In Brief: Gretel AI raises $50M in Series B
The SaaS system, currently in beta, enables engineers to create anonymized, synthetic data sets.
The SaaS system, currently in beta, enables engineers to create anonymized, synthetic data sets.
The shocking reveal of tens of thousands of Facebook documents, including research that they knew their products could harm young people, has prompted Facebook to announce plans for “features” for teens and for parents to control privacy. This includes, 1) encouraging teens to take breaks from using Instagram, 2) “nudging” teens not to look at content not conducive to their well-being, and 3) instituting (optional) controls for adults to use to supervise teens online. Umm…thinking here that a teen advisory panel might be in order to effect real change.
The funds will be used for privacy machine learning at Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs).
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.