Thursday, September 19, 2024

AI notetaker Fathom raises $17M

In many meetings today, it sometimes feels like there are more AI notetaking and transcription bots than people. There are seemingly dozens of options to choose from these days, but one I’ve seen with increasing regularity is Fathom. The company was one of the earlier players when it launched in 2020. Fathom then raised a […]

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Harbor is building a better baby monitor and an army of night nannies

Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby monitor to suit his needs. He and his wife, Jen, had homed in on Nanit, a popular product renowned for its AI smarts and and […]

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This founder grew up in wine country — nows he’s built a platform for wine makers

Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day come up with an idea that may revolutionize the wine industry. But after a long career in finance, he’s returned to that heritage to launch a platform that could solve the […]

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Picus Security, founded by Turkish 3 mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyberattacks

For as long as coding has existed, we have had a plethora of methods — white-hat testers, software, and more — to validate that code works as it was intended. These days, all that has been kicked into high gear: the growing sophistication of security breaches has turned the process of software verification into a […]

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AI governance can’t be left to the vested interests

A final report by the UN’s high level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read. Named ‘Governing AI for Humanity’, the document underlines the contradictory challenges of making any kind of governance stick on such a fast developing, massively invested and heavily hyped technology. On the one hand, the report […]

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Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting

With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting? Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today’s weather prediction and […]

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LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI models.” […]


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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Palmer Luckey back in the headset biz, as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military system

Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business.  Anduril has teamed up with Microsoft to embed its software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset developed by Microsoft for the U.S. military in 2021.  According to Wired, […]

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CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down

Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the foundation of Motional, is stepping down as president and CEO. Iagnemma will move over to a senior strategy advisor role, while CTO Laura Major will […]

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Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyberattacks; half will be earmarked to educate people about so-called cybersecurity hygiene.  Newmark, […]

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