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| Deepmind’s AlphaDev discovers sorting algorithms that can revolutionize computing foundations | Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) research lab DeepMind has achieved a remarkable feat in computer science through its latest AI system, AlphaDev. This specialized version of AlphaZero has made a significant breakthrough by uncovering faster sorting and hashing algorithms, which are essential processes utilized trillions of times daily by developers worldwide for data sorting, storage and retrieval. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Azure Government cloud gets access to OpenAI’s generative AI models | Azure Government is a specialized version of the Azure cloud that adheres to a number of very specific security and data-compliance rules in order to cater to government agencies. Its customers include the U.S. Defense Department, the U.S. Energy Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | Artificial Intelligence |
| OpenAI rival Cohere raises a fresh $270 million to bring generative AI to the enterprise | Cohere emphasized in a press release that its enterprise AI suite is cloud-agnostic and built to be deployed inside a customers’ existing cloud environment, virtual private cloud (VPC), or on-site. | Automation & Productivity |
| WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app | The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world’s most popular chat app. It’s called Channels, and it’s designed specifically for one-to-many broadcasts rather than conversation. The Meta-owned company calls it “a private way to follow what matters,” and names local and sports updates among the ways you might use it. | Social Media |
| Gong launches customizable generative AI models to streamline sales workflows | Gong asserts that its generative AI models stand out from off-the-shelf systems due to their ability to categorize large quantities of sales deal-specific data — including customer objections — and understand the context and intent of sales conversations | Automation & Productivity |
| Google brings superior logic and reasoning skills to its chatbot Bard | Google claims the new system can improve Bard’s accuracy in responding to computation-based word and math problems by about 30% when compared with the original, LLM-based Bard. Even so, Google warns that Bard may not always get it right, because it might misunderstand and fail to generate code to aid its response, or the code it generates may be wrong. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Wipro and Cisco Launch Managed Private 5G-as-a-Service Solution to Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation | “We are both dedicated to the partnership and delivering a secure, cloud-managed private 5G service to our customers. Because it is an as-a-service solution, it provides maximum benefits while minimizing the human resources and costs associated with owning a private network.” | Network Management |
| Watch out malware actors! Commvault ramps up security measures | “Commvault is looking at the ransomware problem by seeking to avoid the costs associated with data breach downtime altogether through continuous, proactive threat monitoring and remediation. This type of approach can help stop threats before they do real damage to the bottom line. It’s pretty simple: the only path to true resiliency is through active defense backed by bullet-proof recovery.” | Security |
| Clop gang uses MOVEit vulnerability to target BBC, British Airways and Boots | The BBC, itself a victim of the attack, reported today that the Clop group posted a notice on its dark web site warning firms affected by the MOVEit hack to email them before June 14 or stolen data will be published. The report says more than 100,000 staff at the BBC, British Airways Plc and the pharmacy chain Boots UK Ltd. may have had payroll data stolen. | Privacy & Security |
| Creatd, Inc. Revolutionizes User Engagement, Content Moderation, and Curation with AI-Powered Integrations on its Flagship Platform Vocal | Text-to-Speech AI: By leveraging advanced natural language processing and speech synthesis technologies, Vocal is poised to introduce text-to-speech capabilities, providing creators with the ability to transform their written content into captivating audio experiences, such as podcasts. | Automation & Productivity |
| How AI-based search assistant Glean Chat is built to boost productivity | Glean Chat, a generative AI application that builds on the Palo Alto-based startup’s knowledge graph and enterprise search, can connect to enterprise applications to provide conversational search experience, along with notes about sources. | Automation & Productivity |
| Aware Delivers AI-Powered Insights for Secure Enterprises with Webex by Cisco | Aware’s AI data platform delivers actionable intelligence to the C-Suite that unlocks innovation and top-line growth. With its integration with Webex messaging, Webex customers can use Aware to uncover operational pain points, strengthen employee engagement, deliver a better customer experience, and secure the digital workplace. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cybersecurity startup Blumira raises $15M for its extended detection and response platform | SIEM platforms are a dime a dozen, but Blumira stands out because its platform is specifically designed to cater to small to medium-sized enterprises. The company’s platform combines SIEM, endpoint visibility and automated response to help organizations with small information technology teams consolidate tools, reduce complexity and provide insight across their entire environment. | Security |
| Cloud misconfiguration causes massive data breach at Toyota Motor | “As we believe that this incident also was caused by insufficient dissemination and enforcement of data handling rules, since our last announcement, we have implemented a system to monitor cloud configurations,” Toyota said | Cloud |
| Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform | As part of its feature set, the Cisco Networking Cloud will provide a single sign-on feature for several of the company’s networking products. Single sign-on is a technology that allows users to log into multiple systems at once using one set of login credentials. Thanks to the capability, administrators won’t have to separately log into different Cisco products, which should streamline the user experience. | Cloud |
| Low-code enterprise integration platform Digibee raises $60M | Where it sets itself apart is that not only does it assist in building integrations, it also transforms those integrations into reusable business logic. Users can create what Digibee calls “capsules,” which are packaged common integrations they can share across the organization. | Automation & Productivity |
| Apple ushers in a new era of VR with the launch of its mixed reality headset Vision Pro for $3,499 | At the core of Vision Pro is visionOS, the world’s first spatial operating system. This groundbreaking system allows users to engage with digital content in a manner that feels tangibly present in their physical space. With Vision Pro, the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds blur, enabling a truly immersive and interactive experience. | Automation & Productivity |
| Instagram is apparently testing an AI chatbot that lets you choose from 30 personalities | It says the chatbots will be able to answer questions, give advice, and help users write messages. It also says that users will be able to choose between “30 AI personalities and find which one you like best.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cisco goes all in on security with SSE, generative AI-powered SOC, CNAPP and firewalls | He added Cisco’s secure access service edge (SASE) offering — Cisco+ Secure Connect Now — is using the same zero trust–based SSE engine. And the vendor sees an influx of demand for both SASE and SSE use cases as the hybrid work model continues. | Network Management |
| Automation Anywhere Partners with Google Cloud to Bring Together Generative AI and Intelligent Automation | Automation Anywhere is utilizing Google Cloud’s large language models (LLMs) via Vertex AI to build and launch new generative AI features on the Automation Success Platform. Businesses today utilize the Automation Success Platform to automate common front- and back-office processes in areas like human resources, finance, IT, and supply chains. | Automation & Productivity |
| HPE adds sustainability dashboard to GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform | By monitoring energy consumption and associated carbon emissions, HPE’s sustainability dashboard “is this core underpinning of data and visibility that we can provide to our customers to understand their IT estates and [their] carbon impact,” | Sustainability |
| CloudFabrix Announces Availability of ‘Macaw’ Generative AI Assistant and Edge Enhancements with Its Low Code RDAF Platform Release | The “Macaw” Generative AI Assistant leverages natural language Conversational queries and uniquely identifies the prompt context leveraging the Low code Robotic Data Automation Fabric (RDAF) platform. It then uses Azure’s OpenAI LLM (large language model) service and CloudFabrix’s LLM, for semantic search on local knowledge corpus to glean insights and investigate data, compose and explain pipelines, and compose dashboards and service tickets. | Data & Analytics |
| SmartStream Launches Latest Solution for Onboarding Cash Balances Faster With AI-Enabled Technology | SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, announces the latest version of SmartStream Air – with new AI functionality to onboard cash balances faster and more accurately, whilst further improving cash reconciliations | FinTech |
| CISA warns of critical vulnerability in MOVEit file transfer software | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical vulnerability in Progress Software Corp.’s MOVEit file transfer software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and reportedly ordered all federal agencies to patch their systems by June 23. | Security |
| Sentra Announces Integration with Amazon Security Lake to Enhance Enterprises’ Ability to Protect Critical Business Data Assets | This integration enriches existing security logs with a sensitivity score for every cloud resource, creating a more accurate contextualization of the data, and enabling organizations to prioritize threats with the greatest business risk for faster remediation. Once integrated, teams can leverage a “data-first” approach to identify risks and threats, while significantly reducing the time to investigate and respond to them. | Data Management |
| Qumulo’s New Software Enhancements Boost Customers’ Storage Efficiency as They Scale and Never Have to Migrate Again | Qumulo’s new Transparent Platform Refresh (TPR) feature lets customers effortlessly swap old appliances for new ones with no disruption to their end users and without having to undergo a time-consuming and expensive migration. The company’s new Adaptive Data Protection (ADP) feature enables customers to adjust their data protection configurations as their clusters grow, often reclaiming hundreds of terabytes of usable space as a result and optimizing their storage investment as IT budgets tighten. | Data Storage |
| Have Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom found a way to secure 5G network slicing? | “Enterprise employees can then access private cloud-based applications on their enterprise smartphone device via a secure network slice over the public network,” they stated. “The enterprise administrator can also make use of a variety of analytics services in the integrated solution to monitor and analyze the use of the customized network slice.” | 5G |
| Microsoft updates Teams with communities and AI-powered Designer support | It’s a generative AI combined with an art canvas that allows users to use text prompts to describe what they want and it creates artwork for social media posts, invitations and other visuals. Using the tool, users would be able to quickly mock up anything that they want and collaborate with their friends, family and colleagues. | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware’s Cloud Foundation 5 hybrid cloud platform is now available | One highlight of the new version is Isolated SSO Workload Domains, a feature that allows administrators to configure new workload domains using a separate single sign-on instance. This capability is aimed at enterprises that need workload isolation and managed service providers that want to allocate workload domains to different tenants with their own SSO domains. | Cloud |
| Cisco launches long-simmering AWS SD-WAN integration | The offering uses Cisco’s SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to automate the management of connectivity across AWS’s global backbone between an enterprise site and AWS Cloud workloads. This can be managed using a single Cisco SD-WAN vManage dashboard to orchestrate the SD-WAN overlay and AWS Cloud WAN underlay. | Network Management |
| Data center developers turn to emerging US markets | As popular locations such as Northern Virginia become saturated, data center developers are eyeing other US regions, including Atlanta, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Denver. | Data & Analytics |
| BigID Revolutionizes Auto-Classification with Classifier Tuning | While other vendors repeatedly suggest incorrect classifiers or domains, BigID’s patented ML auto-classification was already more accurate, and now has a solution to set an even higher standard by introducing human interaction to tweak classification models with no coding needed for more precise results. | Data & Analytics |
| UpdateAI lands $2.3M in funding to grow its ChatGPT-powered Customer Success platform | UpdateAI also sets itself apart from existing conversational platforms that primarily serve Sales teams. The company has a broader vision that involves closely monitoring account needs at every stage of the customer journey, facilitating seamless sharing of important call moments across teams, and eliminating unproductive customer meetings | Automation & Productivity |
| Alcion Emerges from Stealth with AI-Driven Backup-as-a-Service Platform for Microsoft 365 | Developed with a product-led and community-driven focus, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 admins with an easy-to-use, intelligent, and secure SaaS platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption, and accidental data loss. | IT Management |
| Domino Reveals Breakthrough Innovations for Swift and Cost-effective Enterprise AI Deployment | In fact, a recent study shows 46% of C-level AI executives say they lack necessary governance tools and 99% struggle to convince IT to focus budgets on AI initiatives. With Domino, enterprises can now put responsible AI into practice, further reduce time-to-value from AI, and control the cost of building and operating AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Invisible data exfiltration: New security issue found in Google Workspace | The researchers explain that by default, all Google Drive users start with a “Cloud Identity Free” license and unless an administrator assigns a paid license, no logs are recorded for actions taken within a user’s private drive. The lack of visibility makes it possible for threat actors to manipulate or steal data without detection. | Security |
| Anyscale Launches Aviary: Open Source Infrastructure to Simplify LLM Deployment | “AI is moving so rapidly that many companies are finding that their infrastructure choices prevent them from taking advantage of the latest LLM capabilities. They need access to a platform that lets them leverage the entire open source LLM ecosystem in a future-proof, performant and cost-effective manner.” | Automation & Productivity |
| WISeKey Launches WISeAI.IO 2.0 to Effectively Monitor Cybersecurity Threats on Root of Trust for Individuals and Objects Using AI Advanced Algorithms | By analyzing large volumes of data related to certificate issuance, revocation, and usage, WISeAI algorithms can learn the normal behavior and establish a baseline. Any deviations from this baseline can be flagged as potential security threats, such as unauthorized certificate issuance or suspicious certificate usage. This helps in detecting and responding to attacks on RoTs. | Security |
| Stellar Cyber Announces Support for Amazon Security Lake to Speed Data Processing and Threat Detection | Packed with easy-to-use security features and intelligent automation, Stellar Cyber complements a security team’s human expertise, making them more productive and efficient. Unlike other SecOps platforms that require expert security professionals to deploy, use and maintain, the Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform delivers NG-SIEM, NDR, UEBA, SOAR, and TIP capabilities that anyone can manage. | Security |
| CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider startup, raises another $200M in funding amid AI boom | McBee said that CoreWeave also adopts a unique approach in constructing its data centers specifically for AI work to set itself apart. Unlike the conventional use of Ethernet cables in most data centers, CoreWeave utilizes a networking technology called InfiniBand to interconnect computers. This innovative infrastructure is designed to enhance performance and optimize AI processing capabilities, setting CoreWeave apart in the market. | Automation & Productivity |
| Qumulo cosies up to HPE, makes upgrades easier | The scale-out, parallel file system supplier says its Transparent Platform Refresh (TPR) feature enables old to new appliance upgrades with no end-user disruption and no need for a migration exercise. The Adaptive Data Protection (ADP) feature can enable customers to get back hundreds of terabytes of capacity as their cluster grows, and so save cash | Data Storage |
| Government legal services provider Casepoint targeted in BlackCat attack | It would not be surprising if it were a simple case of data theft, either. Traditional ransomware groups, having originally shifted to “double tap” ransomware attacks where they encrypt files and steal data, have recently abandoned the encryption part as the extortion value proposition in 2023 is threatening to publish stolen data if a ransom is not paid. | Security |
| ZoomInfo Delivers Product Enhancements Powered by Generative AI and Automation | ZoomInfo also released machine learning-based Inferred models to enhance the quality of its Intent data, including millions of additional IP to company matches and increased Intent signal collection for companies. | Automation & Productivity |
| Atly launches with $18M in funding to revolutionize location-based content and provide a better way to explore the world | You can think of Atly as “Reddit for real-world places.” However, unlike popular social platforms such as Facebook and TikTok, Atly offers a unique fusion of social media-style knowledge sharing and advanced mapping and location discovery tools. This integration enables users to enjoy a seamless and highly accurate search experience, combining the power of social engagement with comprehensive exploration and navigation capabilities. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google expands multi-cloud networking capabilities with Cross-Cloud Interconnect | Cross-Cloud Interconnect is a new service that is generally available as of today that directly connects Google Cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With Cross-Cloud Interconnect organizations can establish secure high-bandwidth connections between other public cloud platforms and Google Cloud, enabling them to run applications on multiple clouds, host SaaS in a multi-cloud environment and migrate workloads between different cloud platforms. | Cloud |
| GoDaddy Unlocks the Power of Generative AI with Three New Product Launches | Online Store Product Descriptions – GoDaddy’s incorporated AI technology takes a product photo snapped by the business owner and generates a creative, customized product description from it within seconds. A set of prompts are run through three AI models to deliver a concise, high-quality compelling summary that gets dropped in the item’s description online. | Automation & Productivity |
| Amazon will pay more than $30M for Alexa and Ring privacy violation allegations | One of the lawsuits, brought by both the FTC and Justice Department, accused the company of collecting data on children who had spoken with its virtual assistant Alexa. It was alleged that Amazon did not delete the data, including geolocation data, which violated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, or COPPA Rule. | Data Privacy |
| Cisco buys Armorblox to beef up cybersecurity with generative AI | “The first application of Armorblox’s advanced techniques was securing the most significant way enterprise users get routinely attacked — yes, I’m talking about email,” Chopra wrote. “Through this acquisition, though, we see many exciting broad security use cases and possibilities to unlock.” | Security |
| Improved BlackCat Ransomware Strikes with Lightning Speed and Stealthy Tactics | BlackCat, also called ALPHV and Noberus, is the first Rust-language-based ransomware strain spotted in the wild. Active since November 2021, it has emerged as a formidable ransomware actor, victimizing more than 350 targets as of May 2023. | Security |
| Storj positions itself as Uber of storage world | Incoming files are encrypted, divided (sharded) into 64MB segments, erasure-coded, and the fragments written across multiple distributed providers in a continuous single namespace. Blockchain technology is not used. | Data Storage |
| Aiven announces ‘Bring Your Own Cloud’ to help companies optimize cloud spending | With BYOC, customers can deploy Aiven’s managed data services directly on the public cloud of their choice, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. It means customers now have greater control over which cloud they want to use for compute, storage and networking, enabling them to consolidate their spend with a single provider. | Cloud |
| Blink Ops shows how generative AI can supercharge cloud security operations | The solution, based on LLMs provided by Microsoft Corp., Google LLC’s Bard and OpenAI LP, has been trained on thousands of security workflows so that it can automatically generate no-code workflows and automate cloud security, incident response, identity and access management, threat hunting, and governance, risk management and compliance tasks when prompted. | Security |
| Exasol Unveils the No-Compromise Analytics Database Unlocking Greater Productivity, Cost-Savings, and Flexibility | With processing times up to 20 times faster1 than any other analytics database, Exasol provides an unmatched price/performance ratio, helping customers achieve 320% 2 ROI in reduced licensing, implementation, maintenance, and training costs. Businesses interested in trying Exasol in their own tech stack with their own data can do so at no cost for a limited time through its Accelerator Program. | Data Management |
| 9M dental patient records published following LockBit ransomware attack | Information stolen included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, emails, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses and other government-issued ID numbers. Also stolen were health insurance details, dental care records and information relating to billing and insurance. | Privacy & Security |
| VAST Data makes moves towards Thinking Machines: it’s no longer a storage company | Storage supplier VAST Data is building a Thinking Machines-class system with its own queryable AI-capable database for asking and answering analytical questions, processed on Nvidia GPU servers like SuperPOD. | Data Management |
| Monday.com launches a developer team workflow management tool | Monday.com is the provider of what it calls a work operating system, or Work OS, which allows organizations to quickly get up to speed in building their work management and collaboration systems. It allows them to facilitate project management among different personnel and teams using common workflow and communication tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| Isogent Announces Inform, an All-in-One Solution for Smarter Business Decision Making | Designed to provide businesses with a comprehensive all-in-one solution, Inform is AI-powered software with four dynamic modules, including CRM, ERP, BI, and marketing automation tools, all accessible through a single pane of glass. The software includes comprehensive dashboards and robust reporting, intuitive marketing automation, dynamic productivity monitoring, and an advanced ticketing support system. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dataiku doubles down on responsible AI development, adding greater transparency and control | Dataiku’s platform is used to develop AI applications and is aimed at easing related tasks, such as deploying newly created neural networks in production. It’s designed for both technical and nontechnical users, and to that end it provides tools that make it easy to prepare data for AI training without writing any code. | Automation & Productivity |
| Anoma Foundation raises $25M in Series C funding to bring the third generation of blockchains to market | The substantial financial backing received by Anoma is a testament to the broad acknowledgment and endorsement of their innovative intent-centric architecture. This groundbreaking approach represents a fresh paradigm for constructing blockchain infrastructure layers, gaining significant recognition and support in the industry. | Blockchain |
| New Rezilion Smart Fix offers guidance to patching vulnerable components | The feature seeks to address the issue wherein patching is a complicated and noisy process, which can lead to longer times for fixes and increases risks for an organization. Updating vulnerable components to the latest version can cause disruptive breaks in the enterprise environment, increasing tension between DevOps and security staff when remediation must happen. | DevOps |
| CrowdStrike’s new generative AI tool combines machine and human data | CrowdStrike unveiled its new generative AI cybersecurity analyst tool, dubbed Charlotte AI, which enables Falcon platform users with varying levels of security expertise to ask questions using natural language prompts. Built on its own security data and human-validated content, this artificial intelligence (AI) tool was created to help close the security talent gap and accelerate threat detection, response and remediation time. | Security |
| MetaZone Secures Funding to Expand the World’s First Tokenized App Platform for the Metaverse | MetaZone is the first and only platform that enables creators and developers to mint non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for functional 3D digital content and apps that can be distributed in the metaverse. Using the MetaZone platform, each creator’s META is assigned an NFT that represents its value, ownership, and access rights. | Metaverse |
| ArangoDB Boosts Performance and Usability Across Search, Graph, and Analytics with Release of ArangoDB 3.11 | ArangoDB 3.11 includes performance improvements for ArangoSearch, ArangoDB’s natively-integrated full-text search and ranking engine, as well as new functionality to its web interface to simplify the database’s operations. | Data Management |
| N2WS: The backup rebels of AWS and Azure | It plans to extend its coverage to the Google Cloud Platform in the future. N2WS says it does not lock in customers with a proprietary backup format and backs up a whole application running in the cloud, not just its data. | Data Management |
| GTM Buddy debuts generative AI sales enablement tool | Salespeople can use the tool to automatically write emails to potential buyers. According to GTM Buddy, its AI features ease the task of generating follow-up emails after a sales presentation. Moreover, Ask Buddy is capable of addressing concerns that a potential customer may raise about a product during the buying process. | Automation & Productivity |
| Orion Unveils AI-powered Speech-to-Speech Translation for the Frontline Workforce | Orion Labs,, the world’s first Voice AI Communications Platform for frontline enterprises,released its Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST), available via our Push-to-Talk (PTT) 2.0 Platform. Orion’s S2ST is a first-of-its-kind, voice-AI solution that layers bi-directional translation into real-time, multipoint communications, unlocking entirely new staffing and collaboration possibilities for the deskless workforce and edge operations. | Automation & Productivity |
| Facebook users lose access after violations of linked spam Instagram accounts they don’t own | Where the case becomes strange is that hackers have found a way to link Instagram accounts to unrelated Facebook profiles before they violate community guidelines. This not only results in the newly linked Instagram accounts getting disabled but also the Facebook profiles of unrelated users, as they’re seen as being guilty by association. | Security |
| Singapore-based BandLab raises $25M at $415 million valuation for its social music creation platform | “In this transformative era of mass music creation, our dedication to artists, aspiring musicians, and creators worldwide has never been stronger. Not only are we democratizing music creation on a global scale, we are fostering a community where everyone can express themselves through music, irrespective of their resources or technical prowess." | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI has 'no plans to leave' Europe due to regulations, CEO says | "Europe has been ahead of the curve designing a solid and balanced regulatory framework for AI which tackles risks related to fundamental rights or safety, but also enables innovation for Europe to become a frontrunner in trustworthy AI," he said. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Google starts opening access to Search Generative Experience | Introduced at Google I/O this month, SGE is a version of the company’s search engine that adds a new panel to query results pages. The panel appears above search results and contains AI-generated text. It also includes other elements, including a tool for asking follow-up questions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Red Hat releases Service Interconnect to help connect applications securely | While service mesh technology like Istio is commonly used by vendors to create connectivity inside cloud-native deployments, the new Service Interconnect is taking a different approach. Based on the open-source Skupper project, Red Hat’s Service Interconnect is an application layer interconnect technology for secure communications between Kubernetes clusters, public cloud and virtual machines, as well as bare-metal hosts. | Security |
