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AI-generated code verification startup Qodo raises $70M
A startup called Qodo, officially known as Codium Ltd., today said it has raised $70 billion in a Series B funding round that brings its total funding to date to $120 million. Few areas have felt the impact of generative artificial intelligence as much as software development. Tools such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code and ...
SAP buys Reltio to pull in more outside data for AI agents
SAP SE is buying the data integration and management firm Reltio Inc. for an undisclosed fee in order to boost the capabilities of SAP Business Data Cloud. The enterprise resource planning software giant launched SAP Business Data Cloud last year in partnership with the cloud data lake giant Databricks Inc. The platform is designed to enable ...
Sycamore raises $65M from Silicon Valley heavyweights to build governance layer for enterprise AI agents
Sycamore Labs, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Atlassian Group Corp. Chief Technology Officer Sri Viswanath, said today it has raised $65 million in seed funding to build the “agentic operating system” for the enterprise. The round was led by heavy hitters, including Coatue, whom Viswanath previously worked for, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other ...
Microsoft accelerates agentic automation with Copilot Cowork for complex workflows
Microsoft Corp. is moving closer to delivering on its vision of autonomous artificial intelligence agents that can do more than just chat. Today it has announced the launch of Copilot Cowork, a new capability within the Microsoft 365 platform that can handle “long-running, multistep tasks” that could previously be done only with constant human oversight. ...
Rebellions lands $400M in funding to lead the South Korean revolt against Nvidia chips
Cloud-native artificial intelligence inference chip startup Rebellions Inc. is upping its game in an effort to compete better with rivals such as Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by raising a massive $400 million in what it calls a “pre-IPO funding round.” Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Growth Fund led the ...
Wikipedia cracks down on contributors using AI to generate content
Wikipedia has banned contributors from using artificial intelligence tools to create content for its platform through a recent policy update. The recently announced new guidelines reflect increasing concern within the Wikipedia community that AI-generated text conflicts with the platform’s standards on citing reliable and verifiable sources. In the update, Wikipedia noted that text generated by large language ...
Agentic retail dispute resolution startup Glimpse raises $35M from Andreessen Horowitz and others
Dispute-tracking software startup Glimpse said today it has closed on an early-stage $35 million round of funding to accelerate its plan to use artificial intelligence to help brands gain more leverage over retailers. The Series A round was led by the high-profile venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and saw participation from 8VC and Y Combinator, bringing ...
Normal Computing raises $50M to tackle the soaring energy demands of AI chips
Normal Computing Corp., a startup that’s trying to reinvent the fundamental physics of artificial intelligence, said today it has raised $50 million in a new funding round led by Samsung Catalyst. Today’s preemptive round also saw participation from Galvanize, Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund and ArcTern Ventures, plus existing backers Celesta Capital, Drive Capital, Micron ...
Rocketlane bags $60M from investors to accelerate professional services automation with AI agents
Professional services automation startup Rocketlane Corp. said today it has raised $60 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the delivery of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence tools. The Series round was led by Insight Partners and brings the company’s total amount raised to $105 million. Rocketlane sells professional services automation that helps organizations to ...
Emma Technologies unifies cloud infrastructure governance for legacy IT environments
Cloud operations startup Emma Technologies S.a.r.l. took the wraps off a new feature called Brownfield Onboarding today, aiming to solve the most persistent infrastructure governance headaches faced by enterprises today. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe today, Brownfield Onboarding enables information technology teams to bring their existing VMware environments, public cloud instances and Kubernetes clusters ...