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Codeium Raises $65 million To Bring Generative AI to Software Coding

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Codeium announced it has raised a $65 million Series B round to help software developers supercharge their workflows with generative AI-powered capabilities. The financing was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from repeat investor Greenoaks as well as General Catalyst.

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Codeium is a generative AI-powered coding toolkit that leverages proprietary code-biased Large Language Models (LLMs) to reduce inefficiencies in software development and maximize developer productivity.
"Software engineering is the backbone of innovation yet the process is expensive and inefficient due to imperfect knowledge retrieval, boilerplate tasks, maintenance overhead, and more," said Varun Mohan, CEO, Codeium.
This is precisely why we developed Codeium: to let developers focus on creative, high-value tasks—not tedious maintenance work."
"Their AI technology is not just accelerating developer productivity; it's reshaping the way software is written.

Casper Labs to Build a Blockchain-Powered Solution with IBM Consulting to Help Improve Transparency and Auditability for Generative AI Systems

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

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Together, Casper Labs and IBM Consulting plan to develop a new Casper Labs solution, designed with blockchain and built leveraging IBM watsonx.governance , that establishes an additional analytics and policy enforcement layer for governing AI training data across organizations.

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Together, Casper Labs and IBM Consulting plan to develop a new Casper Labs solution, designed with blockchain and built leveraging IBM watsonx.governance , that establishes an additional analytics and policy enforcement layer for governing AI training data across organizations.
Casper Labs’ solution is planned to be built on Casper, a tamper-resistant and highly serialized ledger, and leverage IBM watsonx.governance and watsonx.ai to monitor and measure highly serialized input and output data for training generative AI systems across organizations.
“An AI system’s efficacy is ultimately as good as an organization’s ability to govern it,” said Shyam Nagarajan, Global Partner, Blockchain and Responsible AI Leader at IBM Consulting.
To register for that session, visit thehubdavos.com , or follow Casper Labs on Youtube to view the playback.

Unity Further Supports Creators Across the Game Development Cycle With New AI Features, A First Look at Unity 6, and The Debut of Unity Cloud

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

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Earlier this year, Unity announced the launch of AI-powered platforms Unity Muse and Unity Sentis in closed beta.
While Unity Muse helps improve developers’ workflows, Unity Sentis enables developers to bring complex AI data models into the Unity Runtime to help solve complicated tasks and create new functionality in a game using AI models.
Now in open beta, Unity Sentis will be launched in general availability with Unity 6 in 2024.
“We are here to help developers build amazing games and find success,” says Marc Whitten, President Create, Unity.

Abbey Labs Launches Public Beta and Announces HashiCorp Partnership

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Monday, August 7, 2023

Abbey Labs , an innovator in identity and access management (IAM), today announced the release of its Access Governance platform into Public Beta.

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Abbey Labs , an innovator in identity and access management (IAM), today announced the release of its Access Governance platform into Public Beta.
When Abbey launched its private alpha, they met James Flowers , the Head of DevSecOps at Extend .
After a successful deployment, James shared, “Working with the Abbey Labs team was smooth and easy.
Abbey Labs has been an excellent partner for access management.”
“Jeff and I co-founded Abbey Labs because we experienced firsthand at Okta, Netflix and Stripe the struggles customers faced when granting granular permissions to their employees,” said Arvil Nagpal, Co-Founder and CEO.

Snap Inc. Announces First Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

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We introduced 3D to the Snap Map to highlight Places and make the Map more personal, fun, and engaging.

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We introduced 3D to the Snap Map to highlight Places and make the Map more personal, fun, and engaging.
Snap Inc. will host a conference call to discuss the results at 2:30 p.m. Pacific / 5:30 p.m. Eastern today.
We calculate average Monthly Active Users for a particular quarter by calculating the average of the MAUs as of each calendar month-end in that quarter.
Note: For adjustments and additional information regarding the non-GAAP financial measures and other items discussed, please see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures,” “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures,” and “Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics.”

