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Timothy Hyde and Jonathan Awad, co-founders of Baselayer.

Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide

Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised $35 million to expand its identity technology to AI agents. M13 led the San Francisco-based company’s Series A, with participation from Picus Capital, Torch Capital, Afore Capital and Matt Thompson of Socure. The financing brings Baselayer’s total funding to […]

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Van Espahbodi, general partner at Generational Partners.

As Software VCs Chase SpaceX Alumni, A Defense Tech Veteran Warns Of ‘Tourists And FOMO’

Van Espahbodi has spent 25 years working in and around advanced technology for the aerospace and defense industry. He began his career as a congressional staffer before joining defense contractor Raytheon, where he worked in the CEO’s office on foreign military sales. He later helped commercialize technology from a national laboratory in the U.K. A

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AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI

The early rapid expansion of AI capabilities that focused on frontier models was largely ushered into the world by a few powerful, US-based AI labs. Open-weight models released from labs in China, early on from DeepSeek, and later from Moonshot, Z.ai, and others, have in part disrupted that dominance. But growing concerns about the concentration

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Live: Guterres to open UN General Assembly in final speech of his mandate

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will open the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for the last time before his term ends on December 31. Guterres will be followed at the podium by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live blog for the

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