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DEEP DIVE
Beyond autocomplete: Reasoning models raise the bar for generative AI
If you go to ChatGPT.com, choose the o4-mini model from the drop-down menu and enter a prompt, you’ll see a message you’ve probably never seen before. “Thinking,” the chatbot responds as several seconds pass. It then presents a summary of the question you just asked and the process it used to formulate an answer. A ...
StarTree boosts AI agent support in its real-time analytics platform
StarTree Inc., the developer of a managed service based on the Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is enhancing support for artificial intelligence workloads with two enhancements being announced today. They include support for Anthropic PBC’s Model Context Protocol and vector embedding model hosting. MCP provides a standardized way for AI applications to connect with and ...
UiPath plunges into agentic AI with development and orchestration platform
UiPath Inc. is putting meat on the bones of the plans it announced last October to enter the agentic artificial intelligence market with today’s rollout of what it calls a comprehensive platform for building and orchestrating teams of AI agents. The platform is crucial to the robotic process automation company as it struggles to return ...
Cloud optimization startup Cast AI raises $108 million to achieve ‘almost unicorn’ valuation
Cast AI Group Inc., a six-year-old startup that specializes in optimizing the efficiency of cloud-native environments, today said it raised $108 million in a Series C round that brings its total funding to $181 million. Two blue-chip investors led the funding: G2 Venture Partners LLC and SB Global Advisers Limited’s SoftBank Vision Fund 2. SoftBank ...
Acceldata can now spot data anomalies across multiple dimensions
Data observability vendor Acceldata Inc. today announced Adaptive AI Anomaly Detection capabilities in its xLake Reasoning Engine that automatically identify hidden, multidimensional data anomalies before they can disrupt business operations. Launched in February, the xLake Reasoning Engine is a core component of the company’s Agentic Data Management platform. It operates across various environments, including hyperscale ...
HPE boosts Aruba security and data sovereignty features for private clouds
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its security portfolio across its Aruba Networking and GreenLake cloud families, aiming to close gaps in zero-trust network access and private-cloud protection for regulated industries and multinational enterprises. Today’s announcements include new policy-based controls in Aruba Networking Central, updates to EdgeConnect software-defined wide-area network, a high-availability mesh for ...
IBM beats forecasts and says it’s well-positioned to weather a trade war but stock falls on outlook
Expressing confidence that it can weather the winds of an uncertain economic climate, IBM Corp. today reported revenue and earnings that beat analysts’ expectations and reaffirmed its guidance for the full fiscal year. Still, investors were worried about IBM’s outlook, especially given its large government business subject to Trump budget cuts, and its stock fell ...
Startup Kollegio raises $2.8M for AI-powered college counseling service
When Senan Khawaja was in college a few years ago, he started a service counseling prospective college students on how to get into their desired institutions. He eventually built a small team with hundreds of clients, “but helping the wealthiest students get into top colleges wasn’t something I was super-passionate about.” When the generative artificial ...
SAP tops earnings forecast, says tariffs haven’t disrupted its pipeline
With global markets gyrating over the expected impact of tariffs, SAP SE provided some needed reassurance by posting operating profits that soundly beat consensus estimates on revenue slightly lower than expected. Although the numbers were hardly a blowout, investors responded enthusiastically, bidding SAP shares up nearly 7% in early after‑hours trading. SAP shares are up ...
CASE STUDY
Credit data powers Experian’s software transformation
In the course of nearly 30 years of collecting data about consumer spending patterns, Experian plc has amassed detailed information on more than 1 billion people and 25 million U.S. businesses. As one of the “Big Three” credit reporting bureaus, along with TransUnion LLC and Equifax Inc., it collects the information that’s vital for financial ...
