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Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic devices. AuraStack, a super-agent within the company’s Allegro AI studio, provides agentic ...
Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents
Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and track work performed by artificial intelligence agents. The company’s new Jira Planner helps turn incomplete project ideas into technical specifications, while its Jira Coding Agent and integrations with third-party agents transform work items into requests. With automation rules ...
Perplexity launches secure sandbox to make its AI agents secure and powerful
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced a new feature that takes its current agentic artificial intelligence service, Computer, to perform better with greater security. The company introduced SPACE, a sandbox platform designed to allow its AI agent to act with its full capabilities, while providing the highest level of security for agentic systems. Perplexity Computer can ...
Concho AI turns enterprise codebases into a knowledge layer for AI agents
Concho AI today introduced its flagship platform, an artificial intelligence platform that understands software development and application work, providing deep semantic understanding and organization that enable developers and AI agents to transform and modernize massive, sprawling codebases into something manageable. “Its job is to provide an intelligence level that you would normally get from a ...
Chai Discovery nabs $400M Series C as AI-designed antibodies reach Big Pharma
Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised $400 million in new funding, nearly tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion. Index Ventures led the Series C round alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Dimension. New investors joining the investment included Bain Capital ...
Oracle opens Fusion Agentic Applications to pro-code developers and coding agents
Oracle Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence-native experience for its Fusion Applications within Oracle AI Agent Studio, allowing developers, customers and partners to build agents together. This expansion fills in the developer side of Oracle’s Fusion app agentic enterprise strategy. The company’s AI Agent Studio initially allowed business users and partners to assemble agents ...
Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M to grow its platform
Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised $65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms, GTMFund, and other investors and angels also participated in the Series B round. Today’s funding brings the company’s total ...
Mindbeam sets generative AI models to task on drug design, hunting for better pain meds
Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acetaminophen, one of the most widely used over-the-counter pain relievers worldwide, as a starting point. Using a combination of generative AI, computational modeling and virtual screening, the Mindbeam ...
Quantum startup Oratomic banks $300M to race straight to fault-tolerance
Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised $300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the next generation of computing capabilities. The Series A round, announced Monday, was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Khosla Ventures. Other investors also participating in the ...
Salesforce enhances Slackbot with connectors to the entire platform ecosystem
Salesforce Inc. today announced new updates for Slackbot, the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent in Slack, giving it full access to every part of the Salesforce ecosystem. “Slackbot can now reason over your entire Salesforce platform, so anything you can do in Salesforce, you can simply now do through Slackbot, just by asking,” Slack Chief ...