Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Salesforce enhances Consumer Goods Cloud with productivity-boosting AI
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s boosting its Consumer Goods Cloud with new artificial intelligence and data capabilities that aim to boost productivity in retailer’s and supplier’s route-to-market processes. The Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud platform provides tools that help companies to unlock and unify customer data and industry market research. It’s most often used by account ...
AI accuracy startup Galileo’s new Evaluation Foundation Model suite is designed to evaluate LLMs
Generative artificial intelligence evaluation startup Galileo Technologies Inc. said today it’s launching the industry’s first family of “evaluation foundation models,” which have been customized to evaluate the performance of large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google LLC’s Gemini Pro. The Luna EFM models were developed by Galileo in response to the AI industry’s ...
Qlik debuts new data integration and curation tools for generative AI systems
Data integration platform provider Qlik Tech International AB this week debuted a new product called the Qlik Talend Cloud, saying it’s designed to deliver high-quality, trusted data to artificial intelligence systems. It was announced alongside a new generative AI assistant that promises to help companies make better use of their unstructured data. The announcements came earlier ...
E-signature company Docusign’s stock falls despite solid earnings beat
E-signature software company Docusign Inc. said today it’s primed for renewed growth after delivering a solid earnings beat and guidance in line with expectations. But shareholders were not impressed, and the company’s stock dove more than 6% lower in extended trading. The company reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 82 ...
Salesforce is transforming Slack into a collaborative project management tool
Salesforce Inc. is making good on its plan to transform the Slack collaboration tool into a project management platform with the debut of a new feature called Slack Lists. The new feature is being rolled out today in some regions and will become available to all paid Slack users, integrating project and task management functionality ...
Stability AI debuts open version of its Stable Audio music generator tool
Generative artificial intelligence startup Stability AI Ltd., which is best known for its image generator tool Stable Diffusion, is leaning further into the field of audio generation with its latest, open AI model for creating sounds and music. The company introduced Stable Audio Open in a blog post today, saying that it’s trained entirely on ...
Database company Couchbase cruises to another solid earnings and revenue beat
Database company Couchbase Inc. delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat today, sending its stock slightly higher in extended trading today. The company reported a fiscal first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 10 cents per share, exceeding the analysts’ consensus estimate of 15 cents per share by a fairly decent margin. ...
Tobiko Data raises $21.8M to transform data transformation
Big data transformation startup Tobiko Data Inc. revealed today it has closed on two separate funding rounds, including a $17.3 million Series A round that followed an initial $4.5 million seed raise. The Series A was led by Theory Ventures and saw participation from 20Sales, plus the chief executive officers of Fivetran Inc., Sutro Labs ...
Intel gets $11B from Apollo for stake in its Fab 34 chipmaking plant in Ireland
Chipmaker Intel Corp. said today it has sold a 49% stake in its new Fab 34 chip manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland, in order to fund the ongoing development of the site, as well as other chip factories it’s building around the world. The company said it raised $11 billion from the sale to private ...
Strong AI server sales power solid earnings beat for HPE and its stock shoots up
Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. were flying high in extended trading today, up more than 16% on better-than-expected earnings and revenue that was driven by enterprise demand for servers that can support artificial intelligence workloads. The enterprise data center hardware company said its AI server sales have been boosted by wider availability of the ...