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Machine learning takes on the all-too-human discipline of space planning
Chris Lord relates the story of a space planner at one higher educational institution who faced a conundrum: Plenty of square footage had been allocated for study space, but students were complaining that there weren’t enough places to sit. Both sides were right. The university had equipped the space with large trestle tables that seated ...
Zip brushes up user interface of its procurement platform
Procurement management software startup Zip today announced several new user interface features in its product. Zip, which is the business name of ZipHQ Inc., simplifies the procurement process by routing and tracking requests, asking conditional questions, and documenting the status of requests as they move through the approval process. The need for such functionality has ...
MariaDB stock drops in early trading following IPO
Following through on an announcement it made in February, database management system provider MariaDB plc went public today on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. Ordinary shares and warrants began trading under the symbols “MRDB” and “MRDB WS,” respectively. The combined firms are an Irish public limited company ...
Startup says it can reliably detect AI-generated content
The media, academia and business worlds have been swooning over the sophistication of OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT natural language generator, but content marketers have reasons for concern. That industry thrives on search engine optimization and is hypersensitive to intellectual property issues such as plagiarism, particularly since Google LLC has made it clear that it frowns on ...
Acceldata open-sources its core platform and selected libraries
Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today released its platform under an Apache open-source license, saying it hopes the move will ensure that stable and community-validated versions of data observability libraries are available. This move covers the core data platform and six projects, which are described and available for download here. The data platform provides for automated deployment ...
AI chip startup EnCharge AI raises $21.7M to build integrated stack for edge uses
The list of startups building hardware to process artificial intelligence applications just grew longer with the addition of EnCharge AI Inc. Today the company announced a $21.7 million Series A funding round to support the development of a semiconductor hardware and software stack it claims can deliver 15 times the performance of competitors in low-power ...
Talent management platform maker Beamery vaults to unicorn status with its latest funding round
Beamery Inc., the developer of a talent management platform, today announced a $50 million Series D funding round that brings its total funding to $228 million and a valuation of more than $1 billion. The nine-year-old London-based firm has assembled an impressive roster of blue-chip clients — including General Motors Corp., Johnson & Johnson Services ...
Trilio raises $17M for its cloud-native data protection service
Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. said today it has secured $17 million in a new Series B funding and appointed serial entrepreneur Massood Zarrabian as chief executive. The new round brings Trilio’s total funding to $36 million. The company said it will leverage the capital to increase focus on product development, engineering and customer ...
No-code platform Creatio overhauled with composable architecture, AI assists
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today announced what it says is a major platform release that incorporates a composable architecture, an overhauled user interface and intelligent recommendations for workflow design and automation. Creatio makes a business processes management platform that nontechnical users can employ to build applications using a drag-and-drop interface. It also offers a customer relationship ...
HPE bulks up hybrid cloud features in its GreenLake as-a-service portfolio
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is expanding its GreenLake portfolio of as-a-service offerings with new application, analytics and developer services that are aimed at helping organizations better manage multiple public and private clouds. The announcements being made today at the company’s Discover Frankfurt event are led by expanded support for the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers ...