January, 2025

January, 2025

AI Tools: Microsoft Azure Adds DeepSeek; Alibaba Releases New Model; Meta Gets ‘Memories’
This week in artificial intelligence models and tools, Microsoft announced that DeepSeek R1 is available on Azure AI Foundry, and Alibaba released a model that it said is better than DeepSeek. Meanwhi...

CFPB Warns Consumers of Rising Number of Credit Reporting Firms
The CFPB has published its annual list of companies that collect and sell consumer data. The list, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Thursday (Jan. 30), is designed to let consumers...

ElevenLabs Raises $180 Million to Make AI Audio ‘More Expressive and Controllable’
ElevenLabs raised $180 million in a Series C funding round to continue the development of its artificial intelligence (AI) audio technology that is used in content creation, customer support, gaming, ...

CFPB Penalizes Global Fintech Wise, Ordered to Pay $2.5 Milllion Fine
UK-based Fintech Wise (LON: WISE) has been penalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Wise has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for claims of failing to provide disclosures to consu...

Finout, the FinOps for Enterprise Platform, Announces $40M Series C
Finout, the FinOps-for-enterprise platform, announced a $40 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Pitango, Team8, Red Dot Capital, an...

Wealthtech OneVest Reports $20M Series B Round
OneVest, a wealth management technology platform, announced the closure of a $20 million Series B equity funding round. The investment round was reportedly led by Salesforce Ventures, with participati...

Upcoming SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee Includes Discussion on Access to Capital for Fund Managers, Non Exchange Listed Securities
The SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) will meet next month on February 25th. This Committee is tasked with advising the Commission on issues and policies impacting small...

Sneak Preview: App, Crackle, Pop: What a Video App Really Needs
On Thursday, February 27, Chris Pfaff, the leading new media and technology producer and strategist, will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel " App, Crackle, Pop: What a Video App Really Needs....

Google’s Gemini AI app is getting faster with Flash 2.0
Google announced Thursday that the Gemini app is getting its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model. The upgraded model “delivers fast responses and stronger performance across a number of key benchmarks, pr...

Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo
Moments after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergâs all-hands comments to employees were widely leaked, a company executive warned in an internal memo that leakers will be fired. âWe take leaks se...

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