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Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era

Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is reshaping how enterprises secure employee devices. The Palo Alto-headquartered startup on Wednesday said it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from Sequoia Capital…
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AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same, and that’s not an accident. For a decade, platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting over something bigger – becoming…
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models coming and threatening the large language models in the U.S.,” Bessent said on Fox Business Tuesday. “This…
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Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

Adobe is adding new AI-powered features to its experimental iOS camera app called Project Indigo, launched last year. The app previously offered pro controls, multi-frame super-resolution, and different capture modes, and is now adding features that will use LLMs (large language models) to critique photos and provide editing suggestions. It’s also adding other AI features, like advanced object…
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon, the membership platform for creators, is cracking down on AI scraping its content for training purposes. On Thursday, the company shared that it’s working with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare to directly block access to AI bots designed to train their AI models on creators’ work without permission. The strengthened measures were necessary because AI scraping has become…
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