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Google rolls out passkey support to Workspace and Google Cloud
Google LLC today started rolling out support for passkeys to its Workspace productivity suite and Google Cloud. The feature, which provides a more secure alternative to passwords, will become available in the coming days. It’s rolling out to Workspace and Google Cloud a few weeks after the search giant added passkey support to consumer accounts. ...
Platformatic raises $3.5M to ease containerized application development
Platformatic Inc., a San Francisco-based development tooling startup, today announced that it has closed a $3.5 million funding round led by Decibel Partners. Panache Ventures participated as well along with several angel investors. Platformatic said that it will use the capital to grow its workforce. Additionally, the startup plans to build more features for its ...
Apple reportedly developing new high-end Macs and M2 Ultra chip
Apple Inc. is reportedly developing two new high-end Macs that could make their debut at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Bloomberg reported the development initiative today. Besides new Macs, WWDC is expected to see Apple announce several other new products. It’s believed that the main highlight will be the Reality Pro, the company’s ...
Google reportedly invests in generative AI startup Runway at $1.5B valuation
Updated: On June 29, Runway announced that it has raised $141 million in funding from Google LLC, Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Ventures and other backers. The capital was provided as an extension to a $50 million Series C round the startup first closed last December. Google LLC has reportedly invested in Runway AI Inc., a New ...
CrowdStrike debuts generative AI cybersecurity chatbot and new AWS integrations
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is rolling out new capabilities aimed at helping companies more effectively respond to breach attempts. The first set of features, a collection of integrations for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud platform, was detailed this morning. A day earlier, CrowdStrike introduced a chatbot called Charlotte AI that runs on artificial intelligence models from ...
Lightmatter reels in $154M for its optical interconnect and chips
Lightmatter Inc., a startup with technology that allows chips to exchange data using light, has raised $154 million in new funding. The Series C round was announced this morning. It included contributions from the venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., as well as a number of other institutional investors. The ...
Top AWS data center executive Chris Vonderhaar departs
Chris Vonderhaar, the executive who oversaw Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center network for the past four and a half years, has left the company. The news was first reported by GeekWire on Tuesday. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. confirmed the development later that day. The company didn’t provide additional details, such as who is set ...
Analytics startup Lytics partners with Google Cloud to build new AI features
Google LLC’s cloud unit today detailed that Lytics Inc., a venture-backed analytics startup, has used its platform to build three new artificial intelligence features for users. Portland-based Lytics provides a customer data platform, or CDP, of the same name. A CDP is an application that allows companies to aggregate customer data from multiple internal systems ...
GTM Buddy debuts generative AI sales enablement tool
GTM Buddy Inc., a startup that provides software for sales enablement teams, today announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool called Ask Buddy. The tool is based on OpenAI LLP’s large language models. According to GTM Buddy, it’s designed to help salespeople close more deals. GTM is generally short for “go to market.” Durham, North ...
Uber and Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 food delivery robots
Uber Technologies Inc. and startup Serve Robotics Inc. plan to deploy a fleet of up 2,000 delivery robots that will transport restaurant orders to consumers. The companies detailed the initiative today. The delivery robots will be supplied by San Francisco-based Serve Robotics, a former Uber unit that spun out into an independent startup two years ...