform startup Baffle Inc. today launched a new solution for securing private data in generative artificial intelligence projects that integrates with existing data pipelines. Called Baffle Data Protection for AI, the new service has been designed to address the issue where publicly available generative AI services, such as ChatGPT, while useful, present a risk of ...

Symantec, a division of Broadcom Inc., today announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to embed generative artificial intelligence into the Symantec Security platform to allow customers to detect, understand and remediate cyberattacks more easily. Under the partnership Symantec will leverage the Google Cloud Security AI Workbench and security-specific large language model Sec-PaLM 2–across its portfolio. ...

A new report today from cybersecurity company Netscout Systems Inc. reveals a direct relationship between increasing internet traffic and threats and the inherent challenges faced by organizations globally, given the current network security landscape. The Netscout DDoS Threat Intelligence Report found that since the first week of 2023, there was a 55% increase in daily carpet-bombing attacks — distributed ...

Cybersecurity training company Immersive Labs Inc. today unveiled the expansion of its artificial intelligence-ready platform with coverage across the entire organization through its new Workforce Exercising solution. The solution has been designed to address the issue of the “human element” being responsible for the majority of security breaches. It leverages behavioral science techniques with relatable content ...

A ransomware gang going by the name of Ransomed.vc claims to have hacked Sony Group Corp. and is offering for sale the data it has stolen. The claimed hack was first reported today by Cybersecurity Connect, which writes that the Ransomed.vc ransomware gang has been operating for only a short time. Ransomed.vc is reported to have ...

The National Student Clearinghouse, an education nonprofit that provides report, verification and research services, has disclosed that it was compromised and that data from nearly 900 universities and colleges has been stolen. According to NSC, the compromise occurred through a vulnerability in one of its third-party software tools, MOVEit Transfer. In a notice of data ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly preparing to release artificial intelligence-enabled chatbots as a way to attract young users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. The Journal says the generative AIs have been tested internally and are expected to be announced at the Meta Connect Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 27. ...