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Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows
Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised $45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the developer’s computer. Peak XV Partners led the Series B round, with existing investors Y Combinator and GV also participating. The funding brings the company to a valuation of ...
Again acquires Geno to advance biomanufacturing at scale with AI design
Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence discovery and design platform for biomolecules. Again co-locates modular bioreactors that use specially engineered microbes alongside industrial carbon dioxide emitters that feed waste gas directly into fermentation equipment rather than transport ...
OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI
OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, the founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer. The project aims to build a community-led, open-source-governed corpus of AI training data. It will provide a space similar to Hugging Face Inc., which primarily distributes open-weight models, where ...
Wix launches Symphony, a new standalone multi-agent system built for business operations
Cloud-based website builder Wix Ltd. today announced the launch of Symphony, a new standalone agentic artificial intelligence platform that proactively learns business values, interests, needs, practices and goals to automate workflows and surface opportunities. The company said it can draw on its deep experience working with unique data accumulated through years of working with hundreds ...
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to give enterprise AI capability options
Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model and an agentic AI model router named NeMo Switchyard. As enterprises find themselves drowning in artificial intelligence model options, the question is no longer raw power and capability, but fit-for-what-purpose and when. As agents become the norm, ...
Envoy launches Response to provide threat intelligence and incident management for businesses
Envoy Inc. today announced the launch of Response, a solution that brings intelligence records to the physical presence of people at work to detect potential threats, manage incidents, communicate during crises and prepare for audits. Founded in 2013 by founder and Chief Executive Larry Gadea, a former Google LLC and Twitter (now X Corp.) engineer, ...
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS: an open-source AI agentic workspace for the enterprise
Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through the browser, filled with custom shared micro-applications for enterprise employees. Most AI tools offered to the enterprise are generalized and understand a great deal about the world, but very little about the specific company they’re deployed for. Cloudflare ...
Mistral introduces Shieldstral to provide lightweight policy-aware moderation for AI models
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today introduced a lightweight multimodal safety artificial intelligence open-weight model that can classify outputs for AI models that outperforms other large language models up to seven times its size, setting a new standard for moderation. The new model, named Shieldstral, allows developers to write policies in natural language ...
Amazon brings native real-time vector search to DynamoDB to support AI apps at scale
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of vector search to DynamoDB, the company’s high-availability NoSQL key-value and document database designed for high speed and scale. Launched in 2012, the database service has gone through numerous iterations and is positioned today as the go-to database for developers who need predictable performance without operational ...
AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night. The company said it developed Crew to allow developers to start a task, walk away and come back when something is worth administering. It tasks multiple agents and their sub-agents on a ...