CISOs know precisely where their AI nightmare unfolds fastest. It’s inference, the vulnerable stage where live models meet real-world data, leaving enterprises exposed to prompt injection, data leaks, and model jailbreaks.
Databricks Ventures and Noma Security are confronting these inference-stage threats head-on. Backed by a fresh $32 million Series A round led by Ballistic Ventures and Glilot…
Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces
June 6, 2025
Solidroad, an artificial intelligence startup that promises to solve one of customer service’s most persistent problems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform that automatically trains customer service representatives and improves AI agents.
The…
Crypto regulation is poised for a breakthrough as a top SEC official champions streamlined oversight, expanded custody options, and investor-friendly policies empowering digital asset adoption.
SEC Commissioner Aims to Cut Regulatory Red Tape in Crypto Oversight
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North Korea’s sprawling crypto laundering network has been hammered as U.S. authorities seized $7.74 million tied to fake IT jobs, blockchain trickery, and weapons funding.
DOJ Targets North Korea’s Crypto Laundering Network With Asset Seizure
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 5 that it has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to recover over $7.74 million in…
Ukrainian law enforcement recently arrested a 35-year-old man accused of hacking over 5,000 customer accounts of a hosting company to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in a loss of $4.5 million.
Hacker Deploys Software to Remotely Manipulate Servers
Ukrainian cyber police…
Electric truck startup Bollinger Motors seemed to be circling the drain last week, but a fresh investment from Mullen Automotive and a new/old face at the helm means there might be life in the medium-duty EV brand, yet. Here’s what we know, so far.
Last week, we wrote…
The SONDORS electric bicycle company infamously went bankrupt in 2023, yet it now appears to be attempting a rise from the ashes. The company’s founder and former CEO Storm SONDORS is back at the helm and pre-selling a new electric motorbike with a somewhat familiar name – the Meta AT.
But will riders be once bitten, twice shy?
SONDORS originally burst onto the scene way back in 2015 – the…
A leaked recording of a new Tesla training program reveals that the company is concerned about a growing employee morale issue. The instructor asked Tesla employees attending the training if they’d ever felt “I can’t work under these conditions “or had felt set…
Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale
June 4, 2025
For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money.
But that’s where it gets messy. Building that foundation is no piece of cake…
A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine.
The collaboration has enabled Phonely to reduce response times by…
