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Kubiya Inc., a startup that bills itself as “ChatGPT for DevOps,” today announced the official launch of what it says is the first artificial intelligence assistant for engineering platforms and knowledge management. The Kubiya tool is designed to make life easier for …
Akamai expands Connected Cloud to enable high-performance, lower-cost video streaming
Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. announced new cloud capabilities for streaming video today that it says will help operators deliver higher-quality and more personalized content to viewers. Announced at NAB 2023, the annual National Association of Broadcasters …
Report: Google is racing to build a new, AI-powered search engine to stave off ChatGPT
Google LLC is reportedly scrambling to launch new, artificial intelligence-powered features and capabilities in its search engine at a time when its bread-and-butter business is facing its most serious threat in years. The company is said to be working on an all-new, …
Space communications startup Kepler raises $92M to build satellite relay network
Canadian satellite startup Kepler Communications Inc. said today it has closed on a $92 million round of funding that will help it build out its on-orbit data network for space-based infrastructure. Today’s Series C round was led by IA Ventures, an existing investor …
Meta Platforms open sources AI-powered animation tool for doodles
Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s open-sourcing an artificial intelligence-based animation tool that anyone can use to bring their drawings or photos to life. By making Animated Drawings open source, Meta hopes that other developers will be able to build on it …
Deloitte establishes new practice to help enterprises deploy generative AI
The information technology consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. said today it’s establishing a new practice aimed at helping enterprises take advantage of the industry’s hottest trend right now: generative artificial intelligence. It’s a trend that has stolen all of the headlines …
Pulumi taps generative AI to automate cloud infrastructure as code
Infrastructure-as-code startup Pulumi Corp. is tapping into the power of generative artificial intelligence, launching a new feature called Pulumi Insights that uses OpenAI LP’s large language model GPT-4 to automate cloud infrastructure management. The AI smarts are embedded in a new command-line …
Stability AI debuts next-gen photorealistic image generation model
Generative artificial intelligence company Stability AI Ltd. today released an updated version of its popular open-source photorealistic image generation model. London-based Stability AI is the developer of Stable Diffusion, an AI model that can automatically generate realistic-looking images based on text prompts. …
Snowflake leads $62.9M Series A funding round in data-as-a-service startup Cybersyn
Data-as-a-service startup Cybersyn Inc. exited stealth mode today armed with hefty $69.2 raised through a new early-stage round of funding. The Series A round was led by Snowflake Inc., the cloud data warehouse giant, and saw participation from Coatue and Sequoia Capital. Cybersyn was …
Google Cloud beefs up open-source software security with Assured OSS packages
Google Cloud wants to help improve the security of the most widely used open-source software, and to do so it’s making its Assured Open Source Software service generally available for Java and Python ecosystems. Announced today and available at no cost to …