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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Storyblok raises $80M to add AI content tools to its ‘headless’ CMS platform

Content management startup Storyblok GmbH, which provides a content management system for organizations using the “headless” concept, today announced that it has raised $80 in a new funding round led by Brighton Park Capital. Existing investors HV Capital, Mubadala Capital, 3VC and Firstminute Capital also participated in the Series C round, which brought the total ...

At Computex, Nvidia announces new AI tools for developers to power next-gen experiences

Nvidia Corp. today announced at Computex 2024 in Taipei new artificial intelligence tools that will help developers get their apps optimized and rolled out for desktop PCs and Windows and get AI assistants into their games. Most pretrained generative AI models are general-purpose and were designed for the datacenter. They will respond generically and without ...

Amazon expands drone deliveries with FAA approval in US

Amazon.com Inc. said today it received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its drones longer distances and will use the new license to expand its Prime Air service to more customers. The FAA approved Amazon with permission to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight, known as BLVOS, a term used in aviation ...

Google and Magic Leap partner on augmented reality deal

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap Inc. announced today that the two companies have joined forces in a strategic partnership to collaborate on AR and optics solutions. Although the announcement is scant on details, the two companies said that the partnership would combine Magic Leap’s optics and manufacturing expertise with Google’s technological ...

Switchboard raises $7.5M to help provide blockchain projects links to real-world data

On-chain “oracle” startup Switchboard Technology Labs Inc., which builds services that provide Web3 projects access to real-world third-party data, today announced it raised $7.5 million in early-stage funding co-led by Tribe Capital and RockawayX. Additional backing for the company’s Series A funding round included investments from the Solana Foundation, Aptos Labs, Mitzen Labs, Subzero Ventures, ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and OpenAI today signed an agreement making the PwC the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing generative AI deeper into the enterprise for customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise provides unlimited access to the latest and greatest models that OpenAI has to provide, including GPT-4 ...

GaiaNet raises $10M for its decentralized AI agent project

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project GaiaNet Inc. today announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding to provide access to edge nodes where developers can deploy artificial intelligence agents and other generative AI tools. The company’s funding round attracted key advisors bringing additional resources including Generative Ventures’ Lex Sokolin, Republic Capital’s Brian Johnson, 7RIDGE’s Shawn ...

Chromebook Plus receives built-in AI updates with Gemini for photos and writing

The ChromeOS-based Chromebook Plus laptops lineup from Google LLC today received built-in artificial intelligence updates with Gemini that will assist users with writing, editing and sparkling up their photos. The entire Chromebook is getting new features that will help users make better use of their phone, take control of their calendar and be more productive. Google rolled out Chromebook Plus as ...

Aerodome raises $21.5M to send drones to assist first responders on calls

Aerodome Inc., a company that supports first responders such as police, paramedics and firefighters with drones, today announced that it raised $21.5 million in early funding to expand its engineering and marketing teams. The company provides a fully automated and remote air support solution using drones that can arrive on scene before first responders to provide ...

Global outages hit Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, ChatGPT Search and Copilot 

Bing Search and sites powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Bing have been experiencing outages worldwide today that began at about 3 a.m. EDT. Searchers using Bing and other websites that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for the web, Copilot on Windows, OpenAI’s ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo Inc’s private search will see errors. According to user ...