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The founder of Linkedin, REID HOFFMAN and Siddhartha Mukherjee, co -founded Manas AI, a cancer researcher, the author of the “The Emper of All Maladies”, and a startup of drug discovery driven by AI. 。 Initially, the company, focusing on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma, raised $ 24.6 million in Hoffman, total catalyst, and Gray Rock. The Capital of Manas AI is pale compared to some other startups trying to develop new drugs using AI models. Last year, XAIRA argued that it was ready to start the development of drugs, and was launched in large quantities of $ 1…
Sonic Wall, a cyber security company, says that hackers are divided into customer corporate networks by utilizing the newly discovered vulnerabilities in one of the enterprise products. SonicWall is a device without a device on the Internet, with the vulnerability of the SMA1000 Remote Access Appliance used by companies so that employees can log in to corporate networks as if they were in the office. In advice, he said in advisory with advice that he could plant malware. You need a system login. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23006 was discovered by Microsoft and shared last week with SonicWall. Subscribed posts…
Apple has released a new software update on Monday. This includes at least for new devices, iOS 18.3, which automatically opens users to Apple Intelligence. Unlike what the high -tech industry thinks or wants to believe, no one wants an AI function that is effective by default on the device. You may want to turn off your new AI function because you are worried about the impact on the environment of the AI industry and some of the political views of the top players in the industry. So far, it has been proven to apply to Apple Intelligence, so there…
China's AI Lab DeepSeek may be attracting attention in the high -tech industry this week. However, Alibaba, one of the top domestic rivals, is not sitting down. On Monday, Alibaba's QWEN team has released a new AI model QWEN2.5-VL, an AI model that can perform many textbooks and image analysis tasks. The model can analyze files, understand the video, count the objects in the image, and control the PC. According to the benchmark of the QWEN team, the best QWEN2.5-VL model is Openai's GPT-4O, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GEMINI 2.0 in Google answers various video understanding, mathematics, document analysis,…
Thanks to the growth of the cloud and AI, the number of machines' identity is booming. And by providing more entry points to hackers, we have raised actual security issues. For example, Hack of the 2023 authentication app OKTA, using a service account in 2024, disclosed major hacking based on an old test account. The creation of TOKEN SECURITY was truly caused by this kind of security risk. In my previous job, itamar Apelblat discovered that the old service account of the contractor still could be fully accessible throughout the organization. When Apelblat, the CEO of token security, talked about…
The mobile app for Deepseek, a Chinese AI lab, has risen to the top spot in app stores around the world this weekend, breaking through the United States -based AI chatbot, Chatgpt. In iOS, according to Appfigures, a Mobile App Analytics company, Deepseek is currently the first free app in the United States and 51 countries in iOS. The rapid rise of DeepSeek on the App Stores top chart will continue to increase the popular meteor of the week, due to the release of a series of main products of Openai and Google and competitive open AI models. However, compared…
1X acquired a kind humanoid, Norwegian robot startup told TechCrunch on Monday. This transaction shows a small but important integration for the humanoid Robot Industry at the brink of the major moment of 2025. TechCrunch talked to Kind Humanoid in October. The three startups at the time have announced that they have participated in the famous designer Evehal to support the creation of the first commercial robot. The story had all the charms expected from the grumpy startup formed by the Silicon Valley Garage. Former Google Robotics Researcher CHRISTOPH KOHSTALL has provided a simple tour of East Bay Headquarters, which…
Social network Bluesky is focusing on videos. Last week, the company announced a new TIKTOK -style custom video feed last week after receiving the ban on popular video apps in the United States (currently suspended), and announced that it will add a new video tab to the Bluesky user profile on Monday. 。 In this tab, you can introduce the video uploaded to Bluesky, whether it is an original content, or from other social networks, including Tiktok. However, not only pursuing the possibility of social activities based on video, but also the spread of videos may provide another source of…
Deepseek, a Chinese AI startup that caused the open source R1 model in the AI world last week, has paused to sign up a new user. According to CNBC reports, the company temporarily suspended new user registration for cyber attacks this morning. Existing users can access the account without any problems. TechCrunch reaches out to DeepSeek for comments, and updates the story if there is a reply. This is a few days after DeepSeek became a topic of the AI world promoted by the excitement of the industry for the R1 model. DeepSeek claims that the inference model has broken…
Meta says it is rolling out improvements to its cross-platform chatbot, Meta AI, including the ability to have the bot “remember” details from conversations. In a post on Meta's official blog, the company said that in chatting with Meta AI on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp on iOS and Android in the US and Canada, users can ask Meta AI to remember such specific things. He said he could give instructions. They love to travel and learn new languages. According to Meta, the memory feature, similar to that of Openai's ChatGpt and Google's Gemini, allows Meta AI to pick up “important…