depthfirst, an applied AI lab focused on software security, has raised $80 million in a Series B round. The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and The House Fund, alongside existing backers including Accel, Box Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alt Capital, and Mantis VC. The new capital brings the company’s

Mentoring is one of the oldest and most effective mechanisms for knowledge transfer — and for most of its history, it has scaled poorly. The quality of a mentoring relationship has always depended on the right two people finding each other, building trust, and sustaining engagement over time. In large organizations and academic institutions, that

For decades, innovation in the automotive industry has been gated by one persistent constraint: software development timelines. Every new vehicle feature, however small, required a cycle of specification, coding, validation, and deployment that could stretch for months or years. In an industry increasingly defined by software, this bottleneck has quietly become one of the most

Microsoft is expanding its Microsoft 365 Copilot “Researcher” agent with new multi-model capabilities designed to improve the accuracy and depth of AI-generated research outputs. The update introduces a “Critique” system that assigns separate roles for generation and evaluation, alongside a “Council” feature that compares outputs from multiple models and highlights agreement, divergence, and unique insights.

The US-Iran war has delivered a critical lesson for IT leaders.  Enterprises have always had to deal with bad data in their environments, whether from someone cutting corners, an ancient database that everyone is scared to delete, or conflicting systems digested during one of the dozens of acquisitions over the last decade. But AI is

AI vendors selling to the California state government must prove they have safeguards against algorithmic bias, civil rights violations, and illegal content, or risk being barred from state contracts, under an executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The order directs the Department of General Services and the California Department of Technology to develop new

The recent supply-chain attack against axios, a widely used open-source HTTP client, highlights a strategic weakness in the global technology stack: critical digital infrastructure is increasingly maintained by under‑resourced individuals, and its failure has systemic economic and national security consequences — even for tech giants like Apple. At the center of your code Axios is a programming library

Windows 11 25H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows

It’s no big deal, you’d think, that researchers have found a way to reduce the computing requirements for one of the many steps involved in training an AI model to help robots manipulate simple geometric objects. Yet such is the concern about the rising cost of powering data centers for AI applications that this one

A group of European technology firms has launched a new open-source office suite aimed at offering a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Euro-Office consists of four core applications — a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and PDF editor — and is built on the open-source OnlyOffice suite. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX,