Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from Google

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic has reportedly raised around $1 billion from Google as the AI company looks to deliver a number of major product updates this year. First reported by the Financial Times, Google’s fresh investment brings the tech giant’s total stake in Anthropic to around $3 billion. Google poured $2 billion into Anthropic late last year. Anthropic, […]
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Conduent confirms outage was due to a cybersecurity incident

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a cybersecurity incident.  Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access to support payments, to TechCrunch on Tuesday but declined to say whether the outage was […]
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Meta rarely invests in startups, but it works with Databricks on the Llama open-source models that Meta trains.

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Abnormal Security hires ex-ServiceNow exec as CFO as company starts prepping for IPO

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Five months after announcing that it hit $200 million in annualized revenue, Abnormal Security has hired a CFO.

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Databricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation. The San Francisco-based company also added a further $5.25 billion in debt financing, funded by JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, among other “leading financial institutions and alternative […]
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What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions
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How Bluesky, Twitter’s one-time side project, is challenging Elon Musk’s X

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Bluesky attracted many X users following the U.S. election in November. The decentralized social media platform has now grown to over 28 million users.

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How to Create a Secure Username

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Discover how to create a unique and secure username for your online accounts, and find out why it’s just as important as having a strong password.

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Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

When George Avetisov was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup HYPR, he spent a lot of time in the trenches with the company’s sales team. He quickly realized that regardless of how good his sales team was, they were consistently pulling in other departments to answer customer questions or fill out technical questionnaires. “They […]
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Doti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silos

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

As enterprises look at how they can best leverage AI to increase their employees’ productivity, search is an obvious use case. In most companies, after all, data lives in multiple disconnected silos and the combination of large language models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise-grade integration services now makes it easier than ever to not […]
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