Latest articles

Startup Of The Week: CoChat

Nearly 60% of employees use unapproved AI tools at work, according to a new Cybernews survey. While many understand the associated risks, they’re still feeding sensitive company information to unsanctioned tools. That’s because a third of those surveyed say the AI tools provided by their companies don’t fully meet on-the-job needs.

Shadow AI incidents now account for 20% of all breaches, while 27% of organizations report that over 30% of their AI-processed data contains private information — from customer records to trade secrets.

That is where Silicon Valley-based CoChat comes in. An AI collaboration platform built for teams, this week introduced what it says is the first centralized workspace with built-in AI governance where employees can communicate, share AI chats, deploy assistants, and generate automated workflows.

The company’s mantra is “give your entire team a shared workspace where humans and AI assistants collaborate in a safe environment — in real time.”

To read this article and gain access to over 1000 stories about the global tech sector become a paying subscriber to The Innovator.  Click here to sign up.

About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.