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Reid Hoffman-backed AI drug discovery startup Manas AI launches with $24.6M

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:48:42 +0000

Manas AI Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to discover new medicines, launched today with $24.6 million in initial funding. The investment was led by General Catalyst and Manas AI co-founder Reid Hoffman. Greylock Partners, where Hoffman was a general partner until 2023, participated as well. The billionaire LinkedIn co-founder launched Manas AI with Siddhartha […]

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DeepSeek faces malicious attacks after surging in popularity

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:51:11 +0000

On a day that American equities markets took a hammering after investors started to pay attention to its latest artificial intelligence models, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek experienced “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, forcing the company to limit signups temporarily. The company has not disclosed the exact form of the attack. The attacks did not […]

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How application development and cybersecurity are evolving

Paul Nashawaty — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:13:35 +0000

The technological landscape of 2025 is marked by the powerful convergence of application development and cybersecurity, driving innovation while addressing an alarming rise in cyber threats. Businesses are doubling down on AI integration, security-first practices and developer-centric tools to meet demands for speed and agility. From automating workflows with artificial intelligence to simplifying operations through […]

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Meta upgrades its AI chatbot with more personalization features

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:11:19 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. is rolling out a new version of its Meta AI chatbot that can customize its responses based on information provided by the user. The company announced the update in a blog post published this morning. Meta AI is an artificial intelligence assistant that rolled out for Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in 2023. […]

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Applied Labs raises $4.2M for its AI-powered business automation platform

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:11:39 +0000

Artificial intelligence startup Applied Labs Inc. today announced that it has closed a $4.2 million seed round to support its growth efforts. Early-stage venture fund Abstract led the investment with participation from Point72 Ventures, Outlander and Tetra. Several angel investors participated as well. Applied Labs’ total outside funding now stands at $5.2 million. New York-based […]

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Tech stocks tank as Chinese startup DeepSeek stuns AI world with low-cost model rivaling US firms’ best

Paul Gillin — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:22:42 +0000

Technology stocks were hammered in early Monday trading on news that a Chinese startup has built and released to open source a chatbot based on an artificial intelligence model that rivals the performance of the most capable models built by U.S. companies but at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek, which is operated by Hangzhou […]

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Decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol raises $20M

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:10:06 +0000

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 […]

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On theCUBE Pod: Details emerge about Stargate Project, and TikTok gets a reprieve

Ryan Stevens — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:30:07 +0000

It was another big week with Donald Trump taking office and the technology industry’s influence becoming increasingly apparent in the new administration. That new landscape, as well as subjects such as the Stargate Project, were main subjects for theCUBE Research industry analysts John Furrier (pictured, left) and Dave Vellante (right) to discuss on the latest […]

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Zimperium reports warns of phishing campaign targeting mobile users with malicious PDFs

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:00:46 +0000

A new report out today from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. is warning of a sophisticated new phishing campaign targeting mobile devices with malicious PDF files. The PDFs used in the campaign are disguised as legitimate communications from the U.S. Postal Service and aim to exploit user trust in the PDF format to steal credentials and […]

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Trump administration reportedly considering deal for Oracle to acquire TikTok

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:04:53 +0000

The Trump administration is reportedly working on a plan to save the U.S. operations of TikTok that involves Oracle Corp. and group investors acquiring the popular short-form video application. According to NPR, referencing “two people with direct knowledge of the talks,” the potential deal could even go as far as Oracle acquiring a majority stake […]

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AI voice cloning startup ElevenLabs raises $250M in Series C funding round

Mike Wheatley — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:45:05 +0000

The synthetic voice startup Eleven Labs Inc. closed on a bumper $250 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to between $3 billion and $3.3 billion. According to a Friday report by TechCrunch, the round was led by ICONIQ Growth and saw participation from previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, which was one of the lead […]

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Building a business case for continuous data quality assurance

Saul Judah — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:30:20 +0000

Good data quality is crucial for successful data and analytics initiatives and is increasingly pivotal to artificial intelligence impact. D&A leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, are also having to contend with an ever-more complex business environment, with ever-more complex data needs and challenges. This is being further compounded by the growing need for […]

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Top 10 enterprise technology predictions: What’s coming in 2025

Dave Vellante and Erik Bradley — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:11:49 +0000

At the beginning of each year, as is our tradition, we collaborate with Enterprise Technology Research to dig through the latest data and craft 10 predictions for the coming year. This year’s batch follows some annual favorites and new territory. In this Breaking Analysis, we put forth our top 10 predictions for enterprise tech in 2025 […]

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CEOs confront AI challenges: Cisco event captures perils and opportunities

Mark Albertson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:19:55 +0000

As a new year begins to unfold, the operative word surrounding the enterprise world’s adoption of artificial intelligence is uncertainty. This notable lack of confidence can be seen in survey results recently unveiled by Cisco Systems Inc., which found that only 13% of responding companies were fully ready to capture AI’s potential. And that’s down […]

