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Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necessarily untrue, there are caveats to note. The debate swirling around AI and its role in the scientific process grows fiercer by the day. Many researchers don’t think AI is quite ready to serve as a “co-scientist,” while others think that there’s potential — but acknowledge it’s early days. Sakana falls into the latter camp. The company said that it used an AI system called The AI Scientist-v2 to generate a paper that Sakana then submitted to a workshop…

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, the model was built in collaboration with Asteria, a newer AI animation studio. Marey was trained on “owned or fully licensed” source data, according to Moonvalley, and offers customization options including fine-grained camera and motion controls. “Marey enables nuanced control over in-scene movements,” Moonvalley wrote in a press release provided to TechCrunch, “such as controlling the movement of an individual checkers piece, or animating the exact breeze…

Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house-built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an AI video-generation tool at its Partner Summit last September. A spokesperson for Snap said the new AI Video Lenses leverage later versions of this underlying technology. Snap has been seen as a leader in AR, but has also been investing in AI over the past few years…

Chicago-based Ascent Technologies has rebranded as AscentAI, launching a new Regulatory Lifecycle Management (RLM) Platform designed to help financial firms navigate compliance with greater speed and accuracy.The platform transforms regulatory data into actionable insights through AI-driven automation, aiming to streamline compliance processes, reduce costs, and improve risk management.“Today’s risk and compliance organisations are facing a relentless tidal wave of information that they need to capture, assess, and operationalise accurately and efficiently,” said Christopher Junker, CEO of AscentAI. “Our RLM Platform was designed from the ground up by regulatory compliance experts to deliver holistic command and control capabilities.”The platform includes:AscentHorizon, which…

Worth, a FinTech company specialising in onboarding and underwriting workflow automation, has secured $25m in a funding round led by TTV Capital.The investment round saw participation from Silicon Valley Bank, Ingeborg, Florida Funders, Deep Work Capital, and Florida Opportunity Fund.Worth provides enterprises with AI-powered workflow automation, helping them streamline onboarding and underwriting processes. Its platform leverages a proprietary database of over 242 million small businesses and analyses more than 1,100 data points in real time to improve match rates. The technology enables instant verification, automated compliance, and centralised case management, making it a valuable tool for financial institutions, banks, and…

NAC, SDN, SASE, CASB, IDaaS, PAM, IGA, SIEM, TI, EDR, MDR, XDR, CTEM—the list goes on. If this “alphabet soup” sounds familiar, it is because organizations worldwide are deploying an array of security tools, all promising protection against data breaches. Global spending on information security is projected to reach $212 billion in 2025, a 15.1% increase from 2024, according to a recent Gartner forecast. With such significant investments, one might assume we are several steps ahead of cybercriminals. Yet, hardly a week goes by without a new high-profile cyberattack—whether it’s the mass exploitation of a PHP vulnerability, data breaches across…

Norm Ai, a leading company in regulatory AI solutions, has raised $48m in a funding round backed by Coatue, Craft Ventures, Vanguard, Blackstone Innovations Investments, Bain Capital, New York Life Ventures, Citi Ventures, TIAA Ventures, and Marc Benioff.This latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $87m over the past 18 months.The company specialises in legal and compliance automation, helping enterprises seamlessly integrate regulatory checks into their business operations. Norm Ai’s approach, described as “compliant by design,” ensures that compliance is proactively embedded in AI-generated content, internal communications, agreements, marketing materials, and sales processes. By treating compliance as a core…

Zoom informed customers on Tuesday that it has patched five vulnerabilities in its applications, including four rated ‘high severity’. The high-severity vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-27440, CVE-2025-27439, CVE-2025-0151 and CVE-2025-0150. Three of them have been described as memory-related issues that can be exploited for privilege escalation via network access. Authentication is required for exploitation.  They affect Zoom Workplace, Rooms Controller, Rooms Client, and Meeting SDK products, prior to version 6.3.0.  These Zoom applications are also affected by a medium-severity issue related to the verification of data authenticity, which can be exploited by an unprivileged user for denial of service (DoS)…

Enterprises have troves of internal data and information that employees need to complete their tasks or answer questions for potential customers. But that doesn’t mean the right information is easy to find. Onyx wants to solve that problem through its internal enterprise search tool. There are other big names in the category, like Glean — which has raised $600 million in venture funding — fighting for market share in the hot category, but San Francisco-based Onyx has a differentiator that helps separate it from the pack, it says. It’s open source. Companies can get Onyx running in about 30 minutes,…

A Hong Kong-based investment management firm has partnered with MyComplianceOffice (MCO) to streamline, centralise and improve compliance within its operations. The firm, which operates under the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) regulations, has adopted MCO’s Know Your Employee (KYE) suite to centralise its compliance processes and eliminate outdated manual workflows.Specialising in pan-Asian investment opportunities across public and private equity markets—including the technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors—the firm required a scalable solution that would replace manual compliance workflows and enhance operational efficiency while mitigating risk.The decision followed a rigorous selection process, during which multiple vendors were evaluated. MCO stood out due to…