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Langchain, an AI infrastructure startup that provides tools to build and monitor applications powered by LLM, has raised new funding at an valuation of around $1 billion, led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of trading. Langchain began his life in the second half of 2022 as an open source project founded by Harrison Chase. After generating key developer interest, Chase turned the project into a startup, securing a $10 million seed round from the benchmark in April 2023. That round reportedly valued the Lang chain at $200 million, following a $25 million Series A led by Sequoia…
Elon Musk announced this weekend that his team at Xai has improved the AI chatbot Grok. A few days later, Glock has already joined several blatantly anti-Semitic Tyrades, including criticizing Hollywood’s “Jewish cadres” and claiming that Jews often “spew anti-white hatred.” This is not a new behavior for Grok, the X account run by the platform itself. Users can tag posts when they want AI bots to answer their questions. Grok is powered by Xai, Musk’s AI company that recently merged with X. In May, Grok supported false claims about South Africa’s “white genocide” even when responding to posts that…
Whooooo is there? Just “Cosmic Owl” – the latest strange discovery from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).A new study using JWST data has helped scientists find objects in the owl faces that peek at us from billions of light years. This structure, formed by the very rare collisions of two rare ring galaxies, also serves as a natural lab where you can study many of the processes involved in galaxy evolution.The galaxy comes in several shapes, from our home galaxy, a Milky Way spiral to a cigar-shaped M82. One of the slightly distinctive types is the ring galaxy such as…
The new report estimates that AI will be a bigger part of the online shopping process than ever before during Amazon’s Prime Day sale, which began Tuesday morning. This year, Amazon’s annual sales for four days (from July 8th to 111th) are projected to drive $23.8 billion in online spending to US e-commerce retailers as other companies run their own competitive sales along with popular shopping events. With the e-commerce department regularly releasing quotes for online shopping events such as Black Friday, Adobe offers online commerce views by tracking transactions online. The company’s analysis includes over 1 trillion visits to…
Games Giant Activision defeated “Call of Duty: WWII” as hackers exploit flaws in certain PC versions of the game. Last week, Activision announced that it had taken the Microsoft Store version of its 2017 first-person shooter, Call of Duty: WWII, offline as it was investigating “reporting problems” without specifying what the problem was. The company has just launched that version of the game and is also a subscription service that allows access to multiple games for a monthly fee. Those who know the Activision response told TechCrunch that the company took the game offline offline due to hacking, working to…
July 8, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cybercrime In yet another example of threat actors reusing legal tools for malicious purposes, hackers have been found using a popular red teaming tool called shelters to distribute steeler malware. The company behind the software said that the company that recently purchased a Shellter Elite license leaked a copy, urging malicious actors to weaponize the tools of their Infostealer campaign. An update was then released to plug in the issue. “We have found ourselves tackling this unfortunate situation despite the rigorous review process that has successfully prevented such incidents since the launch of Shellter Pro Plus in…
On Tuesday, Replette announced a strategic partnership agreement with Microsoft. Replit will be available through Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud App Store and Azure Marketplace. This means that Microsoft Shop will be able to purchase replica subscriptions. Replit integrates numerous Microsoft cloud services, including containers called Neon Serverless Postgres, virtual machines, and numerous Microsoft Cloud Services, such as Microsoft’s version of Postgres. In other words, Azure should generate a share of revenue from replica apps used for production. Microsoft is well known for offering the highly popular Vibe Coder on Github Copilot, but Replit doesn’t compete much as it targets different users…
Chimpanzees wear grass blades like fashion accessories. (Image credit: Jake Brooker/Chimhunsi Wildlife Orphanage Trust)Captive chimpanzees have begun to hang grass from their ears and buttocks in a rare, trendy “trend,” new research finds.Chimpanzees (pantrogloids) attach grass blades to their ears, ears, or rectum, and then let them droop there for a while, researchers reported. The behavior does not appear to have no physical or medical purpose, but it spreads socially from chimpanzees to chimpanzees.Researchers first reported grass ear behavior in 2014. At the time, only a group of chimpanzees living in the Chimhunsi wildlife orphanage in Zambia showed their behavior.…
July 8, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an Android banking malware campaign that utilizes a Trojan horse named Anatsa, which targets North American users, using a malicious app published on Google’s official app marketplace. The malware, which pretends to be a “PDF update” to the document viewer app, provides a deceptive overlay when users try to access the banking application, claiming that the service was temporarily suspended as part of scheduled maintenance. “This marks at least the third instance where Anatsa focuses its business on mobile banking customers in the US and Canada,” Dutch mobile security company Threatfabric…
Open source, Mastodon is a decentralized social network offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and Meta threads, rolling out many updates with the release of Mastodon 4.4 on Tuesday. Most notably, this app takes the first step towards implementing changes that bring about changes that are comparable to other networks, but it can also affect user behavior. Preparing to integrate quoted posts, or Twitter will call quote tweets. This type of repost allows users to quote other people’s posts and add a commentary on them. Now on Twitter, called X, the addition of features leads to a culture of…