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Firefly AI says it can make apps almost invulnerable to cloud outages
Cloud infrastructure-as-code startup Firefly AI is turning its attention to cyberattack recovery with a new Cloud Resilience Posture Management offering. Starting today, it says it can help enterprises recover from major cyberattacks and cloud outages in minutes, simply by teleporting their entire application environments onto fresh infrastructure that’s ready to spring into action at a ...
Agentic resiliency startup Vijil raises $17M to safeguard AI agents continuously
A startup called Vijil Inc. said today it has raised $17 million in funding to accelerate the development of its artificial intelligence agent resiliency platform. The round was led by BrightMind Partners and included participation from Mayfield and Gradient, bringing the company’s total amount raised to $23 million. Vijil is building the “trust infrastructure” for ...
SUSE’s MCP Server tech preview lays foundation for AI-assisted Linux infrastructure
Enterprise Linux company SUSE SE today announced a milestone in its mission to create an artificial intelligence-assisted computing infrastructure, where complexity is brushed aside in favor of simple, natural language commands. The company has just launched a tech preview of the SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and Trento Model Context Protocol server, as part of its ongoing ...
Microsoft debuts Fara-7B, a small ‘computer-use’ model that runs natively on PCs
Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers and is smart enough to use them to complete tasks. The company said in a blog post that Fara-7B is its first agentic small language ...
Profluent Bio raises $106M from Jeff Bezos and others to accelerate protein design with AI
Jeff Bezos has had quite a busy week, having just concluded his third venture capital investment in a promising artificial intelligence startup. This time, the recipient of Bezos’s largesse is a company called Profluent Bio Inc., which said today it has raised $106 million to explore its ambitions of making biology more “programmable.” On this ...
Jeff Bezos-backed Physical Intelligence raises $600M to improve its AI robot brains
Robotics software startup Physical Intelligence has reportedly closed on a fresh, $600 million round of funding that brings its valuation to a lofty $5.6 billion. The company has not officially disclosed the latest round, but reports by The Information and Bloomberg cited undisclosed sources who are familiar with the matter on the details. Those sources ...
Elastic beats earnings expectations but its stock crumbles in late trading on mounting losses
Shares of the enterprise search software company Elastic N.V. were hammered in late trading today even though the company posted a solid earnings beat and offered strong guidance for the current quarter and full year. The company reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 64 cents per share, exceeding Wall Street’s forecast ...
Alphabet’s Intrinsic and Foxconn plan to accelerate factory automation with smarter robots
Alphabet Inc.’s robotics unit Intrinsic Innovation LLC said today it’s working with the manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, to explore possibilities for the mass deployment of robots on its assembly lines. The two companies have just created a multiphased joint venture that aims to design and develop a ...
IBM and Cisco want to build a quantum internet by the late 2030s
Silicon Valley technology titans IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are looking beyond artificial intelligence to the next big thing: quantum computing. Today they announced plans to collaborate on a large-scale and fault-tolerant network that will enable tens of thousands of so-called “qubits” to work together to solve some of the world’s most complex problems. ...
What AI bubble? Nvidia crushes expectations again, as revenue jumps 62%
Updated: Nvidia Corp. reported sales that surpassed the lofty bar set by analysts in its latest financial results, easing some of the growing fears that the artificial intelligence boom may transform into a bust that cripples the world’s most valuable company, and perhaps the rest of the economy with it. The AI chipmaker reported third-quarter ...