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Autonomous AI sales agent startup Bounti Labs raises $16M in seed funding
Autonomous artificial intelligence agent startup Bounti Labs Inc. stepped into the spotlight today, announcing it has closed on a $16 million seed funding round led by Google Ventures. Investors including Floodgate, Bloomberg Beta, Haystack, Octave Ventures and MS&AD also participated in the round, as did Silicon Valley veteran Lew Cirne, the founder and former chief ...
Google Search now links to ancient websites via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
Starting today, Google LLC’s search engine platform will provide direct links to cached articles within The Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine, adding historical context to user’s search results. It’s a nice addition to Google Search because many websites change over time, news stories are edited, sometimes they are deleted, and some just disappear altogether or stop ...
Altera CEO Sandra Rivera denies Intel is looking to sell the company
The chief executive of Intel Corp.’s programmable chip business Altera has denied reports that the chipmaker is looking to offload the company. In an interview with CRN, Sandra Rivera (pictured) said Intel is sticking with its original plan of selling a smaller stake in the company, before spinning it off via an initial public offering ...
Kong, the king of API management, reinforces its platform for AI applications
API technologies startup Kong Inc. today announced a key update to its flagship platform Kong Konnect, introducing it as a new platform that’s fit for the era of artificial intelligence. The company explained that companies across the world are racing to adopt AI, and that’s creating a need for a unified and enterprise-grade platform for ...
Financial risk management startup Datricks raises $15M to help enterprises identify fraud
A startup called Data.R.X LTD, which likes to be known as Datricks, has closed on a $15 million Series A funding round after developing a platform that uses artificial intelligence to try and uncover financial fraud at enterprises and other organizations. Today’s round was led by Team8 and saw participation from SAP SE’s venture capital ...
Report: OpenAI’s most advanced AI model Strawberry to launch earlier than planned
OpenAI’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model Strawberry could be set to launch earlier than planned, with a prospective release slated for “within the next two weeks,” according to a report today by The Information. The new model had originally been scheduled to launch during the fall, but The Information’s report cites two sources with knowledge of ...
Generative infrastructure-from-code startup AppCD rebrands as StackGen after raising $12.3M
Generative infrastructure-from-code startup AppCD Inc. said today it’s rebranding itself as StackGen after closing on a $12.3 million seed funding round. The funding, which was led by Thomvest Ventures with participation from existing investors WestWave Capital, FireBolt and Secure Octane, will help StackGen to accelerate its product development plans and its go-to-market strategy in order ...
Enterprise-focused AI translation platform and marketplace operator Smartcat raises $43M in funding
Enterprise language translation company Smartcat Platform Inc. said today it has closed on a $43 million Series C funding round led by Left Lane Capital to fuel its expansion. Smartcat is the creator of what it says is a simple, intuitive platform that uses artificial intelligence to automatically translate and create content for global businesses. ...
Oracle NetSuite expands its AI capabilities to deliver greater efficiency for businesses
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite today announced a host of new product updates and features, with many of them unsurprisingly focused on artificial intelligence. The new offerings are based on Oracle’s existing AI capabilities, which have been embedded into NetSuite to enhance various aspects of the platform, around procurement, project management, user experience and more. They were unveiled ...
Oracle’s stock pops on strong earnings beat, driven by cloud growth and new partnerships
Shares of Oracle Corp. hit an all-time high in extended trading today, after the database company delivered strong first-quarter results that topped analysts’ forecasts and announced a new partnership with the most dominant cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon Web Services Inc. Oracle reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.39 per share, comfortably ...