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Hackers compromise popular Axios Javascript library with hidden malware
The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute malware via a compromised account. Attackers exploited a hijacked account on npm, a default package manager for Node.js, a tool that allows developers to share, install and manage Javascript project code to distribute the malicious software. According ...
Harness launches features to help dev teams coordinate releases to keep up with the AI coding era
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications, said today it’s shipping new features that help software teams orchestrate at AI speed. In the past, a team of developers, software engineers, cloud architects and operations specialists could coordinate multi-service releases. Today, that has changed with ...
Softr launches AI-native no-code business software building platform
Artificial intelligence app builder startup Softr Platforms GmbH launched a platform today that lets users build software for businesses to run without writing a line of code. With the introduction of the company’s AI Co-Builder, business teams can replace spreadsheets and manual work with fully functional apps, including internal tools, customer portals, partner platforms and ...
Mistral releases an open-weights ‘speaking’ AI model with Voxtral TTS
The Paris-based Mistral AI SAS today announced the release of Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech artificial intelligence model aimed at unseating the best-known and most powerful voice models on the market. The new model is very lightweight, with 4 billion parameters, which makes it a size that can be run on most consumer hardware, including ...
Qualified Health raises $125M to transform how enterprise healthcare systems adopt AI
Qualified Health, a company that provides a secure enterprise artificial intelligence platform for health systems, announced Wednesday it raised $125 million in an early-stage funding round. Founded in 2023, the firm offers enterprise-focused health systems with AI integrations aimed at safely bringing the technology into their organizations at scale, safely and securely. The objective of the ...
Bland launches Norm to help teams build production-ready voice agents in minutes
The artificial intelligence-powered voice platform Bland Inc. today announced Norm, an AI assistant that allows technical teams to build reliable voice agents from a conversational prompt. According to Bland, building voice AI agents is extremely difficult and requires considerable expertise. Unlike normal chat-based systems that merely respond to voice activation, AI voice agents must handle ...
Steno raises $49M to change court reporting with AI-enabled transcript analysis
Steno Agency Inc., a leader in tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services, today announced it has raised $49 million in Series C funding to build the next generation of its artificial intelligence-enabled court transcript technology. Savano Capital Partners led the round. Existing investors First Round Capital, The Legal Tech Fund and other strategic investors ...
Domo launches AI agent builder with broad enterprise data connectivity
Business intelligence software firm Domo Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent builder, AI toolkit and library of external enterprise data connectors to help organizations deploy custom AI agents into their systems. “AI doesn’t become valuable when a model gets smarter,” said founder and Chief Executive Josh James. “It becomes valuable when it’s connected ...
Epic Microsystems raises $21M to revolutionize power for next-gen AI datacenters
Epic Microsystems, a semiconductor company developing power delivery systems for artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced it has raised $21 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the commercialization of its vertical power delivery technology for AI data centers. Seligman Ventures led the company’s Series A funding round, which brought the total funding for the company to ...
Ai2 releases open-source visual AI agent that can take control of web browsers
Allen Institute for AI, a prominent Seattle-based nonprofit research organization working on advancing artificial intelligence models and systems, today launched a new open-source AI agent that can take control of web browsers on a user’s behalf and automate tasks. Web agents represent the next step of what is called vision-language models, which move large language ...