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MariaDB buys its former subsidiary SkySQL to enhance its agentic AI and serverless capabilities
The privately held database company MariaDB plc seems to have changed its mind about the future of SkySQL Inc., deciding it does need it after all. In a somewhat unusual reversal, it revealed it’s buying its former subsidiary for an undisclosed price, just 18 months after it spun it out as a separate entity. SkySQL ...
Box bumps up its guidance after posting solid earnings and revenue
Shares of the cloud storage pioneer Box Inc. moved higher in extended trading today after it delivered another earnings and revenue beat and raised its full-year guidance, citing momentum with its artificial intelligence offerings. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 33 cents per share, edging past the analyst’s target ...
MongoDB boosts outlook on strong earnings and revenue momentum and its stock jumps
Updated: Document database company MongoDB Inc. bumped up its full-year guidance for the second time this year after its second-quarter sales crushed Wall Street’s expectations, sending the company’s stock sky-high in extended trading. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of exactly $1 per share, easily surpassing the Street’s forecast of ...
Harness deploys AI agents to automate every aspect of software delivery after code generation
Harness Inc. said today it’s injecting artificial intelligence into every stage of the software delivery process, looking to automate every step after the coding process, including testing, security, deployment and maintenance. The new Harness AI suite builds on the company’s flagship platform, including the Harness Internal Developer Portal, which is designed to support continuous integration ...
Sleep.ai raises $5.5M to aid in rest with data-backed sleeping insights
A startup called Sleep.ai said today it has raised $5.5 million in venture capital funding to try and help everyone get a better night’s rest by leveraging what it says is the world’s most in-depth “sleep intelligence” platform. Today’s round was led by Treasure Coast Ventures and saw participation from Nurture Ventures, the Harvard Business ...
Broadcom clears the way for AI-native private clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom Inc. said today it’s transforming its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 software into an artificial intelligence-native platform, giving developers a secure, modern and private cloud infrastructure that’s geared for the development of sophisticated AI applications and agents. At VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced the addition of VMware Private AI Services as a ...
VMware Tanzu delivers speedy, AI-ready data access for AI agents
Broadcom Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its VMware Tanzu Platform for developers, adding support for artificial intelligence agents via a new data lakehouse called VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence, which provides low-latency access to multimodal data at large scale. It was introduced today at VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas alongside VMware Tanzu Platform 10.3, a ...
Integrated photonics startup OpenLight gets $34M to design and build faster interconnects for AI chips
Data center interconnect design and manufacturing startup OpenLight Photonics Inc. says it wants to accelerate the transition to silicon photonics after spinning out of its parent company Synopsys Inc. and closing on $34 million in Series A funding. Today’s round was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group and saw participation from Juniper Networks, ...
D-Matrix reveals plan to break through AI’s ‘memory wall’ with 3D DRAM-based chip architecture
Artificial intelligence computing startup D-Matrix Corp. said today it has developed a new implementation of 3D dynamic random-access memory technology that promises to accelerate inference workloads by “orders of magnitude.” The new technology was announced at the Hot Chips 2025 conference, where the company is showcasing how it will enable new frontier models to scale ...
Linux Foundation takes over Solo.io’s open-source Agentgateway project
Cloud-native application networking startup Solo.io Inc. has donated its open-source Agentgateway project to the Linux Foundation, ensuring its development will proceed under neutral governance for the foreseeable future. The Agentgateway project is an open-source and artificial intelligence-native proxy that’s designed to optimize connectivity, security and observability for agentic AI environments. The project has been optimized ...