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ChEmpower raises $18.7M to advance semiconductor chip polishing technology
ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company providing polish pads and chemical solutions, today announced it has raised $18.7 million in a new early-stage funding for its effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and promote sustainability in the chipmaking process. The Series A round was co-led by M Ventures and Rhapsody Venture Partners. The company provides ...
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX to make images into lifelike chatbots
Noted artificial intelligence personalized chatbot service Character.AI Inc. unveiled a new video generation model named AvatarFX on Tuesday that allows users to take images and turn them into lifelike AI chatbots. Available to a limited number of users in closed beta mode, the model can take images and animate them so that they can speak, ...
Endor Labs raises $93M to secure AI-generated code from vulnerabilities
Code and application security startup Endor Labs Inc. today announced it has closed another big funding round, raising $93 million in a Series B funding led by DFJ Growth. New investor Salesforce Ventures and existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures also participated in the funding round. ...
Nvidia announces general availability of NeMo tools for building AI agents
Nvidia Corp. today announced the general availability of NeMo microservices, a set of tools designed to assist developers get artificial intelligence agents up faster by tapping into AI inference and information systems at scale. Agents have become a focal point for creating “digital teammates” capable of driving workforce productivity for knowledge and service workers by ...
Visa announces product design platform to streamline payment app development
In a bid to improve the product design and development process, Visa Inc. today announced the public release of its Visa Product Design System, a platform aimed at helping developers build secure and accessible payment experiences more efficiently. Visa initially launched the platform internally in 2018 to allow its product teams to build payment processes ...
BlinkOps launches no-code custom cybersecurity AI agent builder
Enterprise cybersecurity automation platform Blink Operations Inc. today announced the launch of its artificial intelligence No-code Security Agent Builder, which will give security teams greater operational control over their security environments. BlinkOps provides security teams with an AI-powered environment for visualizing their workflows to create customized processes instead of writing code. The company has an ...
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview for developers
Google LLC today rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview through its developer platforms so that artificial intelligence engineers and users can get a head start with the AI model. Gemini 2.5 Flash builds on the foundation of 2.0 Flash, the company’s existing low-latency, high-performance model designed to power AI agents. The Google said the ...
Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop automated scraping
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI companies and large language model trainers from scraping the website. “Instead of scraping or parsing raw article text, Kaggle users can work directly with well-structured JSON representations of Wikipedia content ...
Amazon partners with GitLab to bring Q Developer to DevSecOps workflows
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a partnership with DevSecOps tooling provider GitLab Inc. that will integrate it with agentic artificial intelligence development assistant Q Developer. GitLab provides a comprehensive web-based platform for software development and DevOps that includes version control, collaboration, continuous integration and continuous delivery, project management and security scanning tools. It operates ...
Metaverse platform Infinite Reality expands AI capabilities with $500M Touchcast acquisition
Infinite Reality Inc., a metaverse company that builds and powers virtual reality immersive digital media experiences for brands and creators, said today it will acquire agentic artificial intelligence firm Touchcast Inc. for $500 million in cash and stock. The acquisition happened shortly after the company acquired Napster for $207 million in March. Napster is the ...