AI leadership development platform Praxis Labs sells to Torch

AI leadership development platform Praxis Labs sells to Torch

Praxis Labs, a learning development platform, announced its acquisition on Thursday for an undisclosed amount by the leadership and coaching enterprise Torch.  “As a small company with fewer than 20 people serving companies as large as Amazon, we knew we needed to build powerful partnerships, across product and go-to-market, to reach more companies,” co-founder and…

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Knox lands .5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market

Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market

While highly sought after, federal software contracts frequently come with a hidden cost: Achieving government SaaS security compliance, known as FedRAMP, can take years and require substantial resources. Achieving this certification typically takes up to three years and costs more than $3 million, covering everything from security operations engineer salaries to security audits, according to…

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Why Cluely’s Roy Lee isn’t sweating cheating detectors

Why Cluely’s Roy Lee isn’t sweating cheating detectors

Cluely, an AI startup that uses a hidden in-browser window to analyze online conversations, has shot to fame with the controversial claim that its ‘undetectability’ feature lets users “cheat on everything.” The company’s co-founder, Roy Lee, was suspended from Columbia University for boasting that he used Cluely, originally called Interview Coder, to “cheat” on a…

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1 billion valuation led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal.  LangChain began its life in late 2022 as an open-source project founded by Harrison Chase, who was…

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