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Report: AWS to reorganize sales teams amid slowing cloud revenue growth
Amazon Web Services Inc. is planning a major overhaul of its 60,000-strong sales team, in order to address problems as rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC make some headway in the global cloud computing market. That’s according to a report today in The Information, which said the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit’s sales and ...
Google takes steps to prevent abuse of its generative AI tools during U.S. elections
Google LLC said today it’s planning to restrict the ability of its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard and its Search Generative Experience to respond to election-related queries ahead of the U.S. Presidential election taking place next year. The restrictions will be introduced early next year, the company said. In the U.S. elections, primary races and campaigning ...
Jetic debuts simpler, cloud-native integration platform based on Apache Camel
Cloud-native integration platform-as-a-service provider Jetic has announced the general availability of its flagship product, helping application developers tame the explosion of big data without worrying about vendor lock-in. The startup, officially known as Datagrate Inc., said it’s launching today after spending more than three years to build out and fine-tune what it claims is among ...
CNCF names OpenFeature as an incubating project to standardize feature flags in software development
OpenFeature, an open-source specification that provides a community-based and vendor-agnostic application programming interface for feature flagging in software development, has been accepted as the latest incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Today’s announcement is a key milestone for the OpenFeature project, which is helping accelerate the adoption of feature flags in application development. ...
Ignition raises $8M to enhance collaboration between product and go-to-market teams
Artificial intelligence-powered go-to-market operations startup Ignition GTM Inc. announced today that it’s ready for prime time after raising $8 million in funding. The investment came via two rounds – seed and pre-seed – and was led by Audacious Ventures and Altman Capital. A number of angel investors also participated in the round, including several unnamed ...
Kubernetes resource automation startup ScaleOps lands $21.5M in funding
Israeli startup ScaleOps Labs Ltd. said today it has raised $21.5 million via two funding rounds to boost the development of what it says is the industry’s first fully automated and cloud-native resource orchestration platform for Kubernetes deployments. The funding rounds – which consisted of seed and Series A – were led by Lightspeed Venture ...
Patronus AI rolls out SimpleSafetyTests to identify harmful AI models
Artificial intelligence model evaluation and security startup Patronus AI Inc. is rolling out a suite of tests developers can use to ensure their AI applications are safe to release in the wild. The company said its open-source SimpleSafetyTests offering will help developers to identify any critical errors or safety risks within almost any large language ...
Snowflake snaps up data clean room startup Samooha in its ninth acquisition of the year
Cloud data warehouse leader Snowflake Inc. is strengthening its capabilities with the acquisition of a data clean room company called Samooha Inc. Snowflake said today the deal should close by the end of the year, and when it does, it will get its hands on an established data clean room platform that its customers will be ...
ServiceNow buys Czech task mining platform provider UltimateSuite
Workflow automation giant ServiceNow Inc. said today it has agreed to buy a Czech task mining startup called UltimateSuite s.r.o. so it can better understand how work-related tasks flow through organizations. The price of the acquisition was not announced, but the number is likely to be fairly minimal, given that the startup had raised less ...
Automated software deployment startup Octopus Deploy adds Kubernetes-native features
Startup Octopus Deploy Pty Ltd. is enhancing its Kubernetes capabilities to simplify software deployments in the most complex scenarios at large scale, using a combination of ready-made blueprints and automation features. The company offers a wide selection of application and software deployment tools for both on-premises and cloud environments, helping developers automate the launch of ...