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The Guardian: Leaked documents from Moscow-based company NTC Vulkan show how it helps GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, attacks on national infrastructure, and more  —  Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war  —  Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: P97, which works with fuel brands, car OS makers, and others to let users pay for gas or electric charge through app or connected car, raised a $40M Series C  —  The rising prices for gas continue to be a headache and stress for a lot of people around the world, but it underscores something … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Midjourney halts free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral  —  Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures  —  It’s estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world.  To cut costs, in recent years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Fixie, which aims to help developers integrate LLMs into their own applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures  —  The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: DataDome, which provides bot protection services for apps, websites, and APIs, raised a $42M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, bringing its total funding to $82M  —  Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be.  According to a survey from Imperva … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures  —  It’s estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world.  To cut costs, in recent years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Novak / Forbes: As his companies lag OpenAI in the AI race, Musk launders his “concerns” about AI through the Future of Life Institute, primarily funded by the Musk Foundation  —  Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: An AI-focused tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying the rollout of its AI tools has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety”  —  An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Vinod Khosla on how AI will “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more  —  At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he’s been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme