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Snowflake gains momentum with solid earnings and revenue beats
Snowflake Inc. added to its momentum as it delivered its first-quarter financial results for the new fiscal year today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue to send its stock higher in late trading. The company, which sells cloud-based data warehouse tools for businesses, delivered first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 24 ...
DataHub gets $35M in funding to provide the context needed for AI reliability and safety
Open-source metadata startup DataHub, owned and operated by Acryl Data Inc., said today it has closed on a $35 million Series B funding round led solely by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round brings the company’s total amount raised to more than $65 million, and will enable it to accelerate the development of its flagship context ...
AI tax startup Filed bags $17.2M to turbocharge tax return processing
Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting industry’s broken talent pipeline with artificial intelligence. The funding came via seed and preseed rounds led by backers that include Northzone, Day One Ventures, J Ventures, Raine, Neo and Greens Ventures. ...
Salesforce targets a more human touch for financial services firms, with AI agents
Salesforce Inc. has unveiled a series of prebuilt templates for creating AI agents that can perform the duties of loan officers, banking and insurance agents, financial advisers and more. The templates can be found in a special version of Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial intelligence development platform that’s embedded within the Financial Services Cloud. It’s aimed at ...
Gravitee raises $60M to help developers tame API complexity
Digital traffic pipeline management startup Gravitee Topco Ltd. said today it has closed on a $60 million Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $125 million. The latest round was led by Sixth Street Growth and saw participation from previous investors Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The company ...
With a flurry of new model features, Google outlines plan to build a universal AI assistant
Google LLC wants to combine the emerging “agentic” capabilities of its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant with advances in areas such as robotics and physics to create a new kind of “world model” that can imagine things in the same way as humans can. That vision of a universal AI assistant that can make plans by ...
New AI Mode promises to make Google Search, and Shopping, much more intelligent
Google Search is building on the generative artificial intelligence search experiences introduced with AI Overviews last year, as part of a broader effort that will ultimately see it go beyond simply providing information. The enhanced search capabilities were announced at Google’s annual developer conference I/O near its Mountain View headquarters. They’re centered on a new ...
AI agents unleashed in Windows with Model Context Protocol
Microsoft Corp. believes we’re headed toward a future where artificial intelligence-powered agents will become pervasive in enterprise computing environments, so today it’s making it easier for those agents to communicate with the third-party tools they must use to accomplish various tasks on behalf of their human users. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build 2025, ...
Microsoft debuts Windows AI Foundry for local model development on AI PCs
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s advancing the local artificial intelligence development capabilities of Windows, as part of an effort to help developers build and experiment and reach new users with sophisticated AI experiences. At Microsoft Build 2025 running this week in Seattle, the company said it has evolved Windows Copilot Runtime into a new service ...
NLWeb is Microsoft’s new, open-source tool that integrates generative AI search into any website
With the launch of a new, open-source project called NLWeb, Microsoft Corp. says it can transform any existing website into an artificial intelligence-powered application by integrating natural language capabilities. The project, announced at Microsoft Build 2025 today, is meant to simplify the creation of natural language interfaces that can be embedded into any website. NLWeb, ...