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Exclusive: Superblocks raises $23M to rein in the Wild West of vibe coding
DayZero Software Inc., a maker of secure software development tools that does business as Superblocks, today said it has raised $23 million in a Series A venture capital round extension, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The company is addressing a problem caused by generative artificial intelligence: Large language models have made it easy ...
Vast Data says it has built an operating system for large-scale agent deployment
Consolidating a series of recent enhancements around a single theme, Vast Data Inc. today launched what it calls an AI Operating System intended to support the coming age of “agentic computing,” where trillions of artificial intelligence-equipped agents operate across a global network. The launch caps nearly a decade of engineering, starting with Vast’s Disaggregated and ...
Red Hat expands hybrid cloud capabilities with AI assistant, edge manager and AMD partnership
At Red Hat Summit today, the IBM Corp. subsidiary unveiled a suite of tools and strategic updates aimed at productivity, simplifying operations and modernizing infrastructure across hybrid and edge computing environments. They include the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, a generative AI assistant for OpenShift users; the tech preview of Red Hat Edge ...
Red Hat Linux gets a gen AI upgrade and other administrative goodies
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary says the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is being announced today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, is a complete rethink of the operating system around hybrid cloud environments and artificial intelligence workloads. The details, however, are less about vision than pragmatic improvements, such as simpler ...
Red Hat Expands AI offerings with inference server and validated models
Red Hat Inc. today announced a series of updates aimed at making generative artificial intelligence more accessible and manageable in enterprises. They include the debut of the Red Hat AI Inference Server, a collection of third-party validated AI models and enhancements across Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. The updates are collectively ...
Dell builds out its AI offerings with an emphasis on on-premises deployment
Kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference this week, Dell is expanding its AI Factory artificial intelligence product portfolio with infrastructure, software and services updates. Its stated goal is helping enterprises move from experimentation to scaled deployment of AI without using commercial cloud services. Dell said on-premises infrastructure is more efficient for AI inference at scale, ...
Microsoft launches tools to streamline AI agent development
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a suite of new tools and services at its Build conference this week that are designed to accelerate the development and deployment of the autonomous assistants called artificial intelligence agents across its platforms. The updates aim to simplify enterprise adoption of agent-based systems, strengthen agent capabilities in Microsoft 365 and ...
Microsoft expands Fabric and Azure data portfolio to simplify AI development
Microsoft Corp. today is announcing at its annual Build conference a broad range of enhancements across its data platforms aimed at simplifying artificial intelligence application development. The updates span Microsoft Fabric, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Power BI, PostgreSQL and integrations with Databricks Inc.’s and SAP SE’s services on the Azure cloud. The aim is ...
Starburst targets AI bottlenecks with smarter data access and governance
Starburst Data Inc., provider of a unified data access platform based on the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today is unveiling a suite of enhancements intended to make it easier for enterprises to develop and apply artificial intelligence models. The company is making it easier by simplifying access to data scattered across clouds, on-premises systems ...
AWS’ AI-powered workload modernization service is now generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Transform, a new service that accelerates the migration and modernization of enterprise workloads using agentic artificial intelligence. The service, which was initially previewed at AWS re:Invent 2024 as Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities, targets legacy VMware, mainframe and .NET workloads. AWS said it can reduce ...
