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Humanoid robot maker Sanctuary AI secures vital IP to advance touch and grasping capabilities
Robotics company Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., which is aiming to build intelligent and humanlike general-purpose robots that can augment human labor, said today it has acquired key intellectual property assets that will prove to be essential in fulfilling its mission. The company said the patents relate to touch sensitivity and grasping capabilities, which are vital ...
UltiHash raises $2.5M to make data storage more cost-effective and sustainable
UltiHash Inc. said today it has closed on a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round, paving the way for the launch of its high-performance data storage software that aims to boost the capacity of existing storage drives and help enterprises achieve a better balance between performance and costs. Today’s round was led by Inventure, and saw ...
Micron posts better-than-expected sales and its stock recovers from earlier losses
Investors in Micron Technology Inc. were in an upbeat mood today after the chipmaker posted fiscal first-quarter results that came in ahead of expectations. The company’s guidance was better than expected too, sending its stock up higher. The company reported a net loss for the period of $1.23 billion, down slightly from the $1.43 billion ...
Qlik buys data-as-a-product startup Mozaic Data
Data integration company QlikTech International AB said today it has closed on another acquisition, snapping up the artificial intelligence-powered data-as-a-product startup Mozaic Data for an undisclosed fee. According to Qlik, the deal is a timely acquisition that will allow it to simplify the way businesses handle information, and ensure better data quality and governance. Mozaic is ...
Report: AWS to reorganize sales teams amid slowing cloud revenue growth
Amazon Web Services Inc. is planning a major overhaul of its 60,000-strong sales team, in order to address problems as rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC make some headway in the global cloud computing market. That’s according to a report today in The Information, which said the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit’s sales and ...
Google takes steps to prevent abuse of its generative AI tools during U.S. elections
Google LLC said today it’s planning to restrict the ability of its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard and its Search Generative Experience to respond to election-related queries ahead of the U.S. Presidential election taking place next year. The restrictions will be introduced early next year, the company said. In the U.S. elections, primary races and campaigning ...
Jetic debuts simpler, cloud-native integration platform based on Apache Camel
Cloud-native integration platform-as-a-service provider Jetic has announced the general availability of its flagship product, helping application developers tame the explosion of big data without worrying about vendor lock-in. The startup, officially known as Datagrate Inc., said it’s launching today after spending more than three years to build out and fine-tune what it claims is among ...
CNCF names OpenFeature as an incubating project to standardize feature flags in software development
OpenFeature, an open-source specification that provides a community-based and vendor-agnostic application programming interface for feature flagging in software development, has been accepted as the latest incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Today’s announcement is a key milestone for the OpenFeature project, which is helping accelerate the adoption of feature flags in application development. ...
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 ...