GitGuardian Launches Honeytoken

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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PARIS, April 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GitGuardian , a leading code security solution provider, announced today the launch of its new Honeytoken module .

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PARIS, April 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GitGuardian , a leading code security solution provider, announced today the launch of its new Honeytoken module .
"Honeytoken is a significant addition to our code and supply chain security platform," said Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian.
We will do a live demo of the Honeytoken capabilities at RSA to demonstrate in real-time how effectively Honeytoken can alert when source code leaks occur.”
And we're not stopping here.
SaaS Sentinel is a new GitGuardian lab project leveraging Honeytoken.

New Version of Loft Simplifies Kubernetes Management with Intuitive, Flexible and Fine-Grained Controls

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

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Now, after a major revamp of our user interface and onboarding experience, Loft v3 provides best-in-class management of virtual Kubernetes clusters – enabling larger organizations to provide self-service clusters to their engineering teams,” said Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO, Loft Labs.

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Now, after a major revamp of our user interface and onboarding experience, Loft v3 provides best-in-class management of virtual Kubernetes clusters – enabling larger organizations to provide self-service clusters to their engineering teams,” said Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO, Loft Labs.
“Now, managing Kubernetes has never been easier – and that is something no one ever says!”
New features in Loft v3 include:
Fully Redesigned User Interface improves navigation organized by Projects, Templates, and Clusters.
With Loft v3, platform teams are able to manage virtual clusters, spaces, and applications at an enterprise scale.
Loft Labs builds its enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform Loft on top of the open source vcluster project.

Survey: IT and Engineering Teams Spend 40% Of Their Time Building and Maintaining Internal Tools and Workflows, Distracting From Building Products That Actually Drive Business Revenue

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Internal, the internal tools development platform, today announced the results of a third-party survey of 500 US-based IT and engineering leaders regarding their views on internal tools and workflow development. The company also launched their all-in-one platform for internal tools, a comprehensive solution for custom app development, task management, and workflow automation on top of databases and APIs.

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In addition, 76% said that while this work is necessary, it is a distraction from building products that actually drive business revenue.
When it comes to internal tools, companies want an all-in-one solution that provides flexibility and customization for cross-company collaboration.
This, in return, allows IT and Engineering leaders to focus developer time on products that drive revenue and increase capacity.
The Current State of Internal Tools survey, conducted in December 2022, collected 500 responses from American IT and Engineering Leaders using Cint.

Legit Security Launches Open-Source Security Product to Enforce and Scale Secure GitHub Configurations

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legit Security , a cyber security company with an enterprise platform to secure an organizations software supply chain, today announced Legitify, an open-source security tool to secure GitHub implementations.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legit Security , a cyber security company with an enterprise platform to secure an organizations software supply chain, today announced Legitify, an open-source security tool to secure GitHub implementations.
Legitify is a GitHub misconfiguration scanner that helps security teams and DevOps engineers manage and enforce their GitHub configurations in a secure and scalable way.
Legitify addresses these challenges and helps automate GitHub security by allowing companies to securely and efficiently:
Scan GitHub implementations via the command line to detect various security issues associated with GitHub configurations and settings.
In addition to Legitify , Legit Security has contributed to the cyber security community with the responsible disclosure of other GitHub vulnerabilities discovered by their internal security research team.

Legit Security Discovers and Helps Remediate Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Google Firebase & Apache Open-Source Projects

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legit Security , a cyber security company with an enterprise platform to secure an organizations software supply chain, today announced that it discovered software supply chain attack vulnerabilities in popular open-source projects from Google and Apache.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legit Security , a cyber security company with an enterprise platform to secure an organizations software supply chain, today announced that it discovered software supply chain attack vulnerabilities in popular open-source projects from Google and Apache.
The vulnerability was found in the Google Firebase project and in a very popular integration framework project from Apache.
Both Google and Apache acknowledged and fixed the vulnerabilities after an initial disclosure by Legit Security.
Here at Legit Security our mission is to secure every organizations software supply chain and we are active conducting security research and collaborating on initiatives to achieve this goal."