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Revefi raises $10.5M in seed funding to disrupt the data observability industry
Revefi Inc. said today it has armed itself with $10.5 million from a seed funding round, aiming to disrupt the data observability market with its artificial intelligence-powered Data Operations Cloud. Today’s round was led by Mayfield Managing Partner Navin Chaddha and saw participation from GTMfund, Neythri Futures Fund and more than 10 other strategic investors. ...
The CIA says it’s building a ChatGPT-style generative AI chatbot to aid data analysts
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says it’s building its own ChatGPT-style chatbot to help analysts sift through enormous amounts of data so it can improve its investigations. The CIA’s chatbot will leverage advanced generative artificial intelligence to help its agents access and understand open-source data, the agency said. The technology was developed by the CIA’s Open ...
Report: Palo Alto Networks targets Dig Security for $300M+ acquisition
Multiple sources are claiming that the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks Inc. is closing on the acquisition of Dig Security Solutions Inc., with the deal said to be valued at between $300 million and $400 million. Reports in Calcalist and TechCrunch today said the two companies are now in “advanced negotiations,” though nothing has been finalized ...
Microsoft hedges its bets, seeking more cost-effective AI models
Although Microsoft Corp. is said to own just under half of ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP, it’s also working on alternative artificial intelligence models that are less powerful, but also much more efficient. That’s according to a report today in The Information, which cites unnamed OpenAI employees as saying Microsoft is concerned about the sometimes staggering ...
MongoDB revs up its vector search feature to power faster and more accurate generative AI apps
Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced a slew of updates to its platform that are designed to help software developers build applications that can harness the power of generative artificial intelligence. Among other improvements, it announced new Vector Search functionality that improves the way it filters and aggregates unstructured data, making it easier for ...
SAP debuts Joule, a generative AI copilot for intelligent insights across its entire software portfolio
Enterprise software giant SAP SE is building on this year’s launch of its Business AI tools with the availability of a new generative artificial intelligence copilot that it says will be embedded throughout its cloud enterprise portfolio. It’s called Joule, and it will provide proactive and contextualized insights from across its entire suite of cloud ...
Dell expands APEX portfolio to extend Microsoft Azure Cloud to the edge
Dell Technologies Inc. said today that it’s expanding its APEX portfolio with a new family of products for on-premises deployments of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Cloud. It’s the first offering from Dell’s recently announced Dell APEX Cloud Platform. It provides a range of infrastructure offerings for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that customers ...
SRI International spins out Synfini, an AI-powered drug discovery platform provider
Silicon Valley-based nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International said today it’s spinning out its patented Synfini drug discovery platform as an independent startup named Synfini Inc. Synfini combines technologies that include physical and virtual chemistry, neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, a vast proprietary chemistry dataset and robotic automation to develop novel molecular compounds as promising drug candidates. ...
IBM updates tools to move next-gen AI development onto the mainframe
IBM Corp. said today it’s building on the recent launch of generative artificial intelligence coding capabilities for mainframe developers by launching a suite of new offerings that will make it easier to run AI on their legacy data center hardware. The updates to IBM Z are designed to help customers improve business outcomes by implementing ...
Canonical steps up its support for machine learning development with Charmed MLFlow
Canonical Ltd. is pushing further into the machine learning operations arena with the launch of its Charmed MLFlow platform in general availability today. Charmed MLFlow is Canonical’s distribution of the popular open-source MLFlow platform, which is used to manage the end-to-end machine learning model lifecycle. It benefits from various integrations with Canonical’s software, simpler deployment ...