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Ignition raises $8M to enhance collaboration between product and go-to-market teams
Artificial intelligence-powered go-to-market operations startup Ignition GTM Inc. announced today that it’s ready for prime time after raising $8 million in funding. The investment came via two rounds – seed and pre-seed – and was led by Audacious Ventures and Altman Capital. A number of angel investors also participated in the round, including several unnamed ...
Kubernetes resource automation startup ScaleOps lands $21.5M in funding
Israeli startup ScaleOps Labs Ltd. said today it has raised $21.5 million via two funding rounds to boost the development of what it says is the industry’s first fully automated and cloud-native resource orchestration platform for Kubernetes deployments. The funding rounds – which consisted of seed and Series A – were led by Lightspeed Venture ...
Patronus AI rolls out SimpleSafetyTests to identify harmful AI models
Artificial intelligence model evaluation and security startup Patronus AI Inc. is rolling out a suite of tests developers can use to ensure their AI applications are safe to release in the wild. The company said its open-source SimpleSafetyTests offering will help developers to identify any critical errors or safety risks within almost any large language ...
Snowflake snaps up data clean room startup Samooha in its ninth acquisition of the year
Cloud data warehouse leader Snowflake Inc. is strengthening its capabilities with the acquisition of a data clean room company called Samooha Inc. Snowflake said today the deal should close by the end of the year, and when it does, it will get its hands on an established data clean room platform that its customers will be ...
ServiceNow buys Czech task mining platform provider UltimateSuite
Workflow automation giant ServiceNow Inc. said today it has agreed to buy a Czech task mining startup called UltimateSuite s.r.o. so it can better understand how work-related tasks flow through organizations. The price of the acquisition was not announced, but the number is likely to be fairly minimal, given that the startup had raised less ...
Automated software deployment startup Octopus Deploy adds Kubernetes-native features
Startup Octopus Deploy Pty Ltd. is enhancing its Kubernetes capabilities to simplify software deployments in the most complex scenarios at large scale, using a combination of ready-made blueprints and automation features. The company offers a wide selection of application and software deployment tools for both on-premises and cloud environments, helping developers automate the launch of ...
Salvador raises $6M to help industrial organizations recover from cyberattacks in just 30 seconds
Cyberattack recovery startup Salvador Technologies Ltd. said today it has secured $6 million in funding to help it achieve its goal of protecting industrial organizations and their most critical information technology infrastructure. Today’s round was led by Pico Venture Partners and saw participation from existing investors Pitango VC and Sarona Partners. The Israeli startup says ...
Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests laser-based space communications tech
Kuiper Systems LLC, the satellite network constellation subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., has achieved a big milestone after successfully testing its laser-based communications technology in space with two prototype Project Kuiper satellites. Project Kuiper is the name of Amazon’s initiative to challenge SpaceX Corp.’s Starlink service, and aims to provide broadband internet access from satellites to ...
Google’s DeepMind creates generative AI model with fact checker to crack unsolvable math problem
Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit claims to have cracked an unsolvable math problem using a large language model-based chatbot equipped with a fact-checker to filter out useless outputs. By using a filter, DeepMind researchers say the LLM can generate millions of responses, but only submit the ones that can be verified as accurate. ...
Intel debuts AI-accelerated Core Ultra and 5th Gen Xeon chips to enable AI to run in any location
Intel Corp. is doubling down on its efforts to power artificial intelligence in any location with the launch of its new Intel Core Ultra family of mobile processors, which are the first to be built on its most advanced, Intel 4 manufacturing process. They debuted today alongside the latest generation of its traditional central processing ...
