Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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Gemini in Android Studio rolls out more AI-powered development features

Google LLC today unveiled more features for Android Studio, its toolkit for building Android apps, powered by its Gemini artificial intelligence model. Gemini in Android Studio rolled out as an AI upgrade for Android Studio, a type of software editor, in May. It brought Google’s flagship model to the development tool, providing developers the ability to ...

Google brings grounding with search to Gemini in AI Studio and API

Google LLC today announced it’s rolling out “grounding” for its artificial intelligence Gemini models using Google Search, which will enable developers to get more accurate and up-to-date responses aided by search results. The new updates are available for AI Studio and the Gemini API. They permit the model to provide not just more accurate responses, but ...

Data privacy-focused Nillion network raises $25M to expand decentralized solutions

Nillion today announced it has raised $25 million in a new funding round for its trust-sensitive computation network, which focuses on decentralized networking with an optional blockchain component. The round was led by Hack VC, with additional support from Distributed Global and Hashkey. Angel investors and strategic contributors from projects including Arbitrum, Worldcoin and Sei ...

Diffblue raises $6.3M for autonomous AI-powered test generation platform

Diffblue Ltd., the maker of an autonomous generative artificial intelligence code test platform, said today it secured $6.3 million in new funding to build on its differentiated approach to generating unit tests for Java. The new capital came as an extension to the company’s Series A funding round, joined by existing investors IP Group, Parkwalk ...

Amazon Q introduces AI-powered inline chat directly in the code editor for developers

Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Web Services Inc.’s artificial intelligence software development assistant, today announced support for inline chat that combines the ability to invoke assistants within software editors and update code, enabling developers to describe their needs directly and receive responses. Many AI software development tools work as inline code completion and as chat tools ...

Tabnine unveils AI developer ‘coach’ with personalized code review agent

Artificial intelligence code assistant developer Tabnine Ltd. today unveiled a new AI software validation agent designed to help developers produce higher quality, more secure code by enforcing best practices called the Code Review Agent. As developers work on code, AI coding assistants and agents have already become part of their process for enhancing performance for generating ...

Zenity raises $38M to secure enterprise AI copilots and low-code app development

Zenity Ltd., a platform that secures artificial intelligence and low-code app development, said today it raised $38 million in early-stage funding to grow its platform and assist enterprise companies as AI and low-code programming is adopted more broadly. The Series B round was led by Third Point Ventures and DTCP. Existing investors Intel Capital Corp. ...

Salesforce launches Agentforce AI agent platform into general availability

Salesforce Inc. today announced the general availability of Agentforce, its suite of tools for building autonomous artificial intelligence agents to augment work for enterprise employees worldwide. Agentforce allows companies to build and customize AI agents, which can connect to any company data and take actions on behalf of employees across sales, service, marketing and commerce. ...

Anthropic introduces a new feature that lets it write data analysis with JavaScript

Anthropic PBC, the creator of the generative artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, today introduced an analysis tool that allows Claude to write and run JavaScript code. Using the new tool, which is currently in preview, Claude can analyze data, perform complex math and create visualizations using code. “When you need precise, verifiable answers from data, Claude ...

Cohere announces Aya Expanse multilingual AI model family for researchers

Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research lab run by the artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., pushed the boundaries of multilingual frontier AI model research today with the release of Aya Expanse, a family of high-performance multilingual large language models that it says outperform other leading open rivals. The new family includes two new models in ...