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Google AI Mode gets more useful with Canva, Instacart and YouTube app integrations
Google LLC said today it’s letting users link some of their favorite, most often-used applications with AI Mode, its conversational search tool powered by artificial intelligence, initially supporting Canva, Instacart and YouTube. The update, announced in a brief blog post by Google, marks a significant expansion of AI Mode, which now does much more than ...
China’s Moonshot throws down the gauntlet with Kimi K3, the world’s largest open-weights model
Chinese artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI today announced the imminent release of Kimi K3, its latest large language model, and already, it’s sending shockwaves across the AI industry. That’s not only because it’s believed to be the world’s largest open-source model to date, but because benchmarks show it outperforms the best models from OpenAI Group PBC ...
Intel says it’s going to lean on Google’s Gemini to help automate and accelerate silicon development
Intel Corp. said today it’s expanding its long-running partnership with Google Cloud into the agentic artificial intelligence realm. By deploying the Gemini Enterprise platform across its global workforce, the chipmaker says it will be able to accelerate workflows across its corporate, engineering, supply chain and marketing operations. It’s also going to use Google’s autonomous agents ...
Spectro Cloud wants to ease AI infrastructure management after raising $100M in funding
Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged $100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processors might be hard to come by, but they are available for a price. However, what’s really lacking is the software needed to squeeze the most ...
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is the first model fully trained from scratch by Thinking Machines, coming after a year in which the company mostly made ...
Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding
Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after raising $130 million. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Creaegis and Claypond and saw participation from Khosla Ventures, ...
AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations
A startup called American Growth Insurance said today it has raised almost $70 million in committed equity capital to transform the insurance industry. It plans to do so with an aggressive, technology-focused business model that’s quite unlike anything its competitors do. AGI, officially known as AGI Holdings LLC, says it has worked out how to use ...
InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M
Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million. In addition, it launched a new tool that can help companies to quickly build, deploy and then continuously update and maintain software that ...
AWS Security Hub expands coverage to Microsoft Azure and beefs up AI protections
Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features were announced today alongside a host of artificial intelligence-focused updates to AWS Security Hub, as the company strives to transform it into a comprehensive, full-stack ...
Cribl buys AI-native threat detection engineering startup CardinalOps
Data observability and telemetry management company Cribl Inc. says it’s extending its capabilities into security operations after acquiring the artificial intelligence-native security engineering startup CardinalOps Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Cribl said that buying CardinalOps will give it advanced “detection engineering capabilities” that will help its enterprise customers to detect more sophisticated cybersecurity threats. It ...