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Google Maps makes navigation easier with conversational ‘Ask Maps’ feature
Google LLC is giving Google Maps a new button: “Ask Maps” integrates a Gemini-powered conversational experience directly into the app, allowing users to ask more detailed questions about whatever it is they need to find. In a blog post, Google Maps Vice President and General Manager Miriam Daniel said users will be able to hit ...
With its serverless infrastructure, Tensorlake makes it simpler to deploy and scale agentic workflows
Tensorlake Inc. says it’s making life easier for organizations that want to design, build and run artificial intelligence agents with the debut of its new serverless infrastructure platform, which provides a ready-made foundation for autonomous systems to scale up. The startup says it’s trying to tackle the overwhelming “infrastructure sprawl” that becomes almost inevitable when ...
Nvidia’s Nemotron Super 3 model for agentic systems launches with five times higher throughput
With so much talk about its upcoming Vera Rubin graphics processing units, it’s easy to forget that Nvidia Corp. doesn’t just supply the hardware for artificial intelligence. It also develops its own series of AI models, and today it announced the availability of its most capable model so far. The company said Nemotron Super 3 is ...
Rivian’s industrial automation spinoff Mind Robotics secures $500M in funding
Rivian Automotive Inc. founder and Chief Executive RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics said today it has raised $500 million at a $2 billion valuation in an early-stage round co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. Mind Robotics is extremely ambitious, intending to build a full-stack robotics platform that incorporates multipurpose robots plus the foundation models required to ...
Despite an earnings beat and solid guidance, UiPath’s stock slides after hours
UiPath Inc. beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its latest financial results, doubled its profitability and offered solid guidance for the current quarter and full year, but it still wasn’t enough to satisfy investors. Despite the strong results, its stock fell more than 4% in late trading today. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings before ...
Xscape debuts its first laser-based optical interconnect after raising $37M in fresh funding
Optical interconnect startup Xscape Photonics has raised $37 million in funding in what it described as an extension round, bringing its total Series A investment to $81 million. The round doubles its valuation, and comes alongside the launch of a new device called FalconX that enables ultra-fast, high-capacity data transmission for artificial intelligence data centers. Today’s ...
Ctera collapses boundary between traditional files and object storage, so humans and AI can work with the same data
Ctera Networks Ltd. says it’s building a better data foundation for artificial intelligence systems, consisting of a new federated data architecture that eliminates the tradeoff between traditional file systems and object storage. The startup’s new product is called Ctera Fusion Direct. Announced today, it unifies the two standalone storage domains into a single, high-performance data ...
Legora raises $550M to fuel U.S. expansion of AI agents that automate legal work
Legora AB, a Stockholm-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate legal work, said today it has raised a hefty $550 million late-atage funding round that brings its valuation to $5.55 billion. Accel led the Series D round, which also saw the participation of existing backers such as Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, ...
Meta Platforms buys Moltbook, the bizarre and fascinating social network for AI agents
Meta Platforms Inc. owns and operates some of the world’s largest and most iconic social media networks, and now it’s adding what may well be the world’s weirdest. The company said today it has agreed to buy a startup called Moltbook, which is an experimental social media platform that was built specifically for autonomous artificial ...
Oracle’s cloud revenue surges 44%, easing pressure on its stock
Oracle Corp. brushed aside fears that artificial intelligence might be eating its software business today as it delivered a solid third-quarter earnings beat and lifted its revenue guidance for the fiscal year. The database and cloud infrastructure giant reported adjusted earnings of $1.79 per share, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $1.70 per share. ...