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10Web’s generative AI website builder is now accessible via an API
10Web Inc., the developer of a technology that builds websites on the open-source WordPress platform from generative artificial intelligence prompts, today is adding an application programming interface option that developers can use to integrate website generation into existing applications and workflows. The API makes it possible, for example, for marketers to generate a special-purpose website ...
SAS ups AI development and governance capabilities
SAS Institute Inc. is using its SAS Innovate 2025 event in Orlando today to introduce a series of enhancements to its Viya cloud-based analytics and artificial intelligence development platform. They’re aimed at supporting AI agents, improving AI governance and delivering ready-made models for industry-specific tasks. The announcements reflect the company’s continued push to offer enterprise-grade AI ...
Nutanix targets cloud-native and AI workloads and offers migration enticements to VMware customers
Nutanix Inc. today announced a trio of major initiatives aimed at expanding its footprint across cloud-native applications, enterprise artificial intelligence workloads and mission-critical infrastructure. The announcements, made at its .NEXT 2025 conference in Washington, D.C., include the general availability of the Cloud-Native AOS operating system, deeper integration with Nvidia Corp.’s artificial intelligence software and and ...
IBM unveils capabilities meant to accelerate AI agent adoption
IBM Corp. is using its Think 2025 conference in Boston this week to introduce a sweeping set of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud technologies aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of AI agents. The venerable tech giant said it’s focused on making the new breed of autonomous software that can take actions independently while working toward ...
Construction tech startup Field Materials raises $10.5M to automate materials procurement
Construction technology startup Field Materials Inc. has raised $10.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to nearly $19 million. The company applies artificial intelligence and document digitization to a construction materials and equipment rentals market that relies most on phone calls, emails and manual data entry. Its technology can ...
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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 ...