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Raj Aggarwal left AWS almost three years later, according to LinkedIn Post Aggarwal, which was released on Wednesday. “We are proud of the pioneering work our team has done with generative AI since the earliest times,” Aggarwal told his post. “We built what could be the world’s first large-scale generation AI product. It was launched by tens of thousands of sellers, used it hundreds of thousands of times, and increased the pipeline’s generation by 4.9%.” Aggarwal played a prominent role in AWS’ recent push to generate AI. On LinkedIn Post, he mentioned AWS’ AI Foundation model, the Bedrock AI development…

Bengaluru, India, March 19, 2025, Cybernake Wire Go beyond detection and move to real-time automated security across workloads, cloud and infrastructure SECPOD, a global cybersecurity provider, has announced the general availability of Saner Cloud, a cloud-native application protection platform designed to provide automated remediation and workload security across multi-cloud environments. Unlike traditional security solutions that focus primarily on detection, Saner Cloud uses AI-driven automation to integrate security to remediate threats in real time. Security teams have long faced the challenges of managing different security solutions across crowd workloads, IT infrastructure and endpoints, often bringing fragmented operations and a large number…

TechCrunch learned that Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, who worked on Robotics and AI, has left Google to create his own robotic startup called Generalist AI, and has already gained investment from Nvidia. Pete Florence was listed as Generalist AI co-founder and CEO at a panel at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in San Jose yesterday. The panel was aimed at Nvidia’s VC ARM and Nventures portfolio companies. Since Nvidia enjoyed surgent economic success in this new era of AI, Nventures has become a particularly active venture capital firm. “We’re mostly stealth,” Florence told TechCrunch, explaining that the startup’s mission is to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has suspended the University of Pennsylvania federal funding for participation in transgender athletes in the swimming program, the White House said Wednesday.Ivy League Schools face An Educational Sector Survey It focuses on swimming programs. The investigation was released last month shortly after President Donald Trump signed the matter. Presidential Order The purpose is to prohibit trans athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. But federal funding was suspended with another review of discretionary federal funds going to college, the White House said. The suspended money came from the Department of Defense and the…

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week and appeared in the keynote speech with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg in a t-shirt he subtly enjoyed. Or at least it seemed subtle. However, so many people appreciated the jab, users convinced Bluesky to recreate and sell Glover shirts. Bluesky’s COO Rose Wang said he made more money in one day of selling t-shirts than selling a two-year custom domain. “That’s it. Pivot to the T-shirt company…” she wrote in a Facett post about Bluesky. The shirt, which Bluesky sells for $40, has been countered by Zuckerberg designed and…

The US President updates his call to end Iran’s support for Yemeni groups targeting Israel in the war in Gaza.WASHINGTON, DC — Donald Trump has renewed his call for Iran to end support for the Housis, pledging that the Yemeni group will be defeated by the United States. The US President’s comments on Wednesday came the day after the Houtis claimed an attack targeting US warships in the Red Sea region and a missile launch against Israel. Wednesday also marked yet another day for us being attacked by bases in Houthi, Yemen, including the capital Sanaa. “Look at how Houthi…

Elon Musk’s AI company Xai has added image generation capabilities to its API. At the moment, only one model is the “GROK-2-IMAGE-1212” API. Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request in JPG format (limited to 5 requests per second). For comparison, AI startup Black Forest Lab, which Xai partnered last year to start image generation on mask social network X last year, charged about $0.05 per image. Another popular image model provider, IDEOGRAM, charges $0.08 on the high end. Xai points out in its documentation that the API doesn’t support image quality, size or…

Pierre Poilierble is trying to distance himself from Donald Trump as a threat to the US president to Canadian fuel.Canadian Conservative leaders seized Donald Trump’s remarks on the Canadian election to distance himself from the US president amid a slump in vote counts. In an interview with Fox News this week, Trump didn’t care who won the federal election in Canada, but said he would “deal with more liberals than conservatives.” On Wednesday, Pierre Polyeive said the US president, whose tariffs and annexation threats on Canada have effectively approved new Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, whose anger has fostered…

Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and Openai among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible funding and credit, the company announced Wednesday. This is Dataminr’s Chump change, closing the $475 million round in 2021, at a $4.1 billion valuation. In November 2023, Dataminr fired 20% of its staff who fought through economic headwinds and competed for “doubling” with AI. “The new capital will allow Dataminr to accelerate its growth trajectory. [and] CEO Ted Bailey will provide TechCrunch with discounts on IPO prices or subsequent funding to investors.[We’ll] We will also use this new…

America throws away more trees than most people understand. Approximately 36 million trees fall every year, including storms, diseases and urban development. The United States also stirs up about 18.1 million tons of timber waste per year, most of which is burned or thrown into landfills. Instead of reusing this valuable resource, we are creating unnecessary emissions and waste. While many startups are racing to build the next AI-driven tool or robotics breakthrough, Cambium is tackling issues based on the physical world. Instead of chasing virtual solutions, the founders of Cambium focus on something concrete. It’s about turning discarded trees…