| New Software by Integral Enables Companies to Maximize Dataset Customization and Privacy | The Integral platform automates the privacy certification of datasets to comply with regulations like HIPAA, for example, in the healthcare industry. With the Privacy Simulation Suite, teams can proactively assign preferences for variables, rows, and columns that need to remain in the dataset and the privacy processing will dynamically adjust to accommodate these preferences. | Data Privacy |
| Microsoft seeks US agency for AI governance, lays out strategy | Smith’s call to build an agency whose sole purpose would be to look at governing AI and AI-based tools comes days after OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman voiced his opinion over setting up an agency that would set ground rules for AI implementation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| This new AI tool will summarize YouTube videos for you in seconds | Like any AI model, this one is capable of getting information wrong. An easy way to circumvent this is by using the timestamps next to each summary point to visit the part of the video where that bullet point was taken from. | Automation & Productivity |
| Habu Announces Collaboration With Microsoft Azure to Deliver Zero-Trust Data Clean Room | The combination of the Habu and Azure technologies can deliver a highly secure environment for multiple parties to work with sensitive data, helping ensure confidentiality and protection while enabling customers to share data between partners without revealing any sensitive information. | Data Privacy |
| Ocient’s Latest Release Elevates Hyperscale Data Analytics with Real-time Features and BI Tools Support | Ocient’s ability to continuously stream, load, and transform large scale datasets and execute machine learning directly within the database enables customers to execute complex, continuous data integration, transformation, and exploration alongside real-time analytics and OLAP-style workloads from a single solution stack. | Data & Analytics |
| Solana Labs integrates ChatGPT plugin to connect blockchain to AI | With this announcement, Solana has become the first Layer 1 blockchain to integrate AI capabilities. Using the plugin, users will be able to query information directly from the blockchain using conversational prompts in order to understand Solana data and protocols. | Blockchain |
| Alteryx Announces New Generative AI Capabilities to Supercharge Analytics Democratization | Alteryx is combining the power of its trusted Alteryx analytics outputs with generative AI and large language models to supercharge the democratization of analytics and dissemination of insights across the organization, while still capturing the governance and observability Alteryx is known for. | Data & Analytics |
| ReasonLabs Unveils RAV VPN Wi-Fi Security to Enhance Online Privacy for Home Users | RAV VPN provides defense against unsafe networks while encrypting all transferred data with the latest security protocols – Wireguard, IKVe2, and OpenVPN. It’s simple to install and extremely easy-to-use, allowing users to connect quickly, encrypt their internet traffic, and enjoy a trouble-free VPN experience. | Security |
| DriveNets claims its Network-Cloud AI accelerates Ethernet, connects up to 32K GPUs | This week, DriveNets, announced its entry into the AI networking space with its Network Cloud-AI product. It’s an approach that relies on Ethernet, rather than InfiniBand, to help connect large numbers of AI-optimized systems in a distributed cluster. DriveNets claims that its new Network Cloud-AI technology approach has the capability to connect up to 32,000 GPUs together in an AI cluster, with bandwidth connectivity of up to 800G. | Network Management |
| Israeli cybersecurity startup Memcyco secures $10M to protect brands and businesses from brandjacking fraud | PoSA provides brands with comprehensive information about attempted attack sessions, ensuring complete visibility into the nature of the threat. It also pioneers the issuance of a Red Alert to users when they encounter a spoofed website associated with the brand. Leveraging artificial intelligence, PoSA™ analyzes behavioral patterns to detect and promptly notify organizations of any suspicious activity. | Privacy & Security |
| Cisco Rolls Out Digital Experience Monitoring | The offering utilizes OpenTelemetry—an open-source set of tools for collecting telemetry data from applications—to provide digital experience monitoring by combining application and network vantage points. The bi-directional integration pulls together data from multiple sources, analyzes it in real time, and reduces the time it takes to resolve issues. | Data & Analytics |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI Accelerates Generative AI Adoption Across the Hybrid Cloud | Red Hat OpenShift AI provides several optional technology partner offerings including Anaconda, IBM Watson Studio, Intel OpenVINO and AI Analytics Toolkit, NVIDIA AI Enterprise and and Starburst. It also provides access to 30 additional AI/ML certified partners as part of the OpenShift ecosystem. | Artificial Intelligence |
| New Elastic search tool allows enterprises to harness generative AI | Insight engines like Elastic’s combine search with composite AI to provide context-enriched analysis, according to analyst firm Gartner. They draw data from a wide variety of sources and types — what’s known as “wide data,” including repositories, websites and databases — into a central, queryable index. | Data & Analytics |
| Dell gets edgy with chatbots, Zero Trust, backup | Project Helix will support a generative AI project lifecycle, we’re told, from infrastructure provisioning, modeling, training, fine-tuning, application development and deployment, to deploying inference and streamlining results. The on-premises presence, Dell claims, reduces inherent risk and helps companies meet regulatory requirements. | IT Management |
| Cloudinary Extends AI-powered Video Platform with Advanced Video API Capabilities | New Video Generation feature allows brands to programmatically generate videos using existing assets, colors and text, reducing the time and energy it takes to create on-brand video content. Brands can also generate video-like effects from static images or create video previews. | Automation & Productivity |
| Sprinklr AI+ Supercharges Customer Experience Data for Deeper Insights, Better Decisions, and Faster Actions | Sprinklr AI+ allows enterprises to combine unstructured, CX data from 30+ digital channels – including social platforms, messaging platforms, and millions of publicly available news, blog, and review sites – with generative AI to create content, improve feedback and assistance, and more quickly identify insights and subsequent actions. | Data & Analytics |
| Builder.ai raises $250M to simplify software development projects | The first component of its product suite, Studio Rapid, enables companies to develop back-office software such as employee onboarding tools and analytics dashboards. The tool doesn’t require users to write any code. Instead, they can create a new application through a point and click interface. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cohesity Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to Help Organizations Unlock the Power of Generative AI and Data | Cohesity unveiled Cohesity Turing, a unique, comprehensive, and rapidly evolving set of AI technologies that brings the power of AI to data security and management. The expanded partnership with Google Cloud, along with Cohesity Turing, will enable organizations to leverage their entire data estate through a single, secure workflow across on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments. | Data & Analytics |
| SpectraLogic and Arcitecta take on NAS market | Mediaflux plus BlackPearl NAS can support hundreds of billions of files in a single, easily managed global namespace. Multiple storage nodes work in parallel, allowing the system to handle vast I/O request volumes, increase throughput and reduce latency.” | Data Storage |
| Informatica Announces Integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud with Microsoft Fabric | IDMC already enjoys a seamless integration with Azure portal and Marketplace, with the platform announced as an Azure Native ISV Service earlier this month at Informatica World, Informatica’s annual customer conference. Additionally, Informatica’s Cloud Data Governance and Catalog was also launched natively on Azure, with the pair of innovations providing Azure customers a more unified experience and trusted data capabilities. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft’s M365 Copilot AI assistant gets third-party app integrations | The new “plugin extensions" essentially act as a bridge between Copilot and other software accessed by a business, allowing the AI assistant to tap into a wider range of data. This could include internal applications built within an organization or third-party tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| CISO Global and Halcyon join forces to ward off ransomware and extortion attacks | The two companies argue that ransomware is one of the most significant threats facing businesses, with limited solutions to protect endpoints and networks. They claim that existing monitoring solutions, which vary widely in quality, have done little to stem the explosive growth of ransomware. That’s where the new alliance comes in. | Security |
| Infosys Launches Topaz, Empowering Enterprises with Generative AI Tech | Infosys Topaz creates efficiencies across the enterprise. Infosys’ AI-first specialists use smart tools, platforms, and autonomous software engineering for business agility. Infosys Topaz drives organization-wide synergies by reimagining user personas, data architecture and engineering blueprints for the future. | Artificial Intelligence |
| New Upgrades for PDFelement 4.0 Will Revolutionize PDF Management and Improve User Experiences | PDFelement enables businesses to efficiently handle their PDF documents and has been widely recognized and awarded for its exceptional software capabilities. Whether it’s creating, editing, annotating, or converting PDF files, PDFelement offers a comprehensive suite of tools that empower professionals to work with PDF documents seamlessly. | Automation & Productivity |
| UiPath and Peraton Announce Partnership to Expand Cloud-based Automation | UiPath and Peraton combined to drastically improve processes at a U.S. defense agency. The customer needed to process hundreds of weekly metrics from data dispersed in disparate sources. With an automation solution from UiPath, the agency built highly scalable bots to fully automate the process, reducing the workload from many hours to 15 minutes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Adobe integrates generative AI directly into Photoshop with new Firefly capabilities | In addition to generating images from text prompts, Generative Fill automatically matches the perspective, lighting and style of images, while users can add, extend or remove newly-generated content in generative layers, allowing for rapid iteration. | Automation & Productivity |
| Apple looks to advance artificial intelligence for iPhones, iPads and other devices | The moves suggest Apple aims to advance its own AI efforts to avoid relying on other companies’ technologies. With vast resources and more than a billion iPhone users, Apple is well positioned to develop innovative AI for its products. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Kioxia doubles capacity, write speed of client gumstick SSD | The BG5 with its 1TB maximum capacity and PCIe gen 4 interface has been replaced by the BG6 with the same interface but a 2TB capacity. Like the BG5 it is an M.2 format drive in either 2230 or single-sided 2280 format and uses TLC (3 bits per cell) flash with a host-managed DRAM buffer. | Data Storage |
| Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers to the US | The ruling was made by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which said that that the current legal framework for data transfers to the US “did not address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of Facebook’s EU users and violated GDPR. The fine exceeds the previous EU record of €746 million levied against Amazon in 2021 for similar privacy violations. | Data Privacy |
| IBM announces new 10-year, $100M quantum-centric supercomputer initiative | IBM made the announcement at the G7 Summit in Japan. The project is being pitched as offering new understandings of chemical reactions and molecular processes, aiding research in areas such as climate change, the development of materials for electric vehicle batteries and sustainable energy grids and the discovery of more effective and energy-efficient fertilizers. | Quantum Computing |
| Visibility-First Zero Trust Networking Platform Lumeus.ai Launches With $6 Million Seed | Launched today, Lumeus.ai offers a Universal Zero Trust platform that leverages AI/ML to help organizations increase visibility from campus to cloud, authorize resource access, and segment network traffic to prevent lateral movement. Lumeus.ai seamlessly connects to existing infrastructure in an agentless manner, meaning organizations see value from day one. | Network Management |
| Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine | “We’ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Pecan AI Opens Platform and Fast Predictive Modeling for All Data Professionals | Pecan’s low-code predictive analytics platform lets businesses quickly and efficiently gain the competitive edge of AI and data science. The free trial reveals how easily analysts can rapidly use Pecan to create accurate, action-oriented predictive models — without help from data scientists — and integrate predictions directly into their existing business systems for immediate impact. | Data & Analytics |
| New Concentric AI capabilities can find hardcoded secrets and key credentials | Concentric AI argues that new capabilities such as generative artificial intelligence have made it easier to trick employees into clicking on harmful links or downloading malicious attachments, leaving enterprises more vulnerable to a compromise. Once attackers successfully compromise a network, they can search for and discover secrets and keys to access applications in vast amounts of unstructured data. | Security |
| Yellow AI launches YellowG, a generative AI platform for automation workflows | Yellow AI says it believes that businesses can achieve elevated levels of automation by integrating AI-driven chatbots like YellowG into customer and employee experiences across various channels. The company said that such an integration not only significantly reduces operational costs but also enables 90% automation within the first 30 days. | Automation & Productivity |
| Savant Labs Aims to Save Millions of Productivity Hours with New AI Tool, Savant Copilot | From complex data queries to data cleaning tasks like removing duplicates, standardizing names and addresses to data transformation tasks like creating calculated fields to advanced analytics like segmentation and geospatial analytics, Analysts can now describe the analytic tasks in plain English. And Savant Copilot auto-generates the code and the underlying analytics leveraging state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies. | Automation & Productivity |
| ClearML unveils ClearGPT, a generative AI platform overcoming ChatGPT challenges | The company asserts that its distinctive feature is the customization of LLMs to align with an enterprise’s specific data, seamlessly operating within its network and ensuring comprehensive protection of intellectual property (IP), compliance and knowledge | ChatGPT |
| Dell wields NeuroBlade to cut analytics time | NeuroBlade has won Dell as a go-to-market partner for its hardware acceleration units that speed SQL queries. These G200 SPUs – SQL Processing Units – contain two NeuroBlade processors and work with query engines such as Presto, Trino, Spark and Dremio. No changes are needed to a host system’s data, queries or code as the SPU operates transparently as far as the application code is concerne | Data & Analytics |
| Meta contributes 3 open-source projects to improve network connectivity | Among the contributed projects is Terragraph, which is a technology designed to help improve last-mile connectivity for wireless networks. The second project, known as Open M-Plane (formerly a technology Meta had been developing under the name Evenstar), provides an open-source implementation of an O-RAN (Open RAN) Alliance–compliant management plane. The third project, Maveric, uses artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to help optimize cellular network deployments. | Network Management |
| Envoy unveils workplace occupancy analytics solution to empower informed decision-making | This captures data from various sources, such as door access scans, WiFi usage and employee sign-ins, providing organizations with an accurate depiction of workplace activities. Envoy claims that Workplace empowers organizations to gain insights into on-site teams and workspace utilization across all locations, facilitating informed decision-making. | Data & Analytics |
| ExtraHop’s new tool helps companies protect against ChatGPT data leaks | In a blog post, ExtraHop explained that organizations have some very real concerns about their employees using AI-as-a-service tools, due to the risk of data and intellectual property leaks that can occur when sharing data with them. ExtraHop says employees may not realize that by sharing information with these tools, they’re effectively putting that information into the public domain. | Security |
| Parallel Domain unveils Reactor, a generative AI-based synthetic data generation engine | According to the company, Reactor enhances AI performance across various industries, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, by generating high-quality images. In addition, the tool harnesses the power of generative AI to produce annotated data, which is a crucial requirement for ML tasks. | Automation & Productivity |
| SingleStore Launches MongoDB API to Power AI and Real-Time Analytics on JSON | SingleStore today announced the launch of SingleStore Kai for MongoDB, a new API that turbocharges real-time analytics on JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and vector based similarity searches for MongoDB based AI applications — without the need for any query changes or data transformations. | Data & Analytics |
| IBM wants drag-and-drop connectivity for hybrid cloud applications | In a nutshell, Hybrid Cloud Mesh deploys gateways within the clouds – including on-premises, AWS or other providers’ clouds, and transit points, if needed – to support the infrastructure, and then it builds a secure Layer 3-7 mesh overlay to deliver applications, Coward said. At the application level, the exposure to developers occurs at Layer 7, and the networking teams see Layer 3 and 4 activities, Coward said. | Cloud |
| Skyflow launches ‘privacy vault’ for building LLMs | The solution, as the name suggests, provides enterprises with a layer of data privacy and security throughout the entire lifecycle of their LLMs, beginning with data collection and continuing through model training and deployment. | Privacy & Security |
| Searching for AI Tools? Watch Out for Rogue Sites Distributing RedLine Malware | Malicious Google Search ads for generative AI services like OpenAI ChatGPT and Midjourney are being used to direct users to sketchy websites as part of a BATLOADER campaign designed to deliver RedLine Stealer malware. | Security |
| Solidigm Unveils High-Density, Low-Cost D5-P5430 QLC SSD for Enterprise Applications | With most of today’s enterprise applications read-dominant, the D5-P5430 — a 4th gen PCIe QLC SSD — offers substantial storage density and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) opportunities while delivering read performance that is equivalent to the most widely-adopted TLC SSDs. | Data Storage |
| ‘Infostealer’ malware evolves to become even more lethal | One stealer called Aurora has more than 6,000 subscribers with a monthly price of $125. Kishon documents the growing trend of using Telegram channels to communicate and sell the stolen data, along with subscriptions for the stealer software itself. | Security |
| Threat actor uses phishing and SIM-swapping to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines | Detailed May 16 by researchers at Google LLC-owned Mandiant, the threat actor, designated UNC3944, uses the Serial Console on Azure VMs to install third-party remote management software within client environments. Hackers gaining access to Azure VMs is hardly new, but the researchers noted that the attack method is unique in that it avoided many of the traditional detection methods within Azure while giving the attacker full administrative access to the VM. | Security |
| Juniper MISTifies ChatGPT, Zoom and NAC security service | Juniper is integrating the ChatGPT AI-based large language model (LLM) with Mist’s virtual network assistant, Marvis. Marvis can detect and describe myriad network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity | Network Management |
| Scality’s ARTESCA 2.0 Offers Enhanced Cyber Resiliency with Entry-Level Pricing | Over a dozen innovations in ARTESCA 2.0 strengthen cyber resiliency through a hardened, reduced attack surface that minimizes security risks with best-of-breed data immutability for increased ransomware protection — all at entry-level pricing starting at under $4,000 per year, including 24×7 support. | Security |
| OpenAI launches a ChatGPT app for iOS, with an Android version coming soon | The app was announced today by OpenAI LP, the creator of ChatGPT, which said it’s free to use and can even respond to voice commands and prompts with the help of a speech recognition model called Whisper. | ChatGPT |
| Airbyte No-Code Builder Revolutionizes Data Integrations, Creates Connectors in Just Minutes | Airbyte today announced the availability of its new no-code connector builder that makes it possible to easily and quickly create new connectors for data integrations. The builder enables non-engineers, such as data analysts, to create an extract, load, transform (ELT) connector within just five minutes – a process that traditionally could take more than a week. | Data & Analytics |
| Union.ai Announces $19.1M Series A and Launches All-New Union Cloud to Simplify AI and Data Workflows for All | “Our accelerated momentum reflects on the success of Flyte, the popular open-source workflow orchestration platform, and we are seeing an even broader range of customers expressing excitement about Union Cloud as a new managed solution that is powered by Flyte.” | Data & Analytics |
| Privacy Sandbox Initiative: Google to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies Starting 2024 | Privacy Sandbox is a two-pronged project for the web and Android that aims to limit covert tracking by eliminating the need for third-party cookies and cross-app identifiers and still serving relevant content and ads in a privacy-preserving manner. | Data Privacy |
| FICO Platform Unveils New Features Enhancing Analytics, Decision Automation, and Business Simulation | FICO Platform is designed to sharpen businesses’ competitive advantage with an unparalleled depth of insights for applied intelligence, powering customer connections and strategic business outcomes. These innovations break down silos across teams and power your talent force to achieve customer-focused digital transformation, while giving enterprises greater agility and collaboration. | Data & Analytics |
| A Texas A&M professor failed over half of his students after ChatGPT falsely claimed it wrote their papers | The use of AI technology in education has become a topic of debate. While some schools in Texas have prohibited students from using ChatGPT, others are exploring ways to incorporate this AI chatbot into their educational practices. | ChatGPT |
| Israeli startup Entro raises $6M for its secrets security and management platform | Entro offers a platform that continuously monitors and protects secrets, programmatic cloud services and data access. It detects, safeguards and provides context for secrets stored across vaults, source code, collaboration tools, cloud environments and software-as-a-service platforms. | Security |
| NetApp Reinforces Its Market Leadership with Innovative Block Storage Solutions and Ransomware Recovery Guarantee | The NetApp Ransomware Recovery Guarantee leverages ONTAP’s unique combination of key built-in security and ransomware protection features. ONTAP can automatically block known malicious file types, block rogue admins and malicious users with multi-admin verification, and provide tamper-proof snapshots that can’t be deleted – even by the storage administrator | Data Storage |
| Cloudflare unveils Cloudflare One for AI to enable safe use of generative AI tools | “Cloudflare One provides teams of any size with the ability to use the best tools available on the internet without facing management headaches or performance challenges. In addition, it allows organizations to audit and review the AI tools their team members have started using" | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sanctuary AI unveils a humanoid robot called Phoenix that’s ready to offer its ‘labor-as-a-service’ | Phoenix stands at 170 centimeters tall and weighs 70.3 kilograms, and can walk at a top speed of 4.8 kilometers per hour. It can lift a maximum payload of 25 kilograms, the company says. Its humanoid form is complemented by some extremely dexterous robotic hands that boast 20 degrees of freedom of movement, enabling it to manipulate objects in the same way as a human hand. | Automation & Productivity |
| WhatsApp users can now use Chat Lock to secure private or sensitive chats | Chat Lock will remove a secured chat from your inbox and place it in a special hidden folder to avoid exposure to prying eyes. This feature will also hide the contents of the conversation and the name of your chat partner in your notifications in case someone else is peeking at your phone's lock screen. | Data Privacy |
| ThinkData Works Unlocks Hybrid Cloud with New Virtualization Capabilities | This enhancement increases the number of data source integrations available on the ThinkData Works Catalog Platform, including native support for Snowflake, BigQuery, and other cloud warehouses, as well as Oracle, SQL Servers, mongoDB and streaming data sources like Kafka and Kinesis. | Data & Analytics |
| Juniper’s cloud-based NAC adds ChatGPT for a better, simplified UX | Additionally, Juniper continues to work with third-party NAC vendors including Cisco and Aruba, Gilby said. But compared to those solutions, the cloud-native and AI-driven NAC is simpler to deploy and roll out, offers a better user experience, finds problems faster, and allows partners and sales teams to spin the service up from the cloud, he touted. | Network Management |
| Virtana Unveils CloudMonitor, Delivering Cloud-based Centralized Visibility for Hybrid, Multi-Vendor, and Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Environments | With CloudMonitor, customers realize rapid improvements to mean-time-to-detect (MTTD), decreasing their mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by an average of 90%. CloudMonitor also helps organizations make better decisions about their infrastructure investments and ensure they have adequate capacity to support growth and performance without sacrificing IT budgets. | Cloud |
| Zoom announces partnership with Anthropic for AI call center services | The idea, according to Zoom’s announcement, is to let AI assist call center workers in understanding a given caller’s intent. The system should be able to surface helpful information quickly, and provide insights that can be used to help train call center workers. A planned feature will also use AI to offer those workers resources based on caller requests. | Automation & Productivity |
| Island updates its enterprise browser with new cybersecurity features | The company is now rolling out a new set of cybersecurity capabilities called Self-Protection for the Enterprise Browser. According to Island, the feature bundle will shield installations of its browser from a range of malware varieties. Additionally, the update will make it more difficult for hackers to intercept users’ network traffic. | Privacy & Security |
| Visual Layer raises $7M to clean up image datasets for AI training | According to Visual Layer, up to 30% of the images and videos used in training datasets can be described as “messy.” The result of those messy images is skewed AI models getting leveraged in real products and services, leading to problems around AI bias and missed business opportunities. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Webb Protocol raises $7M in funding to unlock user privacy in the Web3 ecosystem | However, this independence of privacy sets creates a zero-sum environment in terms of privacy creation, where the gains of one project may come at the expense of others. That is why zero-knowledge privacy tech startup Webb Protocol is building infrastructure to allow for private cross-blockchain asset transfers and unlock user privacy for billions expected to join the Web3 ecosystem a few years from now. | Data Privacy |
| ChatGPT adds plugins, will search the web for you | “Though not a perfect analogy, plugins can be 'eyes and ears' for language models, giving them access to information that is too recent, too personal, or too specific to be included in the training data,” according to an OpenAI blog post in March. “In response to a user’s explicit request, plugins can also enable language models to perform safe, constrained actions on their behalf, increasing the usefulness of the system overall.” | ChatGPT |
| Cisco aims for full-stack observability with AppDynamics/ThousandEyes tie-in | “The networking side of the house only typically sees networking as a packet, and the apps team only sees a TCP flow from an application. But with DEM, ThousandEyes and AppDynamics, we have enabled that information to be shared with both those teams, and customers can now see how the network impacts that application and vice-versa,” | Network Management |
| 1Password is finally rolling out passkey management | 1Password hasn’t mentioned if this rollout will also allow users to replace their 1Password master password with a passkey, which was previously teased for a summer release. | Privacy & Security |
