– The dust raises 16 million euros. Founded in February 2023, the French start-up specializing in creating personalized assistants based on artificial intelligence once again attracts investors. It has just raised €16 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from XYZ, GG1, Connect Ventures, Seedcamp and Motier Ventures. In 10 months of marketing its offer, the company has already recorded a turnover of more than one million euros and includes customers such as Qonto, Payfit, Pennylane and Alan.
– Box enriches its AI services. The cloud storage and document sharing specialist continues to improve its Box AI offering. Among the most promising is the integration with the latest OpenAI GPT-4o model which guarantees multimodality. The assistant can then be prompted in natural language on the images. Additionally, it will support 20 additional languages. The publisher provides a Box AI API for developers to integrate into specific applications. Another announcement, the end of query limitations for subscribers to the Enterprise Plus offer, which were previously limited to 20 queries per month.
– Lockbit uses the wrong bank. Much ado about nothing. The Ransomware Group earlier this week it had claimed responsibility for hacking and stealing data from the Fed without providing a sample to prove the veracity of his act. He has just published some data, which shows that the hack does not concern the FED but another bank, Evolve Bank & Trust, based in Arkansas. The latter confirmed that he had been the victim of a cyber attack.
