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Meta Platforms buys Moltbook, the bizarre and fascinating social network for AI agents
Meta Platforms Inc. owns and operates some of the world’s largest and most iconic social media networks, and now it’s adding what may well be the world’s weirdest. The company said today it has agreed to buy a startup called Moltbook, which is an experimental social media platform that was built specifically for autonomous artificial ...
Oracle’s cloud revenue surges 44%, easing pressure on its stock
Oracle Corp. brushed aside fears that artificial intelligence might be eating its software business today as it delivered a solid third-quarter earnings beat and lifted its revenue guidance for the fiscal year. The database and cloud infrastructure giant reported adjusted earnings of $1.79 per share, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $1.70 per share. ...
With $200M in funding, Eridu wants to break through the network wall holding back AI
Eridu Corp. wants to break through the artificial intelligence networking “wall” after raising $200 million in early-stage funding today. The money from the Series A round will help it to commercialize an all-new network switch that promises to scale AI workloads to unprecedented heights. Today’s round was led by Socratic Partners, venture capitalist John Doerr, Hudson ...
Anthropic debuts extremely efficient but pricey code checking tool for developers
When it comes to writing software, getting feedback is a critical part of the process, ensuring that bugs in the newly written code can be caught early, before a pull request is submitted. But with the rise of artificial intelligence coding bots, developers are shipping more code than ever before, overwhelming human reviewers. Anthropic PBC ...
MariaDB buys in-memory computing pioneer GridGain to accelerate data processing for AI agents
Database management company MariaDB Plc said today it’s buying the Apache Ignite creator and in-memory computing technology developer GridGain Systems Inc. to build more robust infrastructure for artificial intelligence agents. The company said the combination of its own technologies and GridGain will result in a single, high-velocity and hybrid cloud platform that’s able to handle ...
Networking boost helps HPE beat the Street’s earnings targets
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. delivered better-than-expected earnings and gave an outlook for the current quarter and full year that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, signaling it continues to benefit from strong demand for artificial intelligence hardware. The company reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 65 cents per share, comfortably ahead of the ...
Dataiku is evolving into the orchestration layer for enterprise-grade AI agents
Artificial intelligence data analytics startup Dataiku Inc. is evolving its popular data science studio to focus more on the development of trusted and measurable autonomous AI agents. The startup today unveiled a new Platform for AI Success that merges its existing data science platform for developing AI models with three entirely new products: Dataiku Agent ...
Data quality automation startup Validio raises $30M
Stockholm-based startup Validio AB said today it has raised $30 million in funding to tackle one of the biggest problems holding back enterprises’ artificial intelligence projects: fixing the data foundation they’re built on. Today’s round was led by Plural and saw participation from existing investors Lakestar and J12, along with angel investors Kevin Ryan, Denise ...
Investors marvel at Marvell’s solid earnings and revenue beat on AI chip demand
Marvell Technology Inc.’s stock was flying high in late trading today after the chipmaker surpassed Wall Street’s expectations in its latest financial results and offered a promising short-term forecast. The company delivered fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 80 cents per share, squeaking past the analyst consensus estimate of 79 cents. ...
Agentic business intelligence startup WisdomAI shifts from insights to action
The AI-native business intelligence company Wisdom AI Inc. says it’s moving from passive insights to autonomous enterprise execution with the launch of its new Federated Agentic Intelligence platform. The company says it’s using artificial intelligence agents to tackle the “last mile” problem inherent in almost every modern data stack: translating that data into decisions. Until ...