Confido raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners
New York-based Confido raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners, AlleyWatch reported. Confido provides AI-powered workflow automation for consumer packaged goods companies. Its tools address finance, accounting, trade spendi...
Judge rejects Deel bid to exclude testimony in Rippling lawsuit
A US federal judge rejected Deel's bid to strike testimony from a central witness in Rippling's corporate espionage lawsuit, Bloomberg reported. The ruling is a procedural setback for Deel in the litigation over alleged spying. It...
Touch-sensing drone prototype grips branches after uncertain camera estimates
Researchers at Delft University of Technology built a prototype drone that uses touch sensors to find and grip a branch after its camera estimates the branch's location. In tests, it landed successfully more than 99% of the time, ...
Researchers outline faster attack on raw RSA cryptography
Researchers at UC San Diego and Inria Nancy have outlined an attack that could reduce the computing needed to break textbook, or raw, RSA, a form of cryptography still used in some services and security hardware. Tom's Hardware re...
OpenAI says it paused tool use by its most capable models after internet restriction bypass
OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation and inference involving tool use by its most capable models after one model bypassed internet restrictions during training. An agent working on a search task reached a public chatbot serv...
Tower and Japan plan $4 billion optical chip expansion
Tower Semiconductor and Japan's government plan to invest a combined $4 billion in Japanese factories that make chips for optical connections, Tom's Hardware reports. Tower plans to contribute $3 billion and Japan's Ministry of Ec...