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NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA — Bluefish Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence marketing platform for enterprise brands, said today it has raised $20 million …
Sources: China is considering allowing yuan-backed stablecoins to boost yuan adoption globally and its State Council may approve a roadmap later in August (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: China is considering allowing yuan-backed stablecoins to boost yuan adoption globally and its State Council may approve a roadmap later in August — China is considering allowing the usage of yuan-backed stablecoins for the first time to boost wider adoption of its currency globally …
South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 — The South Korean document intelligence startup Upstage Co. Ltd. wants to expand into the U.S. after raising $45 million in a Series B bridge round.
Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems (ProPublica)
ProPublica:
Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems — The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.
A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax; some cinephiles deride it while others say it's part of a natural tech evolution (John Semley/Wired)
John Semley / Wired:
A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax; some cinephiles deride it while others say it's part of a natural tech evolution — From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AI's film festival selections did little to convince me of AI's artistry.