US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023
William Michael Haslach was a lunch monitor and traffic guard at a suburban Minnesota elementary school for years …LinkedIn:Kurt Wagner.
OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters
there will be a lot more of these, and it's only going to accelerate.@dorialexander:Most interesting part of the OpenAI privacy model release: it's a sparse MoE encoder (Mixture of Berts?). [image]Sah...
Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B after strong investor interest
Thrive Holdings, an offshoot of Joshua Kushner's venture capital firm Thrive Capital, is in discussions to raise at least $2 billion …LinkedIn:Rebecca TorrenceLinkedIn:Rebecca Torrence:SCOOP: Josh Kus...
AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality
In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.LinkedIn:Stephanie Clifford.
Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A
In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something …LinkedIn:FuseLinkedIn:Fuse:Today, we ...
Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more
GDC in San Francisco this week was full of job-seekers, co-development studios and AI — Hi everyone.LinkedIn:Jason Schreier.Forums:r/GamesLinkedIn:Jason Schreier:I spent the week in San Francisco at...
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.LinkedIn:Paul Mozur.Forums:r/indiaLinkedIn:Pa...
How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US
One icy morning in February, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state.LinkedIn:Dr. Alicia M. Johnson.
Naveen Mallela, JPMorgan's global co-head of blockchain unit Kinexys, leaves after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day as of December
The global co-head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s blockchain division has left after more than a decade at the bank, as it steps up an expansion in digital-asset payments.LinkedIn:Naveen MallelaLinkedIn:Na...
LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY, topping $5B for the first time, giving it a $20B+ annual run rate; Satya Nadella says LinkedIn paid video ads grew 30% YoY
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