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Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have an integrated display and gesture-based controls
Meta Platforms Inc. is racing ahead of its competitors in the virtual reality and augmented reality worlds with the launch of a new and more sophisticated pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses. It debuted alongside a new technology called Hyperscape, which enables Meta’s VR headset Quest to replicate real-world spaces in a virtual environment. Meta ...
Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards
Artificial intelligence is putting existing networks under immense strain, and they have emerged as one of the major constraints on the development of more powerful large language models and AI algorithms. To solve this problem, what’s required is an entirely new network infrastructure that’s based on open standards. Upscale AI Inc. says it has both the ...
Dev tool startup Blacksmith Software gets $10M to accelerate continuous integration
A startup called Blacksmith Software Inc. wants to eliminate the inefficiencies around building and testing new software releases after closing on $10 million in an early-stage funding funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Google Ventures, which also backed the startup when it raised $3.5 million in seed funding in May, and saw participation ...
Read AI’s new agents help employees stay on top of work by analyzing all their communications
Read AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that specializes in summarizing text, audio and video content to help workers understand it more quickly, is jumping on the agentic AI bandwagon with its latest update. With the launch of its Agentic Workflow Suite today, Read AI says it’s providing users with a more comprehensive AI assistant. ...
Cybersecurity startup Vega gets $65M in funding to replace SIEM with SAM
Israeli security operations startup Vega Ltd. said today its artificial intelligence-native threat detection platform is ready to rip out and replace legacy security information and event management or SIEM tools after raising $65 million in funding. The funding was spread across two rounds – an earlier, unannounced seed funding round and its Series A investment ...
Airia raises $100M from its co-founder to build the security foundation for enterprise AI
Cybersecurity startup Airia LLC says it has the money it needs to build the most effective governance and orchestration layer for AI agents after raising $100 million in funding today. The money comes from an unusual source, with the sole investor being Airia co-founder John Marshall, who is putting up $50 million now and making ...
Google’s Agent Payments Protocol provides a framework for AI to automate consumer purchases
Google LLC is giving artificial intelligence agents even more autonomy with the launch of a new protocol that makes it possible for them to make payments on behalf of their users. The Agent Payments Protocol, known as AP2, is backed by more than 60 merchants and financial institutions, and is aimed at AI agents that ...
GPU cloud startup Boost Run to go public via de-SPAC merger
Artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure startup Boost Run LLC said today it’s planning to go public through a de-SPAC merger with the publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., with its shares set to list on the Nasdaq exchange later this month. The de-SPAC listing process is an alternative to a traditional SPAC merger, ...
Pulumi debuts its first AI agents to take on cloud platform engineering
Infrastructure-as-code company Pulumi Corp. says it wants to accelerate cloud infrastructure management automation with the use of agentic artificial intelligence. To do this, it has announced the launch of what it says is the cloud industry’s first “platform engineering AI agent,” which is designed to manage infrastructure on any public, private or hybrid cloud platform. ...
CodeRabbit gets $60M to fix AI-generated code quality
Artificial intelligence code review startup CodeRabbit Inc. has raised $60 million in a Series B funding, a round that it says demonstrates its growing importance at a time when AI-generated code is being spat out faster than ever. Today’s round was led by Scale Venture Partners and saw participation from NVentures, Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital ...