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Amazon melds AI with robotics and smart glasses to streamline deliveries
Amazon.com Inc. aims to transform its retail and logistics business with the introduction of more sophisticated robots and artificial intelligence operations tools for warehouses, as well as “smart delivery glasses” for the contractors who deliver its packages to customer’s doors. At its annual Delivering the Future event today in the Bay Area, Amazon lifted the ...
Business AI cloud operator Uniphore gets $260M from Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, AMD and others
Enterprise artificial intelligence company Uniphore Technologies Inc. has cemented its transition from call center intelligence to providing a foundation for business AI after closing on a hefty $260 million round of funding today. The Series F investment was led by some illustrious technology companies, including Nvidia Corp., Snowflake Inc., Databricks Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices ...
Platform Engineering Labs launches ‘formae’ to fix broken infrastructure-as-code
Platform Engineering Labs Inc. might not have the most imaginative name, but it has come up with a creative solution to the inefficiencies that continue to plague most infrastructure-as-code platforms. The startup, which was operating under the radar until today, has announced the launch of a new, open-source IaC platform called “formae,” saying it’s the ...
Pegasystems’ agentic AI bets pay off with growing earnings and revenue
Business automation software company Pegasystems Inc. delivered encouraging third-quarter financial results today, showing impressive growth driven by its investments in artificial intelligence. Investors rejoiced, and its stock made strong gains in extended trading. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 30 cents per share, crushing Wall Street’s forecast of only ...
Google embraces vibe coding with latest version of AI Studio app development platform
Google LLC said today it’s bringing a “vibe coding” experience into its AI Studio platform to facilitate easier application development for both coders and noncoders. The update means users can enter simple prompts to generate working applications and positions the AI Studio platform as a gateway to the company’s broader artificial intelligence ecosystem. Google AI ...
Estuary raises $17M to try to solve one of the hardest problems in data movement
Estuary Technologies Inc. has raised $17 million in early-stage funding to try to merge batch and streaming data into a single pipeline so it can simplify how information is fed into artificial intelligence applications. Today’s Series A round was led by M13 and saw participation from several other investors, who were not named by the ...
Adobe’s AI Foundry service lets companies create branded versions of its Firefly models
Adobe Inc. is moving artificial intelligence into a slightly new direction, giving businesses the chance to create custom generative AI models rather than fine-tune existing ones. The company is offering this through its new Adobe AI Foundry offering, which was announced today and allows businesses to work with it to create highly customized models trained ...
Anthropic takes aim at biotech with Claude for Life Sciences
Anthropic PBC has had a busy start to the week, launching a new tool called Claude for Life Sciences to help with scientific research, and expanding the availability of its Claude Code agentic coding tool to the web and its mobile application. Claude for Life Sciences might be the more interesting of the two announcements, ...
Encord creates a new method for training powerful multimodal AI models on a single GPU
Artificial intelligence data annotation startup Encord, officially known as Cord Technologies Inc., wants to break down barriers to training multimodal AI models. To do that, it has just released what it says is the world’s largest open-source multimodal dataset to help developers of all shapes and sizes build more sophisticated AI systems. Along with the ...
Kong debuts tools for metering and monetizing APIs and AI agents
The API technology Kong Inc. announced a flurry of innovations this week at its annual developer conference, headlined by a new offering that enables companies to make money from their application programming interfaces, data streams and artificial intelligence models. The new offering is called Kong Konnect Metering and Billing, and it’s powered by technology from ...