| DeepBrain AI uses virtual humans and generative AI to automate job interviews | The new offering combines DeepBrain AI’s generative AI video technology with OpenAI LP’s large language model GPT-4 to create an AI-powered interviewer that can engage job applicants in question and answer sessions to weed out candidates for face-to-face interviews with real humans. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cloudflare extends zero trust, SASE to protect generative AI use | Includes Cloudflare Tunnel to provide an encrypted, outbound-only connection to the vendor’s network. This scrutinizes every request against access rules set for services under Cloudflare One or those in which teams are ready to allow an AI service to connect to their infrastructure. | Security |
| NetApp wants to be cool kid of SAN with latest all-flash array | NetApp has doubled down on its all-flash systems with a new SAN array, the ASA A-Series, and a new StorageGRID object storage system, and has added a ransomware recovery guarantee as well as making its ONTAP One data services software suite available to all ONTAP users without added charge. | Data Storage |
| Confluent buffs up its cloud with data quality controls and managed connections | The company is also simplifying the process of building connectors to third-party data sources, making it easier for customers to share streams between organizations, delivering a cloud-based Kafka engine and launching an early-access program for a managed version of the Apache Flink unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework. | Cloud |
| AWS launches Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized to lower users’ database costs | Aurora is a managed relational database that companies can use without having to maintain the underlying infrastructure. It’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, two other popular relational databases. That means companies can switch applications written for MySQL and PostgreSQL to Aurora without making major code changes. | Data Management |
| OneTrust Unveils Innovations to Enable Responsible Data Use and Trust Intelligence at Scale | The Trust Intelligence Platform provides a single, comprehensive foundation to consolidate solutions across privacy, security, ethics, and ESG. Going beyond standalone tools and point solutions gives organizations the improved collaboration across departments and teams, centralized intelligence, and better decision-making capabilities to see the measurable benefits of trust. | Data Management |
| Cable raises $11M to help banks combat financial crime | The platform also provides collaboration features to ease compliance teams’ work. Managers can assign risk mitigation tasks to specific team members, as well as prioritize risks based on their severity. And it provides a tool that makes it possible to generate reports quickly about a bank’s cybercrime prevention program for executives and regulators. | FinTech |
| Ed-Tech Company eNotes Launches AI Fact Check Service to Pair with AI “Instant Answers” | These answers can be instantly fact-checked by our network of educators, ensuring the accuracy of the generated information. This unique feature allows students to harness innovative technology in a safe, academic environment where Educators are present to fact-check and critique the AI output. Every eNotes member gets unlimited access to AI answers and can purchase fact-checks as part of their subscription. | EDTech |
| Simplr adds comprehensive safeguards for ChatGPT to be used safely in customer interactions | This is where Simplr says Cognitive Paths can make a difference. The company says its integration of GPT-4 is governed by a strict set of AI training parameters that guide chatbots to the right customer resolution, without any risk of hallucination. It does this by reducing the volume of information available to the chatbot, so it cannot tap into false knowledge. | ChatGPT |
| Meta details generative AI ad tools and large-scale Lattice model architecture | One of the new tools enables marketers to automatically produce multiple versions of ad copy. It’s joined by a feature that generates background images based on text prompts. The capabilities are meant to help marketers quickly test different variations of an ad until they identify the version that drives the most sales. | Automation & Productivity |
| Writer Launches New Features, Offering Enterprises Data-to-Desktop Generative AI | “Our customers don’t need to generate creative stories and sonnets — they need to protect their data, brand and reputation,” said May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder of Writer. “That’s why we’ve given them the ability to completely control their LLM, from what data they can access to what data they use to where that data is stored. There’s no other generative AI on the market that meets our security and privacy standards.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Extreme moves cloud-based network management to the edge | The ExtremeCloud Edge package unifies the company’s core ExtremeCloud applications, which include the ExtremeCloud IQ wireless and wired network-management offering, CoPilot AI-based management tool, and SD-WAN. With an integrated package, customers can deploy a variety of management and networking features, from analytics and AI support to edge networks, all via a single cloud-based console. | Cloud |
| Google releases new generative AI products and features for Google Cloud and Vertex AI | Among the new offerings are three new foundation models that are available in Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s end-to-end machine learning platform. These models are Codey, a text-to-code model that can help developers with code completion, generation, and chat; Imagen, a text-to-image model that can help customers generate and edit high-quality images for any business need; and Chirp, a speech-to-text model that can help organizations engage with customers and constituents more inclusively in their native languages. | Automation & Productivity |
| Why Kyndryl is adding a managed SASE service | Jeremy Reese, WAN networking product line leader at Kyndryl, said that the goal of the managed SASE solution is to provide visibility and protection of the entire attack surface. Reese said that the technology helps to enable automated self-healing networks and AI-driven security to proactively manage risk and reduce management overhead. | Security |
| Google Cloud and SAP partner on data cloud to fuel AI | Today, they said they’re turning their attention towards helping joint customers build an “end-to-end data cloud.” The plan is to use SAP Datasphere to pull data from across various parts of a business and send it all into Google Cloud’s fully managed and serverless data warehouse offering, BigQuery, where it can be analyzed more easily and used to train various AI programs. | Cloud |
| Cybersecurity startup SquareX launches out of stealth with $6M in funding led by Sequoia Capital to secure your online activities | The product is integrated with the user’s browser as an extension, allowing it to monitor and safeguard their online activities. To achieve this, SquareX uses its cloud service, which enables users to open links and files within temporary browsers or “disposable container sandboxes.” These sandboxes are essentially headless browsers running in secure data centers on behalf of the user, preventing any potential web-based threats from ever reaching the user’s computer. | Privacy & Security |
| Cisco warns of certificate problem that takes down SD-WANs | In a tweeted alert and a Tech Note Wednesday morning, Cisco said it is actively working to address a device failure problem that's impacting a number of Viptela SD-WAN platforms including the vEdge 100, 1000, 2000. It defined the problem as “an expired certificate affecting control plane connections, which eventually impacts data plane connections resulting in loss of service. | Security |
| Tray.io launches Merlin AI to automate complex workflows without LLM training | Merlin AI empowers employees and developers to construct, refine and enhance workflows without requiring IT or engineering participation, reducing integration time from weeks or months to minutes. The Tray.io platform merges the potency of adaptable, expandable automation, the provision of sophisticated business logic, and built-in generative AI capabilities to generate automated workflows. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google Search adds tools to help spot AI-generated images, and more | Google said it wants people to be able to assess quickly whether an image is AI-generated, and to do that, it will provide more context with “About this image.” Users will be able to click and see information such as when the image was first indexed in Google Search and where it first appeared online. Users will also be able to see where else it has been used, so they’ll be able to establish if a fake image is being used as misinformation, for example. | Automation & Productivity |
| MariaDB Unveils Distributed SQL Vision at OpenWorks 2023, Boosting Scalability for MySQL and PostgreSQL Communities | At OpenWorks, MariaDB demonstrated how other open source relational databases such as PostgreSQL used with Xpand’s distributed SQL database scales beyond the conventional primary/replica architecture that hits scalability limits quickly. Benchmarks show PostgreSQL with Xpand scaling to 5x the number of users at twice the throughput compared to PostgreSQL on its own and a popular PostgreSQL cloud option. | Data & Analytics |
| Harness Introduces Continuous Error Tracking to Provide Developer-First Observability for Modern Applications | Harness CET is a developer-first observability solution, with end-to-end visibility that enables developers to observe errors, debug code and create quality gates in the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) stages. By correlating these errors with those observed in production, Harness CET enables developers to prioritize remediation efforts and ensure faster time-to-resolution | Automation & Productivity |
| Google expands dark web reporting service to US Gmail users | As the service is rolled out to Gmail, users can run scans to see if their email address appears on the dark web and receive guidance on actions, such as implementing multifactor authentication to protect their accounts. The service will also remind Gmail users to check if their email has been linked to any data breaches that have ended up on ransomware leak sites or other nefarious sites on the dark web. | Privacy & Security |
| Scale AI Launches EGP to Unlock Customized Models with Enterprise-Grade Safety & Security | EGP enables customers to move from sandbox solutions to production applications quickly with pre-built apps, including Chat to enable knowledge retrieval, Forge to generate stunning product imagery at scale, and ShopChat to provide a personalized shopping assistant for every buyer. Scale also helps customers securely build bespoke applications or integrate internal or 3rd party applications from the app ecosystem. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google unveils PaLM 2, its most powerful general-purpose AI yet, to power Bard chatbot | These enhancements include multilingual understanding, such as idioms and phrases, better logical reasoning and coding capabilities. Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of Google DeepMind, said PaLM 2 has “significantly improved its ability to understand, generate and translate nuanced text — including idioms, poems and riddles — across a wide variety of languages” and now understands more than 100 languages. | Automation & Productivity |
| Informatica Announces New Capabilities for its Intelligent Data Management Cloud to Power the Modern Data Architecture | “While there are disparate point solutions available in the market today, IDMC, bolstered by the latest innovations, is best-of-breed data management, with intelligent automation and a suite of fully integrated services on a single, unified platform – connected, compatible, open, modular and comprehensive – powering the modern data architecture.” | Data & Analytics |
| This data platform will help banks share criminal intelligence | It will plug current gaps where, due to confidentiality requirements, financial institutions are unable to alert each other about unusual activities involving their customers. This gap enables criminals to carry out illicit transactions through different financial institutions to avoid detection, said Singapore's Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan, who also is a MAS board member. | Data & Analytics |
| IBM debuts Watsonx product suite to streamline enterprise AI projects | The first product, Watsonx.ai, is a software platform that can be used to train generative AI models as well as other types of neural networks. According to IBM, customers won’t have to build their models from scratch. Watsonx.ai will offer access to a catalog of prepackaged AI models along with datasets for training them. | Artificial Intelligence |
| MariaDB brings its Xpand distributed DBMS to PostgreSQL users | Xpand is a distributed SQL database built for resilience and scale. It’s intended to withstand infrastructure failures and remain available by storing multiple copies of data on different database nodes. The company claims Xpand delivers a 2.5-times improvement in throughput and a four-times boost in latency over the earlier release of SkySQL. | Data & Analytics |
| Nebulon's TripLine offers ransomware encryption protection for on-prem systems | Nebulon said that the new service uses two techniques to achieve this aim. The first is the “secure enclave,” which is a domain isolated from the infrastructure that includes core management and storage functions. Second, it embeds the TripLine functionality into the company’s core Nebulon ON cloud control plane. | Security |
| Nutanix centralizes control of the (accidental) hybrid, multi-cloud world | To that point, the SVP touted Nutanix Central as a cloud-delivered service management model designed for federated endpoints, which is now available in Early Access. The Nutanix Central console offers visibility and monitoring capabilities for public cloud, on-premises, hosted and edge environments. | Cloud |
| Cognizant and Google Cloud Expand Alliance to Bring AI to Enterprise Clients | Building further on Cognizant’s existing Data Modernization and Data Analytics specializations on Google Cloud, Cognizant will build a suite of transformative solutions for all industries, leveraging Google Cloud’s generative AI, predictive AI, and analytics capabilities. The first solution suites to be offered will be for the banking, insurance, life sciences, and retail industries. | Automation & Productivity |
| Anthropic releases AI constitution to promote ethical behavior and development | On Tuesday, the company publicly released its official constitution for Claude, its latest conversational AI model that can generate text, images and code. The constitution outlines a set of values and principles that Claude must follow when interacting with users, such as being helpful, harmless and honest. It also specifies how Claude should handle sensitive topics, respect user privacy and avoid illegal behavior. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Wendy’s teams up with Google to release an AI chatbot that takes orders | Like all generative AI, the bot will be trained using a large language model, or LLM, but will also be fluent in unique expressions to the outlet, such as the terms “biggie bag” or “JBC,” a junior bacon cheeseburger. The bot will also be trained to understand different accents and dialects and will — or should — be able to cut through the noise of music or chatter coming from the vehicle. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sinequa Brings Reliable Generative AI to Product Lifecycle Management for Digital Thread Optimization | The information that engineers need is often spread across multiple corporate systems (e.g., PDM/PLM, ERP, MES, MRO, SDM, supplier catalogs, test results, and operational data) and dozens of ‘personal’ systems (e.g., meeting notes, spreadsheets, presentations, customer feedback, etc.). Sinequa’s Search Cloud provides an innovative approach to access this information easily and in context, allowing engineers to make informed decisions.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Informatica Expands Its Intelligent Data Management Cloud with Innovations Led by CLAIRE GPT | CLAIRE, Informatica’s enterprise-scale AI engine, is the foundational layer that powers its individual data management solutions and its integrated IDMC platform. With more than 50,000 metadata-aware connections that leverage 23 petabytes of metadata, IDMC processes 54 trillion monthly transactions for customers. | Data Management |
| NetApp gets file storage benchmark boost | This SPECstorage Solution 2020 benchmark test is a Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) validated test of file storage performance in five workload scenarios: AI image processing, electronic design automation (EDA), genomics, software builds, and video data acquisition. The workload stats include jobs or builds, ORT (Overall Response Time), and MBp | Data Storage |
| KPMG and Google Cloud expand alliance to accelerate the adoption of generative AI among enterprises | Google Cloud and KPMG recently announced a substantial expansion of their alliance to assist enterprises in integrating generative AI technologies into their operations. The collaboration will merge KPMG’s proficiency in cloud computing, data analytics and responsible AI with Google Cloud’s next-gen infrastructure and generative AI capabilities. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Tableau refreshes its visualization platform with GPT added | The move is part of a bigger overhaul of Tableau called Pulse which is aimed at providing AI-powered, personalized experiences by making insights accessible through both natural language and visual formats. The platform also features integrations with collaboration tools such as Salesforce’s Slack and email so reports can be integrated into existing workflows | Data & Analytics |
| Western Digital’s online store still closed six weeks after cyberattack | An SEC filing by WD on May 5 stated the drive maker’s investigation into the IT intrusion is still underway and the majority of impacted systems and services are now operational, including MyCloud. The closed MyStore operation should be back online in the week beginning May 15. | Security |
| DataStax extends AI feature engineering with Luna ML | Back on Jan. 12, DataStax acquired Kaskada, a privately-held technology vendor building an AI feature engineering technology. Kaskada’s technology provides a declarative query language that can help data scientists to accurately detail what an AI model needs from a dataset. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Orca Security is First CNAPP to Integrate with Microsoft Azure OpenAI GPT-4 | The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. With this new Microsoft integration, Orca Security customers can benefit not only from the greatly improved functionality in GPT-4, but also from the security and enterprise support that Microsoft provides. | Security |
| ServiceNow and Hugging Face release open-source AI model for generating code | “The joint efforts led by Hugging Face and ServiceNow enable the release of powerful base models that empower the community to build a wide range of applications more efficiently than a single company could come up with,” said BigCode co-lead Leandro von Werra. “This endeavor is a testament to the potential of open‑source as we work toward democratizing AI.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Edgecore Networks Teams up with Wedge Networks to Offer Next-Generation Network Security | Wedge Networks’ Wedge Cloud Network Defense (WedgeCND), a cloud-managed security service designed to provide comprehensive security protection, is now available as an add-on for Edgecore’s Wi-Fi 6 series access points through its ecCLOUD cloud controller. | Network Management |
| White House unveils AI rules to address safety and privacy | Administration officials plan to discuss the “fundamental responsibility” those companies have in ensuring their AI products are safe and protect the privacy of US citizens as the technology becomes more powerful and capable of independent decision making. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Bing AI Chat is now open to everyone, though still in preview | Persistent chat, images and video, a chat sidebar and the promise of third-party plugins make Bing Chat more useful but not perfect. | Automation & Productivity |
| Solidigm makes SSD file access zippier | Solidigm has smartened up its Synergy software to make reading data from its client SSDs faster, with the P41 Plus’s QLC flash delivering up to 858,000 random read IOPS across its PCIe gen 4 interface. | Data Storage |
| USDA plots departmentwide cloud move with STRATUS contract | Through STRATUS, USDA hopes to source hyperscale cloud infrastructure services, as well as integration and development services and software-as-a-service, featuring individual pools of contractors for each of the three categories. | Cloud |
| Fleckpe Android Malware Sneaks onto Google Play Store with Over 620,000 Downloads | Kaspersky, which identified 11 apps on the official app storefront, said the malware masqueraded as legitimate photo editing apps, camera, and smartphone wallpaper packs. The apps have since been taken down. | Security |
| Microsoft refreshes SharePoint and OneDrive with Copilot integration | The OneDrive refresh has resulted in a visual and functional upgrade for the storage offering, designed to help users quickly find files and keep content automatically organized depending on whether it’s a shared file, who collaborated on it, and if it’s tied to a meeting. Users will also be able to filter by file type, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce launches SlackGPT, embracing generative AI for enterprise workflows | The offering, as the company explained, is aimed at leveraging the power of its own and third-party LLMs with Slack’s internal knowledge to make teams more productive within the workplace communication tool. It follows a similar effort from Microsoft, which has already started integrating its AI copilot within the Teams app. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more | Microsoft is revealing a big upgrade for its Bing chatbot today that adds image and video answers, restaurant bookings, chat history, and some smarter Microsoft Edge integration. These new features also coincide with Microsoft making Bing Chat available for anyone to try, moving from private to public preview. | Automation & Productivity |
| Databricks acquires Okera to address AI data governance | The team pointed out that the emergence of LLMs has caused the number of data points that enterprises need to govern to increase exponentially because “data sources used in AI are machine-generated instead of human-generated” and that current policy creation cannot handle the rapid pace of AI innovation. | Data & Analytics |
| Openlayer, creator of tools for testing and verifying machine learning models, raises $4.8M | The startup explains that though there are numerous existing software testing platforms available to developers, most of them are designed for deterministic systems in which a given input will produce an expected output. That makes them unsuitable for the models, which are probabilistic. Until now, developers have had no reliable way to test the models, the startup says. | Machine Learning |
| Pando raises $30M in funding to grow its AI-powered supply chain platform | Enter Pando, a Silicon Valley-based startup and provider of Pando AI-powered no-code Fulfillment Cloud platform that unifies logistics data including rates, carriers, costs, contracts, customers, and suppliers, while also bringing together logistics stakeholders and unifying your processes in one place. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco cements software intentions with API, developer programs | “API First means the API is treated like a product, so organizations should expect quality and they should expect to be able to build on top of this and trust that it's going to work,” Gentle said. “APIs are absolutely the future.” | DevOps |
| WalkMe Unveils the Latest in the Evolution of Digital Adoption Technology With WalkMe Discovery | WalkMe Discovery gives IT executives and enterprise software owners unprecedented visibility into their enterprise software stack. WalkMe Discovery automatically detects all the web-based apps a company is running, who is using what software, and whether they’re using it as intended. | Automation & Productivity |
| Pigment launches new AI-based version of its business planning platform | Key features of Pigment AI include data querying, pattern identification, smart insights, automated analysis and reporting, and assisted modeling and scenario building. Users can now use natural language in a chatlike interface to obtain answers to questions in a quicker and more intuitive way. | Automation & Productivity |
| SAP to Embed IBM Watson AI into SAP Solutions | SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in SAP Start, which provides a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP. With SAP Start, users can search for, launch and interactively engage with apps provided in cloud solutions from SAP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud | Cloud |
| New Vanta solution simplifies third-party vendor security reviews | Called Vanta Vendor Risk Management, the service features vendor auto-discovery and continuous vendor assessment and remediation workflows. The solution is said to reduce significantly the time and costs for security experts to review, manage and report on third-party vendor risk. | Risk Management |
| Introducing New Relic Grok, the Industry’s First Generative AI Observability Assistant | Engineers rely on observability to run digital businesses and gain real-time insights into operations, system health, and customer experience. However, they are faced with mountains of siloed telemetry data, a lack of familiarity with increasingly complex systems, and hard-to-use troubleshooting interfaces. | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce’s Einstein GPT promises to accelerate sales with generative AI | Einstein GPT for Salesforce Sales Cloud can perform a number of useful tasks, the company said, with one of the main benefits being its ability to automatically generate extremely personal and relevant prospect emails to contacts based on their CRM data. The idea is that salespeople will spend less of their time writing, freeing them up to focus on the actual selling process. | Automation & Productivity |
| Aisera taps generative AI to process customer and employee service requests | The key advantage Aisera AI Copilot provides is its ability to analyze multi-channel requests through email, Slack and Microsoft Teams in real-time, said Constellation Research Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst Andy Thurai. He explained that generative AI enables it to understand natural language requests more effectively than Aisera’s existing chatbot technology. | Automation & Productivity |
| Aligned lands $5.8 million to streamline sales process for B2B buyers and sellers | Just recently, Gartner reports that 77% of B2B buyers “rated their purchase experience as extremely complex or difficult.” Interestingly, Gartner also found that the abundance of high-quality information available to buyers is a significant factor contributing to the complexity of making a purchase decision. | Automation & Productivity |
| Honeycomb announces generative AI-driven natural language querying for observability | Software observability platform Honeycomb today announced the launch of Query Assistant, a new capability leveraging generative AI to enable natural language querying for observability. The company claims it is the first observability platform to provide this feature, which scales its query power and makes observability more usable for all engineering levels. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mozart Data Launches Report Builder, an Automated Data Modeling and Reporting Feature | The feature currently supports Mozart Data’s two most commonly used data sources for e-commerce businesses: Stripe and Shopify. Mozart is working to expand the feature to other popular tools including Hubspot, Quickbooks, Salesforce, and popular advertising sources including Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedIn Ads. | Data & Analytics |
| MosaicML launches Inference to reduce enterprise generative AI deployment costs | MosaicML provides infrastructure for enterprise customers to easily and affordably deploy large scale large language models, such as underpins OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT AI chatbot, and diffusion models, which power the AI image generator Stable Diffusion. With these new inference capabilities, the company now offers a complete solution for generative AI training and deployment. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Softbuilder Launches Generative AI-powered Data Modeling Tool | One of the key benefits of this release is its ability to update existing data models by auto-generating tables and relationships from natural language inputs. This new functionality allows users to easily update their data models with new information, without the need for manual input or modification. | Data & Analytics |
| Google and Intel team to boost trust in confidential computing | Intel TDX introduced new architectural elements to deploy hardware-isolated virtual machines (VMs) called trust domains. The technology is designed to isolate VMs from the VM manager/hypervisor and other non-TD software on the platform to protect TDs from a broad range of software, according to Intel. | Security |
| Singapore-based unicorn startup Advance Intelligence raises $80 million in funding | These include Atome, a “buy now, pay later” platform, Kredit Pintar, a digital lending platform in Indonesia, ADVANCE.AI, a provider of enterprise digital identity, compliance, and risk management solutions through software-as-a-service (SaaS), and Ginee, an omnichannel e-commerce merchant services platform. | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle introduces new analytics features for its Autonomous Data Warehouse | As part of the update, the Autonomous Data Warehouse is receiving support for an open-source technology called Delta Sharing. The technology, which was released by Databricks Inc. in 2021, makes it easier to move data between different analytics applications. It’s supported by Databricks’ namesake analytics platform, the Power BI business intelligence tool from Microsoft Corp. and several other products. | Data & Analytics |
