Kyle Wiggers
Senior Reporter, Enterprise
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DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M
Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots t
Parloa raises $21M to add a little automation to contact centers
It’s estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world. To cut costs, in recent years, contact centers have embraced AI and automation; researc
Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M
Alvaro Morales and Kshitij Grover were working together as engineering leaders at Asana for five years, during a time when the company underwent major changes to pricing and packaging. The initiatives
Salt Labs raises $10M to gamify frontline work
Salt Labs, a rewards platform for hourly workers, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others. Co-foun
Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech
Deep Render, a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. A source fa
LeapXpert raises $22M to monitor employee chats for compliance
The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices — driving businesses to try and rein in their use. It’s be
Microsoft lets generative AI loose on cybersecurity
As a part of its continued quest to inject generative AI into all its products, Microsoft today introduced Security Copilot, a new tool that aims to “summarize” and “make sense”
After much delay, Apple finally launches Apple Pay Later
Months after unveiling a major update to Apple Pay called Apple Pay Later, which allows users to split the cost of an Apple Pay purchase into four equal payments over six weeks without interest or lat
VCs continue to pour dollars into generative AI
VCs aren't giving up on generative AI, which they believe will be the next big thing in tech. The investment numbers are staggering.
Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists
Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t
Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry
Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquir
Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos
Apple has acquired a startup, WaveOne, that was developing tech to compress videos for more efficient streaming.
OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet
OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by grantin
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI system, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a
Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment
Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 million in a Series B funding round. Led by Pel
Workera double downs on AI for upskilling with $23.5M infusion
Workera, an upskilling platform geared toward enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $23.5 million in a Series B round led by Jump Capital with participation from existing investors NEA,
Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion competitor, in public preview
Microsoft Loop, a Notion-like hub for managing tasks and projects that sync across Microsoft 365 apps and services, launched in public preview today. Loop is available to users with a Microsoft Accoun
Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI
On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Called Mozilla.ai, the newly forged company’s mission isn’t
Nvidia partners with Google Cloud to launch AI-focused hardware instances
In partnership with Google, Nvidia today launched a new cloud hardware offering, the L4 platform, optimized to run video-focused applications. Available in private preview on Google Cloud through Goog
Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI
At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-sp