The controversial facial-recognition company that contracts with law-enforcement agencies announced that attackers have gained unauthorized access to its entire client list. The company already informed its customers of the security breach. The startup came under scrutiny after media reported that it had scraped more than 3 billion photos from social media (Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter) for facial recognition purposes. The company has been hit with class-action lawsuits by American citizens, but the company refused any accusation remarking that it was authorized by the First Amendment to scrape public data. "In the notification, which The Daily Beast reviewed, the startup Clearview AI disclosed to its customers that an intruder "gained unauthorized access" to its list of customers, to the number of user accounts those customers had set up, and to the number of searches its customers have conducted."

The newest roommate app, Badi, has made its official debut into the New York market. The artificial intelligence app took Europe by storm in September 2015. England, Germany, and Spain to be exact. The company has changed the lives of 2 million users by providing about 300,000 room listings. Badi uses an algorithm based on information such as age, gender, interests, and lifestyle preferences to assist users in finding rooms on the platform.

Facial recognition software provider Clearview AI has revealed that its entire client list was stolen by someone who'gained unauthorized access' to company documents and data. According to a notice sent to its customers, Cleaview AI said that in addition to its client list, the intruder had gained access to the number of user accounts associated with each client, as well as the number of searches conducted through those accounts. The company didn't specify how the security breach had occurred nor who might have been responsible, and it claimed its servers and internal network hadn't been compromised. Facial recognition software company Clearview AI has revealed a security breach that exposed it's client list and number of searches those clients made'Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century,' Clearview attorney Tor Ekeland told The Daily Beast, who broke the story. 'Our servers were never accessed.

Earlier this year, San Francisco-based venture capital firm Riverwood Capital invested US$ 20 million in Omie, a Brazilian start-up that provides small and medium businesses (SMBs) with an AI-powered business management software. Omie's genius idea was to focus on small firms, not served by larger management software services. By automating business functions, the company essentially eliminates the massive amount of paper work required in Brazil, a country notorious for red tape. "Cloud management platforms are revolutionising small and medium businesses in Brazil," says Marcelo Lombardo, Omie's CEO and founder. He spoke with LSE Business Review managing editor Helena Vieira on 5 November during the Web Summit conference in Lisbon. Starting from the beginning, what does Omie do? Omie is a cloud management software for small and midsize businesses. We put together pretty much everything a small business owner needs for his daily life (financials, invoicing, inventory, manufacturing, etc).