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Sam Altman reportedly backs $1B round for AI healthcare startup Retro Biosciences

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:10:05 +0000

Retro Biosciences Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs, is reportedly raising $1 billion in funding to support its research. The Financial Times today cited sources as saying that OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is participating in the investment. He previously provided the initial $180 million funding round that helped launch Retro. […]

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New details emerge about Project Stargate as Meta discloses $60B+ AI investment

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:03:23 +0000

New details have emerged about Project Stargate, the $500 billion initiative through which OpenAI hopes to build a cluster of artificial intelligence data centers. The Financial Times reported on Thursday that the project currently lacks a fully developed plan. The initiative’s funding has not been finalized either, sources told the publication. OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. […]

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Passbolt raises $8M to modernize password and credential access management

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:10:52 +0000

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, […]

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AI spurs an explosion in data center spending. Can it all pay off?

Robert Hof — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:38:07 +0000

TikTok returned early this week after a short pause thanks to newly minted President Trump, but it was his other executive orders on AI and crypto that are likely to roil the business world. Meanwhile, Trump’s memecoins and loosening of crypto rules provide a way to funnel money to him while he’s president: corruption in broad daylight. […]

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Iceberg project leader is bullish on prospects for unified tables and catalogs

Paul Gillin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:36:00 +0000

Some people hailed Amazon Web Service Inc.’s December announcement that S3 tables will fully support Apache Iceberg as a crowning triumph for the open-source table format. One of them is Russell Spitzer, a principal software engineer at Snowflake Inc. and an Iceberg Project Management Committee member. While he noted that the announcement was less than […]

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Dave Vellante’s Breaking Analysis: The complete collection

Dave Vellante — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:33:12 +0000

Breaking Analysis is a weekly editorial program combining knowledge from SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Branded as theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, the program is our opportunity to share independent, unfiltered editorial with SiliconANGLE, theCUBE and Wikibon communities. The program and conclusions we produce are data-driven, tapping ETR’s proprietary spending data set. Episode 221 – […]

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Report: ByteDance sets aside about $20B for AI spending this year

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 02:44:11 +0000

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. has set aside 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) for its capital expenditure this year, and the bulk of that money will be spent on boosting its artificial intelligence capabilities, Reuters reported today. The report cites two anonymous people familiar with the matter as saying that around half of the amount […]

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Palona AI gets $10M to build more reliable customer service chatbots that don’t make mistakes

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:18:02 +0000

A trio of artificial intelligence engineers who previously led projects at Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. say they have raised $10 million for a new startup that aims to make AI-powered customer sales chatbots more reliable and “emotionally attuned.” Palona AI, officially incorporated as Proactive AI Lab Inc., said today’s […]

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Trump signs new executive order on AI development, overturning Biden-era restrictions

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:40:41 +0000

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the development of artificial intelligence systems that are “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas” in his latest executive order. The order, signed earlier today, is an effort to repeal previous U.S. government policies that some have interpreted as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Its chief aim […]

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OpenAI releases Operator agent as rivals enhance their AI services

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:35:52 +0000

OpenAI today introduced Operator, an artificial intelligence agent that can automatically perform tasks on users’ behalf. Two of the company’s highest-profile rivals announced their own product updates in conjunction. Perplexity AI Inc., a startup with a popular AI search engine, introduced an agent similar to Operator for its Android app. Anthropic PBC, which already offers […]

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CMA opens investigations into Apple and Google over mobile practices

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:00:28 +0000

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator today opened investigations into Apple Inc. and Google LLC over their business practices in the mobile market. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, is picking up where it left off last August. That month, the regulator closed a pair of probes into Apple and Google it had launched in 2021 […]

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Galileo unleashes platform for evaluating AI agents

Paul Gillin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:45:40 +0000

Galileo Technologies Inc., which makes tools for observing and evaluation artificial intelligence models, today unveiled Agentic Evaluations, a platform aimed at evaluating the performance of AI agents powered by large language models. The company said it’s addressing the additional complexity created by agents, which are software robots imbued with decision-making capabilities that enable them to […]

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Hugging Face open-sources world’s smallest vision language model

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:54:59 +0000

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as consumer laptops that have relatively limited processing power. According to Hugging Face, it could potentially run in browsers as well. The latter feature is […]

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Google joins forces with HTC Vive to boost Android XR Development

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:45:37 +0000

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 […]

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Google announces new Chrome Web Store for enterprise browser extension control

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:00:05 +0000

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 […]

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Prioritizing AppDev resilience in 2025: Insights from theCUBE Research

Paul Nashawaty and Christophe Bertrand — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:24:15 +0000

As the digital landscape evolves throughout 2025, theCUBE Research’s new insights reveal a year of transformation and interconnectedness in application security trends, focusing on development, cyber resiliency and data protection. The interplay between these domains reflects a clear industry shift: Organizations are prioritizing resilience and efficiency while addressing the ever-present threat of cyberattacks. From AI-augmented […]

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