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Box makes company documents easier to organize and find with Box Hubs
Cloud content management software company Box Inc. today announced the general availability of its Box Hubs feature, enabling customers on its enterprise plans to create intelligent portals that make it easier for users to organize, curate and publish content. The aim is to enable easier access in internal teams and with external partners. Box Hubs is ...
Harness unveils AI code and DevOps agents to accelerate its software delivery platform
Harness Inc., the software delivery platform startup that provides tools for developers to update and monitor their applications on the fly, has kicked off its annual user conference with a significant update. The company’s complete software delivery-as-a-service platform is being infused with a “multi-agent” artificial intelligence architecture that promises to transform developer workflows, improve developer ...
Infrastructure-as-code startup Bluebricks lands $4.5M to challenge HashiCorp’s Terraform
Cloud computing infrastructure management startup Bluebricks Ltd. says it’s looking to disrupt the infrastructure-as-code industry after closing on a $4.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Flint Capital and Glilot Capital Partners, and saw participation from a host of angel investors, including Yochay Ettun, chief executive of Cnvrg.io Inc., which was ...
Salesforce buys Israeli startup Zoomin to feed more data to its AI agents
Salesforce Inc. has returned to Israel to make a second major acquisition, splashing out to acquire a company called Zoomin Software Ltd. that offers tools for processing unstructured data. The deal comes less than three weeks after Salesforce splurged $1.9 billion to acquire the Israeli cloud data backup specialist Own Co. It’s paying a lot ...
Contact center-as-a-service startup Ujet raises $76M to accelerate generative AI development
The cloud contact center company Ujet Inc. said today it has closed on a $76 million late-stage round of funding, earmarking the money to accelerate its deployment of generative artificial intelligence to enhance customer support experiences. Today’s Series D round was led by existing investor Sapphire Ventures and saw participation from KeyCorp and IonPacific, which ...
NetApp outlines its vision of an intelligent data infrastructure for generative AI projects
Data storage infrastructure company NetApp Inc. said today it’s looking to accelerate innovation in artificial intelligence with the evolution of its “intelligent data infrastructure” platform. Announced today at the company’s annual user conference, NetApp INSIGHT, NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure describes the company’s vision of a data infrastructure that’s geared for hosting the data and AI ...
Google unveils new generative AI innovations for customer engagement and Gemini in Workspace
Google Cloud said today it’s expanding its leadership in the world of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of generative AI models that are specifically targeted at customer engagement applications, integrated within its Contact Center AI services. The new Customer Engagement Suite, announced at Google’s virtual Gemini at Work online event, is powered by Google’s ...
Harmonic raises $75M to create AI with mathematical superintelligence and eliminate hallucinations
Harmonic, an artificial intelligence startup that’s pursuing the goal of mathematical superintelligence, or MSI, said today it has closed on a $75 million early-stage funding round. Today’s Series A round was led by Sequoia Capital and saw participation from Index Ventures, Jasper Lau’s Era Funds, GreatPoint Ventures, DTS Global Partners, Palo Alto Networks Inc. Chief ...
Mozilla kicks off Builders accelerator program for ‘local AI’ startups
Mozilla Corp., the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser, today announced the first cohort of startups in its new, artificial intelligence-themed Mozilla Builders Accelerator. It has selected 14 promising young companies, with each one gaining access to up to $100,000 in funding plus mentorship from Mozilla’s experts. The Mozilla Builders Accelerator is not a new ...
Cloudflare debuts tools for website owners to charge AI companies that scrape their content
Earlier this year, Cloudflare Inc. announced a simple tool for website owners to prevent artificial intelligence model developers from scraping their online content. Now, it’s building on that with additional capabilities that can help website owners to control how their content is used by AI models, and even try to make money from it. The ...