SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Security review automation platform SafeBase has raised new cash from investors including Zoom’s corporate VC arm.
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The Market Already Told You to Pivot — Here’s How to Listen
Most startups struggle not because their idea is bad, but because they ignore the signals the market is sending.
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Beehiiv attracts $32M to make its newsletter publishing platform more sticky
With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people’s inboxes continue to look like a sticky way of getting attention for whatever it is that you’re writing. Now, in a signal of the popularity of the medium, one of the startups building a platform for creating and distributing […]
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The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
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. The robot race is fueling a fight for training data We’re interacting with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before. Interacting with robots, by way of contrast, is still a rarity for most.…
WeTransfer cuts out the middle man and now lets users sell files directly on the platform
The integrated payments on WeTransfer are powered by Stripe and are rolling out to all users globally.
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The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu Dhabi
Wander the pits at any professional motorsports event, especially something like Formula 1, and you’ll see endless computer displays full of telemetry. Modern teams are awash in real-time digital feedback from the cars. I’ve been in many of these pits over the years and marveled at the streams of data, but never have I seen […]
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Bumble’s “Opening Move” feature takes the pressure off women to come up with a new message every time
As Bumble prepares for its app relaunch this summer, the women-first dating platform announced a series of product updates on Tuesday, including a new feature that lets women prepare questions to send to matches, additional dating intention preferences and prompts, and more. Allowing women to make the first move has been Bumble’s modus operandi ever […]
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Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO
UnitedHealth’s CEO said in congressional testimony that the portal used by the hackers to break into Change Healthcare was not protected with a basic security feature.
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Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses
Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. The company is rolling out the AI assistant on its iOS app under the “Projects” tab with plans to expand […]
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Meta’s approach to election security in the frame as EU probes Fb, Instagram
The European Union announced Tuesday it suspects Meta’s social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc’ rules for larger platforms in relation to election integrity. The Commission has opened the formal infringement proceedings to investigate Meta under the the Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework. Reminder: Penalties for […]
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My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Deepfakes are getting good. Like, really good. Earlier this month I went to a studio in East London to get myself digitally cloned by the AI video startup Synthesia. They made…