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Shares of Akamai Technologies Inc. jumped more than 20% in after-hours trading today after the cloud and cybersecurity company revealed an $11.6 billion, seven-year deal to supply computing capacity to artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC. The agreement is built around central processing …
Amazon to spend $100M on Indiana plant, its fourth site for building robots
Amazon.com Inc. is spending more than $100 million on a factory in Greenwood, Indiana, to build equipment for its warehouse robots, according to plans the company released today. The Wall Street Journal reported that Greenwood will be the fourth plant Amazon uses …
Groundcover picks up Kubernetes optimization startup Wand in its first acquisition
Observability company groundcover Inc. today disclosed its first acquisition, picking up Kubernetes resource optimization startup Wand Cloud Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Wand’s founders and employees are moving across to groundcover as part of the deal. The purchase is part of a push …
Dataiku debuts cross-platform Agent Management, expands Cobuild building agent
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Dataiku Inc. today launched Agent Management, a standalone product that finds and tracks every AI agent a business runs, including those built on other vendors’ platforms. Dataiku also expanded Cobuild, its natural-language agent for building AI projects. …
Kontext raises $4M to control what AI agents are allowed to do inside businesses
German artificial intelligence security startup Kontext today announced $4 million in new funding for software that controls what AI agents are allowed to do once they are running inside a business. Kontext’s software sits between an agent and the systems it acts …
Microsoft unveils Integrated Security Operations Center in Defender for AI agents
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender as it rebuilds its security operations products around artificial intelligence agents. The service moves security information and event management features from Microsoft Sentinel directly into Defender. ISOC is aimed at a problem …
Lookout launches mobile module to detect AI-powered text and voice scams
Mobile security company Lookout Inc. today launched Social Engineering Protection, a module that analyzes text messages and phone calls for signs an employee is being manipulated into handing over credentials or money. The release goes after a problem Lookout argues email security …
Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off
Code-first engineering intelligence startup Flux Cyber Inc. today expanded its platform with tools meant to show engineering leaders whether their investment in artificial intelligence for software development is paying off. The release takes on a problem Flux says has come up again …
Vicarius launches ScriptAI to write fixes for flaws with no vendor patch
Vulnerability remediation company Vicarius Inc. today launched an artificial intelligence engine that writes detection and remediation scripts for software flaws with no vendor patch available. ScriptAI is aimed at the gap between a public disclosure and a working fix. Mean time to …
Ekai raises $1.7M to give enterprise AI agents verified business context
Enterprise data startup Ekai Inc. today announced $1.7 million in new funding for software that builds the business context artificial intelligence agents need before they can be trusted with corporate data. Ekai provides a platform that writes the semantic models and data …