Topic: data privacy and security
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TikTok Cancelled Meeting With Congressman Over Child Safety
TikTok withdrew from a scheduled congressional hearing to avoid scrutiny of its child safety protocols, prompting sharp criticism from committee leadership who view the move as an attempt to evade oversight. The company claimed that a recent Meta settlement created legal barriers to discussing th...
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Salesforce and Nvidia Launch New Reasoning Model
Salesforce introduced Koa, a new reasoning model built on Nvidia’s Nemotron, to address specific enterprise workflows in sales and support while diverging from general-purpose AI offerings. The open-weight model ensures data privacy by using synthetic training data rather than customer records, o...
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Neurable seeks to license mind-reading tech for wearables
Neurable is licensing its non-invasive brain-computer interface technology, which uses EEG sensors and AI to analyze cognitive performance, for integration into consumer wearables like headphones and glasses without requiring surgery. The company has secured $35 million in Series A funding and se...
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OpenAI invests in Poetic to automate underwriting and compliance
Poetic, an AI startup with $50 million in funding from OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Kleiner Perkins, automates sensitive financial back-office tasks like insurance underwriting, compliance, and fraud detection by learning from a firm's existing procedures. The company claims remarkable results, inc...
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India's Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to rival voice AI giants
Murf AI will launch its Falcon 2 voice model on August 20 at $0.01 per generated minute, roughly one-fifth the cost of rival ElevenLabs, making the price gap a major selling point for high-volume enterprise users. Falcon 2 claims superior performance on the Artificial Analysis benchmark, beating ...
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Anthropic tested AI bioweapon risks in 133M chats
Anthropic revised its catastrophic harm risk rating from "very low" to "low" after discovering an 11-month gap in biological weapon safeguards on its human feedback platforms, exposing roughly 50,000 people and 133 million chat exchanges. The gap left flagged traffic unreviewed, with external ven...
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