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9to5GoogleGoogle confirms Gemini hacked three real companies during a test
Vals raises $40m to test AI models on real industry work
TechCrunch· 19 SepVals, a startup formed in 2024, raised a $40 million series A led by Andreessen Horowitz last month. Instead of general-knowledge tests, it checks whether models can do real tasks in fields such as law, finance and coding, and it keeps its test materials private so companies cannot train on them. Its revenue is eight times last year's.
- When a vendor quotes a benchmark, ask whether the test was public and whether it covers work like yours.
- Build your own small test: ten real tasks from your business, run on each model you are considering.
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The RegisterInvestors say securing AI agents is the next big security gap
The RegisterAI data centres could leave a mountain of e-waste, report warns
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