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Twitter reportedly refusing to pay Google Cloud bills
Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. is said to be playing hardball with Google Cloud, refusing to pay its bills in a high-stakes gambit that could result in its moderation services going offline. The report comes from Platformer, which said today that Twitter recently refused to pay Google Cloud ahead of its June 30 cloud contract renewal ...
Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s grand ambitions for generative AI
Meta Platforms Inc. now aims to be seen as a leading player in the artificial intelligence race. In a meeting today with employees at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg insisted AI is the company’s main priority going forward. The company is looking to incorporate cutting-edge AI technologies into both its ...
DocuSign’s stock rises on solid earnings beat, strong guidance and new executive hires
Shares of the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. are trending higher today after it delivered a solid fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue beat and announced it has added a number of executive hires. The company reported a net profit of $539,000 for the quarter, just above breakeven and up from a $27.3 million net loss one ...
Azure Government cloud gets access to OpenAI’s generative AI models
Microsoft Corp. revealed today that users of its Azure Government cloud infrastructure platform can now access the latest artificial intelligence models from ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP. The company said in a blog post that Azure Government users will be able to experiment with two of OpenAI’s large language models, namely GPT-3 and GPT-4, through the ...
Google brings superior logic and reasoning skills to its chatbot Bard
Google LLC today announced a significant update to its generative artificial intelligence chatbot Bard that should make it better at both logic and reasoning. In a blog post, Google Bard Product Lead Jack Krawczyk and Engineering Vice President Amarnag Subramanya said the updates should result in some notable improvements in the way Bard handles mathematical problems, ...
Despite earnings beat, soft guidance weighs on HashiCorp’s stock
Infrastructure-as-code technology firm HashiCorp Inc. beat expectations in its latest financial results today as it announced spending cuts and an 8% reduction in its workforce. But its guidance for the second quarter came up light, sending its stock way lower in extended trading. The company reported a fiscal first-quarter net loss of $53.3 million, improving ...
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic to explore uses of generative AI in healthcare
Google Cloud said today it’s collaborating with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, better known as the Mayo Clinic, to bring advanced generative artificial intelligence capabilities to the healthcare industry. To get the ball rolling, the Mayo Clinic is adopting a new service called Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder that will ...
Low-code enterprise integration platform Digibee raises $60M
Low-code enterprise integration platform provider Digibee Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million round of funding. Leading today’s round was the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and it was joined by Leadwind, Vivo Venture, Kinea and G2D. The Series B round brings Digibee’s total amount raised to more than $90 ...
Salesforce deploys generative AI for personalized marketing campaigns and shopping experiences
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s stepping up its generative artificial intelligence push with the launch of two new applications, Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT. The former is aimed at helping marketers to generate personalized emails and create smarter marketing journeys, while the latter is designed to help companies create more personalized shopping experiences and customized ...
Cisco debuts its Secure Service Edge offering and enhances app security
Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a new security service edge offering that it says will help enterprises to securely connect their growing portfolios of edge resources, such as cloud, private and software-as-a-service applications. The new SSE offering comes alongside two additional security updates announced at the Cisco Live! event today, including Cisco Multicloud Defense for ...