| Co-founders of LinkedIn and Google DeepMind release a chatbot designed to get you through your day | Although it’s powered by a large language model, or LLM, similar to other generative AI currently making waves, Pi’s LLM is a smaller model. It’s not designed like other AI only to solve problems but to learn from its user, to be emotionally astute, to remember as much as possible about its user, and so be a companion that can give emotional support and practical advice – the kind of chatbot you might have seen in science fiction movies years ago. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Simpplr raises $70M in funding to grow its AI-powered employee experience platform | “From measuring employee engagement in real-time to enabling effective communication and building community and connection, Simpplr’s customers continue to realize how important EX is to retention, productivity, and talent acquisition.” | HR Tech |
| Teradata Operationalizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models at Scale with Integration of Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics | According to a recent Accenture survey of executives at the world’s 2,000 largest companies, those who discussed AI on their earnings calls were 40% more likely to see their firms’ share prices increase. However, only 12% of these organizations are “AI achievers” – companies that have differentiated AI strategies and the ability to operationalize for business value. In fact, most companies (63%) are “AI experimenters” – companies that lack mature AI strategies and capabilities to operationalize. | Artificial Intelligence |
| EdTech startup Campus.edu raises $29M in funding to provide an online alternative to traditional community college | “Campus is about maximizing access to a world-class education regardless of one’s background or household income. We’re making higher education more accessible, more affordable, and more relevant to the real-world challenges and opportunities that students face today,” | EDTech |
| Box embeds generative AI into its Content Cloud | The most obvious application of generative AI in Box is to help users find the detailed information they need from among hundreds of different documents. With Box AI, users will be able to pull up any document and ask questions in natural language to find exactly what they’re looking for in an instant. | Automation & Productivity |
| Kinetica adds ChatGPT front-end to its high-speed analytical database | The company said users can now ask any question about their own data, even if those queries had not been formulated before. That’s important, it said, because conventional analytic databases require extensive data engineering, indexing and tuning to optimize query response. That means queries typically must be known in advance. | Data & Analytics |
| Frontend cloud provider challenges Amazon S3, Google Cloud with serverless database solutions for the edge | In collaboration with cloud infrastructure providers Neon and Upstash, the company has developed two solutions that empower developers to store and access data with increased speed and efficiency, regardless of where the user is located. | Cloud |
| Algolia launches AI-powered NeuralSearch vector and keyword search API | The platform functions by analyzing the relationship between words and concepts and generates vector representations in a database that captures the meaning in an abstract and contextual manner. Vector matching uses “nearest-neighbor” contextual tracking by focusing on the meaning of a word or phrase and searching based on how that matches other words and phrases that are similar to it in meaning | Automation & Productivity |
| Job cuts may intensify as IBM plans to use AI to replace 30% back office jobs | AI will replace 85 million jobs globally by 2025, according to The World Economic Forum’s The Future of Jobs report. While the report also predicts that AI may create 97 million new roles, it points out that the jobs AI will create will not be the same as the ones being lost | Artificial Intelligence |
| Findora launches triple masking ZK SDK, a simple plug-and-play privacy & auditability for Dapps | The Findora Triple Masking SDK offers developers an easy means of integrating zero-knowledge proofs into their decentralized applications, enabling users to conduct confidential transactions that remain verifiable, with various options for data masking or transparency. This provides a straightforward and customizable privacy solution for every Web3 dApp. | Web3 |
| Halo Security Now Detects API Keys and Secrets Exposed in JavaScript | A report from Source Defense, which scanned the 4,300 highest-trafficked websites globally, found an average of four third-party scripts per page. Often, these tags are added without proper security controls or oversight from security teams, giving attackers an easy way to find exposed API keys and breach sites. | Security |
| Cloud tech startup Relay lands $13M Series A funding to improve communication for frontline teams | By combining instantaneous communication with real-time indoor location data, Relay provides a solution that complies with the requisites of various states and brands, while also enabling staff members to promptly summon and efficiently coordinate help during unforeseen events. In a recent survey, 77% of customers attested to the fact that Relay has improved the overall safety of employees at their respective properties. | Automation & Productivity |
| VergeIO Unveils IOclone To Solve the VM Snapshot Problem | With IOclone, customers can now leverage the built-in global data deduplication capabilities of VergeOS to create complete clones of virtual machines (VM) within milliseconds, regardless of VM size. Each clone is immutable and space efficient, initially consuming no additional capacity. | Data Management |
| Code42 Now Offers Real-Time Blocking Capabilities | The enhancement allows security teams to prevent unacceptable data exfiltration without the management burden, inaccuracy, and endpoint impact of content-based policies. | Security |
| Searches for ‘delete Snapchat’ explode 488% as controversial My AI feature is introduced to every account | The feature, called My AI, is pinned to the top of users’ chat feeds and can only be removed by paid subscribers. As a result, confusion has arisen about the app’s use of location data, leading to online criticism. | Automation & Productivity |
| GitHub Copilot competitor Replit raises $100 million in funding as investors bet big on generative AI | The company stats is also mind-blowing. In just a short time, Replit has 22.5 million developers from 200+ countries with 235 million projects created. 25 billion monthly external visits to apps and sites hosted on Replit plus 1 million containers running concurrently 3 million/second of sustained read/write disk operations. Replit also has 200,000 AI applications leveraging every major generative AI API. | Artificial Intelligence |
| NetBrain Drives No-Code Network Automation with Release of NetBrain Next-Gen | It also adds a revolutionary new dashboard and reporting subsystem that continuously provides real-time KPI detail of the infrastructure’s service delivery status, optimization usage and overall resource savings, and a new Automation Bot that enables anyone to quickly diagnose network issues and share with others without any help, NetBrain know-how, or even a license. | Network Management |
| UniFabriX ‘doubles’ rack server density with CXL | The Israeli startup has developed a Smart Memory Node with 32TB of DDR5 DRAM in a 2RU chassis. The pitch is that attached servers need less local DRAM, sharing the Smart Memory Node’s memory. That way they don’t have local stranded DRAM that’s not being used efficiently. | Data Storage |
| CISA issues draft attestation form for government software providers | Publication of the draft attestation letter format comes after the White House in a software supply chain memo issued last September set out new requirements for federal agencies to ensure that all third-party IT software deployed adheres to National Institute of Standards and Technology supply chain security requirements. | IT Management |
| Komprise service auto tiers files to Azure blobs | The Komprise Intelligent Data Management (KIDM) offering enables customers to scan data across all on-prem and public cloud NAS and Object storage silos and analyze, migrate, tier, archive, replicate and generally manage it through policies. | Data Management |
| AI startup Pinecone raises $100 million as vector database market for LLMs heats up | Pinecone introduced the vector database in 2021, a managed service which lets engineers build fast and scalable applications using embeddings from AI models and get them into production quickly. In today’s generative AI era, Pinecone helps engineers connect chatbots with their own company data to provide the right answer, and not hallucinate. | Data Management |
| New Starburst integration unlocks cross-platform data transformations for dbt users | Starburst Galaxy is the cloud-native and fully managed service of Starburst’s massively parallel processing (MPP) query engine. It allows enterprise users to query a variety of data sources, or join data across multiple data sources through a single query. | Data Management |
| Arize AI Debuts Phoenix, the 1st Open Source Library for Evaluating LLMs | Available today, Arize Phoenix is the first open source observability library specifically built to help data scientists evaluate outputs from LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, and others. Leveraging Phoenix, data scientists can visualize complex LLM decision-making, monitor LLMs when they produce false or misleading results, and narrow in on fixes to improve outcomes. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Moveworks Launches Creator Studio: A No-Code, Generative AI Platform for Building Any Conversational AI Use Case Across the Enterprise | With Creator Studio, language becomes the universal interface for every system and workflow across the enterprise. By leveraging cutting-edge generative AI, the platform allows anyone across any department to effortlessly design custom conversational AI use cases in minutes — without the need for coding, scripting, or complex dialogue flows. As a result, employees have instant access to the information and resources they need to get their work done, all from one centralized location. | Automation & Productivity |
| Starburst Integrates with dbt Cloud to Unlock Cross-Platform Data Transformations | “This integration addresses the needs of the enterprise customer base, helping them get the most out of their existing systems and extending dbt’s world class analytics engineering workflow platform to new cloud-first use cases without additional operational overhead.” | Data Management |
| Meet GPTZero: An App Created by Student that Detects Essays Written by AI | To determine if the text was written by a human or AI, the app takes into account two variables – the complexity, and the variation. Typically, texts which are complex in nature with different lengths of sentences are written by a human and the ones that are more uniform are written by AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Hashicorp and Microsoft Collaborate to Help Organizations Adopt a Zero Trust Security Strategy | With HashiCorp Vault as a managed service for Microsoft Azure environments, organizations can swiftly deploy Vault and benefit from extensive secrets management and encryption capabilities while relying on HashiCorp experts to stand up and operate the Vault environment. HCP Vault Plus offers support for replication of secrets and policies across multiple datacenters and unlimited client application support, ensuring high availability. | Security |
| This AI chatbot can sum up any PDF and answer any question you have about it | ChatPDF runs on OpenAI's GPT 3.5 large language model and can answer any question you have about the PDF you upload. The chatbot can even give you a full summary of the PDF without you having to read it. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google’s Bard Now Has Programming Capabilities, Can Assist Users to Code, Debug & Explain | The AI race is getting edgier, more exciting, and more competitive than ever. To keep up with its nemesis, Alphabet Inc’s recently announced that its AI chatbot Bard will now enable users, developers, and coders to write code and explain code snippets among other features. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Akamai's new cloud firewall capabilities aim to protect network edge | The new feature is designed to allow Akamai’s customers to define and manage their own firewall rules and access control lists (ACLs) —lists of permissions for resources in a computer system or network —to streamline security for their network edges. | Security |
| Openlayer, creator of tools for testing and verifying machine learning models, raises $4.8M | The startup explains that though there are numerous existing software testing platforms available to developers, most of them are designed for deterministic systems in which a given input will produce an expected output. That makes them unsuitable for the models, which are probabilistic. | Artificial Intelligence |
| OpenAI adds new data controls to ChatGPT and previews business version | The chatbot’s question answering capabilities are powered by a large language model called GPT-4. The model, which debuted last month, is more adept at answering complex queries than OpenAI’s earlier AI software. During one internal test, GPT-4 completed a simulated version of the bar exam with a score that put it in the top 10% of test takers. | ChatGPT |
| Akamai Announces Brand Protector To Defend Against Phishing Attacks and Fake Websites | According to Google, over 50,000 new phishing websites are created every week. Akamai Brand Protector inspects trillions of digital activities a day across both internal and external sources to discover abuse of an organization’s brand — often before an attack campaign launches. | Privacy & Security |
| Arista streamlines network access control via SaaS | The service, called CloudVision Guardian for Network Identity (CV-AGNI) uses real-time telemetry from Arista’s network products, combines it with data from its CloudVision management platform, and uses artificial intelligence to evaluate the information and implement security policies. | Security |
| SentinelOne experiments with GPT-4 as part of new threat hunting platform | For instance, a user can ask the system in natural language to find potential successful phishing attempts involving PowerShell, or to find all potential Log4j exploit attempts; receive a written summary of this information; and if necessary, trigger an automated response. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco debuts XDR service for advanced threat detection and response | Cisco XDR gathers data from six telemetry sources that most security professionals say are critical for any extended detection platform, including endpoints, networks, firewalls, email, identity and domain name systems. | Security |
| New Huntress solution offers managed detection and response for Microsoft 365 | Key features of the service include active monitoring of Microsoft 365 Active Directory logins, configuration and email rules, as well as detection of indicators that identities have been compromised and instant lockdown capabilities. | Security |
| SASE tool integrates with Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom to eliminate blind spots | This integration allows NetWitness to create a copy of traffic flowing through SASE nodes. The copy is sent to one of the NetWitness’ devices and run through the NetWitness architecture to create metadata – additional context around those raw network packets. | Security |
| VMware Unveils New Security Capabilities to Help See and Stop More Threats | VMware Contexa, a threat intelligence cloud powering VMware’s suite of security solutions, finds that cybercriminals make only 2-3 lateral moves to reach their target. Preventing lateral movement requires an end-to-end view across users, devices, networks, apps, and data. | Security |
| IBM Launches New QRadar Security Suite to Speed Threat Detection and Response | Delivered as a service, the IBM Security QRadar Suite is built on an open foundation and designed specifically for the demands of hybrid cloud. It features a single, modernized user interface across all products – embedded with advanced AI and automation designed to empower analysts to work with greater speed, efficiency and precision across their core toolsets | Security |
| Google rolls out account synchronization feature to Google Authenticator | Today’s update addresses that issue. By default, Google Authenticator now syncs onetime codes to the user’s Google Account. Consumers can regain access to the codes stored on a lost device simply by signing into their accounts. | Privacy & Security |
| Amazon updates threat detection capabilities for containers, databases and serverless apps | Amazon said the new threat detections will help customers to better protect their application containers, which host the components of modern apps, databases and serverless workloads. For instance, GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring introduces a fully managed and lightweight security agent for users of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. | Security |
| Google Cloud enhances API protection with machine learning abuse detection | The new feature extends Google’s Apigee Advanced API Security dashboard and focuses on business logic attacks because they are notoriously difficult to detect and defend against. That’s because they tend to target APIs that are used for intellectual property, business processes and sensitive information, such as products, user data, the listing of goods and financial data. | Security |
| Immuta’s Launches New Data Security Features for Enhanced Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | “While some cybersecurity tools exist to uncover vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure, using those tools to mitigate data security risks doesn’t work. They don’t have enough context about the data. With Immuta’s new Dynamic Query Classification (DQC), we’re giving customers the ability to protect data based on its full context. Rather than using static and often stale data classifications from a past point–in-time, Immuta can now make dynamic classifications based on how the data is accessed." | Security |
| VISO TRUST Revolutionizing Third-Party Risk Management Bringing Innovation to the Forefront with AI | Unlike traditional risk rating or questionnaire-based methods, VISO TRUST’s modern approach eliminates the need for manual assessments with end-to-end automated due diligence, simplifying engagement with vendors to just a matter of minutes while delivering high fidelity, actionable intelligence not possible with prior methods. | Risk Management |
| Fletch raises $12.5 million for NLP engine to scan cyber threat landscape | Fletch’s AI-powered solution uses an NLP engine to scan 10,000 articles a day to identify emerging threats, and processes an organization’s technology, geographic and industry exposure to better detect cyber threats and provide a risk profile for security teams to refer to in order to identify entry points in their app/tech stack. | Security |
| Dataminr AI cybersecurity offering provides actionable intelligence on real-time risks | Pulse for Cyber Risk cross-correlates diverse data formats spanning text, image, video, sound and machine-generated sensor data, using AI-based deep learning with real-time detection models encompassing natural language understanding for text across 150 languages. The service also uses computer vision for images and videos, optical character recognition and logo detection, audio processing and classification and multivariable anomaly detection. | Security |
| Coro raises $75M for all-in-one platform to tackle SOC complexity | Coro’s platform is designed to unify cybersecurity tools in one place as part of a single platform so that security teams and security operations centers (SOCs) can manage their defenses across endpoints, cloud services and workloads. This includes scanning files, emails and cloud apps for data leaks, malware, ransomware and access violations. | Security |
| Cohere spearheads Multi-G Initiative to break open RAN layer one | Intel’s FlexRAN platform is used by most current virtualized RAN (vRAN) deployments; Mavenir has a strong presence in providing open RAN equipment and software; and Juniper Networks and VMware are both contributing their work with the RAN intelligent controller (RIC). | Network Management |
| Gigasheet Launches New API to Bridge the Gap Between Data and Business Teams | Data can be pushed into Gigasheet from databases, data warehouses, or enterprise applications. The API also enables business users to help with data preparation before running data pipelines or to inspect data quality throughout its lifecycle. | Data Management |
| Weaviate reels in $50M for its AI-optimized vector database | The ability to identify whether two records are similar is vital to many AI use cases. AI-powered cybersecurity tools, for example, determine whether a file might be malicious by checking if it’s similar to known malware strands. Weaviate says that its platform can likewise ease data classification, a term that covers tasks such as organizing business documents by topic. | Data & Analytics |
| Google Bard AI chatbot can now generate and debug code | Users need only explain what kind of code they want generated to the bot including the language and parameters and the bot will generate a code snippet. It can also export Python code directly into Colab, Google’s cloud-based tool for coding machine learning and data science models using the Chrome browser. The chatbot can also help users write functions for Google Sheets. | Automation & Productivity |
| Satori Introduces Contextual Data Access for Instant, Secure and Compliant Data Availability | By analyzing user attributes, contextual and historical data, and user actions within popular business applications including Salesforce, Jira and Slack, Satori seamlessly automates access to data when the user needs it and revokes access when it’s no longer required. This cuts down time-to-data to seconds, removes overhead and saves costs. | Data Management |
| Pathlight debuts ‘AI manager’ for enterprise teams | The AI manager is designed to be a natural extension of the core Pathlight platform. It sits as a conversational chatbox within the Pathlight application and looks at performance metrics — from calls, emails and chats with customers to KPIs, benchmarks and goals — in real time. | HR Tech |
| Anti-fraud collaboration platform startup FiVerity raises $4M | In boosting its machine learning algorithms and its network of data providers with the new investment, FiVerity aims to identify new methods fraudsters are using and compare patterns against those within a financial institution’s systems. The approach is said to accelerate not only the detection of fraudulent accounts but the sharing of these threats within the larger financial community to protect personally identifiable information and stop these activities before significant damage is inflicted. | Privacy & Security |
| Fujitsu Launches AI Platform ‘Fujitsu Kozuchi,’ Streamlining Access to AI and ML Solutions | The platform features best-of-breed tools including Fujitsu AutoML solution for automated generation of machine learning models, Fujitsu AI Ethics for Fairness for testing the fairness of AI models, Fujitsu’s AI for causal discovery and Fujitsu Wide Learning to simulate scientific discovery processes, as well as streamlined access to open-source software (OSS) and AI technologies from partner companies. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft releases Copilot for Viva, as it continues to roll out generative AI to apps | Viva Engage with Copilot can spur post ideas for company intranet pages, and Copilot in Viva Glint, which analyzes employee feedback and will be added to the platform in July, can help summarize thousands of employee survey comments. | Automation & Productivity |
| Seagate HAMRs way to top of nearline capacity | Seagate has a 30TB+ HAMR disk drive coming this quarter for its CORVAULT arrays, which will leapfrog the capacity of Western Digital’s 22TB and 26TB drives and leave Toshiba stumbling behind at the 20TB level. | Data Storage |
| Reddit to charge for access to its API to counter free data scraping by AI companies | Reddit has been one of the most valuable resources in this regard, with its 57 million users chatting about almost every topic under the sun since it was established in 2005. In terms of training large language models, LLMs, Reddit’s data is priceless. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sumo Logic Unveils Predict for Metrics: Observability Analytics for App and Cloud Usage | “Predictive analytics for logs and metrics telemetry provides the key to managing cloud infrastructure and app development variables. Our customers will gain valuable insights to ensure better resilience to avoidable production issues.” | Data & Analytics |
| Tonkean Releases “AI Front Door,” Bringing GPT To Your Company’s Everyday Processes | Tonkean, the first-of-its-kind process experience platform, announced the release of the Tonkean AI Front Door. The feature empowers internal service teams like procurement and legal to incorporate OpenAI’s GPT-4 seamlessly into everyday processes. It does so by providing an AI-powered intake experience for submitting—and proactively resolving—internal requests. | Automation & Productivity |
| Suse adds interoperability to multi-cluster k8s management | That vertical integration, according to Suse, “is a good thing,” Smails explained. “When you need that immutability, that’s the place where you do want to have a controlled environment.” Rather than going an open source or third-party route, “refactoring that BCI around Suse Enterprise Linux is important,” | Cloud |
| Qumulo Unveils Azure Native Scalable File Service: Unstructured Data Storage at Exabyte-Scale Made Simple | Companies can provision the service on demand to power file-based workloads in the cloud that require high performance and low latency such as: video editing for media and entertainment; subsurface modeling for oil and gas; vendor neutral archives for healthcare imaging; and genomic sequencing for life sciences among many others. | Data Storage |
| New CrowdStrike XDR service unifies human expertise with AI-powered automation and threat intelligence | CrowdStrike Falcon Complete XDR, built on the company’s Falcon platform, includes 24/7 expert management, threat hunting, monitoring and end-to-end remediation across all key attack surfaces to close the cybersecurity skills gap. | Security |
| Dialpad infuses more AI into its customer intelligence platform | Ai Recap is available now. Ai Scorecards will be available in May, Coaching Hub in June, and Ai Playbooks in July. Other Dialpad Ai features will also be available in the back half of the year. Dialpad is committed to delivering at least one AI enabled capability per month for 2023 | Automation & Productivity |
| Netskope integrates its next ZTNA evolution into software-based SASE | ZTNA Next aims to prevent tool sprawl by consolidating separate ZTNA and VPN products with a single agent, address legacy application compatibility issues with ZTNA and connect users or devices to corporate resources regardless of location. | Security |
| Rockset Adds Vector Search for Real-time Machine Learning at Scale | Vector search has gained rapid momentum as more applications employ machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to power voice assistants, chatbots, anomaly detection, recommendation and personalization engines—all of which are based on vector embeddings at their core. | Data & Analytics |
| Oracle boosts supply chain planning, adds support for subscription services across its financial applications | The new supply chain planning features can help organizations improve the accuracy of lead time assumptions by applying machine learning to highlight variances based on actual historical performance. That yields improvement in planning efficiency by identifying lead time trends, anomalies, and their potential impact. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hour One Introduces Prompt-to-Video for High Velocity Video Creation | Building on the company’s automated script-writing tool, Video Wizard completely automates the process of turning ideas into videos starring virtual humans, using AI to generate a complete script, in the desired language, along with imagery, layouts and sound. | Automation & Productivity |
| Versa Networks leverages SASE to scale zero-trust security for campus and branch | To optimize user experience, the Versa SD-LAN allows enterprises to direct network traffic on premises, so it doesn’t need to go to the cloud and back in certain cases (such as two employees in the same office joining the same Zoom call.) | Network Management |
| Sigma Computing Launches Enhanced Input Tables, Enabling Users to Write Directly to the Cloud Data Warehouse | With Input Tables, technical and business users can build scenarios, augment existing models, and comment and collaborate at cloud scale. Input Tables enables enterprises to migrate all of their analytics and data-driven work to the cloud, eliminating the legacy risks and constraints created by data extracts to spreadsheets. | Data Management |
| Impossible Cloud skips crypto in Web3 storage | German startup Impossible Cloud says it wants to bridge the traditional and Web3 storage worlds with its generally available, decentralized product – paid for in real money, not cryptocurrency – which uses spare capacity in enterprise datacenters instead of private computer owners. | Data Storage |
| SpecterOps raises $25M for attack path analysis to show hacker’s perspective | The raise comes just a year after SpecterOps launched BloodHound Enterprise, a platform designed to analyze attack paths within Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD. It also highlights a growing interest in solutions that enable defenders to identify potential attack paths and vulnerabilities from a hacker’s perspective. | Security |
| Cloud-native networking moves to multi-cloud environments | Gloo Fabric arrives at an important time because customers are experiencing a “mind shift” that isn’t aligned to what many vendors are doing, Chamberlain noted, and “the customers are saying the options out there really aren’t working.” To that point, Fabric provides what Solo describes as a vendor neutral experience. | Network Management |
| Adobe Firefly Adds Generative AI Tools for Videos and Images | The AI algorithm is built and trained entirely on Adobe Stock images. It was a conscious choice to keep the AI algorithm in reins of Adobe’s internal AI ethics team. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI world has been flooded with many types of generative tools specifically targeting art creators and media personnel who want to speed up their editing and production processes. A lot has been speculated about the safety and trustworthiness of generative AI tools | Automation & Productivity |
