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MixMode raises $4 million to help companies fight AI-driven cyberattacks

MixMode has closed a $4 million round of venture capital as it continues work on artificial intelligence to help companies combat cyberattacks, many of which are increasingly automated. Entrada Ventures led the round of funding, which included participation from Keshif Ventures and Blu Venture Investors. After spending the past two years fine-tuning the system, MixMode will use the money for…
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SourceDay raises $12.5 million for AI that predicts on-time delivery risk

Logistics and supply chain analytics startup SourceDay today announced that it raised $12.5 million in venture capital financing. The bulk of the tranche will be put toward SourceDay’s go-to-market strategy, according to CEO Tom Kieley, and toward helping customers mitigate supply chain risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, SourceDay is offering its product for free for 90 days to…
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Microsoft hires Apple 5G chief to develop new HoloLens and AI products

Most of Apple’s key executives and engineers are anonymous, never appearing on stage or in news stories, but Rubén Caballero is an exception — a long-term wireless engineering VP who helped develop multiple iPhones dating back to the original model, and reportedly red-flagged the iPhone 4’s antenna design internally before it became infamous. Now Caballero has joined Microsoft, his LinkedIn…
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Google’s AI learns how to navigate environments from limited data

Carnegie Mellon, Google, and Stanford researchers write in a paper that they’ve developed a framework for using weak supervision — a form of AI training where the model learns from large amounts of limited, imprecise, or noisy data — that enables robots to efficiently explore a challenging environment. By learning to reach only areas of its surroundings relevant to tasks as opposed to every…
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