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The multinational retail chain where Katie Smith worked in data analytics and finance for six years was so concerned with controlling employees’ online activities that it blocked access to all generative artificial intelligence websites and locked down YouTube. So Smith took matters …
Vast Data adds vector search and serverless functions to its scalable data platform
Vast Data Inc. today announced enhancements to its Vast Data Platform, enabling it to support structured and unstructured data in a single DataSpace with linear and secure scaling. The enhancements are aimed at enabling enterprises to build artificial intelligence applications, agentic workflows and …
Databricks kicks off an initiative to make AI agents easier to build and manage
Databricks Inc. today is kicking off what it calls the “Week of Agents” by introducing new and enhanced products that are intended to help enterprises confidently deploy and scale artificial intelligence agents. AI agents are autonomous or semi-autonomous programs that perceive their …
Auxia lands $23.5M for personalized marketing platform
Auxia Inc. said it raised $23.5 million in Series A and seed funding to develop and sell its agentic artificial intelligence platform for personalized customer communications. The startup, which was founded by a team of former Google LLC executives, is focused on …
Broadcom hopes converged network appliance will ease 5G struggles
Addressing what it says is a fragmented and ad hoc approach to network services deployment that has hampered wireless network deployment, Broadcom Inc. today debuted VeloSky, a converged networking appliance targeted at communications service providers that want to offer integrated fiber, cellular and …
Red Hat cozies up with telecom providers as open standards gain traction
Red Hat Inc. is taking advantage of the growing popularity of the Open Radio Access Network and the related Artificial Intelligence RAN specification to highlight a number of new partnerships it has forged with telecommunication providers, in announcements to be made at …
IDC debuts AI-fueled software procurement analysis service
Market research firm International Data Corp. today is releasing a new application aimed at helping enterprise executives simplify the software procurement process. IDC TechMatch uses generative artificial intelligence and IDC’s database of information about products and vendors to enable buyers to narrow …
Exclusive: ClarityQ raises $3.7M to apply AI to digital product usage analysis
Israeli startup ClarityQ Inc. today is launching with $3.7 million in pre-seed funding and plans to apply artificial intelligence to the often complex process of answering questions about technology product usage. Founded by a trio of entrepreneurs with a track record of …
Exclusive: Former Snowflake execs raise $5M for agentic AI that simplifies data operations
Genesis Computing Inc., a startup building generative and agentic artificial intelligence capabilities for use with cloud data management platforms, today said it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The company, which was founded last April by two former Snowflake Inc. executives, …
Dell rolls out cloud transformation services for telecom providers
Dell Technologies Inc. today is announcing a cloud transformation program, services and new servers aimed specifically at communications service providers. Dell has been on a two-year campaign to win the hearts and minds of telecom firms, many of which use vertically integrated and …