AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

Like a real-life episode of “Suits,” the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.

Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers 

Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can’t agree on where to eat? Zest’s AI concierge can combine everyone’s tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream’s world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.

Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy

Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It’s platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the… Continua a leggere Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO 

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the… Continua a leggere The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO 

Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash

The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.

Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B

The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as “America’s answer to Shenzhen.”

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.