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Unchained Capital raises $60M to expand its bitcoin financial services
Austin, Texas-based Unchained Capital Inc. today announced it has raised $60 million in fresh funding to expand its financial services for bitcoin holders during what have been chaotic markets. The Series B funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, known for early investments in SpaceX and Tesla. The round closed earlier in April with ...
Microsoft reportedly developing its own AI chip named ‘Athena’
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly forging ahead with efforts to develop its own chips optimized for artificial intelligence in a bid to reduce costs for training generative AI models such as those powering OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT chatbot. Citing two people familiar with the matter, The Information reported today that Microsoft has been working on the new ...
Tailscale launches zero-trust virtual private network solution for enterprise customers
Tailscale Inc., a corporate virtual private network provider that uses mesh networking technology, today rolled out its zero-trust networking solution for enterprise customers that allows them to ensure that each connection is authenticated and all traffic is encrypted end-to-end. Founded in 2019, Tailscale launched to ease issues with secure connectivity caused by traditional VPN services, ...
Veracode unveils GPT-powered ‘find and fix’ security solution for developers
Veracode Inc., the provider of a continuous software security platform provider, today unveiled Veracode Fix, a new AI-powered product trained on the company’s proprietary dataset that suggests fixes for flaws found in software to help developers deploy secure code. “For far too long, organizations have had to choose between remediating software security flaws and meeting ...
European parliament looks to build strong regulations on use of AI
The European Parliament is working through key legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence to regulate its use based on its ability to do harm to society and business, including measures that would force chatbots to declare they’re not human. Members of the European Parliament are meeting currently in Brussels over a set of ...
Hackers who hit Western Digital are now demanding ransom for data
The cybercriminals who hit storage maker Western Digital Corp. in a network breach earlier this month have returned to demand ransom for stolen data, which includes customer information The hackers have claimed the theft of more than 10 terabytes of data and are seeking “a minimum 8 figures” not to leak sensitive information. Western Digital ...
Italian regulators outline rules for reinstatement of OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Italy’s data protection agency announced Wednesday that it will lift the country’s ban on OpenAI LP’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT if the company agrees to enforce a set of rules that will protect users’ privacy by April 30. The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data, or GPDP, ordered OpenAI to suspend operations in Italy ...
Ethereum completes major upgrade allowing withdrawal of staked tokens
The Ethereum blockchain completed its “Shapella” upgrade on Wednesday evening, allowing users who locked up Ether tokens to support the network to withdraw their cryptocurrency for the first time. The upgrade happened at 6:27 p.m. EDT when the Shanghai and Capella forks happened simultaneously — hence the merging of the names into Shapella – and ...
Creative.ai uses generative AI to help publishers produce video game ads
Austin-based Creative.ai is putting advances in generative artificial intelligence to use for mobile game publishers to help them create video advertisements. Generative AI has taken the internet by storm for its ability to create new content based on data used to train them. Prominent examples include OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, which can answer questions with human-like ...
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, an open-source AI like ChatGPT for commercial use
Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. today released Dolly 2.0, the next iteration of the company’s open-source generative artificial intelligence model that has ChatGPT-like capabilities. Databricks released Dolly two weeks ago as a response to the multitude of large language model generative AIs on the market today that are mostly inaccessible to researchers ...