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New research shows phishing and fraud are shifting away from obvious impersonation toward search results, paid ads, business workflows, and marketplaces Bolster AI, a leading brand protection platform, revealed a fundamental shift in how phishing and online scams are created, distributed, and moneti...

Opportify has announced early adoption of its new “Email Insights” product, launched two months ago to help businesses detect and prevent fake sign-ups, reduce email-driven fraud, and protect deliverability at the point of entry. The solution was developed in response to a growing challenge for mode...

Miami-based cybersecurity services firm explodes in growth, quadrupling revenue in one year, expanding team, and investing in the Miami AI space. Cycore, a leading AI-powered cybersecurity and compliance services firm, announces significant growth and momentum throughout 2025. With a 4X increase in ...

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This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.

Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.

In this tutorial, we implement Tree-KG, an advanced hierarchical knowledge graph system that goes beyond traditional retrieval-augmented generation by combining semantic embeddings with explicit graph structure. We show how we can organize knowledge in a tree-like hierarchy that mirrors how humans l...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers.

We’re launching Google AI Plus in 35 new countries and territories including the US, making it available everywhere Google AI plans are available.

Generative Voice AI is transforming digital interaction in 2026, from emotional prosody and real‑time streaming to ethical voice cloning and democratized audio creation.

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Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.

“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.

How real-time content velocity and modern storage reshape intent quality, AI scalability, governance, and performance across the data lifecycle. Jeronimo, you’ve built a career at the intersection of AI and product management. What initially drew you into this space and ultimately to your role at Ba...

AI driven expertise leads to Company’s recognition as a top MSSP provider for sixth year in a row ECS, a provider of advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, and one of six ASGN brands that will be unifying under the new Everforth brand (NYSE: ASGN)...

Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners follows 900% revenue growth and 200% logo growth year-over-year as enterprises adopt runtime-powered cloud security Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundin...

“We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said.

EaseUS announced the official release of EaseUS Disk Copy 7.0.0 on Jan. 7, 2026, representing a fundamental shift in how disk cloning and backup workflows are handled on Windows. The update introduces disk imaging–based backup and restore capabilities, allowing users to create disk image and restore...

First-mover MSP designation expands public-sector data protection capabilities and enhances KELYN’s datastor.io managed backup and recovery solutions KELYN Technologies today announced that it has been selected as the first Managed Service Provider (MSP) for Commvault GovCloud, simplifying the path ...

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Adrian Johnson, formerly the senior vice president and general manager of the Americas and Asia Pacific, has been appointed as the company’s new chief revenue o...