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Microsoft wants everyone to start ‘vibe working’ with AI agents in Excel and Word
Microsoft Corp. envisions a future where everyone starts “vibe working” with the launch of its new Agent Mode in Office Apps and Agent Mode in Copilot Chat offering new ways to automate business and personal work. The company said the new against will “do work on your behalf” by automatically spinning up “high-quality Office documents, ...
Alvys gets $40M in funding to reinvent transportation management with AI automation
Startup Alvys Inc., which has built an artificial intelligence-based transportation management system for orchestrating freight operations, has boosted its war chest with a $40 million Series B round of funding. Today’s round was led by RTP Global and saw participation from Alpha Square Group, as well as existing backers like Titanium Ventures, Picus Capital and ...
Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger
Big data integration company Fivetran Inc. is reportedly holding advanced talks with dbt Labs Inc. over a multibillion-dollar acquisition. A report by The Information on Saturday said the talks underscore Fivetran’s ongoing strategic effort to revamp its offerings and establish itself as a more important player at a time when data is becoming increasingly vital ...
Google’s newest AI models make robots more intelligent and capable
Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent robots can now perform more complex, multistep tasks and even search the web for information to aid in their endeavors. The newly released models include ...
Microsoft blocks Israeli military’s access to some cloud services to prevent mass surveillance
Microsoft Corp. said today it has stopped a unit in Israel’s Defense Ministry from accessing some of its cloud services following an investigation into claims that it was using the company’s Azure cloud platform to enable the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed the decision in a blog post, where he stated ...
Salesforce’s newest AI agents seek to transform customer engagement in life sciences
Salesforce Inc. has been at the forefront of the race to adopt agentic artificial intelligence over the past six months or so, with its Agentforce platform spearheading a push to accelerate automation across dozens of industries. Now, the company is turning its attention to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors with its new Life Sciences Cloud ...
Ardent AI beats the odds to launch world’s ‘first agentic engineer’ for data pipeline maintenance
A startup called Ardent AI Labs Inc. says data engineering is the next major discipline in line for “agentic” automation after getting $2.15 million in a pre-seed funding round. The money comes from Crane Venture Partners, Active Capital and angel investors that include Zach Wilson. Although the amount of capital raised is quite tiny compared ...
Cloudera’s AI-in-a-Box gives enterprises a new way to build private AI
With a trio of new services today, big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s striving to help enterprises access their structured and unstructured information more easily to power their artificial intelligence workloads. The first is a novel “AI-in-a-Box” offering delivered in partnership with Dell Technologies Inc. that gives enterprises a simple solution for storing and accessing ...
Asana targets collaboration, not automation, as its AI teammates launch in beta
Work management company Asana Inc. has spent over a year developing its long-awaited “AI Teammates” that promise to dramatically accelerate the productivity of enterprise workers, and they’re finally rolling out in beta test. In an announcement today, Asana said that its artificial intelligence-based teammates come with a deep contextual understanding of each employee’s work processes ...
Report: Intel in talks with Apple over potential investment and chip manufacturing deal
Intel Corp. has reportedly gone cap in hand to Apple Inc. to ask the iPhone maker to consider investing in its struggling chipmaking business, just days after securing a $5 billion commitment from Nvidia Corp. As part of the investment talks, Intel and Apple officials have reportedly discussed ways in which they can cooperate more ...