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Developer tooling startup Port sails away with $35M in funding
DevOps platform startup Port IO Ltd. has closed on its biggest funding round to date, raising $35 million in an investment led by Accel. The Series B round also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and existing backers such as Team8 and TLV Partners, and brings the company’s total amount raised to date to $58 ...
DataStax merges its data stack with Nvidia’s development tools to simplify AI development and fine-tuning
The database company DataStax Inc. is teaming up with Nvidia Corp. as it strives to become the data platform of choice for enterprises’ artificial intelligence initiatives. In an announcement today, the company said it’s integrating its AI capabilities with the Nvidia AI Enterprise platform. The company claims the new integrated tools offering, dubbed the “DataStax ...
Bitdefender’s new AI copilot works in real time to protect consumers from online scams
S.C. Bitdefender SRL is looking to extend its cybersecurity protections beyond traditional malware and viruses with the launch of its new Scam Copilot, which is designed to alert users to online scams and fraud. The company said Scam Copilot is being integrated into its digital life protection consumer products, which are best known for defending ...
Generative AI code testing startup Early bags $5M to catch software bugs before they cause havoc
Generative artificial intelligence code quality startup Early Technologies Ltd. announced the availability of its VSCode extension today after closing on $5 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Zeev Ventures and saw participation from Dynamic Loop Capital. The funds will help to accelerate the development of Early’s AI-powered Test AI agent, which is ...
OutSystems integrates generative AI with low-code to accelerate and simplify app development
Low-code application development startup OutSystems Inc. says it’s looking to transform the entire software development lifecycle with the debut of a new, generative artificial intelligence-powered “digital worker” called Mentor. Available in early access starting today, Mentor is meant to help companies with the entire process of creating new software, aiding application generation, delivery and monitoring ...
Google to buy nuclear energy from small modular reactor startup Kairos Power
Google LLC has signed an agreement to purchase nuclear power from the small modular reactor startup Kairos Power LLC. The deal should provide about 500 megawatts of carbon-free electricity to power Google’s data center operations in the U.S. Under the agreement announced today, Kairos will supply Google with nuclear energy from a fleet of seven small reactors ...
AI accounting software startup Numeric raises $28M
Financial automation software startup Numeric, officially known as Velocity Labs Inc., said today it has closed on an early-stage round of funding worth $28 million. The Series A round was led by Menlo Ventures and comes just five months after the company raised $10 million in a seed funding round. New investors IVP and Socii ...
AMD attacks AI workloads with next-generation Instinct MI325X accelerator and networking chips
As demand for the powerful hardware needed to support artificial intelligence workloads continues to surge, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is stepping up its game with the launch of its most sophisticated AI accelerator yet. At a media and analyst event called “Advancing AI” in San Francisco today, the company showed off its next-generation AI chip, ...
Hugging Face makes AI development easier than ever with Gradio 5 release
Artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face Inc. is looking to break down barriers to AI development with the launch of Gradio 5, the latest version of its open-source tool for building machine learning applications. The latest version of Gradio is all about easing access to AI development, and includes an entirely new, AI-powered app creation tool, ...
Google Cloud brings Gemini models to Looker to create conversational AI agents using private data
Just a week after it updated a host of its cloud database services, Google Cloud is rolling out yet more data-focused updates, with a focus on helping companies to build artificial intelligence agents that can perform tasks on behalf of their users. Gerrit Kazmaier, Google Cloud’s general manager and vice president of data analytics, revealed various ...