Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Synthetaic raises $15M for advanced AI image classification and detection

AI By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

Synthetaic Inc., a provider of advanced artificial intelligence solutions, today announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech to accelerate the development and commercialization of its platform for classification and detection of image data. …

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

SECURITY By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 Series C funding round was led by ICONIQ …

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

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 for technical know-how. ENS works to simplify complex …

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

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 was led by stablecoin issuer Tether Ltd. and joined by …

Google Maps adds generative AI to maps for local search

AI By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 post published Thursday, the enhanced search in maps uses …

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

AI By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 by its Imagen 2 model. The company also …

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

SECURITY By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 message. “In order to grow profitably, we need …

TrueMedia.org aims to use AI to fight political deepfakes

AI By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 fake video, photo or audio recording produced by …

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

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 investors and Figure declined to comment, the Jan. …

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

AI By KYT DOTSON3 YEARS AGO

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 customers and global brands in need of AI …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Synthetaic raises $15M for advanced AI image classification and detection

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

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