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Cisco aims to turn machine data chaos into AI Intelligence with Data Fabric
Continuing its campaign to position itself as the control plan for the artificial intelligence era, Cisco Systems Inc. today is using its Splunk subsidiary’s .conf25 to unveil the Splunk-powered Cisco Data Fabric, a network architecture designed to unify stovepipes of fragmented machine data. Cisco also unveiled Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake. This integration enables users ...
Databricks discloses latest funding round and path toward profitability
Databricks Inc. today put some meat on the bones of its announcement three weeks ago that it had raised new funding that valued the company at more than $100 billion. The company said it is closing a Series K venture capital round of $1 billion, bringing its total funding to over $20 billion. Databricks said ...
Recall.ai lands $38M to unlock spoken data at scale
Recall.ai, a startup that provides backend infrastructure for artificial intelligence that understands human conversations, has closed a $38 million Series B funding round that brings its total funding to $51 million and values the company at $250 million. The firm’s core product is a unified application programming interface that abstracts the complexity of building and ...
Neo4j unifies real-time transactions and graph analytics at scale
Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. today launched Infinigraph, calling it a significant advancement in distributed graph technology. The company said the architecture allows users to run both operational and analytical workloads on a single graph database platform at over 100 terabytes in scale without fragmenting the graph, duplicating infrastructure or compromising performance. The product of ...
HubSpot’s 200+ product blitz aims to power hybrid human-AI teams
HubSpot Inc. kicks off its fall 2025 Spotlight conference today with a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping marketers build hybrid teams of humans and artificial intelligence services. The updates span data infrastructure, AI agent deployment and enhanced tools for marketing, sales and commerce. HubSpot called it one of the most extensive product overhauls ...
Kong acquires OpenMeter to power API and AI monetization
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, today said it has acquired OpenMeter, the developer of an open-source platform for usage-based metering and billing. Terms weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of OpenMeter, the business name of Tailfin Cloud Inc., will add native monetization capabilities to Kong Konnect, Kong’s unified API platform, enabling organizations ...
Walmart embraces agentic AI with major machine learning platform upgrade and developer ‘super agent’
Walmart Inc. is giving its Element machine learning platform a major agentic upgrade and adding a “super agent” for software development to its growing portfolio of semi-autonomous software robots. The retail giant is using its Converge 2025 technology event today to reinforce the message that it is all in on agents, the artificial intelligence worker ...
Nvidia beats forecasts, but weaker data center sales drag down stock
In what has become the most highly anticipated report of the tech earnings season, Nvidia Corp. couldn’t quite make investors happy. The maker of graphics processing units that power the latest artificial intelligence boom posted revenue of $46.7 billion for the 2026 fiscal second quarter, up 56% year-over-year and ahead of the consensus analyst estimate ...
Bench IQ raises $5.3M for AI-based judicial intelligence platform
Toronto-based legal tech startup Bench IQ Inc. today said it has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to develop and sell its technology that helps lawyers understand how judges think. The two-year-old company’s core product is a generative artificial intelligence-based judicial intelligence platform already used by four of the top five firms in the American Lawyer ...
Hyland introduces Context Engine and Agent Mesh to simplify enterprise AI
Enterprise content management firm Hyland Software Inc. today launched two new components of its Content Innovation Cloud, which the company says present a unified, continuously updated view of an organization’s content, processes, people and applications to fuel a network of task-specific artificial intelligence agents. The Enterprise Context Engine pulls from systems such as enterprise resource ...