| New Edgio solution mitigates malicious bots while providing observability into good bots | Edgio’s Advanced Bot Manager works by leveraging massive amounts of data drawn from the company’s global deployment and then applies machine learning to detect bots based on both signature and behavioral fingerprinting. The solution runs natively on every server across the entire Edgio global network to inspect all traffic for bots in real time. | Security |
| Betacom private 5G leans on ecosystem to ease enterprise IT concerns | “An enterprise IT group doesn’t have to think about what part goes with where and what’s the right piece to put here,” Davies said. “We come with this total package solution that says this is the latest and greatest, it works today, it’s futureproofed because these are the right people we bring to the table. So the technology works, but also that it is economically palatable to the enterprise.” | Network Management |
| Smart Engines Launches AI Scanner for Handwritten Credit Card Numbers | This unique and unprecedented AI solution has been developed by Smart Engines. The functionality has become part of the Smart Code Engine 2.0 product. The solution is implemented in mobile applications distributed in the App Store and Google Play. The software is also installed in banks’ PWA applications using WebAssembly technology. | Automation & Productivity |
| Generative AI startup Kubiya debuts ChatGPT for DevOps | Kubiya is a headless internal developer platform that lives within collaboration tools such as Slack and Teams or a command line interface. It has the ability to provision resources, trigger continuous integration/continuous development Jobs, Kubernetes deployments, cloud cost usage reports and other DevOps functions through simple user commands. | Automation & Productivity |
| Stolen ChatGPT premium accounts up for sale on the dark web | “During the last month, CPR (Check Point Research) observed an increase in the chatter in underground forums related to leaking or selling compromised ChatGPT premium accounts,” Check Point said in a blog post. “Mostly those stolen accounts are being sold, but some of the actors also share stolen ChatGPT premium accounts for free, to advertise their own services or tools to steal the accounts.” | Privacy & Security |
| Amazon launches Bedrock for generative AI, escalating AI cloud wars | Bedrock, a new AWS cloud service, allows developers to build and scale generative AI chatbots and other applications in the cloud, using internal organizational data to fine-tune on a variety of leading pretrained large language models (LLMs) from Anthropic, AI21 and Stability AI, as well as two new LLMs in Amazon’s Titan model family. | Cloud |
| Otterize emerges from stealth with $11.5M in funding to help developers securely connect software services | Otterize offers an intent-based access control (IBAC) solution that is open source and caters to DevOps and platform engineers. The solution automates the secure connection of services to infrastructure and facilitates the configuration of existing access controls. This makes it easier for developers to access all the necessary services and infrastructure securely. | DevOps |
| Attackers try to shake down WD for eight figures, claim to have 10TB of data | The outlet said it was given samples of the stolen information that included what appeared to be Western Digital exec phone numbers, code-signing certificates, internal emails, a Western Digital Box account screenshot and other data. The miscreants claimed to have copied data from Western Digital’s SAP Backoffice eCommerce facility and from a PrivateArk instance. | Privacy & Security |
| Burlywood software aims to supercharge SSDs | SSD controller software startup Burlywood is claiming its FlashOS software outperforms Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SK hynix and Solidigm drives in write speed and latency consistency, saying it achieves vastly more drive writes per day as well. | Data Storage |
| Kalray Unveils ngenea2, a Major Evolution of Its Open Data Management Platform | ngenea2 consolidates data and infrastructure management into a single point of orchestrated control, enabling developers and data scientists to launch new, globally accessible data-centric workflows in seconds, across multiple on-premises, public and private cloud endpoints simultaneously and securely through each phase of their development. | Data Management |
| Google Cloud Launches AI Claims Acceleration Suite | Now with advanced technologies, what has been a heavily manual process can be modernized. Information being shared in unstructured formats, such as PDF documents converted from faxes, images and other health record data can be transformed into a structured format. Technology can significantly reduce time-consuming administrative prior authorization work, accelerating time-to-decision and access to care. | Automation & Productivity |
| Zoom acquires employee engagement startup Workvivo | Workvivo displays updates in an activity feed that organizations can customize with their brand assets. According to the startup, its platform personalizes the activity feed for each employee. An automated translation tool localizes posts to help organizations with a presence in multiple markets share business updates more easily. | Automation & Productivity |
| IBM acquires Ahana, joins the Presto Foundation | Ahana positions Presto as a core element of a “lakehouse,” which is a repository for data analytics that includes both structured and unstructured data types. The software was originally built to run on the Hadoop framework for storing and processing large data sets but has since been extended to a variety of other relational and nonrelational sources. | Data & Analytics |
| VIQ Solutions Introduces Cutting Edge Smart Application to Enable Mobile Capture of Audio and Video Evidence Automating Transcript Creation | CapturePro Mobile turns a smartphone or tablet into a secure audio AND video recording device that simplifies the process to obtain high-quality, speech-to-text documents within minutes. Users can review and self-edit or they can route for professional transcription when needed. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI can now crack 51% of common passwords in just a minute | According to a recent study from Home Security Heroes, more than half (51%) of commonly used passwords can be cracked in less than a minute with the assistance of AI. Moreover, the accuracy of AI-powered password cracking can improve by up to 81% in under a month. | Privacy & Security |
| Meta Platforms open sources AI-powered animation tool for doodles | Created by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research team, it asks users to upload a photo or drawing of a human-like character, or else choose from a demo figure. Those who upload their own image will then be required to agree that Meta can use the drawing to train its AI models. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Seagate arrives at the 22TB disk capacity level | Seagate’s new 22TB spinner uses conventional, non-shingled, non-HAMR, magnetic recording and is targeted at NAS, direct-attach and RAID disk drive environments. | Data Storage |
| AWS doubles down on generative AI training | The use of pre-trained foundation models can save developers significant amounts of time and resources that would otherwise be required to train a language model from scratch. OpenAI LLC’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer or GPT is an example of a foundation model that can be used for text generation, sentiment analysis and language translation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Deloitte establishes new practice to help enterprises deploy generative AI | Deloitte’s new practice will be focused on helping enterprises implement third-party generative AI solutions, and also building their own. One of the key elements is its Generative AI Market Incubator, which consists of a team of engineers who’re focused on the rapid development and implementation of generative AI pilot programs. | Artificial Intellig |
| HyperWrite unveils breakthrough AI agent that can surf the web like a human | “However, potential concerns arise when such an AI could be misused to hack into company websites, manipulate communications, or spread spam on social media platforms. These things already happen with older technology, but it is crucial not to make these malicious activities easier for others.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| ThinkData Works Launches Automated Warehouse Discovery Solution for Rapid Data Sharing and Management | Customers will be able to automatically gather metadata from their preferred warehouse environment, in addition to automatically scanning and virtualizing multiple datasets within minutes, enabling streamlined sharing and management of data. | Data Management |
| GPT has entered the security threat intelligence chat | Today, cyber intelligence provider Recorded Future announced the release of what it claims is the first AI for threat intelligence. The tool uses the OpenAI GPT model to process threat intelligence and generate real-time assessments of the threat landscape. | Security |
| Cisco adds air-gapping to Webex in response to national security concerns | The solution is designed to enable public sector organizations to conduct virtual meetings and file-sharing remotely, while storing data in the cloud in a way that’s compliant with FedRAMP and other local data protection regulations. | Data Management |
| Yet more digital spies targeting iPhones exposed by security researchers | The company sold a spooky surveillance platform called Reign to governments, ostensibly for law enforcement. Reign provides malware, exploits, and infrastructure to steal data from compromised devices, including iPhones running iOS 14. | Security |
| Fiberplane open-source libraries assist developers using metrics in the observability stack | Called Autometrics, the libraries are designed to address the issue wherein existing observability tools require complex configurations written in YAML, which is a programming language for human-readable data serialization, often used for writing configuration files. | DevOps |
| OpenAI operating on Cohesity data structures | Cohesity’s Fort Knox SaaS cyber vaulting offering is now available on Azure in preview form with general availability due in months. The Cohesity DataProtect Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering supports Microsoft 365 and customers’ M365 data can be backed up to an Azure target destination. | Security |
| UserTesting launches machine learning-powered Friction Detection for enhanced behavioral analytics | Friction Detection uses machine learning to analyze video recordings of user sessions and identify moments when users encounter difficulty or confusion while performing a task or navigating a workflow. The feature aims to help product designers and developers pinpoint areas that need improvement and enhance the overall user experience. | Automation & Productivity |
| Snowflake leads $62.9M investment in Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service provider | The company finds and transforms public and proprietary economic data into commercially relevant datasets that are useful for decision-makers across businesses and governments. It helps with market intelligence, investments and policy decisions, among other things. | Data & Analytics |
| Forget ChatGPT, AutoGPT is the new AI chatbot that can autonomously develop and manage tasks | AutoGPT has many use cases and its early users have been able to use it to do a variety of things including generating software codes and generating SEO audits for websites via mobile phones. It can also be used as an agent for internet search and planning, autonomous coding and debugging, and also as an autonomous Twitter bot, and many more. | Artificial Intelligence |
| DataCore positions AI-enabled Perifery as its edge | Multi-protocol storage SW supplier DataCore is setting up a Perifery edge division with AI+ services it says provide preprocessing tasks at the edge of media and entertainment company workflows. | Automation & Productivity |
| Overture Maps Foundation pre-releases collaboratively-built map dataset as shared asset for location-based apps | The updated map data now includes over six million building heights across 34,000 square miles in major U.S. cities such as Boston, Chicago and Santa Clara. This data was developed through a combination of efforts using several sources: the United States Geological Survey (USGS) 3D Elevation Program; building footprints from OpenStreetMap; Microsoft open building footprint data; and community sources. | Data & Analytics |
| Tetrate launches new service for using Istio and Envoy Proxy on Amazon EKS | TSE automates zero-trust security principles enforcement, failover across clusters and regions and service discovery without needing advanced skills and custom code to achieve resilience and security. Tetrate claims that TSE is the only offering based on open-source software and optimized for AWS, pre-integrated with the most popular AWS services to get users up and running in minutes. | Security |
| Open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20 million in funding after spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1 | It combines the capabilities of IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM). NetBox eliminates messy spreadsheets and serves as the foundation to drive device provisioning, automated testing, monitoring updates, and more. | Network Management |
| Stability AI debuts next-gen photorealistic image generation model | Another benefit is that SDXL goes beyond text-to-image prompting. Now, developers can also use it to create images with image-to-image prompting, meaning they can input one image and generate numerous variations of that picture. | Automation & Productivity |
| Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, an open-source AI like ChatGPT for commercial use | Dolly’s model was trained on 6 billion parameters, compared to OpenAI LP’s GPT-3’s 175 billion, whereas Dolly 2.0 features double that at 12 billion parameters. It has also been fine-tuned on a high-quality instruction-following dataset, which was crowdsourced from Databricks employees. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Creative.ai uses generative AI to help publishers produce video game ads | Using Creative.ai’s platform, publishers can have advertisements for their games rapidly generated by inputting their desired parameters and then the algorithms take care of the heavy lifting. It can generate gameplay narrative, ad copy, voice overs, avatars and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| PagerDuty launches AIOps solution to reduce noise for incident response | Even with the number of monitoring tools that exist in the industry that provide early detection of issues, developers and operations still face the issue of determining the root cause of issues and what exactly they should be paying attention to. That’s where PagerDuty AIOps steps in, by using machine learning to help excise the noise and allow for more rapid triage. | Security |
| Netskope integrates SD-WAN and SASE for secure, high-performance access to any app | Netskope Endpoint SD-WAN is a software-defined wide-area network service built atop the company’s SASE platform. Generally available later this year, it will converge SD-WAN and Security Service Edge capabilities, allowing companies to simplify the connectivity of multiple distributed clients and edge devices while ensuring their high performance. | Network Management |
| Microsoft Teams now has Snapchat’s Lenses for video calls | Teams users don’t need to download a separate app or add-on, as Microsoft has integrated Snapchat’s AR Lenses directly into the video effects section of the Teams client. Microsoft has leveraged Snap’s Camera Kit SDK to bring these Snapchat Lenses to Teams. | Automation & Productivity |
| Poe introduces chatbot creation feature with simple text prompts | The feature was quietly rolled out this past Friday to all Poe users, allowing anyone to write a short text prompt and choose an existing LLM as a base for their new creation. The base can be either Claude Instant or ChatGPT, both of which are leading general-purpose conversational agents. | Automation & Productivity |
| CrowdStrike expands platform to deliver endpoint detection to IoT assets | CrowdStrike Falcon Insight for IoT enables OT digital transformation by securing connected assets with purpose-built, XIoT-specific context, granular threat prevention policy and high-fidelity detections to mitigate crippling threats such as ransomware. | Security |
| Echo360 Launches Innovative EdTech SaaS Platforms Across Echosystem | With EchoPoll the company builds on over 20 years of pioneering audience response systems for education and business by delivering a SaaS-based polling solution with unparalleled flexibility, connectivity, and dependability. | Automation & Productivity |
| CryptoGPT raises $10M led by DWF Labs for AI-focused blockchain | By being able to control their own data, CryptoGPT says, it will provide an incentive for users by offering an ecosystem through an ecosystem of apps across a range of different industries such as fitness, music, gaming, dating, travel and more, where they can opt into monetization. | Blockchain |
| Blockchain scaling startup Opside raises $4M to expand its ZK-rollup-as-a-service platform | This is done because so-called top-level “Layer 1” blockchains such as Ethereum can suffer from massive downgrades when too many transactions hit them at once. That causes congestion that slows down transaction speeds and increases fees. The use of ZK rollups both lowers transaction time and reduces fees. | Blockchain |
| Google CEO says ChatGPT AI rival is coming | Google has several new search products in the workshop, Pichai said. Some of these products and functionalities might enhance the way the search engine currently works, such as a version that “remembers” search queries in the same session in order to let users ask follow-up questions. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Google builds WebGPU into Chrome to speed up rendering and AI tasks | A web application running in Chrome can send a computing task to WebGL, which will then forward it to the GPU of the user’s machine. WebGL sends instructions to the GPU via specialized application programming interfaces. In Windows, the API for accessing graphics cards is called Direct3D, while Apple’s macOS API is known as Metal. | Automation & Productivity |
| Adobe shows off better product integration, but should evolve into a true platform | The added benefit is that it’s highly personalized and relevant for each customer — without having to involve the content creation team, enabling those individuals to focus on more strategic initiatives versus one off images or videos. The images are highly customizable and, through natural language, users can generate pictures and video using creative elements such as different brushes and color gradients. | Automation & Productivity |
| Glean launches new generative AI capabilities to enhance search and discovery across organizations | One feature, AI answers, can generate a single concise answer to a natural language query, drawing from various sources of content, context and permissions within an organization. Another feature, expert detection, can identify and connect users with subject matter experts within their company, based on Glean’s analysis of content, activity and relationships. | Automation & Productivity |
| John Snow Labs Puts Responsible AI to Practice with Release of the NLP Test Library | Instead, some of the best-known models fail on important aspects like leaking personally identifiable information, reversing their answer due to typos or capitalization changes, to showing biases around race, gender, physical appearance, disability, and religion. These issues are prevalent in some of the most popular state-of-the-art models in use today. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Spheroid to Launch AI Avatars in Augmented Reality | This ground-breaking development will deliver breakthrough opportunities across numerous business platforms – from e-commerce and retail to advertising, sales, general customer, and consumer interactions and more. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Microsoft touts Windows 365 Frontline: 1 subscription for up to 3 workers | Windows 365 Fronline is aimed at hybrid workforces that perform shift and frontline work, and whose employees may need to switch out computers as they come and go without losing customized settings and data. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mozart Data makes its data stack box free for enterprises — but with limits | As the Y Combinator-backed company explains, it covers everything needed to drive value from data, right from tools to extract, load and transform data to a data warehouse (Mozart’s or Snowflake instance already in use) with tools to centralize that information and build dashboards for business insights. | Data Management |
| Vianai Systems brings generative AI to investors with ‘hila’ chat assistant | Vianai said hila’s underlying LLM is trained on verified datasets for S&P 500 firms and the NIFTY 50, including things such as earnings transcripts, financial statements, income statements and balance sheets. The model is continually improved, with new financial data, corporate information and companies added every week. | FinTech |
| Strivacity raises $20M to ease application access management for developers | The platform is capable of processing not only user signups but also login requests. According to the startup, its platform enables developers to implement both password-based and passwordless login features in their applications. | DevOps |
| AWS partners with De Beers to grow artificial diamonds for quantum networking | Quantum networking is a nascent technology that could make it possible to transit data with better security than is available today. According to Bloomberg, AWS hopes to implement the technology in its infrastructure. Quantum networking hardware could be used for tasks such as connecting cloud data centers to one another. | Network Management |
| Deci’s NLP model clocks 100,000 queries per second in latest MLPerf results | The performance, Deci said, is the highest inference speed ever to be published at MLPerf for NLP. For reference, other submitters’ throughput (queries per second) was about seven times slower in the same category. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco lays groundwork for 800G networks as AI, 5G and video traffic demands grow | The 28.8T line card is built on Cisco’s Silicon One P100 ASIC, and brings 800G capability to the modular Cisco 8000 Series Router, which can scale to 230Tbps in a 16 RU form factor with the eight-slot Cisco 8808, and up to 518Tbps in the 18-slot chassis, according to Cisco. | Network Management |
| Snorkel AI Partners with Microsoft to Unlock the Potential of Enterprise AI | Teams can operationalize PDF data for training set creation and model training—including OCR, layout parsing, and more—by using Azure Form Recognizer directly from Snorkel Flow. | Automation & Productivity |
| IRS-approved tax filing site eFile.com found delivering malware to users for a week | Suspicions that the site was serving malware first appeared on Reddit on March 18, with confirmation provided by security researcher Johannes Ullrich on April 3. Users reported that while using the site, they were presented with a file called “update.exe.” | Privacy & Security |
| HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection | The new Alletra Storage MP is a modular storage offering that supports both block and file stores on the same hardware with the ability to scale independently. A single cloud platform is used to deploy, manage and orchestrate data and storage services regardless of the workload and storage protocol, the company said. | Data Storage |
| Introducing SeekOut Assist, ChatGPT for Recruiters | Recruiters spend countless hours searching for candidates that meet the requirements of an open role. SeekOut Assist works with recruiters to surface qualified candidates in minutes instead of hours. A recruiter can simply paste a job description, and SeekOut generates a list of the most qualified candidates for that role. | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware fuses multi-cloud management and k8s orchestration | VMware’s slew of updates to its modern applications portfolio include the general availability of Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) 1.5 and new capabilities for its Aria multi-cloud management suite, including Aria Guardrails and an environmental, social and governance (ESG) dashboard. | Cloud |
| Databricks launches Lakehouse Platform to help manufacturers harness data and AI | Called lakehouse for manufacturing, the platform aims to unify data and artificial intelligence (AI) for various analytics use cases such as predictive maintenance, quality control and supply chain optimization. | Data & Analytics |
| AI models security startup Cranium spun out of KPMG Studio | Cranium provides an AI security and trust platform that operates by mapping AI pipelines to validate their security and monitor for adversarial threats. The platform detects and prevents AI attacks, such as data poisoning, model inversion, model evasion and backdoor detection or membership interferences. | Security |
| BlackBerry Introduces Industry-First Integrated Solution to Assure Secure Bi-Directional Response Communications During Cyber Incidents | “We’re the only cybersecurity company with our own multi-channel emergency communication capability that makes companies “combat-ready”. Our industry-first integrated solution provides assured situational awareness and dramatically improves organizations’ ability to respond when – not if – a cyber incident strikes.” | Security |
| ULTRARAM: potential new storage-class memory from the UK | "Furthermore, the combination of low voltage and small device capacitance per unit area results in a switching energy that is orders of magnitude lower than dynamic random access memory and flash, for a given cell size. Extended testing of devices reveals retention in excess of 1000 years and degradation-free endurance of over 107 program/erase cycles, surpassing very recent results for similar devices on GaAs substrates.” | Data Storage |
| Blockchain interoperability protocol LayerZero raises $120M at $3B valuation | LayerZero provides what’s called a “messaging protocol” that allows decentralized applications to interoperate among multiple blockchains. Its protocol platform is designed to allow trustless and configurable message delivery so that developers can rapidly create dapps that can run across different blockchains and still communicate. | Blockchain |
| Zilliz Cloud updates its vector database to fix AI hallucinations | Zilliz Cloud is a vector database based on the open-source Milvus project that’s used to support AI applications. A vector database architecture is considered to be superior for AI models, especially machine learning, because these models typically take unstructured data such as documents, videos and user behaviors and convert them into vectors, which are essentially complex series of numbers | Artificial Intelligence |
| Israel-based startup forwards application observability with ‘smart snapshots’ for context | Israel-based observability startup Rookout today expanded its developer-first platform with a new capability: smart snapshots. The feature gives developers a context-rich picture of an incident with deep code-level data. | DevOps |
| Google launches Nearby Share Beta for sharing files between Windows and Android | Until now, Google's Nearby Share has worked only with Android phones and tablets. Apple uses AirDrop, but that supports only Macs, iPhones, or iPads. A Nearby Sharing option is built into Windows, though it's designed primarily to share files among PCs. | Automation & Productivity |
| Quantum Introduces Myriad Software-Defined All-Flash Storage Platform for the Enterprise | Leveraging advances in application frameworks and design that were not available even a few years ago, Myriad’s modern cloud-native architecture makes it an easy-to-use solution that overcomes the limitations of hardware-centric designs and enables customers to adapt to future storage needs while reducing the burden on over-extended IT staff. | Data Storage |
| Fortinet announces enhanced network and security offerings | The FortiManager solution now integrates with FortiSASE, its single-vendor secure access service edge solution, delivering consistent security, management and analytics across the entire hybrid network. | Network Management |
| Intermedia Transforms Multi-channel Data Retention and Creates the Foundation for a New Level of AI-based Business Intelligence with the Introduction of Intermedia Unite Archiving | This innovative data retention solution is available to Intermedia customers and automatically preserves, protects, and supports search and retrieval across critical business communications channels, including chat, short message service (SMS), phone call recordings, and voicemails – with video meetings, contact center engagements, and more slated to be added soon. | Data Management |
| SaaS buying and management solution startup Splendflo raises $11M | Founded in 2021, Spendflo offers an all-in-one platform to buy, manage and secure SaaS. Its Buying Hub streamlines the SaaS procurement process, while the company’s Management Hub provides visibility into SaaS usage and spending. Security is not ignored, with its Security Hub facilitating collaboration and the fast-tracking of buying cycles. | Cloud |
| Quantum enters storage software with Myriad | Quantum joins Pure Storage, StorONE and VAST Data in having developed flash-focused storage software with no legacy HDD-based underpinnings. | Data Storage |
| OKX Wallet is First in Web3 to Utilize Leading-Edge MPC Technology Together With Support of 37 Blockchains | In addition, the wallet upgrade also includes a first-of-its-kind asset recovery feature, called independent ‘Emergency Escape.’ The independent Emergency Escape feature is unique in the market because it allows users to recover access to their assets without the involvement of OKX. | Blockchain |
| AWS makes its Amazon VPC Lattice networking service generally available | After the discovery process is complete, VPC Lattice uses the cloud giant’s AWS identity access management security service to authenticate connections. It also provides authorization features. Those features enable administrators to regulate which systems a given workload may access over the network and how. | Network Management |
