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AWS and Carrier team up to combat food waste with analytics
Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about a technical collaboration with Carrier Global Corp. aimed at harnessing the cloud giant’s analytics services and data from connected devices to reduce food waste. Florida-based Carrier is one of the world’s top makers of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Its hardware is widely deployed in, among others, cargo-carrying ...
Google Search gets hum-to-search and AI query upgrades
Google LLC has announced a set of artificial intelligence upgrades to its search engine that will enable users to find more types of information, as well as increase the accuracy of returned results. Company executives detailed the enhancements at the company’s Search On virtual event on Thursday. In cases when users want to find a ...
Balto closes $10M in funding to optimize contact center operations with AI
Balto Inc., a startup competing in the crowded contact center analytics market, today announced that it has closed a $10 million investment led by Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures was joined in the Series A round by several other institutional backers, including Jump Capital, OCA Ventures and Cultivation Capital. During the past few years, several startups have emerged with ...
ServiceNow and IBM team up for Watson-powered automatic troubleshooting
ServiceNow Inc. today announced a collaboration with IBM Corp. to provide automatic problem detection features powered by IBM’s Watson AIOps product. Publicly traded ServiceNow’s Now Platform provides a centralized hub from which information technology teams can manage their companies’ infrastructure and applications. Watson AIOps is an IBM software product that uses machine learning to detect ...
Cribl sets out to fix IT observability lock-in with $35M from Sequoia and CRV
San Francisco startup Cribl Inc. today said that it has raised a $35 million round led by Sequoia Capital to give companies more flexibility in what infrastructure monitoring tools they use. Technology environments generate large amounts of machine data that’s useful for tasks such as detecting outages and finding security breaches. There are numerous monitoring ...
Streamlit launches cloud service to help developers share open-source AI apps
Streamlit Inc., an artificial intelligence startup backed by Google LLC’s Gradient Ventures, today launched a service called Streamlit Sharing that’s designed to make it easier for developers to share their machine learning applications with users. Building a machine learning application requires more than just training a neural network. There also needs to be a user ...
Accurics picks up $20M for its ‘remediation as code’ cloud automation approach
Startup Accurics Inc. has picked up $20 million in funding for its namesake automation platform, which aims to make the popular “infrastructure as code” approach to managing enterprise cloud environments more reliable and secure. The financing was announced today. Pleasanton, California-based Accurics raised it in two tranches over the past six months: a Series A ...
Zoom is releasing end-to-end encryption in ‘Phase 1’ preview
Zoom Video Communications Inc. will soon roll out end-to-end encryption, delivering on a promise it made earlier this year to improve security and privacy for users. The feature is set to become available next week in preview. Zoom head of security engineering Max Krohn, who announced the update today against the backdrop of the company’s ...
Google launches Google Analytics refresh with machine learning predictions
Google LLC today rolled out a major refresh of Google Analytics with new trend prediction features powered by machine learning, a streamlined interface and extra privacy controls. Google Analytics is the go-to tool companies use to track their online marketing efforts. It provides information such as the number of people who visit a company’s site, what ...
AI dataset startup Dataloop lands $11M funding round
Dataloop Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps companies create training datasets for their machine learning projects, today announced that it has closed a $11 million funding round led by Amiti Ventures. F2 Venture Capital, OurCrowd, NextLeap Ventures and SeedIL Ventures chipped in as well. Dataloop will use the capital to expand its presence in ...