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A solid earnings beat and strong guidance helped push shares of the application services provider F5 Inc. much higher in extended trading today. The company reported fiscal third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.44 per share, cruising past analysts’ …
Video game actors to go on strike following breakdown in AI talks with game developers
Video game actors represented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have voted to go on strike starting Friday, after a breakdown in negotiations with video game studios over protections from artificial intelligence. The rise of generative AI, …
Google’s free Gemini chatbot gets 1.5 Flash update, making responses faster and smarter
Google LLC said today that its Gemini AI chatbot is being updated with support for Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lightweight large language model that’s designed to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Gemini 1.5 Flash is being made accessible to all users, regardless …
Juniper disappoints with earnings that fall well short of forecasts
Juniper Networks Inc. delivered disappointing financial results today in what is likely to be one of the last times it reports as an independent company, prior to being gobbled up by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. The company, which is in the process …
Microsoft debuts AI-powered summaries in Bing search engine
Microsoft Corp. today finally unveiled its response to Google LLC’s experimental AI-powered search experience, with the limited preview launch of a new feature called Bing Generative Search. The company said the new feature combines the foundation of Bing’s search results with the …
High-profile ServiceNow executive CJ Desai quits over internal hiring policy violation
CJ Desai leaves ServiceNow Inc. following an investigation into a complaint over the sales process for a government contract that revealed serious policy violations, the company announced today. Desai (pictured) who was both president and chief operating officer at ServiceNow, was found …
Higher AI bookings help IBM deliver solid earnings beat, pushing its stock higher
Shares of IBM Corp. were riding around 3% higher in extended trading today after the company reported solid second-quarter financial results that surpassed analysts’ expectations, driven by increased artificial intelligence spending by its largest enterprise customers. The company reported earnings before certain …
Lakera AI raises $20M to ward off malicious prompts on generative AI models
Generative artificial intelligence threat detection startup Lakera AI AG, which is notable for creating one of the world’s largest “AI red-teams” for testing generative AI models, said today it has closed on a $20 million early-stage round of funding. Today’s Series A …
AI trust startup Vijil raises $6M to prevent AI agents saying the wrong things
Artificial intelligence safety startup Vijil AI Inc. has closed on $6 million in seed funding as it launches its first cloud-based tools that promise to help companies build and deploy more reliable generative AI agents. Today’s round was co-led by Mayfield LLC’s …
Chekable bags funding from NEC to streamline patent applications with generative AI
Chekable Inc., a startup that’s using generative artificial intelligence to automate the patent application and search process, said today it has closed on an undisclosed investment from NEC X, the Silicon Valley accelerator of NEC Corp., after graduating from its Elev X! Ignite …