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Observability startup Groundcover bags $35M in new funding to take on Datadog
Application observability startup Groundcover Ltd. wants to muscle in on an industry dominated by the likes of Datadog Inc. and New Relic Inc. after getting $35 million in fresh funding. Today’s Series B round was led by Zeev Ventures and saw participation from investors including Heavybit, Jibe Venture and Angular Ventures, bringing the company’s total ...
Snowflake to begin military service after obtaining Department of Defense IL5 authorization
Snowflake Inc. says it’s ready to begin its military service after achieving a key authorization that certifies its cloud data warehouse technologies are suitable for storing sensitive, but not classified, information. The company said today it has achieved Department of Defense Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization on AWS GovCloud US-West. It’s an essential designation that ...
Google’s cloud-based AI Hypercomputer gets new workhorse with Ironwood TPU
Google Cloud is revving up its AI Hypercomputer infrastructure stack for the next generation of artificial intelligence workloads with its most advanced tensor processing unit chipset. The new Ironwood TPU was announced today at Google Cloud Next 2025, alongside dozens of other hardware and software enhancements designed to accelerate AI training and inference and simplify ...
With agentic AI, Google Cloud is transforming almost every aspect of app development
Google Cloud said today it’s aiming to accelerate application development by integrating generative artificial intelligence-powered assistance at every stage of the process in an effort to turbocharge the capabilities of human software developers. At its annual developer conference, Google Cloud Next 2025, the company unveiled a new “application-centric, AI-powered cloud for developers and operators” that ...
Google uses AI wizardry to recreate ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in fully immersive 3D
“The Wizard of Oz” is being transformed into an immersive 3D experience unlike anything anyone has ever seen, thanks to the use of entirely new artificial intelligence techniques that enhance its resolution and generate additional scenery to fit a gigantic, wraparound LED display. Sphere Entertainment Co., operator of The Sphere in Las Vegas, said it ...
Docker’s latest release provides a foundation for local AI model development
Docker Inc., a company that’s best known for its containerized software development tools, is turning its attention to generative artificial intelligence with the launch of a new service called the Docker Model Runner. In a blog post, Docker said Model Runner is all about helping developers to build and run AI models locally on their ...
British GPU-as-a-service startup NexGen Cloud raises $45M
U.K.-based graphics processing unit cloud company NexGen Cloud Ltd. said today it has closed on a $45 million Series A round of funding to fuel its ambition of becoming the artificial intelligence infrastructure platform of choice for European companies. Today’s round was led by a number of family trusts and high-net-worth individuals, but the company ...
IBM revamps the venerable mainframe to run generative AI workloads and agents
IBM Corp. is bringing the mainframe into the modern age with the latest version of its venerable hardware powered by a new processor that supports generative artificial intelligence and AI agent workloads. The company lifted the lid on the new IBM z17 mainframe today, saying it’s powered by its most advanced Telum II processor, which ...
AI Mode in Google Search gets new visual search capabilities
Google LLC is updating the new “AI Mode” feature in Google Search, introducing multimodal capabilities that allow it to “see” images uploaded by users, so it can better answer their questions. AI Mode was introduced in a limited preview last month for Google One AI Premium subscribers. It’s an experimental feature in Google Search that ...
Stanford HAI’s annual report highlights rapid adoption and growing accessibility of powerful AI systems
Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry ...