Business email compromise scams getting more sophisticated: Report
Messaging scams that try to trick employees into performing risky transactions continue to dog organizations. In a report released today, Trustwave said a category of cons called business email compromise (BEC) scams followed a historical trend by jumping in January and February before settling down. More importantly, attackers have come
Read MoreDOJ sues SpaceX for hiring discrimination
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2020. | Image: Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The US Department of Justice is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX over allegations that it discriminated against asylees and refugees in hiring. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the DOJ
Read MoreHow Google Cloud learned to embrace its partner ecosystem
Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google Cloud today put a spotlight on its partner ecosystem. It’s no secret that in its early days, Google’s cloud efforts
Read MoreVessel Capital emerges from stealth with $55M fund focused on web3 infrastructure and apps
Vessel Capital, a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. Founded by Mirza Uddin, Eric Chen and Anthony Anzalone, the firm has been investing about $10 million annually, Uddin said. The fund
Read MoreModular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models
Modular, a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from GV (Google Ventures), SV Angel, Greylock and Factory. Bringing Modular’s total raised to $130 million, the proceeds will be put toward product expansion,
Read MoreHow and when to charge for adding AI to your enterprise software
Nvidia’s blockbuster quarterly results make it plain that the race to build generative AI products is well and truly afoot. The GPU giant crushed earnings expectations in the second quarter and forecast a monster future. Investors, already content to value Nvidia north of $1 trillion, added tens of billions more
Read MoreOpenAI partners with Scale AI to allow companies to fine-tune GPT-3.5
OpenAI, the AI startup behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, plans to partner with third-party vendors to make it easier for developers — specifically enterprises — to fine-tune its AI models using custom data. Today, OpenAI announced that it’ll team up with Scale AI, the San Francisco-based data labeling startup,
Read MoreChatSME: SA’s First Large Language Model for Business Owners
Retail Capital, a division of TymeBank, proudly announces the launch of ChatSME, a groundbreaking Large Language Model (LLM) designed to empower and revolutionize how South African entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Easy Access to Valuable Knowledge and Resources This first-of-its-kind generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) model aims to provide easy access to
Read MoreHighlights From the Brand Africa 100 2023 Survey
Highly anticipated release of Brand Africa 100 2023, reveals Africa’s 100 top brands. The report compiled by Brand Africa, in collaboration with Geopoll, Kantar, and Brand Leadership, presents the most comprehensive ranking of the most admired brands across Africa. As the African economy continues to thrive, recognising some of the
Read MoreIf you want to address tech debt, quantify it first
When Ward Cunningham coined the technical debt metaphor, he needed a way to discuss the decisions made early in a project that were coming back to haunt his engineers as they continued building down the line. He was at a firm doing financial software, so a fiscal metaphor was in
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