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Sustainable energy storage startup Energy Dome extends Series B funding to €55M
Clean energy storage startup Energy Dome S.p.A. said today it has closed on a €15 million extension of its Series B funding round, bringing its amount raised to €55 million, or about $60 million. The Series B extension was led by Innovation Development Oman Investments and saw participation from Vopak Ventures, investors represented by Sagana, ...
FedML raises $11.5M to foster collaborative AI model training at the edge
The collaborative machine learning startup FedML Inc. said today it has closed on an $11.5 million seed funding round. The round was made up of two separate tranches. The first raised $4.3 million and was disclosed in March, while the second pulled in $7.2 million and closed earlier this month. Camford Capital led the round, ...
AI21 Labs announces a plug-and-play tool that promises to fix AI hallucinations
Generative artificial intelligence startup AI21 Labs Ltd. said today it has created a new plug-and-play tool that will forever banish the plague of AI hallucinations by ensuring chatbot responses are based on an organization’s own knowledge base. The new tool is called Contextual Answers, and it can be embedded into digital assets to enhance the ...
Asus agrees to keep Intel’s NUC mini-PC brand alive
Taiwanese laptop computer maker ASUSTek Computer Inc. has agreed to take up the mantle of Intel Corp.’s Next Unit of Compute systems, signing an agreement with the chipmaker to design, manufacture, sell and support future generations of the product. Intel’s NUC computers are super-compact, mini-personal computers that became quite a hit when they were launched ...
Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise with full protection for sensitive corporate data
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s expanding the capabilities of its new, artificial intelligence-powered Bing chat engine to the workplace with the launch of Bing Chat Enterprise. The new tool leverages the same generative AI technology behind ChatGPT to bring a more conversational search experience to enterprise workers. Announced at Microsoft’s annual partner conference Ignite, Bing Chat ...
Deloitte’s new engineering practice to help enterprises accelerate product development
Technology consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. has launched a new engineering practice it says will help clients scale up their own software engineering and product innovation efforts. Announced today, Deloitte Engineering is focused on helping clients get ahead of the curve with transformational new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, cloud-native applications, Web3 and ...
Wing Cloud raises $20M to build a unified programming language that tames cloud complexity
Cloud-native programming language startup Wing Cloud Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a hefty $20 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by an impressive list of venture capital firms, including Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures and StageOne Ventures. Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners and Operator Partners also participated in the round, as ...
DataStax adds vector search to boost support for generative AI workloads
Database startup DataStax Inc. has announced general availability of its new vector search capability for every version of Astra DB, a popular database-as-a-service offering that’s built atop the open-source Apache Cassandra product. Announced today, the new capability makes Astra DB much more suitable for hosting data that’s used to train artificial intelligence models, including generative ...
MongoDB brings its cloud-hosted database Atlas to public sector organizations
Database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new, government-focused edition of its cloud database MongoDB Atlas, one of the first offerings to emerge from its recently announced MongoDB Atlas for Industries initiative. MongoDB Atlas for Government is a secure and compliant version of the company’s flagship cloud database that comes with FedRAMP Moderate authorization, meaning ...
Splunk launches a generative AI assistant to tame observability data
Big-data firm Splunk Inc. today announced a collection of artificial intelligence-based offerings under the new “Splunk AI” banner, including a new generative AI assistant that helps users interact with their underlying application observability data more easily. Announced on day two of Splunk’s .conf23 event in Las Vegas, Splunk AI is a suite of offerings that aims to ...