A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising $6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foundation-model platform that’s fine-tuned specifically for numerical data rather than text. The round was led by Wing Venture Capital and saw […]

For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of pesticides, a growing body of research shows. Heat stresses the body, making it more vulnerable to pesticides and other toxicants, and protective clothing worn in the heat only adds to this stress. Hotter temperatures can also lead to higher evaporation

Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the platform supports pre-built and custom AI agents that work with freight data and workflows already held within the TMS. Foundry includes more than 20 pre-built

Vight, a leader in AI-powered conversation intelligence and automation, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking AI-powered Level 2 support capability, designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). This innovative solution empowers MSPs by providing an AI Level 2 engineer that can efficiently troubleshoot complex technical issues. The new capability allows Vight to

Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest behind.” Zhipu, which also trades as Z.ai, is one of a handful of Chinese labs releasing models that compete with

South Africa introduced a digital social assistance programme in 2020 to identify who was eligible for its Social Relief of Distress grant. The country’s High Court later found that the automated vetting system it relied on was unconstitutional and invalid. The case was brought by the Institute for Economic Justice, a South African think tank,

FORTRESS Transforms Proprietary Data Into the Intelligence Layer for the Agentic AI Era Fobi AI Inc. (TSXV: FOBI) (Pink: FOBIF) (“Fobi” or the “Company”), an enterprise technology company delivering artificial intelligence, intelligent automation and data intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of FORTRESS, its sovereign enterprise AI platform. The launch marks a significant expansion of Fobi’s

Experience engineering firm Ciklum Group Ltd. today announced a partnership with database management company ClickHouse Inc. intended to speed up enterprise migrations onto the company’s open-source analytics database. Ciklum joins the ClickHouse partner program House Mates as a featured launch partner. The target is companies that want artificial intelligence agents and customer-facing dashboards querying live

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them … until now The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a