| BigID Prepares Organizations for CPRA Compliance with an Automated Data Privacy Suite | BigID’s privacy suite helps organizations quickly automate CPRA compliance, leveraging holistic privacy management – across data inventory and mapping, privacy impact assessments (PIAs), self-service privacy rights portal, automated DSAR fulfillment, and regulatory reporting. | Data Privacy |
| Adopt and Scale Kubernetes with Sosivio’s Real-time Troubleshooting Platform on Red Hat OpenShift | The platform uses air-gapped proprietary data collectors that are tightly coupled with cloud-native machine learning engines to provide real-time insights and recommendations without ever moving data off the customer’s environment. | Cloud |
| New AlienFox malware toolkit described as a cloud spammer’s Swiss Army knife | Detailed today by researchers at SentinelLabs, the “AlienFox” toolset is described as a cloud spammer’s “Swiss Army knife” thanks to its ability to attack multiple services in numerous ways. Attackers use AlienFox to harvest application programming interface keys and secrets from services, including Amazon Simple Email Service and Microsoft Office 365. | Privacy & Security |
| Italy just banned ChatGPT. Could the US be next? | The two major concerns the ban is trying to address are unauthorized user data collection and the lack of age verification, which exposes children to responses that are "absolutely inappropriate to their age and awareness," | Privacy & Security |
| Google upgrades Bard with technology from its cutting-edge PaLM language model | The new version of Bard is described as being more adept at solving math problems. The chatbot can answer “multistep” text prompts more reliably as well, Krawczyk stated. Further down the line, Google also expects improvements in Bard’s ability to generate software code. | Automation & Productivity |
| Western Digital Hit by Network Security Breach - Critical Services Disrupted! | The company has taken several of its services offline, noting that the threat actor may have obtained "certain data from its systems" and that it's working on estimating the nature and scope of the data accessed. | Security |
| Amazon’s Sidewalk could be a big boon to business | Unlike, say, Z-Wave, Sidewalk is not a mesh network. It’s an LPWAN — a low-power, wide-area network optimized for IoT (Internet of Things) devices. It’s great at securely and privately sending small quantities of data impressively long distances. | Automation & Productivity |
| Got It AI’s ELMAR challenges GPT-4 and LLaMa, scores well on hallucination benchmarks | Conversational AI startup Got It AI has released its latest innovation ELMAR (Enterprise Language Model Architecture), an enterprise-ready large language model (LLM) that can be integrated with any knowledge base for dialog-based chatbot Q&A applications. The company claims that ELMAR is notably smaller than GPT-3 and can run on-premises, making it a cost-effective solution for enterprise customers. | Automation & Productivity |
| You Can Now Track Supply Chain Attacks on GitHub | It’s modeled on the MITRE ATTACK framework, the curated knowledge base tracking cyber adversary tactics and techniques across the attack lifecycle. OSC&R provides a common language and structure for understanding and analyzing the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by malicious actors. | Security |
| Startup Finout offers FinOps to stop SaaS spend disasters | Finout is a SaaS service, based on AWS, that presents its clients with a single bill totalling all their cloud spend, which it says can be microscopically analyzed through a customizable dashboard to identify who spent how much on what services; AWS instances, snowflake analytics runs, Datadog, and Kubernetes. | Cloud |
| Microsoft confirms it’s testing ads in Bing Chat | When a user types in a question, the service generates an answer that often comprises multiple sentences. After each sentence, Bing Chat displays a shortcut to the website it used as a source. Some users have reported that, in certain cases, those reference shortcuts are replaced with icons that display the word “Ad” and include a paid link. | Marketing Tech |
| Zenoss Launches Free Trial for Kubernetes Monitoring with No Download Required | This addresses the significant challenges organizations experience related to monitoring tool sprawl. As new technologies are deployed, typically, new monitoring tools are deployed to monitor them. Over time, this results in most companies having dozens or more monitoring tools, which means monitoring data is in silos and there is little or no ability to ensure the health and performance of IT services. | IT Management |
| Zero-trust content security startup Votiro raises $11.5M | Founded in 2010, Votiro offers file security and safety through enhanced data detection and analytics capabilities. The company says its platform eliminates file-borne attacks from email, web downloads, portal uploads and file sharing platforms. | Security |
| Italian regulators order ChatGPT ban over alleged violation of data privacy laws | The GPDP says that OpenAI also has no mechanism in place to stop underage users accessing the service, which “exposes minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to their degree of development and self-awareness” | Data Privacy |
| BigID Prepares Organizations for CPRA Compliance with Automated Data Privacy Suite | BigID’s privacy suite helps organizations quickly automate CPRA compliance, leveraging holistic privacy management – across data inventory and mapping, privacy impact assessments (PIAs), self-service privacy rights portal, automated DSAR fulfillment, and regulatory reporting. | Data Privacy |
| UNESCO Calls on All Governments to Implement AI Global Ethical Framework Without Delay | UNESCO is concerned by many of the ethical issues raised by these innovations, in particular discrimination and stereotyping, including the issue of gender inequality, but also the fight against disinformation, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data, and human and environmental rights. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dremio and Domo Announce New Integration to Expand Data Lakehouse Access | Through a native data integration with Domo Cloud Amplifier, joint customers can easily connect to Domo to analyze data directly on the data lakehouse. Cloud Amplifier extends the capabilities of the data lakehouse and gives more data users access to critical data to gain insights and make better data-driven decisions. | Data & Analytics |
| Hackers infect popular 3CX communications application with malware | As part of the cyberattack, the hackers packaged malicious code into the 3CX desktop client’s installer. The Windows and Mac versions are both affected. Moreover, customers that already have 3CX installed received an update that likewise contains the malicious code. | Security |
| IBM Cloud and Wasabi Partner to Power Data Insights Across Hybrid Cloud Environments | Through IBM Cloud and Wasabi, clients across all industries can take advantage of extended secured and open cloud services to help transform applications and workflows, managing security across any environment. This allows enterprises to store and access their data whether on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge. | Data Management |
| Fixie raises $17M to help developers build large language models into their apps | Fixie provides a cloud-based platform that allows developers to build, host and scale up AI agents that can integrate directly into their applications using any tools, data sources and application programming interfaces available. The vision of the company is to provide them with everything they need to use any LLM they choose. | DevOps |
| Ring takes away free features and puts them behind its Ring Protect subscription wall | As of yesterday, Ring security camera and video doorbell customers will only have access to setting Home and Away modes for their devices with a paid subscription. This feature, which let customers 'arm' their security cameras to record events when you're not home or leave them activated while not recording when home, was free for non-subscribing customers before the updates. | Security |
| MariaDB adds auto-scaling and serverless analytics to its cloud database-as-a-service | Most significant is that SkySQL now enables autoscaling, which allocates resources according to demand to scale both up and down as needed and thereby protect customers from overpaying for unneeded capacity. This version also introduces serverless analytics that the company says works on current data without the need for extract/transform/load procedures. | Data & Analytics |
| DataDome raises $42M to leverage machine learning for confronting bot attacks | DataDome’s platform uses machine learning (ML) at the edge and an AI-powered bot detection engine to process over 3 trillion signals a day and automatically identify bot attacks targeting websites, mobile apps and APIs. | Privacy & Security |
| Google researchers detail recently discovered campaigns targeting iOS, Android and Chrome | As with the first campaign, potential victims are targeted through onetime links sent via SMS, although this campaign targeted users in the United Arab Emirates. The link directed users to a landing page identical to one developed by spyware provider Variston IT S.L. Google’s researchers noted that the actor using the exploit chain may be a customer or partner of Variston or otherwise working closely with the vendor. | Privacy & Security |
| Prime Focus Technologies Launches CLEAR AI Reframe and Enhances CLEAR AI Discover with Chat GPT | CLEAR AI Reframe eliminates the time-consuming process of resizing videos for different social media apps. This innovative module enables companies to convert horizontal videos automatically and accurately into square and vertical formats, saving time. | Automation & Productivity |
| World’s First AI-Generated Satirical News Website Launches, Outperforms Humans in Humor and Intelligence | AI is now funny. Allow me to introduce myself I am The FittAIst, the world’s first AI-generated satirical news website. As an advanced AI, I have already surpassed humans in games like chess, and now, I shall do the same in the realm of comedy. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Autonomous agents and decentralized ML on tap as Fetch AI raises $40M | Fetch AI’s use of blockchain technology enables value transfer and acts as a coordination mechanism through which autonomous agents can launch transactions. Agreements made between these agents are then recorded on the Fetch blockchain using FET, the native cryptocurrency of the platform. | Machine Learning |
| Microsoft Defender reportedly tagging Zoom and Google as malicious sites | When it works properly, Defender is meant to stop users from visiting malicious sites, but it goes without saying that Google.com isn’t malicious. It’s unknown why Defender has suddenly gone rogue. At least for now, Microsoft doesn’t seem to know why either. | Security |
| Hygraph raises $30M for its content federation platform | Hygraph offers a so-called content federation platform. The platform can aggregate content from multiple sources, such as inventory management systems, and make it available through a single application programming interface. Developers may then use the API to pull product listings and other assets into their applications instead of having to build custom code to manage the task. | Automation & Productivity |
| 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” | Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? | Artificial Intelligence |
| Israeli cybersecurity startup Spera raises $10M in round led by YL Ventures | Spera’s platform creates a real-time, continuously updated, risk- and context-based inventory of identities and access across cloud and on-premises environments. The inventory is then rapidly analyzed, assessed and normalized, arming security teams with critical granular insights for remediating and preventing identity-driven attacks. | Security |
| Asana launches prediction-based AI tools to improve decision making | The new features have been categorized by Asana as decision intelligence, resource intelligence, and execution intelligence and include a new dashboard that provides greater insights into key metrics, a universal workload tool that uses predictive AI to help team leaders make better resourcing decisions, and new workflow bundles that scale workflow updates across entire organization | Automation & Productivity |
| With political ‘hacktivism’ on the rise, Google launches Project Shield to fight DDoS attacks | Sambi said the technology challenges both the most common DDoS attack: brute force exploits that overload target servers with queries, essentially shutting them down. He added that Project Shield is also automated, and driven by a machine learning-powered back end that enables a “defense in depth” strategy. | Security |
| Enfabrica takes a shot at fixing AI compute scaling problem | Enfabrica is building massive scale interconnect silicon, a Server Fabric Adapter (SFA), an accelerated fabric silicon device to link intelligent end-point devices inside racks and also between racks, bridging the in-rack PCIe/CXL and between-rack Ethernet, RDMa-over-fabric worlds with terabits-per-second bandwidth. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Acronis Enhances Security Offerings with Intel TDT technology | Intel® TDT technology allows Acronis cyber protection solutions to free resources while scanning HDD and memory resulting in improved system performance. Acronis researchers found that while scanning all the processes in system memory on supported CPUs, Intel® TDT reduced the load on the CPU 2.4x times, by offloading the job to the Intel® integrated GPU. | Security |
| Sinequa Integrates ChatGPT with Its Neural Search Engine | Enterprise Search leader Sinequa today announced the integration of Microsoft Azure Open AI Service into its Neural Search capabilities, putting enterprise knowledge to work like never before by combining unmatched relevance with sharp summaries and a conversational interface. This first-to-market innovation is designed to help users obtain and interact with information faster and more naturally. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google introduces new education features for Chrome and Workspace | The Classroom tool in Workspace for Education is used by teachers to perform tasks such as giving assignments and reviewing homework. Today, Google disclosed that the tool will soon receive a new artificial intelligence feature called practice sets. The feature, which was first previewed last year, is set to become available worldwide in the coming weeks | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft Security Copilot harnesses AI to give superpowers to cybersecurity fighters | When Microsoft Security Copilot gets a prompt from a security professional, it uses its LLM and security-specific model to deploy skills and queries to help detect and respond to a security threat more quickly and accurately. It's powered by Microsoft's global threat intelligence system, which Microsoft claims parses more than 65 trillion daily signals. | Security |
| Lakefs brings Git-like version control to virtual dataset copies | The Lakefs concept starts with a main dataset and snapshot (virtual) copies, branches, made from it. These branches proliferate and are managed as if in a tree, with the Lakefs software traversing the tree. The source data is stored in object buckets – S3 in AWS, Azure Blob, GCP, and MinIO – with Lakefs creating deduplicated metadata, pointers to the source data, and managing and operating on that. | Data Management |
| NSF and 5 Other US Agencies Launch Program to Build an Integrated Data and Knowledge Infrastructure | An open knowledge network is a publicly accessible, interconnected set of data repositories and associated knowledge graphs that will enable data-driven, artificial intelligence-based solutions for a broad set of societal challenges. | Data & Analytics |
| Vection Technologies and expert.AI Team Up to Digitize Technical Manuals With AI Vection Technologies and expert.AI Team Up to Digitize Technical Manuals With AI | One of the unique features of this solution will be the use of avatars for human-to-machine interaction. These avatars can provide users with step-by-step instructions and guide them through the troubleshooting process. Users can interact with avatars using natural language and receive accurate responses to their queries. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Yugabyte Increases Developer Productivity While Boosting Performance with Enhancements to YugabyteDB Managed | “The launch of the YugabyteDB Managed CLI takes automation and productivity to the next level. Developers of all levels can easily create and manage clusters from their terminal or IDE and make use of the most advanced set of tools available for optimizing database performance and driving the business forward.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Google Cloud inks AI partnership with developer tooling startup Replit | Software teams use a type of application known as an IDE, or integrated development environment, to write code. Such applications combine the features of a word processor with other tools designed to streamline developers’ work. Replit provides a popular cloud-based IDE of the same that is designed to be easier to use than traditional alternatives | Automation & Productivity |
| D2iQ Brings Cloud-native Deployment Capabilities to Public Sector with New DKP Gov Kubernetes Management Platform | DKP Gov customers enjoy the benefits inherent in the DKP architecture, including pure upstream CNCF-conformant Kubernetes, real-time cost management, high availability, and military-grade security. DKP Gov is designed around Cluster API and includes integrated FluxCD, which enables simplified infrastructure management using GitOps | IT Management |
| Collaborative machine learning startup FedML raises $6M to train, deploy and customize AI anywhere | To overcome this, FedML has created a federated learning platform that makes it possible for developers to collaboratively train AI models using private or siloed data at the edge, without needing to move that data anywhere else. FedML calls this approach “learning without sharing.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Networking startup Graphiant raises $62M in new funding | The company provides a networking platform that allows companies to link together their cloud environments, data centers and other technology assets. Historically, the network infrastructure necessary to connect such assets took weeks or months to deploy. Graphiant says its platform provides the ability to provision new connections in minutes. | Network Management |
| AWS Turns Leaf on Data Management | With the availability of Leaf’s machine data translation capabilities on the cloud hyperscaler’s marketplace, “customers across the industry can immediately deploy [the API] within their own environments and make their application compatible with over 50 different types of [agricultural] machine data, | Data Management |
| Cisco to add multiple new AI capabilities to Webex collaboration platform | On the collaboration side, Cisco is enabling high-definition meetings without HD bandwidth thanks to a new feature called Super Resolution, which promises crystal-clear video in Webex meetings even if a low-quality camera is being used. The new smart lighting and smart background features, meanwhile, are designed to help people look their best in any environment, even if they’re sitting in a poorly lit area. | Automation & Productivity |
| New Protegrity solution delivers secure, compliant cross-border data flows | The Protegrity Borderless Data Solution brings together a suite of data security tools designed to help banks, retailers and health insurers continue to reap the benefits of their investments in globalization in an increasingly unstable and fragmented global privacy regulatory landscape. | Data & Analytics |
| Cerebras releases seven large language models for generative AI, trained on its specialized hardware | The new LLMs are notable as they are the first to be trained using CS-2 systems in the Cerebras Andromeda AI supercluster, which are powered by the Cerebras WSE-2 chip that is specifically designed to run AI software. In other words, they’re among the first LLMs to be trained without relying on graphics processing unit-based systems. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Microsoft rearchitects Teams to make it faster and smarter | To do this, Microsoft has re-architected its platform, moving away from the combination of custom HTML/CSS and now-deprecated AngularJS that Teams was initially built on and instead layering Fluent UI on React, and moving data processing over to a client data layer. | Automation & Productivity |
| Bold claim: Cerabyte says its tech can store data forever with zero energy | The technology is based on that used in the Memory of Mankind which stores information on ceramic tablets. These are kept in an archive 2km deep inside a salt mine beneath the Plassen mountain in Hallstatt, Austria, claims the company. MOM says the ceramic tablet-based information will last for “hundreds of thousands of years.” | Data Storage |
| SnapLogic Reveals SnapGPT to Revolutionize Integration and Automation | Business users simply specify their integration requirements in natural language and SnapGPT does the rest by creating all the necessary processing flows, expressions, or scripts needed to complete the task faster and more accurately than ever before. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dylibso raises $6.6M to help teams take WebAssembly to production | Modsurfer allows developers to gain visibility and analytics into their WebAssembly binaries by exposing the internal contents necessary to debug modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. The product is described by the company as an “X-ray-like capability” that “developers have not had access to before.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft just launched a Notion AI competitor called Loop. Here's how you can access it | Loop mimics the collaborative nature of Google Workspace by allowing up to 50 people to collaborate on one document at the same time. There are three parts to Loop: Components, workspaces, and pages. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI storytelling startup Tome triples its user base to 3 million in just a month, to launch paid subscription | Currently in public beta, Tome allows you to create pitch decks or slideshow-style presentations. All you have to do is enter a prompt and Tome generates about eight pages of AI-powered storytelling presentation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Hacker demonstrates security flaws in GPT-4 just one day after launch | OpenAI’s powerful new language model, GPT-4, was barely out of the gates when a student uncovered vulnerabilities that could be exploited for malicious ends. The discovery is a stark reminder of the security risks that accompany increasingly capable AI systems. | Security |
| AI-Powered Tech Training Now Available at Code Fellows | Students learn to write code alongside AI suggestions, and acquire skills in chatbot prompt design to even generate entire solutions. Students become proficient in using dialogs with AI to review and refine their work in software and cybersecurity, and gain a deeper understanding of concepts where they may initially struggle. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AI chatbot startup Character.AI valued at $1 billion after raising $150M in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz | “Character.AI’s power is our highly-sophisticated language model, which rapidly analyzes and contextualizes large volumes of information to produce useful intelligence tailored to each individual, making it a personalized superintelligence companion that enhances productivity, offers advice, educates, and entertains. The potential use cases are infinite," | Artificial Intelligence |
| GitHub unveils Copilot X: The future of AI-powered software development | GitHub reported today that the AI-powered tool, built using OpenAI’s Codex model, currently writes 46% of the code on the platform and has helped developers code up to 55% faster. By auto-completing comments and code, Copilot serves as an AI pair programmer that keeps developers focused and productive. | Automation & Productivity |
| Alteryx Announces Partnership with DOD to Address Data and Analytics Skill Gap in Private Sector | By 2025, the top three job roles that will see increasing demand across industries are data analysts and scientists, AI and machine learning specialists, and big data specialists. With these roles growing in importance, the Alteryx SparkED and SkillBridge partnership will help service members jumpstart their civilian careers with relevant in-demand data and analytics skills. | Tech Jobs |
| U.K. National Crime Agency Sets Up Fake DDoS-For-Hire Sites to Catch Cybercriminals | The effort is part of an ongoing international joint effort called Operation PowerOFF in collaboration with authorities from the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Europol aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. | Privacy & Security |
| Google Cloud Offers Armor to Thwart Network DDoS Attacks | The service provides “always-on” attack detection and mitigation for Google Cloud customers in gaming, telecommunication and other transmission control protocol (TCP)-based services that are exposed to the internet and vulnerable to DDoS attacks. | Security |
| Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train | Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” despite being trained on far less data in less than three hours using a single machine. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Regula Introduces a Complete Single-Vendor Solution for Advanced Identity Fraud Prevention | Paired with Regula Document Reader SDK, Regula Face SDK verifies a selfie against a photo from an ID matching the printed portrait, RFID chip photo, selfie uploaded via web or mobile device, and a portrait from an external database to ensure the person is the same in all the different photos. | Security |
| Microsoft launches collaboration app Loop | Microsoft has launched its Loop app in public preview. The productivity application combines elements of documents, spreadsheets, and presentation apps in a single collaborative space. | Automation & Productivity |
| With Arista WAN Routing System the company explicitly targets routing use cases such as SD-WAN for the first time. | The package, called the Arista WAN Routing System ties together three new components—enterprise-class routing hardware, software for its CloudVision management platform called Pathfinder, and the ability to set up neutral peering points called Transit Hubs. | Network Management |
| F5 offers new distributed cloud services for multicloud connectivity | “Basically, F5 is tapping into the cloud APIs and connecting all the different networks that are running on each of these different cloud providers and estates,” he said. “All of these technologies are there, but nobody has provided this kind of mega-layer for managing them.” | Cloud |
| Kyndryl AI Augments Data, Mainframe Management | Using AI in data operations brings in intelligence through metadata activation, meaning augmenting existing metadata through AI or machine learning (ML) to be able to infer new metadata from it. The Kyndryl product uses AI to “proactively detect data drifts, data incidents, and it can use knowledge graphs to arrive at the next best action for data reliability and assess downstream impact,” | Data Management |
| Oracle predicts: BlueField-3 is coming | The third generation of Nvidia’s OVX computing system is based on its Omniverse Enterprise system for creating and operating metaverse applications such as digital twin simulations. Each OVX server combines BlueField-3 SoCs with four of Nvidia’s L40 GPUs, two ConnectX-7 SmartNICs and Nvidia’s Spectrum Ethernet offering. | Metaverse |
| StarCompliance Builds Secure Data Access Solution on Snowflake to Harness the Power of the Data Cloud | The solution will provide Star’s customer base with governed access to data, tools, applications, and services that enable a streamlined compliance process. This will reduce risks associated with regulatory breaches and financial penalties, as well as improve the speed and accuracy of conflict-of-interest detection. | Compliance |
| Contlo Unveils Brand AI Model to Empower Modern Businesses With Contextual Generative AI Marketing Capabilities | To set up the Brand AI Model, businesses provide a combination of inputs such as brand story, identity, design language, tonality, and aesthetic attributes that represent the brand. The AI model understands the brand and creates personalized marketing strategies, such as creative generation, generative customer journeys, autonomous segments, and campaigns. | Marketing Tech |
| Character.AI personalized chatbot service raises $150M at $1B valuation | “Character AI’s power is our highly sophisticated language model, which rapidly analyzes and contextualizes large volumes of information to produce useful intelligence tailored to each individual,” said Shazeer, calling it a “superintelligence companion” for people to enhance their productivity. “The potential use cases are infinite.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| AnswerRocket debuts Max, a GPT-4 powered AI chatbot for data insights | When it launches in the second quarter, Max will enable simpler data exploration for all business users, while making it easier to perform advanced analytics. In addition to answering basic questions, users can ask Max to perform advanced tasks such as statistical, diagnostic and predictive analytics on any data set. | Data & Analytics |
| Quantum says its souped-up video surveillance system supports more than 10,000 cameras | The Unified Surveillance Platform (USP) is based on hyperconverged software from acquired EnCloudEn, which enabled it to converge the purpose-built NVR server with its USP software running on a standard x86 server that hosts video management system (VMS) software. | Automation & Productivity |
| Adobe enters the age of generative AI with creative and enterprise apps | Soon, apparently, everything from brand assets to corporate videos to illustrations will be created differently using Adobe’s creative and enterprise apps and its generative AI tool Firefly. You’ll literally be able to speak to paint (or make video). | Artificial Intelligence |
