Meet Taktile, a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. But Taktile wants to differentiate itself from competitors by making it way easier to get started and switch to AI-powered models. A few years […]
軍事AIの弱点をなくすべく、米国防総省は自らを“ハッキング”する
人工知能（AI）の高度化によって国の防衛力を高め、その安全性と信頼性を担保するために、米国防総省が機械学習モデルの審査を強化している。その鍵を握るのが、米軍のAIを自らハッキングすることで脆弱性を見つけ出す“レッドチーム”だ。なかでもAIシステムの「データ汚染」は重大な脅威になる可能性があるとして、対策が急がれている。
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Zeit’s early warning wearable for sleep strokes could save hours and lives
Those at risk are always vigilant for the signs of a stroke in progress, but no one can be vigilant when they’re sleeping, meaning thousands of people suffer “wake-up strokes” that are only identified hours after the fact. Zeit Medical’s brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough […]
Bodo.ai secures $14M, aims to make Python better at handling large-scale data
Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms.
Kapacity.io is using AI to drive energy and emissions savings for real estate
Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. It does this by providing incentives to building owners/occupiers to shift to clean energy […]
Shelf.io closes huge $52.5M Series B after posting 4x ARR growth in the last year
This is the sort of deal that we expect to see Tiger in — an outsized investment compared to prior rounds into a high-growth company that has lots of market room.
A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation)
Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English language. There’s been a lot of invective and fear over what social media is doing to us, from our individual psychologies and neurologies to wider […]
Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI
The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation. The success of tech giants that put data at the core of their business models set off a spark that is only starting to take off.
UIPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk RPA and automation
UIPath came seemingly out of nowhere in the last several years, going public last year in a successful IPO during which it raised over $527 million. It raised $2 billion in private money prior to that with its final private valuation coming in at an amazing $35 billion. UIPath CEO Daniel Dines will be joining […]
MOLOCO raises $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation
MOLOCO, an adtech startup that uses machine learning to build mobile campaigns, announced today it has raised $150 million in new Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management, taking its valuation to $1.5 billion. This is separate from the $20 million Series C round MOLOCO announced three months ago, which brought it to unicorn […]