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Mobileye shares drop on lowered full-year guidance
Mobileye Global Inc. today reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter, but lowered its full-year guidance on account of a slowdown in demand for its vehicle chips. Shares of the Intel Corp. unit tumbled more than 5% on the trimmed financial projections. Mobileye makes chips that automakers use to equip their vehicles with partly autonomous ...
EU regulators unconditionally approve HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks
The European Union has unconditionally approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. for $14 billion. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced the decision today. The move is not unexpected: Sources told Reuters on Monday that the bloc was gearing up to sign off on the deal. HPE announced its ...
Checkly nabs $20M for its synthetic application monitoring platform
Checkly Inc., a startup that helps developers monitor their applications for technical issues, has closed a $20 million funding round led by Balderton Capital. The company detailed in its announcement of the investment today that returning backers Accel, CRV and Paul H. Müller chipped in as well. The Series B raise brings Checkly’s total outside ...
Box and Slack expand partnership with new platform integrations
Box Inc. and Salesforce Inc.’s Slack unit today debuted a set of new integrations between their platforms to improve the user experience for joint customers. The main focus of the product update is Box AI, a chatbot that the file sharing provider launched last year. It allows users to ask questions about a file and ...
Meta faces AI accuracy issues as tech industry tackles hallucinations, deepfakes
Meta Platforms Inc. is moving to fix an issue that caused its Meta AI chatbot to claim the assassination attempt on Donald Trump didn’t happen. The Facebook parent announced the development on Tuesday. The disclosure came against the backdrop of recent efforts by other tech giants, notably Google LLC and Baidu Inc., to address safety ...
Commvault tops first-quarter expectations amid subscription growth
Shares of Commvault Systems Inc. closed nearly 23% higher today after it reported quarterly results that topped the consensus estimate across the board. The company also shared an upgraded revenue forecast for its current fiscal year, which will end next April. Tinton Falls, New Jersey-based Commvault is a major provider of data protection technology. It ...
AI search startup Perplexity launches revenue sharing program for publishers
Perplexity AI Inc., a well-funded startup with an artificial intelligence search engine, today launched a revenue sharing program for publishers. The company’s search engine incorporates information from news articles into the prompt responses it generates. Under the new revenue sharing program, publishers will receive compensation when Perplexity makes money from prompt responses based on their ...
UK regulator seeks feedback for potential probe into Google-Anthropic partnership
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog today took a first step toward a potential probe into Google LLC’s partnership with Anthropic PBC. San Francisco-based Anthropic is one of OpenAI’s best-funded competitors with more than $7 billion raised to date. It develops a line of large language models called the Claude series. The company’s newest model, which debuted ...
Particle debuts Tachyon single-board computer for powering connected devices
Startup Particle Industries Inc. today debuted Tachyon, a single-board computer designed to power connected devices. Tachyon is positioned as an alternative to the popular Raspberry Pi line of miniature computing modules. Companies and consumers have bought more than 60 million Raspberry Pi devices since the product series launched in 2012. Those modules are used to ...
ESG compliance startup osapiens closes $120M funding round
Germany-based regulatory compliance startup osapiens Services GmBH today divulged that it has closed a $120 million investment led by Goldman Sachs. The Series B round follows a year in which osapiens claims to have more than quadrupled its installed base. The company’s software is now used by more than 1,300 customers, including Coca-Cola Co., Costco ...