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Anthropic updates Claude with new Integrations feature, upgraded research tool
Anthropic PBC today updated Claude with a feature called Integrations that will enable the chatbot to access data from third-party cloud services. The company rolled out the capability alongside an enhanced version of Research, a tool it introduced last month. The latter feature enables Claude to prepare detailed reports about user-specified topics. Research can now ...
Astronomer nabs $93M for its data pipeline platform
Astronomer Inc., a startup that helps organizations move data between their applications, has secured a $93 million funding round. The company announced the Series D investment today. Bain Capital Ventures led the round with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Insight and other institutional backers. Astronomer offers a paid cloud version of Apache Airflow, a popular open-source ...
Court finds that Apple breached 2021 injunction with App Store rules
A federal court on Wednesday found Apple Inc. to be in breach of a 2021 injunction that had ordered it to ease the App Store’s terms of service. Both rulings focus on the restrictions that the iPhone maker applies to in-app transactions. Apple must now revise several of those policies. “We will comply with the ...
OpenText expands restructuring initiative after larger-than-expected sales drop
OpenText Corp. will cut 1,200 roles as part of a restructuring initiative designed to lower its annual expenses by up to $550 million. The software maker announced the plan today in conjunction with the release of its third quarter earnings report. OpenText ended the three months ended March 31 with sales of $1.254 billion, down ...
Identity verification startup Persona raises $200M at $2B valuation
Persona Identities Inc., a startup that helps companies such as online retailers verify the identity of users, has closed a $200 million late-stage funding round. The Series D investment was announced today. Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital led the deal with participation from returning backers BOND, Coatue, First Round Capital and Index Ventures. Persona is ...
China AI rising: Xiaomi releases new MiMo-7B models as DeepSeek upgrades its Prover math AI
Xiaomi Corp. today released MiMo-7B, a new family of reasoning models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s o1-mini at some tasks. The algorithm series is available under an open-source license. Its launch coincides with DeepSeek’s release of an update to Prover, a competing open-source reasoning model. The latter algorithm has a narrower focus than MiMo-7B: ...
Intel shares new details about upcoming Intel 14A process, packaging technologies
Intel Corp. has shared new information about Intel 14A, an upcoming chip manufacturing process that will use ASML Holding NV’s most advanced lithography machines. Executives detailed the process today at an event dedicated to the company’s foundry business. The business makes processors for other organizations using Intel fabs. Alongside Intel 14A, the chipmaker detailed other ...
CrowdStrike introduces new tools for blocking malicious AI models, data exfiltration
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today debuted new features that can help enterprises protect employees from malicious artificial intelligence models and other threats. The capabilities are rolling out for the company’s flagship Falcon cybersecurity platform. The first new feature, AI Model Scanning, promises to detect so-called trojanized models. Those are AI models that operate as expected in ...
Amazon launches first batch of operational Project Kuiper satellites
Amazon.com Inc.’s first batch of operational Project Kuiper satellites lifted off to space late Monday aboard a ULA LLC rocket. The 27 satellites are set to be joined by more than 3,000 in the coming years. Amazon will use the constellation to provide internet connectivity to consumers, enterprises and the public sector. The company plans ...
Dyna Robotics debuts DYNA-1 foundation model for powering robots
Startup Dyna Robotics Inc. today detailed DYNA-1, an internally developed artificial intelligence model for powering robots. The algorithm’s debut comes a month after the company launched with $23.5 million in funding. Dyna is led by Chief Executive Officer Lindon Gao, who previously co-founded retail technology provider Caper Inc. The latter startup, which developed a cashierless ...