Friday Tech News | Welcome To September

Good morning and Happy Friday!

Welcome to FTN! I hope you’ve had a great week. Personally, for work I’ve been in Orlando at my annual sales kickoff which has been wonderful. Truly, Presidio where I work is filled with some incredibly talented people that I respect who are doing incredible things with technology. Happy about that. Next week might be challenging due to some personal travel I have planned to get this out, but I’ll likely get it! Just fair warning.

I’ve learned a lot and have kept up with the news while attending sessions and it’s been a slower week in tech but with some major funding. Check out the funding from OpenAI’s Illya Sutskever on GenAI security. Pretty massive.

Enjoy your weekend! Talk next week!

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

Anthropic | Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude Enterprise for big business

• Antrhopic has introduced Claude Enterprise, a new AI product for businesses that can enhance their chatbot capabilities with features like larger context windows and activity feeds.

• Clients can upload documents, create dynamic workspaces, and automate tasks like content creation, legal drafting, and code development.

• Also includes RBAC, Project-Based Invites, and Audit Logs, ensuring data privacy and security.

Rezonate | Rezonate launches new identity security solution for mid-market companies

• Rezonate has launched an all-in-one identity security platform for mid-market companies, providing a unified view of identity data, access pathways, and security configs.

• The platform (of course we have to use this word) reduces identity attack surface, improves compliance efforts, and offers continuous monitoring, alerts, and remediation for over-privileged users and misconfigs.

• The solution integrates with other IDaaS providers like Okta, Google, Microsoft, as well as business critical SaaS apps like Salesforce and GitHub.

• Designed to. be cost effective. Let's see about that.

Couchbase | Couchbase releases AI vector search and Capella Columnar on AWS

• Couchbase introduces Capella Columnar for real-time analytics in AWS, enhancing JSON data analytics and integrating insights into operational applications.

• Vector Search is now available in Couchbase Mobile, enabling on-device vector search for faster, more secure AI development and hyper-personalized apps.

• Supports data ingestion from multiple sources like DynamoDB, S3, MySQL, and more, making JSON data useful :).

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Latest Hacking News | Microsoft Patched Copilot Vulnerabilities That Could Expose Data

DevOps | AWS Cloud Migration Strategy

The Hacker News | New Flaws in Microsoft macOS Apps Could Allow Hackers to Gain Unrestricted Access

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Cortex | Stripe’s Collison brothers back developer start-up Cortex at €425 Million valuation

• Cortex is a California-based Reliability as Code platform that offers workflow onboarding automation, microservice optimization and related solutions for businesses.

Safe SuperIntelligence (SSI) OpenAI co-founder Sutskever raises $1B at $5B valuation for safe AI startup

• Safe SuperIntelligence (SSI) is a newly formed company specializing in AI security. HQ Unknown by me.

Fiddler AI | SEC FORM D

• Fiddler is a California based AI observability platform that enables companies to monitor, analyze, explain, and improve their AI and ML models.

Meme of the week 🤣

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Thank you so much for making this a part of your Friday morning coffee time. I'm Phil Moroni, and I'm an Account Executive in the Information Technology industry here with another edition of Friday Tech News!

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