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Mesh raises $22M for platform that helps businesses manage digital assets
Mesh Connect Inc., a startup that provides a system for enterprise businesses to manage digital assets, said Thursday that it completed a $22 million funding round to build out its platform, which helps customers maintain control over virtual assets such as cryptocurrencies. The Series A funding round was led by Money Forward Inc. with participation from ...
Microsoft announces Copilot in Windows 11 and new Surface laptops
Microsoft Corp. is expanding the presence of its artificial intelligence Copilot in a unified experience throughout Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 and in its web browser Edge and Bing. The early form of the update, announced today, will be coming to Windows 11 users through a free update starting on Sept. 26, and across Bing, ...
Amazon touts generative AI for Alexa, new Echo Show 8, Fire TV Stick and more
Amazon.com Inc. took to the stage during its Fall Devices Event today to reveal a number of new Echo devices and announced it will soon power its virtual assistant Alexa with a generative artificial intelligence model, giving it a whole new personality and the ability to hold conversations. New advancements in AI have given them ...
Corti raises $60M in funding to expand its AI co-pilot for healthcare professionals
Corti, the maker of an artificial intelligence assistant for healthcare professionals, today announced that it has raised $60 million in additional funding to support the growth of its technology that can understand patient needs and interact with doctors and other emergency workers. The Series B funding round was co-led by Prosus Ventures and Atomico, with ...
Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now link to Gmail, Docs, Maps, YouTube and more
Google LLC expanded the capabilities of its Bard chatbot today, enabling it to integrate with a larger number of services including Gmail, Google Docs, Maps and YouTube. Bard is Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot that powers a number of standalone chat experiences and also lives in its search interface where users can ask it questions and ...
Pryon raises $100M to help enterprises build AI assistants with their data
Pryon Inc. today announced the company raised $100 million in a Series B round led by billionaire Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund to accelerate the growth of its platform, which helps enterprises build artificial intelligence assistants that can ingest and understand their vast stores of unstructured data and other knowledge. The company was founded ...
Apple moves to update iPhone 12 in France to address radiation issue
Apple Inc. said today that it will update software on the iPhone 12 in France to address an issue discovered by the country’s government that it may emit high levels of electromagnetic radiation. At the same time, other countries in the European Union have signaled investigations into the phone’s emissions. According to a report from Reuters, ...
Open-source database PostgreSQL 16 brings performance and scaling enhancements
The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, scaling and performance. PostgreSQL is a relational database management system, also known as Postgres, which is free and open source. It supports both nonrelational and relational data types and ...
Pixis raises $85M to use AI to help marketers orchestrate and analyze campaigns
Pixis, a company that provides artificial intelligence tools for planning and analyzing marketing campaigns, today announced it has raised $85 million in new funding to build out its AI product suite and expand its operations. The Series C1 funding round for the company, incorporated as Aiquire Inc., was led by Touring Capital and brings Pixis’ ...
Alibaba opens Tongyi Qianwen AI model to the public to drive adoption
Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced that it’s opening its Tongyi Qianwen artificial intelligence large language model to the public, making it accessible for developers and enterprise companies to adopt. Tongyi Qianwen was initially unveiled in April as a product of Alibaba DAMO Academy, which developed it as a large ...