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ExtraHop’s new tool helps companies protect against ChatGPT data leaks
Cloud-based network detection company ExtraHop Networks Inc. said today it’s helping boost visibility for organizations whose employees are using generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. To accomplish that, it announced a new tool called Reveal(x) that helps companies better understand their risk exposure and ensure generative AI is being used in adherence with ...
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT app for iOS, with an Android version coming soon
ChatGPT is coming to Apple iPhones and iPads with the launch of its official iOS application. The app was announced today by OpenAI LP, the creator of ChatGPT, which said it’s free to use and can even respond to voice commands and prompts with the help of a speech recognition model called Whisper. According to ...
Meta Platforms unveils next-generation AI infrastructure and data center designs
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has lifted the lid on what its next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure will look like, showcasing its newest training and inference accelerator and various other bits of futuristic hardware at its AI Infra @Scale event today. Meta’s head of global infrastructure Santosh Janardhan explained that the company’s AI compute requirements are ...
Lumeus.ai raises $6M to enable universal zero-trust security across clouds and on-premises data centers
Zero-trust networking startup Lumeus.ai, officially known as Okulis Inc., is launching today armed with $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Tola Capital and saw participation from pre-seed investors Emergent Ventures and First Rays Ventures. Lumeus.ai is the creator of what it says is a “Universal Zero-Trust platform” that employs artificial intelligence ...
New Relic discussing possible $5B sale to private equity firms
Application observability company New Relic Inc. is reportedly holding talks with the private equity firms Francisco Partners Management LP and TPG Inc. about a possible $5 billion sale. The deal would mean that the publicly listed New Relic becomes a private entity once again, but it’s possible that the talks could still break down, the ...
Report: Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire AI search startup Neeva
Snowflake Inc., the cloud-based data warehouse provider, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire a search startup called Neeva Inc. that was founded by former Google LLC advertising executive Sridhar Ramaswamy. The report comes today from The Information, which cites people with direct knowledge of the discussions. It says Neeva’s technology could help Snowflake create ...
Cisco beats expectations but its stock falls on sluggish demand
Cisco Systems Inc. delivered solid quarterly earnings and revenue beats today, but executives revealed that orders were down on an annual basis, sending its stock lower in extended trading. The company reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $3.2 billion, up 6% from a year earlier. Earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation came to $1 ...
Sanctuary AI unveils a humanoid robot called Phoenix that’s ready to offer its ‘labor-as-a-service’
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., better known as Sanctuary AI, has unveiled an incredibly humanlike and supposedly very capable general purpose robot called Phoenix that’s being billed as the first robot worker prototype. Announced today, Phoenix is a humanoid robot that runs on Sanctuary AI’s Carbon AI control system, which provides it with human-like intelligence and ...
Visual Layer raises $7M to clean up image datasets for AI training
Data quality startup Visual Layer Inc. announced today it has closed on a $7 million seed funding round led by Madrona Venture Group and Insight Partners and will use the money to build out its managed service for curating large-scale image sets used to train computer vision models. Researchers are all too familiar with the challenge ...
DeepBrain AI uses virtual humans and generative AI to automate job interviews
DeepBrain AI Ltd., a South Korean video synthesis startup that creates artificial intelligence-based virtual humans, today announced a new capability called AI Interview that can automate job applicant interviews for recruiters. The new offering combines DeepBrain AI’s generative AI video technology with OpenAI LP’s large language model GPT-4 to create an AI-powered interviewer that can ...