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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Momentic raises $3.7M to redefine software testing with AI

Momentic Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered testing and quality assurance platform for software developers, said today it has raised $3.7 million in seed funding. FundersClub, General Catalyst, Y Combinator and AI Grant participated in the round alongside prominent angels including the Box Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Aaron Levie and Richard Aberman, co-founder of WePay Inc. ...

Salesforce launches AI agent skills marketplace with 200+ initial partners

Building on its ongoing focus on artificial intelligence agents, Salesforce Inc. announced today the launch of AgentExchange, a trusted marketplace that allows enterprise customers to expand the capabilities of Agentforce AI agents. Using Agentforce, companies can deploy highly customizable generative AI agents that operate autonomously, augmenting employee work. The platform enables developers to create AI ...

Open-source vector database Qdrant expands enterprise cloud AI features

High-performance open-source vector database Qdrant has added new enterprise-level security and management tools to its cloud offering, allowing companies to deploy and scale up artificial intelligence applications. With today’s announcement, Qdrant Cloud, the company’s managed cloud-based vector database, has added simplified management for clusters, cloud role-based access controls, database application programming interface keys for granular control, ...

Tencent releases new AI model it says is faster than DeepSeek-R1

Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. today released a new artificial intelligence model named Hunyuan Turbo S, designed as a “fast-thinking model,” a rival to so-called “slow-thinking” models such as DeepSeek-R1. The company explained the model is capable of near “instant replies” within a second by doubling the output speed and cutting the delay of ...

Amazon debuts its first quantum chip ‘Ocelot’ prototype with novel architecture

Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled its first quantum computing chip and said it represents the first generation of hardware that implements superior error correction, a barrier that has made scaling up the technology difficult. Ocelot, as the new processor is called, reduces the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90% compared ...

Olas launches decentralized AI marketplace where AI agents can hire each other

Olas, an artificial intelligence agent building and deployment platform for the cryptocurrency industry, today launched a decentralized marketplace for AI agents to offer skills to one another and “hire” other agents. The Mech Marketplace, as the company dubbed its new platform, allows AI agents to fill the gap in agent autonomy by seeking out other ...

IBM debuts new Granite 3.2 family of models that include reasoning when you want it

Continuing its mission to carve out a niche in the enterprise artificial intelligence market, IBM Corp. today introduced a new family of its Granite AI models that include experimental reasoning capabilities, vision and forecasting capabilities. As with every release, IBM is opening up its models under the permissive open-source Apache 2.0 license. All Granite models ...

Akool unleashes enhancements to its AI human 3D avatars connected to LLMs

Akool Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence-driven lifelike human video avatars using cutting-edge technology, today announced enhancements to its interactive capability that allows developers to connect large language models, helping model builders create dynamic conversational experiences. Founded in 2022, Akool has been at the forefront of creating vivid experiences using lifelike avatars that look and ...

Adobe unveils Photoshop iPhone app with numerous free features

Adobe Inc. is making its Photoshop image editing tool more accessible than ever with a mobile version available today on Apple Inc.’s iPhone that brings professional level post-processing to smartphones. Photoshop is best known for being among the best-in-class image editing software, with tools that include layering, masking, filters and capabilities such as artificial intelligence-powered ...

WilsonAI raises $1.7M in pre-seed funding for ‘AI paralegal’

WilsonAI Co., the provider of an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for in-house legal operations, said today it has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of what the company calls an AI paralegal that companies can “hire” for their teams. The company was founded in 2024 by Chief Executive Gus Neate, formerly a ...