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Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, focusing on ecosystem and accessibility
Google LLC today announced that its popular NotebookLM, the company’s artificial intelligence-powered research assistant, is being rebranded as Gemini Notebook and is getting upgrades aimed at providing secure cloud computing for every notebook. Launched globally in 2023, NotebookLM, began as an AI note-taking and source understanding application that allowed people to upload large amounts of ...
Microagi nabs $55M to teach factory robots how to work
Munich-based startup Microagi GmbH today announced it has raised $55 million in seed funding led by Hummingbird to change how industrial robotics works with artificial intelligence models. Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine also participated in the round. The capital raise arrives about 10 months after the company was founded by Formula One engineers from ...
Mimic Robotics launches highly capable robotic hand that emulates human movements
Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG today announced it’s launching a new specialized robotic hand that looks and behaves like a human hand, introducing a new architecture for embodied robotics. Physical AI, or embodied artificial intelligence, combines AI models and sensors that can perceive the world with robotic frameworks that can intelligently plan and execute tasks. Mimic ...
Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic devices. AuraStack, a super-agent within the company’s Allegro AI studio, provides agentic ...
Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents
Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and track work performed by artificial intelligence agents. The company’s new Jira Planner helps turn incomplete project ideas into technical specifications, while its Jira Coding Agent and integrations with third-party agents transform work items into requests. With automation rules ...
Perplexity launches secure sandbox to make its AI agents secure and powerful
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced a new feature that takes its current agentic artificial intelligence service, Computer, to perform better with greater security. The company introduced SPACE, a sandbox platform designed to allow its AI agent to act with its full capabilities, while providing the highest level of security for agentic systems. Perplexity Computer can ...
Concho AI turns enterprise codebases into a knowledge layer for AI agents
Concho AI today introduced its flagship platform, an artificial intelligence platform that understands software development and application work, providing deep semantic understanding and organization that enable developers and AI agents to transform and modernize massive, sprawling codebases into something manageable. “Its job is to provide an intelligence level that you would normally get from a ...
Chai Discovery nabs $400M Series C as AI-designed antibodies reach Big Pharma
Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised $400 million in new funding, nearly tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion. Index Ventures led the Series C round alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Dimension. New investors joining the investment included Bain Capital ...
Oracle opens Fusion Agentic Applications to pro-code developers and coding agents
Oracle Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence-native experience for its Fusion Applications within Oracle AI Agent Studio, allowing developers, customers and partners to build agents together. This expansion fills in the developer side of Oracle’s Fusion app agentic enterprise strategy. The company’s AI Agent Studio initially allowed business users and partners to assemble agents ...
Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M to grow its platform
Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised $65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms, GTMFund, and other investors and angels also participated in the Series B round. Today’s funding brings the company’s total ...