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Nvidia’s new reasoning models and building blocks pave way for advanced AI agents
Nvidia Corp. is looking to capitalize on the agentic artificial intelligence trend not only by providing the underlying infrastructure, but also the models that power these next-generation autonomous agents. At its GTC 2025 annual conference today, the company unveiled a new family of Llama Nemotron AI models with advanced reasoning capabilities. Based on Meta Platforms Inc.’s renowned ...
Adobe unleashes an army of AI agents on sales and marketing teams
Adobe Inc. is taking aim at its rival Salesforce Inc. in the customer experience department with the launch of a new tool for orchestrating artificial intelligence agents within its flagship Adobe Experience platform. It’s joined by a suite of highly customized “Experience Platform Agents” that can perform various tasks relating to customer experience, such as ...
Orion Security raises $6M to plug sensitive data leaks with AI smarts
Cybersecurity startup Orion Security Ltd. wants to help companies defend against sensitive data leaks after raising $6 million in a seed funding round announced today. Rather than relying on manual policies and rigid rules, it uses context-aware artificial intelligence systems to identify when data is being moved by illicit actors. The startup is using AI ...
Mistral AI’s newest model packs more power in a much smaller package
Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI said today it’s open-sourcing a new, lightweight AI model called Mistral Small 3.1, claiming it surpasses the capabilities of similar models created by OpenAI and Google LLC. It’s a move that’s likely to escalate the race to develop powerful yet low-cost large language models. Mistral Small 3.1 is able ...
Baidu debuts its first AI reasoning model to compete with DeepSeek
The Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch of two of its most powerful models yet, including a new reasoning-focused model that it claims can outperform DeepSeek Ltd.’s R1. Baidu first debuted its Ernie series of models in 2023, before unveiling a “significant upgrade” the ...
Surveillance tech startup Flock Safety scores $275M in new funding at $7.5B valuation
The surveillance technology startup Flock Safety Inc. said today it has closed on a $275 million funding round that brings its value to a cool $7.5 billion, up from a prior valuation of $4.8 billion. The round was led by Bedrock Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, and saw participation from Greenoaks, Meritech Capital, Matrix Partners and ...
OpenAI calls on Trump to eliminate restrictions on the AI industry
OpenAI has submitted a lengthy proposal to the U.S. government, aiming to influence its upcoming AI Action Plan, a strategy report that many believe will guide President Donald Trump’s policy on artificial intelligence technology. The proposal from America’s most recognizable AI company is predictably controversial, calling for the U.S. government to emphasize speed of development ...
PagerDuty delivers strong earnings and revenue beat, boosting its stock
PagerDuty Inc.’s stock was headed higher in extended trading after the application observability firm reported fourth-quarter earnings results that surpassed analysts’ expectations today. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 22 cents per share, beating Wall Street’s target of 16 cents. Revenue for the quarter rose 9% from a year ...
D-Wave claims to have achieved ‘quantum supremacy’ at last, but others disagree
D-Wave Quantum Inc. said today a peer-reviewed scientific paper proves it has finally passed a critical threshold and achieved “quantum supremacy” — that is, the point at which its quantum computers have finally solved a problem that’s impossible for even the most powerful “classical” computers to do. The paper, published in the journal Science on Wednesday, ...
UiPath’s growth slows to a crawl as it chases agentic AI dream with Peak acquisition, and its stock falls sharply
Shares of the business automation software company UiPath Inc. were battered and bruised today after it posted mixed results in its latest earnings report and offered guidance for the year ahead that trailed Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 26 cents per share, beating the ...
