As it prepares for an eventual IPO, Proofpoint is also shopping for M&A targets in the cybersecurity industry. Dhawan told me that he is looking for company’s that represent a good “strategic fit” for the business.
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Proofpoint plans IPO return to public markets in 12-18 months
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SCOOP: Cybersecurity company Proofpoint is planning a return to the public markets. Proofpoint is looking to IPO in 12 to 18 months’ time, CEO Sumit Dhawan told me in an interview ahead of the company’s Proofpoint Protect conference in London.
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AI Safety, Symbolic AI, and Tech Giants’ Latest Developments
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Les sources du FT sont ici https://
techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/aug
mented-intelligence-claims-its-symbolic-ai-can-make-chatbots-more-useful/
… https://
theverge.com/2024/9/29/2423
2172/california-ai-safety-bill-1047-vetoed-gavin-newsom
… https://
ft.com/content/b1efdc
2a-4dbc-40cc-920e-2cf389d261e8
… https://
google.com/url?q=https://
next.ink/151856/microsoft-se-lance-tardivement-a-lassaut-des-hallucinations-de-ses-ia/&source=gmail&ust=1727807143632000&usg=AOvVaw2Mvxzr_RN42zZUAigXeME9
… https://
lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-t
ech/l-inattendue-renaissance-d-oracle-fait-la-fortune-de-larry-ellison-son-fondateur-20240930
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AI Future: Symbolic AI, SoftBank Investment, Safety Concerns
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Envie d’embarquer pour le Futur ? Symbolic AI, l'alternative prometteuse pour les chatbots Veto du gouverneur californien sur la loi de sécurité IA SoftBank investit 500 millions dans OpenAI Microsoft veut corriger les "hallucinations" de Copilot Oracle renaît
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Nvidia Releases NVLM-1.0-D-72B Multimodal Language Model
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Nvidia releases NVLM-1.0-D-72B frontier-class multimodal LLM with decoder-only architecture SOTA results on vision-language and text-only tasks
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Strategic Competition in AI Search: Microsoft/OpenAI vs. SearchGPT
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Good point! It is a close situation to MS and OpenAI with Bing vs SearchGPT
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Cohere and Fujitsu Launch Takane Japanese AI Model
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Introducing Takane, an industry-best custom-built Japanese model, developed by Cohere and @Fujitsu_Global
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fujitsu.com/global/about/r
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Apple Defies Court Order in High-Stakes Legal Battle
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“Apple’s response was effectively giving the middle finger to the judge, and she indeed seemed to echo that view.”
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Waymo autonomous taxis claim 3x safety advantage over human drivers
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Waymo, la empresa de taxis autónomos de Google, se está llevando el gato al agua en el mercado. Aseguran ser 3 veces más seguros que los taxis conducidos por un humano y realizan una media de 100.000 viajes pagados a la semana.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 30 septembre 2024
Pero, tú te montarías en uno de estos antes de… pic.twitter.com/hfSbxadeRvWaymo, la empresa de taxis autónomos de Google, se está llevando el gato al agua en el mercado. Aseguran ser 3 veces más seguros que los taxis conducidos por un humano y realizan una media de 100.000 viajes pagados a la semana. Pero, tú te montarías en uno de estos antes de
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AI Generates Real Revenue for Enterprise Customer Service Applications
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The surest sign AI is becoming real is that it's now generating $$$ for real companies doing boring things, like customer service. (Related: it has lured @ZUrlocker out of his 20th retirement to help grow another billion-dollar software company.)