Veridion’s database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years. Experian is feeding it into credit models.
Veridion’s database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years. Experian is feeding it into credit models.

Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to r…

UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”
UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce i…

“The world is right to be afraid”: Sam Altman on AI power at Dreamforce
“The world is right to be afraid”: Sam Altman on AI power at Dreamforce

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chie…

AI kill switches may need to be mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark tells BBC
AI kill switches may need to be mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark tells BBC

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI “kill switches” mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14…

API gateway vs AI gateway: Where AI governance meets execution
API gateway vs AI gateway: Where AI governance meets execution

API Gateways provide a controlled path into backend services and can apply security and traffic policies as requests move through the system. AI introduces additional runtime decisions because applications may interact with different models whose acces…

The robot that sweeps the car park is also watching it. Viabot’s $24m round calls that soft security.
The robot that sweeps the car park is also watching it. Viabot’s $24m round calls that soft security.

Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International, bringing total funding to $43m for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. The same machine runs what the company calls soft security, using its navigation sensors to detect loitering and tr…

ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports
ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports

The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the findings to Politico’s Sam Clark. One flaw carries a high-risk rating, a…

Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it
Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. A…

Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law
Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the fe…

China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…