Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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IBM reveals roadmap to world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in 2029

IBM Corp. today revealed its expected roadmap for building the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, which would enable scaling up quantum computing for real-world practical results. The technology giant said it expects to be able to deliver the platform in 2029. The new computing system, dubbed IBM Quantum Starling, will be built at the ...

Apple debuts elegant glass-like user design experience and powerful new OS capabilities

Apple Inc. previewed a slick new software design and powerful software updates today during its Worldwide Developer Conference, including new features coming to its next-generation operating systems across devices that will receive a unified version 26. The new design features a new material called Liquid Glass, which creates a translucent effect similar to water that ...

Anthropic releases AI models exclusive to US national security customers

Generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC today introduced a custom set of new AI models exclusively for U.S. national security customers. The company said the new models are already deployed “by agencies at the highest level of U.S. national security,” and access is highly restricted to classified environments. These new models, dubbed Claude Gov, were developed ...

Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams

Wordsmith AI Ltd., an Edinburgh, Scotland-based artificial intelligence platform for in-house teams announced Tuesday it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures to forward what its chief executive calls a mission to turn lawyers into legal engineers. Wordsmith helps in-house business legal teams automate contract and policy reviews with the ...

Mind raises $30M to help businesses prevent data leaks using AI

Mind Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence automated data loss prevention solutions to help businesses avoid costly breaches, today announced it has raised $30 million in early-stage funding led by Paladin Capital Group and Crosspoint Capital Partners. The Series A funding round also attracted funding from new investor Okta Ventures and existing investor YL ...

AI-driven robotic wind turbine maintenance firm Aerones raises $62M

Latvia-based Aerones Ltd., a world-leading provider of artificial intelligence-driven robotic inspection and maintenance of wind turbines, today announced it has raised $62 million to expand its operations and develop its technology stack. The funding round was co-led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments, with additional participation from new investors Carbon Equity and Overlap Holdings, and ...

Vertesia launches document preparation service to increase AI reliability and accelerate app development

Vertesia Inc., a unified low-code platform for developing and deploying custom generative artificial intelligence applications, today announced the launch of a new semantic document preparation service it says will increase the reliability of AI applications and speed up development. Vertesia provides a cloud-based application programming interface service that prepares underlying data for use by generative ...

Workday launches AI agent developer toolset with third-party connector and custom widgets

Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. today unveiled a new unified developer toolset for building artificial intelligence apps and agents on its platform. Announced during the company’s annual developer conference Workday DevCon 2025 in Las Vegas, the new toolset includes an Agent Gateway that will provide connectors for third-party AI agents and for agent-to-agent collaboration, ...

LuminX raises $5.5M to build AI vision models for warehouse operations

LuminX AI, a company that builds artificial intelligence models and hardware for warehouse inventory automation, today announced it has raised $5.5 million in a seed round to accelerate the development and deployment of its logistics solution. 1Sharpe, GTMFund, 9Yards, Chingona Ventures and the Bond Fund joined in the funding round. LuminX develops and trains advanced ...

Perplexity introduces Labs: a new tool that creates spreadsheets, dashboards and web apps

Generative artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. announced a new tool Thursday that allows users to produce anything from complex reports and spreadsheets, to dashboards and web apps, all backed with extensive research. The new tool, called Perplexity Labs, can take about 10 minutes or more of self-supervised work and use third-party tools such ...