May 17, 2024
Investment

Israeli cyber security startup Apex gets initial investment from Sam Altman | Tech News

“We started Apex to build the extra layers of security that’s needed for enterprises to adopt (AI),” said Apex’s CEO, Matan Derman Reuters Jerusalem Israeli cyber security start-up Apex, which focuses on protecting the rapid use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, said on Thursday it received an undisclosed investment from OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman.

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Crypto

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin eyeing partnerships with PayPal and OpenAI

Tools for Humanity, the company behind Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project, Worldcoin, has dropped hints that it soon could be collaborating with major tech and finance companies, according to Bloomberg. “There’s some natural things in how we might and will work together,” said Alex Blania, Tools for Humanity’s CEO, regarding a potential partnership with OpenAI. “But

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Funds

Sam Altman In Talks To Raise Funds For Chips, AI Initiative: Report

The project could require raising as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including the UAE, to raise funds for a tech initiative to boost the world’s chip-building capacity and expand its ability to power AI, among other things, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

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Crypto

Hong Kong eye scan for cryptocurrency scheme probed by city’s privacy watchdog

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has raided six premises linked to a cryptocurrency company which requires an eye scan from clients for identification purposes. The data protection body said on Wednesday it feared that the iris scans of city users of Worldcoin, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a leading figure in the global artificial intelligence

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Investment

How ChatGPT And Billions In Investment Helped AI Go Mainstream In 2023

The hottest topic of 2023 was AI as billions of dollars in VC funding flowed into the sector and the industry grappled with critical questions about the technology’s place in society. getty 2023 was the year of AI. After ChatGPT launched in November 2022, it became one of the fastest growing apps ever, gaining 100

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