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Workflow automation startup airSlate raises $51.5M as it extends collaboration with UiPath
The workflow automation platform provider airSlate Inc. has topped up its war chest with a $51.5 million round of funding led by G Squared, bringing its valuation to more than $1 billion. In addition, airSlate today announced a strategic partnership with the robotic process automation firm UiPath Inc., which also participated in the round. AirSlate ...
Meta’s AI researchers are teaching robots to navigate physical worlds without maps or training
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence unit said today it has made rapid progress in its efforts to teach AI models to navigate through the physical world more easily and with less training data. The research could dramatically reduce the time it takes to teach AI models the art of visual navigation, which has traditionally been ...
Finout launches with $14M in funding to help companies clean up cloud expenditure
FinOps startup Finout Ltd. stepped into the limelight today, announcing it has just closed a $14 million early-stage funding round that brings its total amount raised to date to $18.5 million. Finout said today’s Series A round was led by Team8 Capital and included participation from investors such as R Squared Ventures, Jibe Ventures and ...
Palantir’s Foundry big-data service now available on Google Cloud
Palantir Technologies Inc. said today it has made its big-data-crunching platform Foundry available on Google Cloud Platform and the Google Cloud Marketplace, giving more companies the opportunity to synthesize information for business operations. The formerly very secretive company built Foundry as a software-as-a-service offering for enterprises that need to collect data from multiple sources and ...
Microsoft will finally bury Internet Explorer for good in the coming months
Microsoft Corp. is finally retiring its ancient Internet Explorer browser, almost 27 years after it was first released. The company said today it’s withdrawing official support for IE 11, the most recent version of the browser, in favor of Microsoft Edge. The move marks the end of an era, though it’s a long time coming. Microsoft ...
DataStax raises $115M to grow its super-scalable, real-time Astra DB database
DataStax Inc., one of the biggest and best-known privately owned database companies, got a little bit richer today, closing on a $115 million round of funding that brings its valuation to $1.6 billion. Today’s private-equity round was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business and included participation from RCM Private Markets, EDB Investments ...
InfluxData’s time-series database adds data replication to unify edge and cloud environments
Time-series database company InfluxData Inc. said today it’s adding a new feature called Edge Data Replication that enables more centralized business intelligence from widely distributed computing environments. The Edge Data Replication feature is available starting today and gives developers a way to collect, store and also analyze high-precision time series data within InfluxDB at the ...
Smart parking payment startup Metropolis raises $167M
Mobile commerce startup Metropolis Technologies Inc. is feeling richer today after closing on a $167 million round of funding that was co-led by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures. Dragoneer Investment Group, Eldridge Industries, Silver Lake Partners and UP Partners also participated in the Series B round. Metropolis has built a mobile commerce platform that combines ...
Canonical updates Ubuntu Core with support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial apps
The Ubuntu developer Canonical Ltd. today announced general availability of a new edition of Ubuntu Core, its fully containerized operating system for edge and “internet of things” devices. With the update, the operating system now supports real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications, the company said. Ubuntu Core is an OS that’s designed for low-powered devices. ...
Quantum computing service provider Quantinuum boosts its hardware to 20 qubits
Quantinuum Ltd., a startup that claims to be the world’s largest independent quantum computing company, today announced a major hardware upgrade that expands its System Model H1-1 platform to 20 fully connected qubits, making it possible to process quantum operations in parallel. The company said the H1-1 quantum machine’s computational capabilities have been “significantly bolstered” ...