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Blockchain-based stock trading platform Dinari raises $7.5 seed funding
The decentralized stock trading platform Dinari, which uses blockchain technology to provide access to securities and stocks using blockchain technology, today announced it has closed a $7.5 million seed round to fuel the launch of the company’s dShare platform outside the United States. Backing for the company’s funding came from investors including Third Kind Venture ...
Crypto news site CoinDesk lays off 45% of its editorial staff ahead of company sale
The cryptocurrency news site CoinDesk has reportedly laid off 45% of its editorial staff, or about 20 people, ahead of its parent company Digital Currency Group Inc.’s plans to sell a stake in the company to strategic investors. The layoffs came to light from in memo viewed by The Block, a media company and competitor ...
Anthropic raises $100M from SK Telecom to build AI for telecommunications
Google LLC-backed artificial intelligence research startup Anthropic announced Sunday that it has raised an additional $100 million from South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom Co. Ltd. with the aim to build large language model AI systems customized for the telecom industry. According to a press release from SKT, the investment is part of a new ...
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch Open Enterprise Linux Association to target Red Hat
SUSE SA, Oracle Corp. and Ctrl IQ Inc. announced Thursday the formation of a new industry alliance forming the Open Enterprise Linux Association, OpenELA, a new organization that aims to encourage the development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The companies said the formation of the new alliance came about because of the recent ...
Coinbase’s Base developer-friendly Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain launches
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. finalized the public launch of its developer-friendly blockchain Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that provides a secure, low-cost way for developers and builders to make and deploy decentralized applications. Coinbase announced the launch of the mainnet of Base on Wednesday alongside over 100 decentralized apps and service providers already ...
DataRobot announces new applied generative AI offering for building trustworthy AI apps
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. today announced a new generative AI offering designed to allow businesses and developers to integrate their data into AI models and gain confidence in the answers that they receive. DataRobot provides a full-lifecycle AI platform for generative and predictive AI models and a broad ecosystem of tools for applied AI ...
Fireblocks researchers uncover ‘BitForge’ vulnerability affecting multiple crypto wallets
Researchers at Fireblocks Inc., a digital asset infrastructure firm, revealed the discovery of multiple zero-day or yet-unpatched vulnerabilities affecting cryptocurrency wallets that could allow attackers or malicious parties to drain funds. The researchers dubbed the series vulnerabilities “BitForge” in an announcement Wednesday afternoon and said that they affected a number of wallet providers, including those ...
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build AI blockchain solutions using OpenAI
Aptos Labs, the blockchain startup founded by former Meta Platforms Inc. employees behind the defunct Diem blockchain, today announced that it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to “explore innovative solutions” in blockchain and Web3 technology such as artificial intelligence, tokenization and payments. Aptos Labs is a Layer 1 blockchain, meaning that the technology is designed ...
Tenable brings generative AI to its cybersecurity platform with ExposureAI
Network security company Tenable Inc. today announced the launch of ExposureAI, a new layer of generative artificial intelligence capabilities across its portfolio of cybersecurity exposure management tools designed to aid customers in proactively defending themselves from cyberattackers. To fuel ExposureAI, Tenable also introduced Exposure Graph, a Snowflake-powered data lake that maintains a large database of ...
Nvidia puts generative AI at the forefront with AI Workbench and Hugging Face partnership
Graphics chip maker and artificial intelligence provider Nvidia Corp. today announced a slew of new generative AI products designed to accelerate the development of large language models and other advanced AI applications. Today at SIGGRAPH 2023, Nvidia announced a new partnership with Hugging Face Inc., a company that develops tools for machine learning and AI, ...