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The Lockscreen platform today announced that it will launch a new, generic, AI-based shopping experience. We propose a variety of costumes for your personalized avatars. The company is partnering with Google to deploy the experience using the company's Gemini model and Vertex AI. Apart from that, the company also received new support from Google, according to people familiar with the issue. This was already an investor. The gaze and Google did not comment on the funding details. Gaze said it has already experimented with a new generation of AI-powered experiences in the US through a new app called Glance AI.…
Human-driven cybersecurity breaches are still occurring despite employers requesting employees to complete their annual cybersecurity training courses. The problem can be significantly worsened as generative AI increases the size and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Anagram, formerly known as Cipher, is taking a new approach to employee cybersecurity training. The New York-based company has built a platform that includes practical security training for businesses. The training includes bite-sized videos and personalized interactive puzzles to teach employees how to find suspicious emails and communications. These trainings are designed to be more frequent and attractive than the current standards for one long…
There is no robust approach to sales enablement. This is the process of providing sales teams with the resources they need to close the deal. Some teams are lacking on the research side. That is, identify and contact potential customers. Others need to help get the deal through the finish line. To satisfy these diverse needs, founders Matt Millen and Srinath Sridhar turned to AI Tech. Their company, Regie.ai, develops sales enablement software designed to combine AI with human-driven outreach. “We first met in 2021 and joined together in a founding paper about building a generative AI content platform for…
Due diligence is a costly business and is not just in the area of investment. Even companies seeking to launch new products or investigate partnerships find and investigate appropriate data, finding and investigating appropriate data, especially when third-party institutions and consultants are involved, to make educated decisions. It takes a few weeks and can be very expensive. A new AI startup called Bridgetown Research says it can speed up the process with an AI agent that can create dents on its cost-based basis and do most of the data collection and research work that leads to due diligence. And as…
Regions like the US and Europe have doubled the reconstruction of industrial muscle after decades of closing factories and outsourced work to countries like China. So, a rapidly growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robotic arms for picking, packing and moving its logistics business, has raised $44 million in funding. The company plans to use the funds for both technology and business development. This includes disruption of initial efforts to sell the robots in non-European customers, particularly North America. Investments are not only remarkable in terms of their size, but also in who is funding and what is happening…
The hackers claim they have published a mountain of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack from GeneA, one of Australia's largest fertility providers. Genea said last week that a cybersecurity incident occurred as patient information could be at risk. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO Tim Yeoh said the company identified the “data obtained from the system as being publicly available from the outside.” This statement came after the termite ransomware gang. This comes after recently praised the attack on supply chain software giant Blue Yonder. A sample of allegedly stolen data seen…
Security researchers warn that data exposed to the internet for a long time will be present in online-generated AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, long after data became private. According to a new study from Israeli cybersecurity company Lasso, former Github repositories of some of the world's largest companies have been affected, including those from Microsoft. Lasso co-founder Ophir Dror told TechCrunch that he found content from his own Github repository that appears in Copilot as it was indexed and cached by Microsoft's Bing Search Engine. Dror said the repository had been incorrectly published for a short time, but has since…
Security researchers warn that data exposed to the internet for a long time will be present in online-generated AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, long after data became private. According to new research from Israeli cybersecurity company Lasso, former Github repositories from some of the world's largest companies have been affected, including those from Microsoft. Lasso co-founder Ophir Dror told TechCrunch that he found content from his own Github repository that appears in Copilot as it was indexed and cached by Microsoft's Bing Search Engine. Dror said the repository had been incorrectly published for a short time, but has since been…
Voice AI Company ElevenLabs allows authors to publish AI-generated audiobooks in their own reader apps. TechCrunch was studied and the company confirmed it. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify, an AI-narrated audiobook. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, began inviting authors to try out the publishing program through the app with last year's trial version. The program is newly opened to all authors as of today. Image Credits Eleven Labs The company confirmed the development with TechCrunch and explained it was to provide an affordable and accessible tool for creating audiobooks. The platform…
One of the world's largest AI vendors, humanity has a strong family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a variety of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving mathematics and coding challenges. With Anthropic's model ecosystem growing so rapidly it can be difficult to track which Claude models do what. To help, we have compiled a guide to Claude. This will continue to be updated as new models and upgrades arrive. Claude model The Claude model is named after the works of art from literary works: haiku, sonnets and opas. The latest ones are:…