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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Salesforce brings AI agents to employee support with Agentforce for HR Service

Salesforce Inc. today announced the launch of Agentforce for HR Service, a new set of artificial intelligence-powered capabilities aimed at making employee support and human resources solutions more intuitive. Although AI is transforming productivity and how people work, it can also reshape how employees interact with their company. Salesforce already has a human resources platform ...

Amazon announces Q Developer preview in GitHub for AI-powered code generation and review

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a preview for its agentic artificial intelligence software development assistant Q Developer for Microsoft Corp.’s open-source code repository GitHub. Millions of developers use GitHub daily to store vast amounts of source code for software projects as a platform for collaboration, version control and code management. The platform surpassed 150 ...

Google’s AI Mode in search just got more useful and accessible

Google LLC updated AI Mode today, the company’s newest artificial intelligence feature for search that promises to help users with more personalized answers and make it accessible to everyone. The company introduced AI Mode in March. It’s an AI chatbot that allows users to enter search queries. While similar to AI Overviews, the summarized versions ...

Microsoft releases small but mighty Phi-4 reasoning AI models that outperform larger models

Microsoft Corp. has released three new advanced small language models artificial intelligence models extending its “Phi” range of AI models that include reasoning capability. The new model releases Wednesday introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus and Phi-4-mini-reasoning, which add a thinking capability to the models allowing them to break down complex queries and reason through them efficiently. The model family ...

Supio raises $60M to power legal analysis with generative AI

Seattle-based legal artificial intelligence startup Supio today said it has raised $60 million in a Series B round to build its platform that helps lawyers organize, analyze and prepare legal cases. The round was led by existing investor Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investors Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. Today’s investment brings Supio’s total funding ...

Sendbird launches omnipresent proactive customer support AI agent

Sendbird Inc., an artificial intelligence communications and conversation platform, today announced the launch of what the company calls  an “omnipresent” AI agent that can handle customer service issues proactively rather than just reacting to them. “Customers don’t think in terms of channels and neither should your AI,” said Chief Executive John Kim. “They just want their ...

Meta announces standalone AI app for personalized assistance

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new standalone Meta AI app that houses an artificial intelligence assistant powered by the company’s Llama 4 large language model to provide a more personalized experience for users. The company said the new app is built to be more social and is designed with voice features. It has an ...

IXI raises $36.5M to develop the world’s first autofocus eyewear

IXI, a Finnish eyewear hardware company, today announced it has raised $36.5 million in an early-stage funding to develop what it says is the world’s first autofocus lenses for eyewear that adapt to the wearer’s eyes. The Series A round was led by Plural, with participation from byFounders, Heartcore, Eurazeo, FOV Ventures and Tiny Supercomputer, ...

Writer announces Palmyra X5 LLM with 1M-token context window to power AI agents

Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today released its newest state-of-the-art enterprise-focused large language model Palmyra X5, an adaptive reasoning model that features a 1 million-token context window. The company also said that it teamed up with Amazon Web Services Inc. to announce the availability of the new model on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed service ...

Lightrun raises $70M to use AI for real-time enterprise software observability and remediation

Artificial intelligence-powered software observability startup Lightrun Inc. announced today it has raised $70 million in a Series B funding led by Accel and Insight Partners to build out its platform that helps developers catch and resolve issues while the software is running. Citi, Glilot Capital, GTM Capital, and Sorenson Capital also participated in the round. ...