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Harness scales up its Internal Delivery Platform to accelerate software delivery
Harness Inc., the software delivery platform startup that provides tools for developers to update and monitor their applications on the fly, today announced a major update aimed at helping enterprises dramatically scale up their application development efforts. The latest release of the Harness Internal Developer Portal is meant to address challenges such as the need ...
Zencoder accelerates vibe coding with instant, AI-powered software verification
Generative artificial intelligence coding startup Zencoder says it’s finally able to help developer teams shift from “vibe coding” to production-ready applications with its latest tool, which automates the verification process for newly generated code. Announced today and available in beta test now, Zentester is an AI-powered agent that can quickly validate any piece of code, ...
Hirundo raises $8M to try to make AI forget the bad data causing its hallucinations
Hirundo AI Ltd., a startup that’s helping artificial intelligence models “forget” bad data that causes them to hallucinate and generate bad responses, said today it has raised $8 million in seed funding to popularize the idea of “machine unlearning.” Today’s round was led by Maverick Ventures Israel and saw participation from SuperSeed, Alpha Intelligence Capital, ...
Amperity brings vibe coding to data engineers with its first AI agent
Customer data cloud startup Amperity Inc. is joining the agentic artificial intelligence party, launching Chuck Data, an AI agent that specializes in customer data engineering. Announced today, Chuck Data is trained on massive volumes of customer data from more than 400 enterprise brands. This “critical knowledge” base allows it to execute tasks such as identity ...
Uniphore maneuvers to become the foundation of enterprise AI
Uniphore Technologies Inc. is accelerating its transition from call center intelligence into the ultimate provider of artificial intelligence for enterprises with the launch of its Business AI Cloud platform today. The new platform will launch next month. Uniphore says it’s a composable, sovereign and secure platform for AI that marries the simplicity of consumer-focused chatbots ...
Guardz collects $56M to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity to smaller businesses
Cybersecurity services firm Guardz Cyber Ltd. said it has closed on a $56 million Series B round of funding today as it scrambles to help small and medium-sized businesses build resilience to a growing range of threats. Today’s round was led by ClearSky and saw participation from Phoenix Financial and existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, ...
Report: Meta holding talks on $10B investment in data labeling startup Scale AI
Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to invest billions of dollars into the artificial intelligence data labeling startup Scale AI Inc. The company is holding talks over a funding deal that could see it inject more than $10 billion into the startup, though the terms have not yet been agreed and could still change, anonymous sources ...
AMD bags team behind AI chipmaker Untether AI, its third acquisition in under two weeks
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced its third acquisition in a span of just eight days. It has recruited an unknown number of employees from an Intel Corp.-backed company called Untether AI Inc., which sells energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference chips for data centers and edge deployments. News of the acquisition was first reported by ...
Google revamps Gemini 2.5 Pro again, claiming superiority in coding and math
Google LLC has launched another, even more capable preview of its powerful Gemini 2.5 Pro model, proclaiming it to be the “most intelligent” large language model it has released so far. Today’s is the latest update to Gemini 2.5 Pro, which first debuted in March and was then upgraded as a preview in May, and ...
AI chip demand propels Broadcom to another earnings beat, but its shares drop after-hours
Red-hot chipmaking giant Broadcom Inc. narrowly beat earnings expectations for its second quarter today and also provided robust guidance for the curret quarter, but its stock cooled after-hours. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.58 per share, beating the $1.56-per-share target. Revenue for the period gained 20% from a ...