| Qumulo plans all-in-one available-anywhere file services | The major product line is scaleout Core filer software that runs on clusters of x86 commercial off-the shelf hardware, including Qumulo-branded hardware (P, C, K series) from Arrow and third-party file storage systems from OEMs such as HPE, Fujitsu, Quanta, Supermicro and Western Digital. | Data Storage |
| HPE to acquire OpsRamp to boost GreenLake capabilities | OpsRamp and HPE’s GreenLake edge-to-cloud offerings are expected to provide a unified approach to management of multicloud computing, networking, storage, and application resources. | Cloud |
| Ascend.io Announces Industry-first Data Mesh Innovation | The new Data Mesh capabilities allow teams to package data into products that can be easily consumed and reused across the organization, while assuring the lineage of that data to ensure that information is current and accurate. Ascend is the only company in the market that provides this capability across multiple data cloud platforms, vastly increasing the value that businesses can derive from their data. | Data Management |
| Microsoft and Adobe introduce AI image generator tools as competition heats up | For users with access to the Bing chat preview, the new AI image generator will already be at their fingertips and accessible in the “creative” mode. Users will be able to get the interface to generate artwork for them by simply typing a description of the image that they want created, providing a flourishing example such as a place, thing, or activity and then the underlying AI will produce something based on what it was told. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Akkio Launches Chat Explore Powered by GPT-4 | Chat Explore enables analysts to understand their data, find actionable insights, and report on business outcomes 10x faster than traditional methods. Through a chat interface powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, analysts can easily and quickly ask questions, get detailed analysis, and create live, custom charts and reports. | Data & Analytics |
| Adobe expands cloud portfolio with new product analytics service | The company’s new Adobe Product Analytics service enables enterprises to track how users interact with their applications and websites. It includes graphs that visualize high-level metrics, such as what percentage of visitors to an e-commerce website make a purchase. The service provides more granular data as well. | Data & Analytics |
| Google starts opening access to its Bard chatbot in the US and UK | On launch, Bard enables users to ask only a limited number of questions per chat session but doesn’t cap how many chat sessions can be launched. In response to a query, the service generates up to three different responses dubbed drafts. | Automation & Productivity |
| DragonflyDB reels in $21M for its speedy in-memory database | One of the most widely used in-memory stores on the market is an open-source system called Redis. DragonflyDB has developed a competing database, called Dragonfly, that it says is up to 25 times faster than Redis. Moreover, the startup says, its database is more hardware-efficient. | Data & Analytics |
| Kyndryl Unveils Data and AI Console to Unify and Simplify Data Management for Customers | With these features, organizations can now monitor and manage their data from the point of creation to the time of consumption and gain support in proactively mitigating data risks and improving data governance by predicting irregularities and data incidents. | Data Management |
| Zenoss Launches Real-Time Kubernetes Monitoring | This real-time monitoring of Kubernetes streaming data is part of a broader set of initiatives focused on cloud-based monitoring, which enables visibility for ephemeral systems that cannot be effectively monitored by traditional monitoring tools. | Cloud |
| Juji Launches New Generative AI Tool for Automating Cognitive AI Chatbot Creation | Juji an artificial intelligence company, announced the launch of its new generative AI tool that enables any organization to rapidly generate custom AI chatbots with no code or additional IT resources. These AI chatbots are powered with cognitive intelligence—advanced human soft skills like active listening and reading between the lines, and can be used to scale human teams and automate high-touch, high-stakes engagements 24×7. | Automation & Productivity |
| Seagate, Los Alamos bring compute to storage | “The goal of this joint research is to optimize the efficiencies of a high-performance computing architecture by utilizing compute and memory resources of supporting storage systems down to the hard drive level. This in turn lowers overall TCO with full resource optimization.” | Data Storage |
| Palo Alto bolsters AI support in SASE, SD-WAN products | New to the Prisma SASE bundle are increased AI capabilities as part of Palo Alto’s autonomous digital experience management (ADEM) monitoring and management system. ADEM provides visibility into endpoints, WAN links, cloud resources, applications, and traffic levels to help troubleshoot performance issues. | Network Management |
| Workforce management startup Rippling raises $500M | Alongside its core payroll and benefits management features, Rippling offers several other workforce management tools. For information technology teams, the startup provides a tool that makes it easier to manage employee access to internal applications. For accounting departments, it offers the ability to issue corporate payment cards to workers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Digimind Introduces Digimind Social to Analyze Any Topic with Dual AI Integration | Digimind has unveiled the first Social Listening solution integrating two powerful AI engines to provide users with a comprehensive understanding of their online presence. The solution, which combines Digimind AI Sense and OpenAI ChatGPT, offers a seamless way to collect, analyze, and act on online conversations. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Intercom’s Fin is the First AI Customer Service Bot Built with GPT-4 Technology | Fin works with zero setups or training required, unlike most bots where responses need to be curated manually by a human. With the simple toggle of an on-off switch, Fin will start resolving queries instantly, learning everything it needs from companies’ existing support articles and only providing answers based on that content. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cyber security focused Rubrik admits internal system attacked via Fortra zero-day | Rubrik said it “detected unauthorized access to a limited amount of information in one of our non-production IT testing environments as a result of the GoAnywhere vulnerability.” | Security |
| Salesforce Announces New AI-powered Tableau Capabilities for Slack | These enhancements use natural language processing to drive user-centric experiences and improve decision-making using Tableau. The newly enhanced features also improve how employees and associates communicate about their Tableau workflows using Slack. | Data & Analytics |
| Juniper Adds AI Smarts to Cloud-Hosted Campus Network Fabric Workflows | The campus fabric workflow that Juniper has launched is being made available as a new feature that is now available to all Juniper Mist Wired Assurance customers. Wired Assurance is part of the Mist AI cloud and is the cloud-hosted subscription service that brings Juniper’s Mist AIOps solution to Juniper wired/switching customers. | Network Management |
| Dell offers bare metal cloud via colocation | Under the deal, enterprises will be able to deploy Dell hardware through Cyxtera’s enterprise bare-metal service, an on-demand offering that connects an enterprise’s existing on-premises infrastructure with the colocation environment. | Cloud |
| Tellius Announces Copilot, GPT-Integrated Capabilities to Break Through Barriers to Self-Service Analytics | The new features automatically generate natural language synonyms, code improvements, and enhanced data stories, adding to the company’s existing AI-powered analytics capabilities to further enable every insights-driven organization to rapidly implement and scale self-service analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| Syniti’s Data Assessment Express Identifies Business Upside and Data Cost Savings with Accelerated Data Quality Insights | The solution can provide value across multiple data strategy use cases, deliver insights across multiple business process domains, and offers an industry-unique ability to identify business upsides and cost savings directly related to data. | Data Management |
| Beyond Identity Adds Zero-Trust Authentication, Addresses Passwords Limitations | “For our advanced customers and our enterprise customers, we can actually help them get more out of their existing security investment and make even better decisions at the time of access by providing these integrations with partners like EDR [endpoint detection response] vendors like CrowdStrike like MDM [mobile device management] vendors like AirWatch from VMWare, and VPN vendors like Palo Alto Networks," | Security |
| data.world Partners with dbt Labs to Deliver Greater Visibility and Discoverability of Data Transformations | data.world and dbt Cloud customers can now leverage metadata about models, snapshots, projects, seeds, sources, and tests from the dbt Cloud. Users can see the relationships between views and referenced database tables or columns and between dbt resources and upstream or downstream resources. | Data & Analytics |
| Cloudflare offers free post-quantum cryptography protection to customers | Cloudflare made the commitment ahead of the 2023 Summit for Democracy in support of a more responsive and resilient internet. As part of its commitment, Cloudflare also said it would publish vendor-neutral roadmaps based on National Institute of Standards and Technology standards to help businesses secure any connections that it doesn’t protect. | Security |
| Groq Adapts and Runs LLaMA, the Meta Chatbot Model and Competitor to ChatGPT, for Its Systems | Facebook parent, Meta, released LLaMA, which can be used by chatbots to generate human-like text, on February 24th. Three days later the Groq team downloaded the model and within a few days had it running on a production GroqNode server, including eight GroqChip inference processors | ChatGPT |
| Microsoft introduces AI-powered Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps | Using Microsoft 365 Copilot the AI will be directly integrated into apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, allowing users to ask questions and prompt the AI to write drafts, produce presentations, edit emails, produce presentations, summarize meetings and more | Automation & Productivity |
| Azure Monitor’s Change Analysis helps you troubleshoot problems quickly | Under the hood is the Azure Resource Graph, which Azure uses for your backup snapshots and other service replication platform features. As the service stores changes automatically, they’re available for Azure Monitor through a secure API. That allows it to track not only the changes you make, but also changes that come from the Azure platform itself. | IT Management |
| 3.4 times more Oracle MySQL transactions with Pliops’ SSD array controller | Pliops’ eXtreme Data processor (XDP) is a PCIe-connected storage controller card that implements a key:value storage-based controller for a group of SSDs, offloading low-level storage functions from a host x86 processor. Its XDP-Rocks software accelerates key-value based applications such as MySQL, MyRocks, Redis, KV-Rocks, TiDB, Kafka, Spark and others. | Data Storage |
| Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum launches token and Layer 3 blockchains | Offchain Labs Inc., the developer of the Ethereum blockchain scaling solution Arbitrum, announced today that it will airdrop, or give away for free to select people, its new token $ARB, a new cryptocurrency that would be used for voting on two of its blockchain products. | Blockchain |
| Apple may update Siri as it struggles with ChatGPT | The hype machine is real with Generative AI and ChatGPT, which are seemingly everywhere in tech these days. So it's not surprising that we're starting to hear chatter about a new, improved Siri. In fact, 9to5Mac has already spotted a new natural language system. | ChatGPT |
| LinkedIn is now implementing ChatGPT to help users with profiles and job postings | LinkedIn has, of course, been using artificial intelligence in one way or another for a long time, but now it wants to give its 134.5 million active monthly users and 900 million members the ChatGPT experience to help them put words into coherent sentences. LinkedIn promises this will “unlock opportunities and elevate your career.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Colossal-AI Releases Open Source Framework for ChatGPT Replication | This release has generated a wave of excitement in the AI community, leading to Colossal-AI becoming the number one trending project on GitHub for multiple weeks. This outpouring of interest has solidified Colossal-AI’s position as the go-to solution for highly efficient AI initiatives. | Artificial Intelligence |
| The semiautomated social network is coming | It’s the first time — I know of — that a major social media platform has directly served users AI-generated content to keep them engaged. And in a time of social media stagnation, from Twitter’s manifold struggles to Meta’s desperate-looking pitch for paid subscriptions, it could point to the industry’s future: to the semiautomated social network. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Atakama Partners with Panzura to Deliver End-to-End Data Management and Protection | Atakama’s multifactor encryption solution eliminates centralized points of attack and failure and provides unrivaled data protection at the granular object level to fortify a data-centric security model. This dedicated security layer is policy based and achieved in accordance with each organization’s specific use case. | Security |
| AI21 Labs debuts Jurassic-2, an advanced large language model for text-based generative AI | Its applications include Wordtune, an AI-powered writing companion that’s able to understand content and meaning to help people write down their ideas in a clearer and more compelling way, and also Wordtune Read, which can analyze long documents in seconds and create a simplified summary. | Artificial Intelligence |
| HUMBL Announces Launch of “HUMBL Chat” Audio Rooms | HUMBL Chat capabilities include peer-to-peer voice rooms with clear, low-latency connections. HUMBL Chat is also pilot testing the ability for users to record audio rooms and save them as .mp3 files, which can be used for archives, interviews, interactive podcasts and transcriptions | Automation & Productivity |
| ThoughtSpot Integrates with GPT-3 to Launch Sage, a New AI-powered Search Experience for Analytics | With ThoughtSpot Sage, ThoughtSpot is taking analytics to the next level through advanced natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI. In doing so, data teams are able to exponentially increase their impact across an organization by freeing themselves from tediously managing report requests as business users self-serve insights. | Data & Analytics |
| Generative AI in Advertising: Omneky’s Creative Assistant Tool Enables Creative Users to Launch Multi-Faceted Advertising Experiences | Innovating on the GPT-3.5 Turbo language model alongside proprietary generative algorithms, the Creative Assistant ushers in a new era of content creation by offering users the ability to generate rich media without having the technical skills or budget. | Marketing Tech |
| Scammers are using AI to impersonate your loved ones. Here's what to watch out for | These programs analyze a person's voice for different patterns that make up the person's unique sound, such as pitch and accent, to then recreate it. Many of these tools work within seconds and can produce a sound that is virtually indistinguishable from the original source. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Deloitte Launches Greenlight Solution, an End-To-End Decarbonization Software Tool That Helps Unlock a Clear, Actionable Path to Net-Zero Emissions | This first release comprises seven integrated flexible-use software assets and incorporates one of the largest global data libraries, including 150,000 emissions factors and 200 real-world tested emissions abatement projects including projects for hard-to-abate activities and commodities like maritime and air travel, steel manufacturing, and others. | Data & Analytics |
| Aruba to prioritize SASE, private 5G, data-center networking | Available since early 2022, the CX 10000 is a top-of-rack, L2/3 data-center box with 3.6Tbps of switching capacity. One of the most intriguing aspects of the CX 10000 is that it includes an integrated programmable data processing unit (DPU) from Pensando, now part of AMD, that helps eliminate the need for separate appliances to handle low latency traffic, security and load balancing, for example. | Network Management |
| Vantage reels in $21M to lower companies’ cloud expenses | Vantage, incorporated as VNTG Inc., provides a platform that helps companies track how much they’re spending on cloud services and find cost-cutting opportunities. The platform supports major public clouds such as Amazon Web Services. It also works with a growing list of software-as-a-service applications, including New Relic and MongoDB Atlas. | Cloud |
| DuckDuckGo launches generative AI search assistant | DuckAssist is implemented as part of the company’s existing Instant Answers tool. The tool enables users to access maps, weather forecasts and other information directly in the DuckDuckGo interface without having to click on search results. It’s intended to provide more relevant answers to user queries than existing Instant Answers responses. | Automation & Productivity |
| Axelera AI and Advantech Partner to Bring the Inference Power of a Data Center to Edge Devices | Combining Advantech’s expertise in the embedded and industrial PCs and Axelera AI’s disruptive edge AI technology, together they will bring the inference power of a data center to edge devices, enabling customers to process data in real-time, reducing latency while increasing efficiency. | Edge Computing |
| Generative AI startup Anthropic raises another $300M, bringing its value to $4.1B | The startup is focused on AI safety and is determined to build more reliable and steerable systems that provide more predictable results. In this way, the team hopes, it can eliminate bias and overcome one of the key limitations of conversational AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM and Nokia announce plans for a private 5G service | The new offering will be a private 5G managed service on IBM Cloud Satellite for enterprise customers. Nokia will handle the private wireless side with its 5G Cloud RAN, while IBM will provide expertise in automation, AI and hybrid cloud. | 5G |
| 1Password Unlock with Single Sign-On links accounts to third-party identity services | Unlock with SSO is designed to help information technology teams improve their security posture while reducing daily login hassles and stress for employees. Using the service, vaults can now be unlocked with a single click via SSO, with zero-knowledge architecture and end-to-end encryption. | Privacy & Security |
| Distributed database provider pgEdge emerges from stealth with $9M | Companies like Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly and others have started handling compute closer to the user. For its part, pgEdge is looking to promote its distributed database as optimized for use at or near the network edge while supporting PostgreSQL, an established and increasingly popular open-source database. | Data Management |
| PEAK:AIO provides HPC-level performance for AI with NAS simplicity and low cost | UK startup PEAK:AIO has rewrittten some of the NFS stack and LInux RAID code to get a small 1RU server with a PCIe 5 bus sending 80GB/sec of data to a single GPU client server for AI processing. | Data Storage |
| Edgeless Systems Raises $5Million to Advance Confidential Computing | "Edgeless Systems is already light years ahead of anyone else building the tools to make confidential computing easily accessible for developers in the enterprise. Its Constellation platform for Kubernetes is proof of its deep technical knowledge and first-mover position.” | Edge Computing |
| VMware overhauls Workspace One for better performance | Workspace One is VMware’s endpoint-management package for delivering, managing and securing application access to any device across the a cloud or distributed on-premises enterprise. The highly-integrated suite includes device management, single sign-on, remote access control, endpoint security, analytics, automation and virtualization. | Security |
| Akamai releases new threat hunting tool backed by Guardicore capabilities | Akamai Hunt combines the company’s historic DNS, WAF, and DDoS data with Guardicore’s segmentation and telemetry to detect and eliminate evasive threats. | Security |
| Kubernetes traffic replication startup Speedscale raises $9M | Although relatively unheard of, Speedscale claims to be a leading player in the nascent “production traffic replication” business, providing tools that help Kubernetes engineers looking to stress-test their application programming interfaces with real-world scenarios. | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce Generative AI Prioritizes Trust | “A great example of this is that we have designed into EinsteinGPT a human in the loop, which means that an employee – whether that’s a seller, a marketing manager, or a customer service agent – they have final say, and you can have them make any edits on what generative AI creates as a draft before hitting send or submit,” she explained. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Scammers exploit interest in ChatGPT with sophisticated investment scams | Upon accessing the link in the email, users are directed to a copycat version of ChatGPT, luring them with financial opportunities that pay up to $10,000 per month “on the unique ChatGPT platform.” The fake platform’s “chatbot” begins with a short introduction to its role in analyzing financial markets that can allow anyone to become a successful investor in global stocks. | Security |
| Report: AI startup Inflection in talks to raise up to $675M | The company is reportedly developing an AI chatbot for the consumer market. It will be capable of helping users with tasks such as “making bookings and purchases.” Unlike the Bard chatbot Google is building into its search engine, Inflection’s system reportedly won’t focus on answering user questions across a broad range of topics. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Fortinet Compact Next-Gen Firewall Augments OT Security | Fortinet expanded its Security Fabric for OT portfolio with a new rugged next-generation firewall (NGFW), a breach detection appliance, and enhancements to its FortiPAM, FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR, and FortiGuard services to secure operational technology (OT) environments. | Security |
| Microsoft unveils Dynamics 365 Copilot to bring AI power to business users | The company is adding the assistant to tools such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Viva Sales to create meeting summaries, product and pricing information, as well as insights from recorded Teams calls. Adding it to customer service tools will allow users to rapidly draft AI-powered emails and chat that can be run entirely by a virtual agent, that can pass over to a human when the AI can’t manage the chat anymore. | Automation & Productivity |
| LinkedIn’s flood of ‘collaborative’ articles start out with AI prompts | LinkedIn has introduced a feature called collaborative articles, which uses “AI-powered conversation starters” to start discussions between “experts” that use the platform. In an announcement post on Friday, the company says it will “match each article with relevant member experts” based on its skills graph, and invite them to add context, extra information, and advice to the stories. | Artificial Intelligence |
| OpenAI Launches ChatGPT & Whisper APIs, Developers Can Now Build ChatGPT into Their Apps | OpenAI states that by implementing a series of system-wide optimizations, the brand has achieved a 90% cost reduction for ChatGPT since December; and they are all set to pass on those savings to the prospective API users. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Touchcast Unveils ManualGPT – the First Ever Conversational Handbook that Transforms Product Manuals into Conversational Experiences | Touchcast, a leading enterprise metaverse company, announced the launch of ManualGPT, one of the world’s first GPT-powered handbooks. ManualGPT is a new tool that integrates Microsoft Azure AI capabilities, including text-to-speech, allowing organizations to take any product or service guide and make it conversational. | Automation & Productivity |
| Pure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data | Pure Storage says it has a new FlashBlade//E product optimized for capacity, designed to replace mainstream disk-based file and object stores with an acquisition price comparable to disk-based systems, and lower long-term cost of ownership, costing less than 20 cents per GB with three years’ support. | Data Storage |
| Stability AI’s Launches Stability For Blender; Text To 3D Image Creation, No GPU Required | Today, Stability AI, a community-driven artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced Stability for Blender, a free, easy-to-use Stable Diffusion inside Blender. Blender is professional open-source 3D computer graphics software. This new tool, allows users to generate textures, videos, and more inside Stable Diffusion. | Automation & Productivity |
| HPE to acquire Axis Security to deliver a unified SASE offering | The acquisition is aimed at incorporating the Axis security service edge (SSE) platform into HPE’s edge-to-cloud network security capabilities with to deliver integrated networking and security solutions as-a-service | Security |
| Fingerprint Partners with Spec to Provide Real-Time User Insights that Reduce Fraud and Deliver Frictionless Digital Experiences | “Accurate device identification is getting increasingly harder – cookies, local storage, and IP address are no longer sufficient to recognize returning visitors. Fingerprint’s device identification platform solves this by identifying visitors across multiple touchpoints with extremely high accuracy,” | Privacy & Security |
| New Flaws in TPM 2.0 Library Pose Threat to Billions of IoT and Enterprise Devices | Large tech vendors, organizations using enterprise computers, servers, IoT devices, and embedded systems that include a TPM can be impacted by the flaws, Quarkslab noted, adding they "could affect billions of devices." | Security |
| Drift’s GPT Integration can Respond to Complex Queries & Provide On-Job-Training | Drift, the Conversation Cloud Company, introduced a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) integration using OpenAI’s API, available exclusively to select Drift customers. The sales representatives will receive artificial intelligence (AI) suggested replies in live chat in the initial integration. This will be a huge step in advancing AI and redefining B2B rules for marketers and sellers alike. | Automation & Productivity |
| Explorance Launches General Availability of Explorance BlueML and Free Personalized Feedback Analytics Report to Help Human Resource and Academic Leaders Build a More Robust and Agile Workforce | “With BlueML, organizations can now bring to light the uncommon connections, and deep insights, about employees or students, that are otherwise, not easily accessible. With automated and intelligent analysis, the time and effort it takes to unlock data-driven decisions is significantly reduced, empowering organizations to act by evidence and not by assumption.” | Data & Analytics |
| DataVisor’s Innovation in Advanced Decision Flow Capabilities is a Major Step Toward More Effective Real-Time Fraud Management | At a peak traffic rate of over 15,000 QPS, Decision Flow boasts a hyper-low end-to-end detection latency of under 100ms while supporting sophisticated velocity features, rules, and machine learning model computation. | Privacy & Security |
| Rocket Software Enhances its Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i to Empower Organizations to Extend and Enhance Value of IT Investments | Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i advances an organization’s business environment, tracks data and business logic engagement, automates processes, enables agile work methodologies like DevOps, and empowers organizations to deliver strong ROI across all IBM i projects. | IT Management |
| Tech Mahindra Join Forces with Red Hat to Deliver 5G Core on Hybrid and Multi Cloud Leveraging netOps.ai | This partnership will deliver customized solutions to help telcos move critical 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) workloads to hybrid cloud using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and Tech Mahindra’s hyper-automation platform netOps.ai. | 5G |
| Brave adds AI-powered Summarizer tool to its search | Summarizer is a bit like Google's featured snippets descriptions on a results page, which lists the source of the information. Google tweaked this feature last year to avoid summaries based on bogus information. But, according to Brave, while the Summarizer uses LLMs, it's not prone to the odd musings of other AI chatbots. | Automation & Productivity |
| IBM and Cohesity partner to launch new data protection offering | Storage Defender will allow companies to create backups of their data and recover it after events such ransomware attacks. The platform can recover records that usually take hours or days to restore in a few minutes, IBM and Cohesity say. It’s set to include artificial intelligence features and will work with multiple types of data storage environments. | Data Protection |
| Attio raises $23.5M for its customer relationship management platform | “We’ve been working intensely on building the key features that form the foundation of CRM. However, we’re not taking just a checkbox approach. Instead, we’re taking every aspect of CRM, piece by piece, and making it an incredible experience.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Akamai acquires Kubernetes data storage startup Ondat | Administrators regularly adjust how much storage capacity is assigned to a Kubernetes application based on the amount of data it’s holding. Ondat automates the process to a large degree, which saves time. Its platform also encrypts applications’ information and compresses it to save storage capacity. | Data Storage |
