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Alexa gets smarter as Amazon boosts AI models with ‘latent goal’ detection
Amazon.com Inc. is enhancing Alexa with new artificial intelligence models that can help users find useful Skills, or apps, to install on their smart speakers. Alexa Skills are created by third-party developers and provide features not included by default in the voice assistant, such as the ability to control smart lights or tune into a ...
SentinelOne raises $267M for its AI-infused endpoint protection platform
SentinelOne Inc., a cybersecurity unicorn that counts four of the Fortune 10 as customers, today said that it has closed a $267 million late-stage round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. After the Series F round, SentinelOne is now worth more than $3 billion, triple the valuation it received after its previous nine-figure raise ...
Palo Alto Networks inks $800M deal to buy security startup Expanse
Palo Alto Networks Inc. will pay about $800 million to acquire Expanse Inc., a well-funded startup with a software platform that enables enterprises to find internal systems exposed to the internet. The deal was announced today. Palo Alto’s $800 million proposed offer breaks down to $670 million in cash and stock, plus an additional $130 million ...
Google, Andreessen Horowitz lead $29M round for Linux kernel networking startup Isovalent
Google LLC and Andreessen Horowitz have jointly led a $29 million funding round into Isovalent Inc., a startup with a Linux-based networking platform that enterprises can use to manage the flow of data in their Kubernetes environments. Cisco Systems Inc. also participated in the Series A round, which was announced today. The networking software that ...
IBM mixes more deep learning into its Cloud Paks
IBM Corp. today introduced new versions of its Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation products that will enable enterprises to harness deep learning models in their operations more easily. The Cloud Pak product family is a set of software solutions designed to streamline a variety of tasks ranging from cybersecurity to data analytics. The entire lineup ...
In preliminary antitrust findings, EU says Amazon broke competition law
Amazon.com Inc.’s e-commerce business has breached European Union competition law, according to the preliminary findings of an antitrust investigation published today. The investigation was conducted by the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch and top competition authority. It focused on Amazon’s relationship with third-party merchants that sell goods on its e-commerce marketplace. Amazon in many cases competes ...
AWS adds intelligent data movement features
Amazon Web Services Inc. today rolled out a raft of enhancements to its data storage services aimed at reducing cloud costs for enterprises and easing administrators’ work. The updates are headlined by a new version of S3 Intelligent-Tiering. S3 is AWS’ object storage service. It provides access to multiple types of storage infrastructure, called classes ...
Nuro raises $500M more for self-driving delivery vehicles
Nuro Inc., one of the better-funded startups in the autonomous driving market, today disclosed that it has added $500 million to its war chest through a new funding round led by T. Rowe Price Associates. Fidelity Management & Research, Baillie Gifford and existing investors contributed as well to the Series C round. Nuro has raised ...
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s startup launches data privacy platform
Inrupt Inc., a startup co-founded by worldwide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, today launched a software platform that enterprises can use to build more privacy-friendly applications. Inrupt was established in 2018 by Berners-Lee together with John Bruce, who had previously led a cybersecurity company called Resilient Systems that was acquired by IBM Corp in 2016. Bruce ...
Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai picks up $267M at $5.3B+ valuation
Pony.ai, a Chinese startup developing autonomous driving technology for cars and trucks, said late Thursday that it has secured $267 million in additional funding. The investment comes less than a year after the startup raised a hefty $462 million round led by Toyota Motor Corp. at a $3 billion valuation. The latest funding announced this ...