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Web3 newsletter Paragraph raises $5M and takes over blogging platform Mirror
Web3 newsletter publishing platform Paragraph raised $5 million in new funding on Thursday in addition to acquiring Mirror, a blockchain-based blogging platform that will help the company elevate its position in taking on traditional publishing with self-ownership of content. The fundraise was led by Coinbase Ventures and Union Square Ventures. Paragraph previously raised $1.7 million ...
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts
Microsoft Corp. today rolled out passwordless passkey support for all consumer accounts, allowing users to do away with passwords and log in using devices. Passkeys are part of the path to making passwords obsolete by allowing sign-in to services and websites without one. A passkey identifies a user by using public-key cryptography connected to a service and their devices, instead of using a password they can ...
Securitize raises $47M to tokenize real-world assets on the blockchain
Securitize Inc., a compliance and tokenization firm using blockchain technology to tokenize real-world assets, announced Wednesday that it raised $47 million in funding led by multinational investment manager BlackRock Inc. The company uses digital ledger blockchain technology to create a secure digital representation of securities, such as stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds. Using its platform these securities and tokens ...
DataRobot introduces observability with real-time intervention capability for generative AI
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. today announced updates to its generative AI offering that will give businesses and developers observability features with real-time intervention capabilities to increase confidence when running models in production environments. The new capabilities allow enterprise teams to manage generative AI models running in all environments, including cloud, on-premises and the cloud, to execute them in ...
MongoDB announces updates to power generative AI development
Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced several new updates at its developer conference MongoDB.local NYC that will make it easier for developers to build, run and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications. The company announced new capabilities for MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed cloud database that can handle the complex task of deploying and scaling database systems, ...
MongoDB launches ‘one-stop shop’ program for enterprises to build generative AI solutions
Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced the launch of a program that will help organizations rapidly build and deploy modern applications using generative artificial intelligence technology on an enterprise scale, in partnership with advisory, professional services and end-to-end technology stacks for hosting. The company said the new project, called the MongoDB AI Applications Program, is designed to be a ...
Atlassian launches Rovo generative AI-powered assistant
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today launched Rovo, a new generative artificial intelligence knowledge discovery product that extracts data from a company’s internal tools and can help find information stored in them and then act on it. Powered by Atlassian Intelligence, a generative AI offering the company launched a year ago, that brought AI services and models into its products, Rovo helps companies find information lost ...
Amazon launches Q AI assistant alongside an AI app generator
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its Amazon Q generative artificial intelligence assistant generally available for developers and business users that will allow them to debug code and automate business tasks. Alongside these announcements, the company also unveiled a new Amazon Q Apps feature, in preview, that will allow noncoders to create applications with conversational prompts. AWS unveiled Amazon Q in November in preview ...
Secure browser Island raises $175M, doubling valuation to $3B
Island Technology Inc., the developer of a secure enterprise browser of the same name, today announced it has raised $175 million in a late-stage funding. The Series D round was led by new investor Coatue and existing investor Sequoia Capital. It doubles the company’s valuation from a year ago to $3 billion. To date, the startup has raised $487 ...
Salesforce rolls out Tableau platform data updates and AI infrastructure improvements
Salesforce Inc. has rolled out data visualization and AI infrastructure improvements for its Tableau Software platform today that increase the usability of its product for data analysts and expand its scalability for artificial intelligence. The company noted that according to its own research, only 30% of workers use data to make business decisions. Tableau is a visual ...