January 2024

Kashable banks $25.6M to offer employment-based lending

January 18, 2024

Kashable integrates with a company’s payroll systems and then uses that data to power its fully-automated underwriting ability to extend affordable credit to that company’s employees.

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6 Ways AI is Influencing Your Everyday Life

January 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence was a trending conversation topic in 2023 and will continue to be prevalent in 2024 and the years following. The evolving technology has continued to create more opportunities…

Welcome back to the Unicorn Club, 10 years later

January 18, 2024

Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams build aspirational companies. She has over two decades of experience starting at seed stage and staying involved for many years beyond. Allegra Simon loves working closely with incredible […]

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IP analysis platform PatSnap launches CoPilot, its new AI assistant

January 18, 2024

Founded in 2007 to help IP and R&D professionals do their jobs more efficiently, Singapore-based PatSnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it’s building out its suite of AI products with the launch of its AI assistant CoPilot. CoPilot lets users search patent and non-patent literature more quickly, which the company says […]

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Google says Russian espionage crew behind new malware campaign

January 18, 2024

Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group — tracked as “Cold River” — is evolving its tactics beyond phishing to target victims with data-stealing malware. Cold River, also known as “Callisto Group” and “Star Blizzard,” is known for conducting long-running espionage campaigns against NATO countries, particularly the United States and […]

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The Download: exascale computing, and AI takes on geometry

January 18, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Exascale computers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 In May 2022, the global supercomputer rankings were shaken up by the launch of Frontier. It’s the fastest supercomputer in the world, and can perform as many…