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Home From College, a career platform for young professionals and college students looking for their first job or internship, announced Wednesday that it has raised $5.4 million in a seed round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). The new funding will be used to build out Gig, the platform's main service. It's a marketplace for companies to post job openings, from part-time and internship opportunities to one-off projects and more long-term roles. Home From College has job listings from hundreds of top brands, including Poppi, Aquaphor, Burt's Bees, Nivea, Urban Decay, Thrive Market, Peacock, Steve Madden, and more. The Los…
SiftHub, an AI startup founded by former CTO and LogiNext co-founder Manisha Raisinghani, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to build an AI assistant. This is intended to free up sales and pre-sales teams to focus on building relationships. With a monotonous job. The company's generative AI assistants can handle most of the non-sales activities that sales reps have to handle, such as entering data into CRM systems, submitting requests for proposals (RFPs), researching customer information, and creating presentation materials. The target is SiftHub integrates with information sources like Google Drive, Slack, Zendesk, HubSpot, and Salesforce, allowing sales and…
Web browser company Opera announced today that it will now allow users to download and use large-scale language models (LLMs) locally on their computers. This feature will first be rolled out to his Opera One users who will receive the developer stream update, allowing users to choose from her 150+ models in 50+ families. These models include Meta's Llama, Google's Gemma, and Vicuna. This feature is available to users as part of Opera's AI feature drop program, giving users early access to some AI features. The company said it uses the Ollama open source framework in its browser to run…
Full Glass Wine, a brand acquisition management startup specializing in wine market capture, raises $14 million in Series A round to continue capturing the direct-to-consumer (DTC) wine market and take the lead in the DTC wine market We are aiming for DTC wine brands bypass traditional distribution channels and sell wine directly to wine lovers. Full Glass Wine recently acquired Bright Cellars, a subscription-based wine service provider in Wisconsin, for an undisclosed price. The deal is the company's third acquisition in a year and will allow it to expand its subscription-based model. Previous acquisitions include Winc, a DTC wine platform…
BlaBlaCar is an iconic name in the French startup ecosystem. The carpooling and bus ticketing company has been around so long that it's hard to consider it a startup anymore. Still, BlaBlaCar is a very interesting company today because of its unique trajectory. What started as a rough-and-tumble online hitchhiking community has become a startup that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and reached unicorn status. It then expanded to many countries on several continents, but then scaled back its ambitions and started considering profitability. Today, the company announced that it has secured a €100 million ($108 million at…
The Indian government has finally resolved a long-standing cybersecurity issue that exposed large amounts of sensitive data about its citizens. At least hundreds of documents containing citizens' personal information, including Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details, are publicly accessible, a security researcher exclusively tells TechCrunch. It was discovered that it had been leaked online. At issue was an Indian government cloud service called S3WaaS, which is touted as a “secure and scalable” system for building and hosting Indian government websites. Security researcher Sourajeet Majumder told TechCrunch that he discovered a misconfiguration that would expose citizens' personal information stored…
Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined responses that followed simple logical structures. However, customers may have complex problems, and a tree diagram of possible responses cannot have enough branches to account for all the edge cases that arise. Thankfully, with the advent of large-scale language models, chatbots have finally become useful. Armed with mountains of data, the startup is now leveraging generative AI to create custom chatbots for all kinds of businesses and use cases, especially when you want to see what people are buying. is being created. Thailand's HD builds…
The Fediverse — the name for a social network made up of interconnected servers such as Mastodon — received further legitimacy on Tuesday after the @Potus (President of the United States) account on an Instagram thread shared the first federation post. I just got it. An account run by Biden's team published a message about the president's support for reproductive freedom on Threads, a high-profile Twitter/X competitor of Meta. Soon after, the Threads user noticed that his posts were showing Threads' Fediverse sharing logo. The logo is circular, resembling a planet orbiting a star, giving a sense of the interconnected…
How do you get an AI to answer a question it shouldn't? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, but researchers at Anthropic suggest that by preparing yourself with a few dozen benign questions first, We just discovered a new technique that allows large language models to convincingly tell us how to make bombs. They call this approach a “multi-shot jailbreak,” and they wrote a paper about it and informed their colleagues in the AI community about it so they can mitigate it. This vulnerability is new and is due to the increased “context window” in the latest generation of LLMs.…
Rubrik, a privately held data cybersecurity company that raised more than $500 million, filed to go public after the bell Monday. Rubrik's choice to pursue an initial public offering now, on the heels of the debuts of Reddit and Astera Labs, could signal that the IPO market is warming for technology companies. Rubrik last raised a letter round as a private market company in 2019, when it closed on $261 million at a post-money valuation of $3.6 billion, according to Crunchbase data. If the company is lucky, it may be able to price its IPO shares significantly higher than the…