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Today's show:

*Cybersecurity has long focused on cleaning up a system AFTER a breach but Ent founder Brandon Dixon says that's backwards. He just raised a $100M seed round to put an AI agent on everyone's company laptops that catches the risky clicks, leaked files, or rogue agents BEFORE they wreck havoc.

PLUS Clawra creator David Im return swith his new project, Sume's Avatar, a multi-model orchestration layer that generates 60-second UGC videos from a single prompt… and gets it right on the first try, rather than falling back on trial and error.

Guests:

Brandon Dixon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsdixon/

Ent: ****https://ent.ai/

David Im on X: https://x.com/davidim

Sume: https://www.sume.com/

Relevant Links:

WSJ: "Cyber Security Startup Ent Raises $100 Million in Seed Funding": https://www.wsj.com/pro/cybersecurity/cyber-startup-ent-raises-100-million-in-seed-funding-a3e9b6c6

Microsoft Security Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/ai-machine-learning/microsoft-security-copilot

Engadget: "Meta 'pausing' employee tracking program…": https://www.engadget.com/2199458/meta-is-pausing-employee-tracking-program-after-it-let-the-whole-company-see-sensitive-data/

Seedance 2.0: https://seedance2.ai/

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro: Why AI + cybersecurity is the hot combo right now

2:29 How INT stops breaches before they happen

4:56 AI is giving non-technical employees dangerous new powers

10:26 Vanta - Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal-breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC 2 report fast. Get $1,000 off for a limited time at https://www.vanta.com/twist

13:54 Why on-device AI beats cloud-based security

20:08 Superhuman - Get AI that works where you work. Unlock your Superhuman potential at https://superhuman.com

25:18 INT's business model and go-to-market

30:26 YSecurity - The on-demand security team for startups. Need enterprise-grade security without hiring a $400k CISO? YSecurity gives you 40+ expert engineers, matched to exactly what you need, by the hour, with your first six hours completely free. Go to https://YSecurity.io/TWIST

34:18 David M. of Sumi Labs: one-shotting AI video

36:10 Live demo: Sumi's video orchestration API

40:05 Consistent faces, 60-second videos, and who's buying

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