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Archipelo comes out of stealth with $12M funding to secure human and AI-driven code

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When it comes to AI software, you can build something clever, but that’s not always the same as building something that is secure. With so much software now getting written by AI, having a window into its security can be a challenge. That’s the premise of Archipelo, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup that is today […]

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Taktile helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows

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The automated logic behind many financial decisions — for example, decisions that determine whether a client is approved for a credit line — is hard-coded. Often, it’s not easily changed. If a head of credit at a bank wanted to adjust the bank’s lending criteria, for example, they’d likely have to raise a ticket with

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Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants

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A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with any model and integrate seamlessly with their development environments. Founded in June 2023 by CEO Ty Dunn and CTO Nate Sesti (pictured above), Y Combinator alum Continue has already garnered some 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord community

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Regie.ai injects sales enablement with AI, but keeps humans in the loop

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There’s no sure-fire approach to sales enablement, the process of providing a sales team with the resources it needs to close deals. Some teams are deficient on the prospecting side — that is, identifying and contacting potential customers. Others require help getting deals over the finish line. To meet these diverse wants, founders Matt Millen

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Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth

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Using generative AI to create software has been possibly the largest use case since it first appeared a couple years ago. But platforms like Cursor and Copilot are mostly confined to a world inhabited by trained engineers.  Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, reached the front page of both Product Hunt and Hacker News last year

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Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’

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The world is in a pickle: Human activity continues to dump too much CO2 into the atmosphere, raising the risk of catastrophic global warming. At the same time, the most climate-friendly way to keep using fossil fuels, carbon capture, has hit a rough patch. Only around 40 facilities worldwide are capturing some of the carbon

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Anthropic reportedly ups its next funding round to $3.5B

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Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger. Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, is finalizing a $3.5 billion fundraising round that values the company at $61.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic initially set out to raise $2 billion, but investors have now agreed to a larger tranche, per the WSJ.

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Yope is sparking GenZ (and VC) interest with an Instagram-like app for private groups

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Photo and video apps targeting young adults with social hooks are a dime a dozen these days, so those that show traction with 18-twentysomethings tend to catch the attention of investors looking for the next Instagram or TikTok. In the latest example, photo-sharing app Yope, which lets you share still images to private groups, says

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