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IBM’s and NASA’s Surya AI model is designed to predict the next ‘Carrington-class’ solar storm
IBM Corp. said today it’s teaming up with experts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create an artificial intelligence model that can provide an early warning about solar flares and coronal mass ejections that could cause serious disruption to life on Earth. The new open-source model, called Surya, named after the Sanskrit word ...
Upstage bags $45M to expand its AI-native document intelligence suite to the US
The South Korean document intelligence startup Upstage Co. Ltd. wants to expand into the U.S. after raising $45 million in a Series B bridge round. Today’s round, led by the Korea Development Bank and the venture capital arms of Amazon.com Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., comes 16 months after Upstage announced the completion of a ...
Casca gets $29M to bring AI-native loan origination tech to local banks
A startup called Cascading AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $29 million Series A funding round to support the expansion of its artificial intelligence-native loan origination platform, bringing its total amount raised to date to $33 million. Today’s round was led by Canapi Ventures and saw support from customers including Live Oak ...
Workato unveils a squad of agentic AI Genies for every major business function
Enterprise automation startup Workato Inc. is launching a fleet of new artificial intelligence agents, which it says are ready to automate work and deliver measurable outcomes across multiple business functions from sales and marketing to information technology to finance. Announced today at Workato’s annual user conference WOW: World of Workato in Las Vegas today, the ...
Workato’s developer sandbox lets any company experience the power of agentic AI automation
Low-code business automation software firm Workato Inc. wants to energize the agentic artificial intelligence economy, and to do so it’s giving developers free access to its entire suite of tools for building AI-powered agents. Announced at the company’s WOW: World of Workato event in Las Vegas today, the Workato Developer Sandbox is a self-service offering ...
Groundcover debuts a dedicated observability tool for AI agents and LLMs
Application monitoring startup Groundcover Ltd. today announced the launch of a new observability tool that offers code-free, real-time visibility into artificial intelligence applications powered by large-language models. The new tool is customized for large language model observability and covers applications such as AI agents, which go beyond general chatbots by automating tasks on behalf of ...
Salesforce unleashes AI agents in City Hall
Salesforce Inc. said today its agentic artificial intelligence platform Agentforce is now available for government agencies, giving them access to a digital workforce of intelligent AI agents that can work autonomously without human supervision. Agentforce for Public Sector is available from today, and will enable government offices to automate tedious manual tasks currently performed by ...
SoftBank to take $2B stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel
SoftBank Group Corp. will make a $2 billion investment in Intel Corp., providing a boost to the embattled chipmaker amid ongoing discussions about a government intervention. Under the terms of the deal, SoftBank will buy $2 billion worth of Intel’s stock at $23 per share, representing a slight discount on the company’s Monday closing stock ...
Crypto lending firm Figure Technology files for Nasdaq IPO
Cryptocurrency lending and investing platform Figure Technology Solutions Inc. has filed paperwork associated with its U.S. initial public offering, becoming the latest in a growing list of crypto-focused companies looking to list publicly. The company revealed in a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its revenue jumped more than 22%, to $191 ...
Atlas teams up with Google Cloud to launch its AI-native video game development platform
A startup called Atlas AI wants to convince professional game developers of the merits of artificial intelligence-powered agents for 3D content creation after securing a partnership with Google Cloud. Today’s partnership promises to accelerate the development of AI-native games, with its multi-agent AI stack set to run exclusively on Google’s infrastructure, using the Vertex AI ...