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2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (303+ words) Discovery Loop, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Jeff Dean, a former chief scientist at Google, is seeking to raise funds again at a valuation of $50 billion. According to the report, the terms of the deal remain subject to…...

16+ hour, 39+ min ago   (468+ words) It's time to add another word to the founder dictionary. The term "LARP" started as an acronym for live action role play. LARPers wore costumes and adopted characters, imagining a video game-like world in real life. Then the internet adopted…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (26+ words) Gary Anderson joined the firm at the beginning of September after previously serving as CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from 2024 to 2025....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (438+ words) In August, the Financial Times reported that Apple had started capping how many vulnerability reports individual researchers could submit to its bug bounty program, after a wave of fabricated findings — what security researchers now call “AI slop” — overwhelmed Apple’s review…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (539+ words) Beelzebub has raised €3 mn in a seed funding round led by United Ventures. The financing brings total funding to €3.3 mn following an earlier €300,000 pre-seed round. The Milan-based company develops an AI-native cybersecurity platform designed to detect and respond to attacks…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (141+ words) FinSMEs Carputty Closes Series B Funding Carputty, an Atlanta, GA-based fintech company optimizing vehicle financing and ownership, closed its Series B financing. Backers included TTV Capital, Fontinalis Partners, and Kickstart Fund. The raise brought the total amount to over $40M. The…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (59+ words) Telecompaper Cybersecurity company ZeroRisk raises USD 10 million Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk has raised Series A funding of USD 10 million (EUR 8.6 million), reports the Irish Times. This will be used to support its worldwide expansion, project development, expansion of its workforce,…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (118+ words) DLA Piper Enlists Venture Capital Lawyer Brittany Turner in SF Bloomberg Law News Brittany Turner joined DLA Piper as a partner in its emerging growth and venture capital practice in San Francisco, the firm announced Wednesday. Turner advises venture capital…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (224+ words) Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk has raised $10 million (€8.6 million) in funding to support its global expansion. The series-A funding will also be used for product development, expanding its team and support its deployment with major payment providers. The round was led…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (265+ words) Sep 09, 2026, 06:30 ET Funding will accelerate global expansion, product development and the deployment of ZeroRisk across major payment providers. ZeroRisk aims to dominate the emerging risk orchestration segment in the payment processing market. DUBLIN, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroRisk the Irish cybersecurity company…...