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.

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Exclusive: Krisp launches VIVA development kit to enhance accuracy for voice AI agents

Krisp Technologies Inc., a leading provider of real-time voice artificial intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of VIVA, its new voice isolation AI model and software development kit designed for voice AI agents. The company also revealed that VIVA is now processing more than 1 billion minutes of voice audio per month globally. VIVA, short ...

Qdrant launches Cloud Inference for multimodal vector search with higher speed and lower cost

Qdrant, the leading provider of high-performance, open-source vector search, today announced the launch of Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service that enables developers to search both text and image vectors simultaneously. Normally, developers must create artificial intelligence workflows that require separately building and embedding information about unstructured documents and images, distinct from the images themselves. ...

Fully licensed generative video AI model startup Moonvalley raises $84M

Moonvalley AI Inc., a generative artificial intelligence research startup working on video AI models and tools trained on fully licensed content, today announced it has raised $84 million in additional funding. The funding round was led by existing investor General Catalyst and included strategic investments from the entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency, AI ...

AWS launches Kiro: a ‘spec coding’ developer environment integrated with AI agents

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a preview of a new development environment named Kiro, integrated with artificial intelligence agents for software engineers, which the company says will help them turn ideas into production-ready code. Now in preview, Kiro helps provide speed and resilience to what has become known as “vibe coding,” a new way ...

Enterprise AI development platform Vellum raises $20M to help businesses deploy apps faster

Vocify Inc., also known as Vellum, a leading enterprise development platform for building, testing and deploying artificial intelligence-powered applications, today announced it raised $20 million in early-stage funding to expand its product portfolio and grow in the market. The company’s Series A funding round was led by Leaders Fund, with participation from Socii Capital and returning ...

Cobionix raises $3M to build autonomous medical robotics platform

Cobionix Corp.,  a Canada-based medical robotics company, today announced it closed a $3 million funding round led by TitletownTech, a venture capital firm backed by Microsoft Corp. and the Green Bay Packers. Lions Investment and Dr. Paul McBeth, a prominent medical robotics expert and investor, also participated in the round alongside other undisclosed investors. The company ...

New Gen unveils intelligent web storefronts for retailers to take advantage of ‘agentic commerce’

New Generation, a technology company that builds solutions for artificial intelligence interactions, today announced that its platform can build storefronts for e-retailers that can power secure, AI-initiated transitions and embedded payment flows. A new trend happening across the retail internet is powered by AI agents, which can shop on behalf of users. These artificial shoppers ...

Monday.com debuts AI tools to help users build, automate and execute work

Cloud project management provider Monday.com Ltd. today unveiled three artificial intelligence-powered updates to its platform, aimed at boosting productivity and helping users build advanced work solutions without requiring technical expertise. The new additions include monday sidekick, a context-aware AI assistant; monday magic, a quick way for users to instantly build complete functional workflows within the ...

Docker launches new capabilities to support AI agent development

Docker Inc. today announced the launch of major new capabilities designed to make it dramatically easier to build, run and deploy agentic AI applications. The company, which helps ease the building, testing and deploying of applications by packaging them in lightweight, portable software containers, said it’s extending its Docker Compose tool to support AI agents and ...

Zoom delivers new agentic AI capabilities to help users save time

Zoom Video Communications Inc. introduced new agent-based artificial intelligence capabilities to its platform today, aimed at helping users orchestrate tasks to save time during their workday. The platform’s new Custom AI Companion add-on can now connect to more than 16 third-party apps without leaving Zoom. Additionally, the AI Companion add-on is available for online purchase ...