Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Security

NinjaOne raises $231M at nearly $2B valuation for its IT management platform

By Kyt Dotson Feb 6, 2024

NinjaOne LLC, a company that provides a platform for information technology teams to automate and manage security and privacy needs, today announced that it has raised $231.5 million bringing the company’s valuation to $1.9 billion. The…

Blockchain

Ethereum Name Service partners with GoDaddy to link domain names and blockchain addresses

By Kyt Dotson Feb 5, 2024

Ethereum Name Service, a blockchain-based naming system, today announced a partnership with the domain name registrar and web hosting service GoDaddy Inc. to link ENS-enabled names to web domains for users without the need…

Blockchain

Crypto payments mobile app Oobit raises $25M led by Tether

By Kyt Dotson Feb 5, 2024

Oobit Technologies UAB, a mobile crypto payments app, said today that it has raised $25 million in an early-stage funding round to support its development and expansion into more markets. The Series A round…

AI

Google Maps adds generative AI to maps for local search

By Kyt Dotson Feb 2, 2024

Google Maps is adding generative AI features to help users find destinations using conversational search in a limited experiment for users in the United States that is rolling out this week. Detailed in a blog…

AI

Google powers up Bard with Gemini Pro and releases new AI tools

By Kyt Dotson Feb 1, 2024

Google LLC today announced that its Bard artificial intelligence chatbot is getting fully upgraded with Gemini Pro, the company’s most powerful large language model to date, which is also now available with image generation capabilities powered…

Security

Okta to cut 400 employees a year after its last round of layoffs

By Kyt Dotson Feb 1, 2024

Identity access management company Okta Inc. said today in a message to employees that it will lay off 7% of its staff, or about 400 employees, in a cost-cutting measure, according to an email…

AI

TrueMedia.org aims to use AI to fight political deepfakes

By Kyt Dotson Jan 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan organization called TrueMedia today announced it’s developing a tool that will use artificial intelligence to detect deepfakes with an aim to protect the 2024 U.S. election cycle from misinformation. Deepfakes are a type of…

Emerging Tech

Report: Humanoid robot startup Figure AI seeks $500M raise led by Microsoft and OpenAI

By Kyt Dotson Jan 31, 2024

Figure AI Inc., a startup developing humanoid robots, is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in new funding led by Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, according to a report from Bloomberg. Although the principal…

AI

Kore.ai rakes in $150M to build generative AI tools for global brands

By Kyt Dotson Jan 30, 2024

Enterprise generative artificial intelligence platform developer Kore.ai Inc. today announced it has secured $150 million in strategic growth investment funding led by FTV Capital to accelerate market expansion for its chatbot builder technology. Kore.ai targets enterprise…

Blockchain

Portal raises $34M for secure decentralized bitcoin exchange

By Kyt Dotson Jan 30, 2024

Portal, a financial technology startup building a bitcoin-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, today launched with $34 million from a seed funding round to build out its cryptocurrency products and services. According to the…

Kyt Dotson

NinjaOne raises $231M at nearly $2B valuation for its IT management platform

Ethereum Name Service partners with GoDaddy to link domain names and blockchain addresses

Crypto payments mobile app Oobit raises $25M led by Tether

Google Maps adds generative AI to maps for local search

Google powers up Bard with Gemini Pro and releases new AI tools

Okta to cut 400 employees a year after its last round of layoffs

TrueMedia.org aims to use AI to fight political deepfakes

Report: Humanoid robot startup Figure AI seeks $500M raise led by Microsoft and OpenAI

Kore.ai rakes in $150M to build generative AI tools for global brands

Portal raises $34M for secure decentralized bitcoin exchange

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