Sanaz Yashar spent 15 years in Israel’s vaunted Unit 8200 intelligence division after immigrating from Iran. Now she’s got billionaires backing her to be cyber’s next big thing.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
The European Union is writing a $56 million check for researchers to build a large language model to rival its American and Chinese competitors.| Forbes
The Japanese tech conglomerate has assets, like a majority stake in British chip company Arm, but hasn’t detailed how it will pony up.| Forbes
As Perplexity faces criticism for allegedly plagiarizing journalistic work and distributing it like a media company, it is increasingly citing AI-generated blogs and LinkedIn posts riddled with inaccurate and out of date information.| Forbes
The Munich-based company Helsing is raising at least $400 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, sources tell Forbes.| Forbes
LiveKit provides the network infrastructure that startups like OpenAI and Character AI use to ensure AI models can interact with people across audio and visual formats.| Forbes
Valued at $26 billion, Canva unveiled big business-friendly software updates to its 185 million monthly users as CEO Melanie Perkins heralded “the year of work.”| Forbes
The funding round, which sources say will be led by existing investors Lightspeed and GIC, is expected to maintain the same valuation that Grafana secured two years ago.| Forbes
The startup has raised $30 million, quadrupling its valuation to $200 million, signaling investors’ interest in enterprise AI tools that aren’t generative in nature.| Forbes
Missing anti-harassment clauses, bungled PTO guidelines and botched bereavement leave terms: ChatGPT-generated company policies are exposing employers to a buffet of legal and financial risks.| Forbes
Italy-based surveillance company Leonardo says its tool creates a fingerprint of drivers and passengers by scanning for anything that emits a signal from their car, from smartphones to library books.| Forbes
Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation for a new company which wants to sell robots for personal uses like cleaning your house.| Forbes
$50 billion retail behemoth Simon Property has granted police access to its AI car surveillance feeds via startup Flock Safety, monitoring vehicles visiting its malls, public records requests reveal.| Forbes
American users also won’t get search results for Xi Jinping, Uyghur, CCP, Palestine and Israel, among many other terms.| Forbes
The leaders of the AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta say they are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in their AI systems so they can be fixed.| Forbes
A cyber startup founded by an ex-Defense Department hacker announces a $20 million raise and a presidential candidate as a customer.| Forbes
Axon says its AI will help get more police out of the office and on the streets. Critics worry it’ll make cops lazy and potentially introduce errors into crucial evidence.| Forbes
Middle Eastern state media accounts get 100s of millions of views on TikTok and Meta, shaping international news. The platforms promised to label them — but haven’t.| Forbes
The only startups to benefit from Gaia’s pitch were members of the program’s first cohort, who received the Saudi government grants and just a fraction of the investme...| Forbes
The company removed more than 100 YouTube videos after Forbes found the platform was promoting AI nudifiers used by school bullies and a convicted pedophile.| Forbes
As Gauth AI surges in popularity, its parent company ByteDance is fighting to keep TikTok available in the U.S.| Forbes
Cyberattacks target AI compute power to mine cryptocurrency using a vulnerability in popular open source software called Ray, according to researchers at Oligo Security.| Forbes
In one of the first criminal cases of its kind, prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man after he allegedly showed AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery to a child.| Forbes
In testimony to Congress, the mother of a deepfake porn victim says the students accused of creating the AI-made nude images continue to share class with her daughter.| Forbes
Credit reporting giant says WhatsApp is refusing to respond to subpoenas. Meta says it doesn’t have the user data Experian wants.| Forbes
Cofounders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.| Forbes
Internet startup Meter, led by brothers Anil and Sunil Varanasi, has raised $35 million at a valuation of more than $350 million to bring networking into the AI age.| Forbes
Flock became a law enforcement juggernaut with its AI-powered license plate readers. But officials in multiple states told Forbes Flock had violated state laws designed to guarantee driver safety.| Forbes
Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one.| Forbes
There are multiple ways the U.S. government might attempt to ban TikTok over national security concerns. But TikTok will almost certainly challenge a ban in court.| Forbes
The new generative AI tool is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 2.| Forbes
Musk was told that withholding Starlink satellite internet service in Taiwan could put SpaceX in breach of its “contractual obligations with the U.S. government.”| Forbes
Nearly 1,000 fake profiles with AI-generated images have been posing as protesters, journalists and young women, Meta warns, and they appeared to be targeted at reporters and political activists.| Forbes
Students who’ve turned to ChatGPT for help writing their school applications are turning back to people to make that work sound more human—and schools just can’t keep up.| Forbes
The deal was one of several challenges for the federal business of the $7.3 billion startup, whose CEO Alexandr Wang has become an advocate of national security amid the threat of China.| Forbes
The websites and policies for new apps Cici AI, ChitChop, Coze, and BagelBell don’t mention that they were made by ByteDance.| Forbes
As the U.S. restricts chip sales to the region over China concerns, California-based Blaize is planning to go public via a SPAC backed by Middle Eastern investors.| Forbes
A host of startups are building robots and stuffed toys that can have full-fledged conversations with children, thanks to generative AI.| Forbes
More states are now giving money to families who pull their kids out of public school, creating a pot that can be spent on online learning and microschool programs.| Forbes
As AI-generated pornography has exploded, human porn stars say the new technology has been used to make them do or say things without their permission.| Forbes