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Microsoft Corp. said today it has stopped a unit in Israel’s Defense Ministry from accessing some of its cloud services following an investigation into claims that it was using the company’s Azure cloud platform to enable the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft …
Salesforce’s newest AI agents seek to transform customer engagement in life sciences
Salesforce Inc. has been at the forefront of the race to adopt agentic artificial intelligence over the past six months or so, with its Agentforce platform spearheading a push to accelerate automation across dozens of industries. Now, the company is turning its …
Ardent AI beats the odds to launch world’s ‘first agentic engineer’ for data pipeline maintenance
A startup called Ardent AI Labs Inc. says data engineering is the next major discipline in line for “agentic” automation after getting $2.15 million in a pre-seed funding round. The money comes from Crane Venture Partners, Active Capital and angel investors that …
Cloudera’s AI-in-a-Box gives enterprises a new way to build private AI
With a trio of new services today, big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s striving to help enterprises access their structured and unstructured information more easily to power their artificial intelligence workloads. The first is a novel “AI-in-a-Box” offering delivered in partnership with …
Asana targets collaboration, not automation, as its AI teammates launch in beta
Work management company Asana Inc. has spent over a year developing its long-awaited “AI Teammates” that promise to dramatically accelerate the productivity of enterprise workers, and they’re finally rolling out in beta test. In an announcement today, Asana said that its artificial …
Report: Intel in talks with Apple over potential investment and chip manufacturing deal
Intel Corp. has reportedly gone cap in hand to Apple Inc. to ask the iPhone maker to consider investing in its struggling chipmaking business, just days after securing a $5 billion commitment from Nvidia Corp. As part of the investment talks, Intel …
Greptile bags $25M in funding to take on CodeRabbit and Graphite in AI code validation
Greptile, a startup that’s building artificial intelligence-based code reviewers to validate human- and AI-generated software, has raised $25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it looks to keep pace with its rivals. Today’s Series A round was led by Benchmark …
Micron beats expectations again on soaring AI memory chip demand
Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. reported strong fourth-quarter earnings and revenue today and followed with guidance that came in well ahead of expectations, sending its stock higher in extended trading. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of …
Enterprise AI consultancy Distyl AI’s valuation soars to $1.8B after bumper funding round
Artificial intelligence startup Distyl AI Inc. is growing its reputation as an AI consultancy that delivers rapid, real results for enterprises after closing on a bumper $175 million funding round at a $1.8 billion unicorn valuation today. The round was led by …
Trump administration imposes $100K annual fee on H-1B visas, sparking criticism and panic
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday mandating a $100,000 application fee for “highly-skilled” foreign workers entering the country on HB-1 visas, causing panic and confusion as companies urged traveling employees to race back to the U.S. before the ruling …