Objection Announces Seed Funding to Deploy AI System for Challenging Media Accuracy

Ryan Carson has built companies for 25 years, including Treehouse, which taught over a million people to code. He knows what it takes to grow a team. So when he told me he’d raised $2 million in seed funding for his latest company, Untangle, an AI-powered divorce assistant, and had no plans to hire anyone, […]

Microsoft has unveiled a new AI-driven vulnerability discovery system that identified 16 previously unknown Windows vulnerabilities, including four critical remote code execution flaws, in what security analysts say could mark a major shift in how software vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated. The system, codenamed MDASH, was developed by Microsoft’s Autonomous Code Security team alongside the Windows Attack Research and Protection group. The platform will enter private preview for enterprise customers next month, Microsoft said in a blog post announcing the system. The vulnerabilities were patched as part of Microsoft’s May 12 Patch Tuesday release. “Cyber defenders are facing an increasingly asymmetric battle,” Microsoft added in the blog post. “Attackers are using AI to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks.” Critical Windows components affected The four critical vulnerabilities affected core Windows components broadly deployed across enterprise environme

Judgment Labs raised $32M in seed and Series A funding, led by Lightspeed, to help teams monitor and improve AI agents from production data.

A new paper out of arXiv this week describes an AI system that builds, improves, and deploys its own specialist agents. Here is what that actually means for engineers and technical teams.

Augustus won conditional OCC approval for a US bank charter focused on AI payments, stablecoin settlement, and programmable clearing.

Peter Thiel-backed Augustus has won conditional OCC approval for a US bank charter focused on AI-driven payments and stablecoin settlement infrastructure.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nace.AI has announced it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding, led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst and a group of leading institutional and angel investors. Alongside the raise, the company is launching its new product in research preview, a new model for professional work where 100+ specialized AI agents […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE—Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company, has announced $140 million in Series B financing led by Peter Thiel, with participation from new investors John Doerr, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Max Levchin’s SciFi Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Hanwha Asset Management (USA)’s venture fund, Anthony Pratt, Fortescue Ventures, Future Positive, WTI, Nimble […]