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Exclusive: ZeroDrift applies small language model to prevent AI-generated compliance violations
“This investment is guaranteed to return 12% annually.” A claim like that in an email from an investment adviser is a regulatory disaster. Regulations prohibit financial firms from promising returns and require a proviso that past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. In the age of artificial intelligence, fewer communications are going through human hands, and ...
Broadcom updates VMware security for AI-era threats
Broadcom Inc. today introduced new security, performance and automation capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation that are intended to help enterprises defend private clouds against artificial intelligence-assisted attacks while reducing operational complexity and infrastructure costs. The updates affect VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer. They include a guided process for deploying advanced threat prevention, on-premises ...
Red Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced the formation of asago, an open-source community project intended to turn artificial intelligence governance policies into operational controls that can be deployed with AI systems. Short for AI Safety and Governance Orchestration, asago is intended to connect the work that is now often divided among compliance teams, data ...
Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows
Perplexity AI Inc. today released a Windows version of Personal Computer, expanding its agentic automation software beyond the original Macintosh platform and making it available to more than 1 billion Windows devices. First released in April, Personal Computer software acts as a general-purpose digital worker that can access authorized files and applications on a user’s ...
Exclusive: Dymium introduces single gateway to govern enterprise AI use
Secure artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Dymium Inc. today introduced GhostAI, a gateway designed to apply security and governance policies across the models, data, context and tools used in enterprise AI systems. The company said GhostAI sits between enterprise data and the AI models, agents and tools seeking to access it. The gateway inspects each interaction, ...
Exclusive: CollectivIQ targets AI costs with control platform
Boston-based startup CollectivIQ Inc. is targeting runaway artificial intelligence costs with a platform intended to give businesses control over how models are used. The company describes its product as an “AI consensus platform” that allows administrators to assign employees access to different classes of AI models according to their roles, departments, business requirements and budgets. ...
Databricks and Microsoft expand Azure partnership into the 2030s
Databricks Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today said they’re extending their strategic partnership into the 2030s as the companies seek business from enterprises building artificial intelligence applications grounded in proprietary data and business context. Under the expanded agreement, Databricks will increase its use of Microsoft Azure to operate its own business. The company plans to run ...
IBM cuts outlook as software and mainframe weakness weighs on results
A week after shocking investors with a disappointing preliminary earnings forecast that missed estimates, IBM Corp. today reported financial results that fell short of expectations for both revenue and profit. The company also lowered its full-year revenue forecast, blaming customers’ shifting their spending on mainframes and software to artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, executives insisted the ...
Exclusive: Speakeasy service tracks enterprise-wide AI agent spending
Speakeasy Development Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence cost-management service intended to give companies a consolidated view of spending across coding agents and other AI tools. The startup’s AI Cost Control service collects usage data from tools including Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, Anysphere Inc.’s Cursor, Claude Cowork and OpenAI LLC’s Codex. It records the tokens ...
Infinity raises $15M to run AI inference on any chipset
Early-stage AI infrastructure research company Infinity Inc. said it raised $15 million in seed funding to develop software that automatically prepares new artificial intelligence chips to run inference workloads. The round values the company at $100 million on a post-money basis. Infinity will use the capital to expand its engineering team, scale its automated research ...