Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced two new additions to its HyperScale portfolio: HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex. The new offerings are designed to strengthen cyber resilience and data protection for enterprises at a time when the amounts of data are increasing from remote offices and edge locations. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach ...

Customer relationship management platform company Attio Ltd. today announced that it has raised $52 million in new funding toward building the first artificial intelligence-native CRM that it says understands every customer and gives teams the power to build their go-to-market systems exactly as they need. Founded in 2021, Attio is building an AI-native CRM platform that gives ...

Distributed application development platform Akka today announced a new partnership with Deloitte Canada to solve critical issues of agentic artificial intelligence, including cost, performance and resilience. Under the partnership, Deloitte will leverage the Akka Agentic Platform, including the software development kit and Akka Automated Operations, for its customers’ agentic AI deployments. Akka, the business name for Lightbend ...

Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Application Confidence Scores for artificial intelligence applications, a new feature designed to help enterprises evaluate the security, compliance and reliability of third-party software-as-a-service and generative AI tools. Offered as part of Cloudflare One’s AI Security Posture Management suite, the new scoring system gives information technology, security, legal ...

A new report out today from human behavior security company Abnormal AI Inc. details how attackers are currently exploiting the trust users place in everyday workplace communications to deliver remote access malware. The report details an ongoing campaign that leverages convincing impersonations of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom Communications Inc. and Microsoft Teams to trick users into installing ...

A new controversy has emerged around YouTube after creators discovered that the platform has been quietly altering some of their uploaded Shorts videos using artificial intelligence without disclosure, raising concerns about creative integrity and transparency. Reports first emerged earlier this month from a number of creators who claimed that their clips appeared sharper, smoother or ...

Silicon Valley artificial intelligence leaders and investors have launched a new super-PAC network focused on AI and advocating against strict AI regulation, with $100 million put towards the effort. A super-PAC is a political action committee that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against candidates. Unlike traditional PACs, it ...

Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced new capabilities for Cloudflare One, its zero-trust security platform, designed to help organizations securely adopt, build and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications. The new features are designed to give Cloudflare customers the ability to understand, analyze and set controls automatically on how generative AI is used throughout their organization while ...

Apple Inc. has released an emergency security update to address a “zero-day” vulnerability in its ImageIO framework that has been actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a previously unknown software vulnerability that is discovered by attackers before the developer has created a fix. The ImageIO framework is a core component of Apple’s operating ...

Anthropic PBC, the company behind the Claude generative artificial intelligence service, is reportedly nearing a deal to raise $10 billion in a new funding round, as the AI boom continues apace. According to Bloomberg referencing people familiar with the matter, the company had previously been in discussions to raise $5 billion on a $170 billion ...