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Google launches AI-based Agent Assist for Chat in public preview
Customer service chat agents are getting a helping hand from Google LLC with Agent Assist for Chat, a new tool that provides them with continuous support while dealing with customers. Announced today, the new service is part of Google’s Contact Center AI offering, which is used by companies to automate their customer service operations. Agent Assist ...
Splunk launches Observability Cloud for multicloud application environments
Data analytics firm Splunk Inc. is revamping the application and infrastructure monitoring experience for customers with the launch of its new Splunk Observability Cloud that helps detect operational issues affecting apps and the environments they run in, as well as providing investigation and troubleshooting capabilities. The Splunk Observability Cloud is being made generally available today ...
Amazon Web Services moves into application observability with Amazon DevOps Guru
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its application observability offering generally available, about six months after its launch in preview. Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning-powered service that helps to detect operational issues for applications, generating reports and notifications and providing insights and recommendations for developers to remedy those problems. The service is a ...
Arista Networks easily beats first-quarter earnings and revenue targets
Cloud networking firm Arista Networks Inc. turned in another solid quarterly performance today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue again to send its stock up in after-hours trading. The company reported a first-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.50 per share on sales of $667.6 million, amounting to solid revenue growth of ...
Sysdig enables runtime detection and incident response in AWS Fargate
DevOps security startup Sysdig Inc. said today it has partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc. to create new runtime detection and incident response tools for AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for running application containers in the cloud. The new offering also contains a key file integrity monitoring capability for AWS Fargate that Sysdig said is ...
Aryaka Networks buys Secucloud to offer a more secure network edge
Software-defined wide-area networking firm Aryaka Networks Inc. has made its first-ever acquisition as it bids to beef up the defensive capabilities of its platform. The company said today that it has closed on a deal to buy German secure access service edge or SASE firm Secucloud GmbH. That company is now a fully owned subsidiary ...
AWS announces Amazon FinSpace for analyzing financial data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is targeting financial analysts with a new, purpose-built data analytics tool that it says will enable them to perform their jobs much more effectively than before. Amazon FinSpace is a new service announced today that works by aggregating, cataloging and then tagging data from a range of different sources, making it ...
Amazon debuts CloudFront Functions for running lightweight code at the edge
Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up the capabilities of its Amazon CloudFront content delivery network, enabling more lightweight customizations for users at the network edge. Amazon Cloudfront is a fast content delivery network service that’s used by customers to deliver data, videos, applications and application programming interfaces securely to users globally with high transfer ...
Intel to spend $3.5B on New Mexico fabs and $600M on chip R&D centers in Israel
Updated Intel Corp. confirmed today it’s planning to invest $600 million to expand its research and development facilities in Israel, in addition to the $10 billion it has already committed toward building a new chip manufacturing plant in the country. The announcement came from Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger during a one-day visit to the ...
Facebook’s DINO enables self-supervised learning for computer vision AI
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today announced more breakthroughs, this time in the areas of self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning for computer vision. Self-supervised learning in AI, also known as unsupervised learning, refers to teaching computers, or AI models, to perform certain tasks without humans having to provide labeled data. In computer vision, AI ...