Powerful, Mobile, and Affordable: Are You Ready to Replace Your Laptop With an iPad?
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These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda
Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government. The payment reports have been…
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Backline automatically remediates security vulnerabilities
Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the company’s co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as […]
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QED seeds $9.9M in Cedar Money, a stablecoin payment platform
The newest generation of startups aiming to solve cross-border payments are focusing on stablecoins — cryptocurrency coins often pegged to actual currencies or other commodities to help them keep stable prices — to build solutions that work faster and often cheaper than classic financial rails. This trend is also driving a surge in investor interest […]
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Savant Labs is an automation platform for business analysts
Savant Labs launched its automation platform for data analysts in 2023. The company, which competes with the likes of Alteryx, on Thursday said it had raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Unlike some other low-code/no-code tools, Savant’s focus is squarely on business analysts. Analysts, its CEO and founder […]
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Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best
Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-beating model called Tulu3-405B.
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The Download: climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing
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. Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump Donald Trump has officially been in office for just over a week, and the new administration has already issued a blizzard of…
AI Made the Internet Louder Than Ever — Here’s How to Use It to Cut Through the Noise and Make a Lasting Impact
The democratization of content creation means one thing: the marketplace is noisier than ever.
DeepSeek exposed internal database containing chat histories and sensitive data
The internal DeepSeek database was exposed to the internet without a password.
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Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system
Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he was drawn to how it could turn raw data into a story. Zhao founded his first data analytics startup Polyture in 2021. But advancements in generative AI just a year later made Zhao realize what Polyture was building was […]
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US blood donation giant warns of disruption after ransomware attack
New York Blood Center said it does not have a “specific timetable for system restoration” following the attack, which has led to canceled appointments and delays
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