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Sensitive DeepSeek database exposed to the public, cybersecurity firm Wiz reveals
New York-based cloud cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. said Wednesday it discovered a sensitive database belonging to popular Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek the company did not properly secure and thus exposed it to the public internet. DeepSeek has gained popular media fame in recent weeks after releasing several groundbreaking AI models, including DeepSeek-R1. According to the ...
Rad AI raises $60M to help radiologists improve accuracy of patient care
Healthcare startup Rad AI announced today it raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Transformation Capital to deploy generative artificial intelligence technology for healthcare providers. Existing investors Khosla Ventures, World Innovation Lab, UP2398, Kickstart Fund, OCV Partners and Cone Health also participated in the round. The raise comes seven months after ...
Alibaba unveils Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, saying it outperforms DeepSeek-V3
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models. The Tuesday release of Qwen 2.5-Max is the second big LLM release out of China in ...
Atomicwork raises $25M to bring agentic AI to IT management
Atomicwork Inc., a software-as-a-service company that simplifies enterprise work and communication management by automating tasks and providing artificial intelligence assistance, today said it has raised more than $25 million in an early-stage funding round. Co-led by Z47 and Khosla Ventures, the Series A round was also backed by the company’s existing investors Blume Ventures, Neon ...
DeepSeek launches Janus Pro AI image model it claims can outperform DALL-E
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the release of the ultra-popular DeepSeek AI chatbot and provider of an alterative large language model to OpenAI’s models such as ChatGPT, launched a new cutting-edge AI image generation model on Monday: Janus-Pro-7B. The startup made waves recently after the latest release of DeepSeek’s frontier R1 LLM last ...
Decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol raises $20M
Decentralized identity verification blockchain project Humanity Protocol said today it has raised $20 million in new funding. The round was co-led by major crypto investment firms Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto at a $1.1 billion bully diluted valuation. It follows a previous $30 million round in May 2024, which valued the firm at $1 billion at the ...
Passbolt raises $8M to modernize password and credential access management
Passbolt SA, the developer of credential and password access management software for organizations, said Thursday it has raised $8 million in early-stage funding to help companies meet complex securities needs when handling passwords. The Series A round was led by new investor Airbridge Equity Partners and joined by existing investors Expon Capital’s Digital Tech Fund, ...
Google joins forces with HTC Vive to boost Android XR Development
Google LLC announced today that it’s acquiring parts of HTC Corp. Vive’s engineering team to accelerate the development of its new Android XR operating system for virtual reality and extended reality headsets. The new OS, which Google developed in partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., represents a new operating system for ...
Google announces new Chrome Web Store for enterprise browser extension control
Chrome extension management can burden many security teams when employees install them on their computers. To lighten that burden, Google LLC today announced a new curated Chrome Web Store for enterprise businesses that will give them greater control and visibility over browser extensions. The new Chrome Web Store, part of Chrome Enterprise Core, allows employees ...
Qdrant launches hardware-independent, GPU-accelerated vector indexing capability
Qdrant, the developer of a high-performance open-source vector database, today introduced its graphics processing unit accelerated vector indexing capability that will make scaling up artificial intelligence applications easier. A vector index is a data structure used in information retrieval to store and pull out high-dimensional data, or a dataset with many features or variables, more ...