Astra Security, a cutting-edge cybersecurity SaaS company, has announced the successful closure of a $2.7 million growth capital round led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital. The fresh capital will accelerate Astra Security’s mission to redefine penetration testing (pentesting) through AI-powered solutions, helping businesses stay ahead […]

How rigorous testing environments can boost user satisfaction and business outcomes In the contemporary AI landscape, match recommendation systems power many platforms integral to our daily lives—whether job boards, professional networking sites, dating applications, or e-commerce. These recommendation engines connect users with relevant opportunities or products, boosting engagement and overall satisfaction. However, developing and refining […]

Hubert Palan is the Founder and CEO of Productboard, a product management platform designed to help teams bring products to market more efficiently by prioritizing user needs and aligning teams around a shared roadmap. More than 5,400 companies, including Zoom, UiPath, JCDecaux, and Microsoft, use the platform to gather customer insights and inform development decisions. What […]

Silicon Valley-based Growth Warrior Capital (GWC), led by seasoned operator-turned-venture capitalist Promise Phelon, has announced two major investments into emerging AI startups MenuData and Simulacra Synthetic Data Studio. These investments precede the firm’s inaugural fund close, marking a strategic push into AI-driven consumer insights and data analytics. GWC, alongside Brickyard, co-led a $2 million seed […]

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological functions, from fighting infections to digesting food. These complex molecules comprise long chains of amino acids arranged in precise sequences that dictate their structure and function. […]

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head but no way to bring it to life? Or maybe you’ve dreamed of composing music but felt held back by time, skill, or expensive software. That’s where Riffusion comes in! It’s a revolutionary AI music generator that turns text prompts into unique, custom full-length songs […]

Generative diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, Flux, and video models such as Hunyuan rely on knowledge acquired during a single, resource-intensive training session using a fixed dataset. Any concepts introduced after this training – referred to as the knowledge cut-off – are absent from the model unless supplemented through fine-tuning or external adaptation techniques like […]

As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year with hacks, outages, legislation, and rapidly emerging trends that shifted the cybersecurity landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at breakneck speed, with generative and agentic AI pushing organizations to consider its role across every aspect of the business. Meanwhile, new categories emerge to […]

Senior Audrey Lorvo is researching AI safety, which seeks to ensure increasingly intelligent AI models are reliable and can benefit humanity. The growing field focuses on technical challenges like robustness and AI alignment with human values, as well as societal concerns like transparency and accountability. Practitioners are also concerned with the potential existential risks associated with […]