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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. Prelaunch.com is an Armenian startup that has developed tools to help startup founders figure out what’s worth building — and just raised $1.5 million to further develop its product and services.

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

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Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. In addition, the Netherland Enterprise Agency awarded Axelera AI a $6.7 MemVerge, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast and H20.ai

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

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Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement. “I billion last year.

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Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

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When Stable Diffusion , the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI , was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. By far the largest is Unstable Diffusion , whose operators are building a business around AI systems tailored to generate high-quality porn.

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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

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In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. Truth seeker : Elon Musk wants to develop his own chatbot called TruthGPT, which he describes as “a maximum truth-seeking AI,” reports Ivan. Lorenzo has more.

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Intel spins off enterprise AI company Articul8 with outside funding

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Intel has set up a new company, Articul8 AI, to sell enterprise generative AI software it developed. Articul8 AI will be led by Arun Subramaniyan, formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. The new company’s investors include global investment firm DigitalBridge Ventures.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Want to Deploy AI Securely? New Industry Group Will Compile AI Safety Best Practices

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A group that includes the Cloud Security Alliance, CISA and Google is working to compile a comprehensive collection of best practices for secure AI use. Comprehensive guidelines are forthcoming from the AI Safety Initiative , a new group led by the Cloud Security Alliance that was launched this week. Fill out this form.

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