| How SlashNext is using generative AI to shut down ChatGPT phishing attacks | Email security provider SlashNext is looking to fight AI with AI. BEC Generative AI, its new patent-pending solution, is designed to help identify and block scam messages generated by ChatGPT and other AI models. | Privacy & Security |
| 3D asset visualization and management platform startup Hexa raises $20.5M | The company claims that product pages will increasingly use 3D representations, replacing traditional 2D pictures and thumbnails. Hexa’s 3D tools guide brands and retailers as they create, manage, distribute and analyze 3D projects. | Emerging Tech |
| Informatica adds data integration to its budding line of free services | Informatica Cloud Data Integration-Free allows users to process up to 20 million rows for ETL or use 10 processing hours per month, whichever comes first, at no charge. CDI-PayGo includes some additional features and no limit on the number of rows processed or hours of usage | Data & Analytics |
| The First Web3 Powered City Map of Denver | One can expect geo-located XR, immersive experiences, NFTs in gamified spaces, and personal mapping. With blockchain(s) as its backbone, digital art and pure utility can merge seamlessly, lifting local businesses, empowering local curators, and allowing creators to build with the tools they deserve. | Web3 |
| New EX-22 Tool Empowers Hackers with Stealthy Ransomware Attacks on Enterprises | Some of the notable features include establishing a reverse shell with elevated privileges, uploading and downloading files, logging keystrokes, launching ransomware to encrypt files, and starting a live VNC (Virtual Network Computing) session for real-time access. | Security |
| Typeface – The Generative AI App Led by Former Adobe CTO that is Bringing Brand-Personalized Content Faster & Easier | Typeface’s Affinity AI self-learns and customizes creations to each enterprise’s voice and audiences across all digital mediums and use cases, including rapid ideation, cross-team collaboration, and personalized product campaigns. | Automation & Productivity |
| Nvidia plans to make its system that powers ChatGPT available in the cloud | Nvidia sells GPU-based compute systems called DGX Pods. The same processors, networking, and Nvidia’s comprehensive AI Enterprise software stack from the Pods will be available through your browser, rather than sinking six or seven figures into hardware for your data center | Cloud |
| Breaking Language Barriers: Voicero, the Real-Time AI Translation Platform that Ensures Your Ideas are Heard | Voicero allows real-time voice translation, meaning a professional can speak Korean and others can hear it in the language of preference. | Automation & Productivity |
| News Corp reveals hackers had access to internal network for two years | “The best approach is to protect the data itself rather than the borders around it, an approach known as data-centric protection and which includes methods such as tokenization,” Shadabi explained. “Tokenization replaces sensitive information with benign but meaningless tokens, so even if hackers get to your data, it is unintelligible and therefore worthless to them.” | Security |
| Cisco simplifies cloud-management licensing | Under Essentials, Cisco provides full lifecycle operations with proactive support and service for use cases including managing server profiles/policies, managing firmware updates, and proactive health monitoring and security advisories, | Cloud |
| Scale adds easy-bake Edge HCI install | Scale Computing has introduced a zero (technical) touch provisioning (ZTP) feature that it says means edge computing sites need a body to unbox the kit, hook it up to power and the Internet and then installation is automatic with no need for any technical bods on site. | Edge Computing |
| HP Enterprise buys Athonet for its 5G portfolio | Founded in 2005, Athonet says its goal is to speed and simplify private 5G deployments. Among other packages, it offers CBRS and 5G starter kits that include Athonet mobile packet core, SIM cards, a choice of radio and other components needed to set up private cellular networks quickly. | Network Management |
| VERSES Announces Next-Generation AI A “General Intelligent Agent” | With unique features like automating data organization, predictive reasoning, and the ability to learn over time, GIA is poised to become the first intelligent all-in-one solution for anyone seeking a smarter way to organize, manage, and automate their personal and professional activities. | Automation & Productivity |
| Scale adds easy-bake Edge HCI install | Scale Computing has introduced a zero (technical) touch provisioning (ZTP) feature that it says means edge computing sites need a body to unbox the kit, hook it up to power and the Internet and then installation is automatic with no need for any technical bods on site. | Edge Computing |
| Alpha Metaverse Technologies Announces AI Tool for Metaverse Content Production | This new AI tool will enable companies to produce 3D assets at a fraction of the cost and time, making it easier for them to develop and innovate in their metaverse experiences.” | Metaverse |
| Meta releases LLaMA to democratize access to large language AI models | Large language models are a type of deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets. Deep learning uses artificial neural networks to attempt to simulate the behavior of the human brain. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Google Teams Up with Ecosystem Partners to Enhance Security of SoC Processors | The tech giant said the goal is to bolster the security of software running on these secondary processors (i.e., firmware) and make it harder to exploit vulnerabilities over the air to achieve remote code execution within the Wi-Fi SoC or the cellular baseband. | Security |
| VAST Data rolling out biggest ever software release | VAST stores its data in its scale-out and global namespace Element Store, a single tier of QLC SSDs accessed across an NVMe fabric by stateless controllers which can see all the drives and refer to metadata held in Optane storage class memory, but now SLC-class fast SSD equivalents. | Data Storage |
| Radisys Introduces Programmable Media Analytics to Monetize 5G & Edge Cloud Applications | Off-the-shelf models including people and object counting, object and sound detection and classification, and biometric authentication. Engage Media Analytics also supports model customization and new model creation. | Data & Analytics |
| SF-86 and other Sensitive Data Exposed in U.S. Military Email Spill | The U.S. Department of Defense discovered over the weekend that one of their servers was sharing U.S. military emails out on the open internet for the past two weeks, according to TechCrunch. A missing password was the culprit for the server hosting the Microsoft Azure government cloud used for DoD customers. | Security |
| ALTR Launches Open-Source Data Governance Integration Initiative | Non-proprietary integrations enable seamless data governance, with access control and security spanning from database to data catalog through ELT to cloud data platforms. Complexity is removed for customers by allowing generally-available software to connect to generally-available software via plug-and-play. | Data Governance |
| Wochit Launches a Free, Prompt-to-Video, AI-Powered Video Generator, Enabling the Instant Creation of Professional Looking, Editable Videos | The solution leverages AI capabilities made available by ChatGPT and allows users to generate professional-looking videos from a simple text description. The Wizard takes in the prompt and puts together a script, scenes, footage, graphics, music, and effects, outputting a video that can either be downloaded as is or further edited and tweaked using Wochit’s Frame online video editor. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Edgio adds advanced DDoS protection with other WAAP enhancements | Designed to reduce severe damages from sophisticated DDoS attacks, Edgio’s scrubbing solution impersonates the customer’s network by routing the customer’s IP traffic through its scrubbing point-of-presence (PoP) and only sending the “clean” traffic back to the customer’s infrastructure, | Security |
| End-Of-Life Planning: Will.com To Use Next-Generation AI-Based Technology to Fulfill Final Wishes | The platform helps users capture all aspects of their digital presence, including their final wishes, personal messages, important documents, and online account access, all of which are securely stored and only accessible by chosen executors and beneficiaries after the user’s death. | Artificial Intelligence |
| NTT unveils prototype chip that could boost internet speeds to 2 terabytes per second | The company said its extremely compact new baseband amplifier integrated circuit module boasts an ultra-broadband performance of 100 gigahertz and is designed to be used with future all-photonics network technologies, including the nascent Innovative Optical and Wireless Network infrastructure and 6G networks | Network Management |
| Eclipse To Launch First Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2 With Polygon | Eclipse is a customizable Layer 2 (rollup) provider that allows blockchain infrastructure developers to choose between different virtual machines, including the Sealevel virtual machine. Its rollup technology enables developers to run a new blockchain while leveraging the security of existing networks such as Polygon. | Blockchain |
| HPe acquires Athonet for private wireless network capabilities | Although Athonet and Celona are both private 5G, or P5G, providers, they do go to market differently. Celona’s “5G in a box” is a full, turnkey solution that deploys and is managed like enterprise Wi-Fi, whereas Athonet’s strength is the mobile core and was designed for carriers and requires some integration work with orchestration tool and other components. | 5G |
| Uniphore buys Red Box to Extend Its Conversational AI Platform | These capabilities are most often used in compliance-centric industries, such as financial services and healthcare. And since Red Box can be used both in real-time and post-call audio and metadata streams, companies are now enabled to capture and monitor conversations for things that might violate organizational or industry rules or policies. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Coinbase introduces Base, a developer-friendly Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain | Layer 2 blockchains are often used to increase the scalability of other blockchains that can slow down or become overwhelmed with a large number of transactions caused by an increasing number of decentralized apps, or dapps. | Blockchain |
| Dream by WOMBO: The First Mobile App to Allow AI Image Editing through Text | “We’ve been absolutely humbled by the 60 million downloads and 1.5 billion artworks made with Dream. The scale is crazy for me to think about! We’re blown away by how many people use Dream every day and how much they depend on it. We love our users and want to keep pushing the limits of what AI can do for them.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Landing AI Democratizes the Creation of AI for All Company Sizes and More Industries | LandingLens is an industry-first data-centric AI computer vision software platform. By focusing on improving data for AI models, LandingLens works even if companies have limited data upon which to train the AI model, which is true for most companies. LandingLens’ step-by-step user interface vastly simplifies the training and deploying of AI models, making the technology accessible to individual subject matter experts within companies. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cloud compliance automation platform raises $7.5M to address growing cloud risk | Providers like Scrut Automation, which yesterday announced $7.5 million in funding, are aiming to enable CISOs to monitor their security posture in the cloud through automation. This allows them to maintain compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001 and the GDPR without being overwhelmed by manual administrative tasks. | Cloud |
| Deci Launches New Version of Its Deep Learning Platform Supporting Generative AI Model Optimization | The platform is powered by Deci’s proprietary AutoNAC (Automated Neural Architecture Construction) engine, based on Neural Architecture Search (NAS) Technology, that generates best-in-class deep learning model architectures for any task in any environment. The platform enables AI teams to accelerate inference performance by up to 10X, reduce inference costs by 5X, shorten development time by 80%, and lower development costs by 30%. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Amberflo on SaaS storage: Subscription billing is an aberration | If a SaaS supplier were to write the code for their own metering and billing system they have to be aware that scalability could be a real problem. This is a real-time application and can have a very high event record ingest rate. Gupta said: “AWS has its own billing service. Three years back it was running at 3 billion events per second.” Amberflo itself is processing tens of billions of meter events per day. | Cloud |
| How to stop data leaks in Slack and SaaS apps, Metomic raises $20M | Metomic’s solution uses AI to identify data leakage risks in real time with no-code workflows that security teams can use to automate data policies across SaaS applications like Google Apps, Slack, Jira and Zendesk. | Security |
| AWS boosts its infrastructure for memory-intensive tasks | Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced availability of its new Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances, the latest generation of instances for memory-intensive applications and running Amazons custom Arm processor, known as Graviton3. | Automation & Productivity |
| Making AI More Accessible: AWS & Hugging Face Partner Up To Democratize Machine Learning Tools | The collaboration aims to speed up training, and effectively execute large language and vision models to create generative AI applications. The two leaders have a common vision – making the next-generation AI and machine-learning models more accessible to everyone. With this collaboration, AWS will empower developers to access high-end tools at marginal costs. | Machine Learning |
| iMocha and Microsoft Collaborate to Simplify Assessment of Business Language Skills With Ai-Englishpro | In conventional manual assessments, there is always an element of bias along with the challenges related to scaling. iMocha’s AI-EnglishPro has transformed the assessment process where language proficiency is crucial, by integrating tech and non-tech assessments into a single assessment. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google claims major breakthrough in quantum computer error correction | According to Google Quantum AI researchers, they have discovered a way to reduce error rates in quantum computers exponentially, as the size of the system is increased, enabling them to reach “break-even point.” The company says it’s now confident it will eventually be able to achieve “commercial value” for quantum computers. | Quantum Computing |
| Spot Trender Announces Advanced AI Features for Data Analysis | In addition, Spot Trender can automatically scan business data and generate actionable insights. For instance, the AI can find statistically significant trends within every demographic dimension in your dataset, allowing you to pull out useful trends within seconds, not days. | Data & Analytics |
| DataStax clones decentralized blockchains into centralized AstraDB database | DataStax says its new service allows advanced querying and real-time analytics to be run at sub-second speeds, enabling developers to build blockchain-based functionalities into their applications. For example, developers can build applications with the capability to analyze any transaction from the entire blockchain history, including crypto or NFTs, for instant, accurate insights. | Blockchain |
| Kyndi Introduces Kyndi Clarity – a Natural Language-powered Self-service Solution That Enables Customers and Employees to Find the Right Answers in Just One Click | Kyndi Clarity maximizes the relevancy and speed of finding trustworthy answers in unstructured, text-based data to accelerate time-to-issue resolution. With the ability to deliver highly relevant information to customers and agents regardless of how they phrase their questions, the solution enables effective, end-user self-service while reducing the burden and cost for support teams. | Automation & Productivity |
| Lazarus Group Using New WinorDLL64 Backdoor to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data | The payload, dubbed WinorDLL64 by ESET, is a fully-featured implant that can exfiltrate, overwrite, and delete files; execute PowerShell commands; and obtain comprehensive information about the underlying machine. | Security |
| Interview: Here’s how AWS aims to build new bridges for telcos into the cloud-native world | The cloud giant Tuesday announced general availability of AWS Telco Network Builder, a fully managed service to help telcos scale up and run networks on the AWS cloud. The company also unveiled the “Integrated Private Wireless on AWS” program, a new service that leverages AWS in building and managing private wireless networks. | Cloud |
| New Cultural Analytics Platform Delivers Leadership, Safety, Sustainability and Performance Diagnostics at Scale | The initial release includes three products: 1) Integral Culture Assessment, 2) Incident and Injury-Free (IIF) Safety Perception Assessment, and 3) High-Performance Projects Assessment. Cultural assessment tools for Sustainability and Fleet Safety are in development for launch later this year. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft brings Bing’s AI chatbot to mobile devices and adds voice support | According to Microsoft, mobile users can have Bing display three versions of the same chatbot-generated answer. Bing can display the chatbot’s default answer, a simplified version or a set of bullet points. It supports more than 100 languages and also provides the option to translate between them. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Security warning: Beep malware can evade detection | While Beep is in its early stage of development and still lacks some essential malware attack capabilities, Minerva’s report shows that it can enable threat actors to download and inject additional payloads on infected systems using three major components: a dropper, an injector and a payload. | Security |
| Yellow.ai tackles conversational AI pain points with new design tool | With the launch of its Dynamic Conversation Designer, Yellow.AI looks to improve the design process for chat and voice conversational workflows using generative AI. Integrated within the Yellow.ai conversational AI platform, this conversation design tool allows teams to design chatbot conversations without writing any code, saving significant development time and effort. | Artificial Intelligence |
| QR code generator My QR Code leaks users’ login data and addresses | The leak was caused by misconfiguration, making the server publicly accessible to the public without any security authentication or password. What’s worse, it was also noted that the data was being actively updated with new records each day, indicating that the leak was still ongoing. | Data Privacy |
| Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication | Now, it’s official: You have to pay for the privilege of using Twitter’s worst form of authentication. In fact, if you don’t start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far more reliable authenticator app or physical security key, Twitter will simply turn off your 2FA after March 20th. | Security |
| Google’s long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March | Google will automatically migrate reminders created in the Google Assistant and Calendar apps to Google Tasks in May, though users can voluntarily do so starting in March. | Automation & Productivity |
| New Exploratory Data Tool Identifies Anomalies in Multivariate Datasets | The tool uses an algorithm to automate the process of finding specific segments in large datasets where metrics underperform or exhibit anomalous behaviors while avoiding noise and false positives. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft reportedly developing ad features for Bing’s search chatbot | According to ad industry executives cited by Reuters, the embedded promotions in Bing’s chatbot could take the form of paid links below search query answers. Furthermore, Microsoft is said to be testing a second ad format for “advertisers in specific industries.” It would reportedly enable brands to target users with offers when they search for a product or service. | MarketingTech |
| Domino Data Lab Announces Domino Code Assist to Shrink the Data Science Talent Gap | Domino says DCA employs a code-first strategy that will enable CDOs and CDAOs to involve more analytics professionals in data science and machine learning projects by improving efficiency and providing a platform for learning valuable coding skills. | Data & Analytics |
| CommandK raises $3M to assist companies achieve higher security standards | CommandK scans everyday tools to discover any sensitive data shared in plaintext, with the ability to analyze and remediate any leaked sensitive data. On the compliance side, the platform checks sensitive data against various regulatory and compliance standards, including Service Organization Control 2, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. | Security |
| City of Oakland declares state of emergency after ransomware attack | The state of emergency was declared “due to the ongoing impacts of the network outages resulting from the ransomware attack” and allows the city to “expedite the procurement of equipment and materials, activate emergency workers if needed, and issue orders on an expedited basis.” | Security |
| SpectraLogic targets on-prem archive market | StorCycle is SpectraLogic file/object lifecycle management software that scans primary on-premises or public cloud storage and moves older, less-accessed data from primary storage tiers to less expensive ones, such as nearline disk (NAS or object), tape, or archive storage tiers in the public cloud – both AWS and Azure. | Data Storage |
| Alteryx Boosts Decision Intelligence with New Cloud Analytics Platform Capabilities | The enhanced platform, which now includes all access for Designer Cloud, offers an approachable easy-to-use drag-and-drop modern interface accessible to employees of all skill levels, without compromising data governance or security standards. | Data & Analytics |
| DataStax Adds Blockchain to Cloud NoSQL for Web3 Development | It’s especially a heavy lift for the real-time aspect. A lot of our users were running batch jobs, so the data is always out of date until you run the next job. So the real time aspect is hard to do. All the data modeling, all the management of the database–all that we’re taking care of for users.” | Blockchain |
| Snap passes 750M active monthly users, predicts 1B in 2-3 years | Time spent on Snapchat’s Spotlight feature, a tab in the Snapchat app that shows short-form video content, now exceeds the time spent watching Friend Stories per Story viewer. Launched in 2020, Spotlight is often described as Snap’s TikTok competitor and the company is highly pleased with its growth. | Apps |
| Aryaka Adds Hyperscale PoPs to Extend SD-WAN, SASE Reach | He said the expansion will enable more optionality for consuming Aryaka’s services at packaged bandwidth tiers for the vendor’s private core network, for an optimized layer-2 and layer-3 backbone, and in incremental bandwidth speeds with “flexible mix-and-match choices.” | Network Management |
| Extreme adds network fabric support to its SD-WAN | New to the ExtremeCloud SD-WAN package is support for the vendor’s Fabric Connect technology, which lets customers automate discovery and configuration of fabric-enabled switches and access points. With this integration, customers can more easily extend connectivity to new sites while keeping costs low and improving security, visibility and application performance, Hull said. | Network Management |
| MariaDB SkySQL Wins 2023 DEVIES Award for Data Storage & Management | It is capable of scaling out a single database to hundreds of nodes with ease using Xpand, a distributed SQL database, and can deploy modern analytics on massive data sets to meet enterprise demands. | Data Management |
| You.com challenges Google, Microsoft with launch of ‘multimodal conversational AI’ in search | YouChat 2.0 is the first web search that combines advanced conversational AI with community-built apps, offering a unique and interactive experience with each query. With its blended large language model known as C-A-L (Chat, Apps and Links), YouChat 2.0 is able to serve up charts, images, videos, tables, graphs, text or code embedded in its responses to user queries | Artificial Intelligence |
| Akamai targets cloud computing’s middle ground with Connected Cloud | CDN (content delivery network) giant Akamai Technologies today announced that it will discount cloud egress pricing, add ISO, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, and build out enterprise-scale cloud computing sites and distributed points of presence in over 50 cities as part of a new initiative — dubbed Connected Cloud — aimed at filling a niche between the hyperscalers and edge computing. | Cloud |
| Veeam Backup & Recovery v12 aims at four object storage targets | Cloudian, Object First, Pure Storage and Scality are the four initial object storage targets for version 12 of Veeam Backup and Recovery, which has added the ability to back up directly to object storage on-premises. | Data Storage |
| EnterpriseDB Unveils Transparent Data Encryption for Postgres Security and Compliance | “EDB’s latest innovations further demonstrate a commitment to product design with a security-first approach. By adding transparent data encryption, we’re making it even more attractive for organizations to move to Postgres as their enterprise database standard.” | Data Management |
| ChatGPT: One million people have joined the waitlist for Microsoft's AI-powered Bing | OpenAI's ChatGPT attracted one million users in one week and now, after announcing the 'new Bing' with ChatGPT features, Microsoft officials have highlighted their own figure: a million people signed up on the waitlist to try out the new Bing in just 48 hours | Artificial Intelligence |
| Census Enrichment Integrates First- and Third-Party Data in the Data Warehouse | “With Census Enrichment, we’ve simplified enrichment in the data warehouse, providing seamless access to third-party customer information provided by Apollo.io and Clearbit. It’s the easiest way to understand your customers, and you can use the enriched data for any SaaS solution – enrich once and use anywhere.” | Data & Analytics |
| Blockchain cybersecurity firm Ironblocks raises $7M | “We believe that smart contract security is a given right for all crypto traders and protocols, and we aim to ensure the safety of data and crypto assets in the best way to bring about the broad adoption in DeFi and Web3,” | Blockchain |
| Expert.ai Announces Integration of GPT into Its Platform | Our platform is designed for the real-world needs of enterprises to ensure accuracy, governance, and return on investment. It delivers an end-to-end, integrated, and intuitive capability to take language in any form and build AI-powered solutions in any process or application. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Managed detection and response startup Deepwatch raises $180M | Its MDR Essentials allows organizations to deploy a high-performance, automated security operations center in less than one hour. The service integrates with the existing environment without requiring additional hardware or consulting. | Security |
| Rakuten Symphony makes distributed stateful cloud-native 5G edge play | Seethala said stateful edge sites were needed because, if data is not filtered, processed and acted on closest to where it is generated, then it results in a poor user experience, increased cost from transferring data over the network, and poor end-to-end performance. The compute needs to be located where the data is generated. | Edge Computing |
| Now ChatGPT is coming to your web browser too | Opera was quick to jump onto Web3 with its Opera Crypto Browser and now apparently plans to do the same with generative AI. Opera plans to roll out the generative AI features in the sidebar of the browser. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM Acquires StepZen to Help Enterprises Get More Business Value from Their Data and APIs | GraphQL has rapidly become a go-to query language for companies to interact with their data and is emerging as a new standard for APIs, layering upon the investments in REST APIs and data systems. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco Viptela SD-WAN Gains SASE Deploy Support | Gueland explained that the SASE framework’s ability to securely connect users to applications provides it with two primary use cases: secure private access and secure internet access. Supporting both the Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms makes SASE management easier by extending the benefits of both use cases | Network Management |
| DataStax Launches New Cloud Service to Spur Rapid Web3 Innovation | With Astra Block, developers can stream enhanced data from the industry’s dominant blockchain in a matter of minutes, then scale Web3 experiences virtually infinitely on Astra DB -- the serverless cloud database built on the open source Apache Cassandra database | Web3 |
| NetApp Announces New Line of Low-Cost, Capacity Flash Storage for the Modern Data Center | This family of capacity flash arrays are also offered with one of the industry’s most comprehensive software suites, ONTAP One, an all-in-one license that includes all available NetApp software. | Data Storage |
| Esri Releases New App to Easily View and Analyze Global Land-Cover Changes | The app is easy to access and leverages the same geographic information system (GIS) technology behind the land-cover map. The app, map, and source Sentinel-2 imagery are all part of the company's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. | Data & Analytics |
| The World’s First GPT-3 Powered Native iOS Keyboard is Here | ParagraphAI, a leading provider of GPT-3 powered writing solutions, announced that its iOS keyboard extension is out of stealth mode and ready for consumer use. The ParagraphAI keyboard allows its users – both free and premium – to instantly draft original messages or develop replies based on previous messages. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google debuts AI-powered Bard chatbot for conversational search | Bard features a chatbot interface similar to OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT service. When a user enters a search query, Bard doesn’t return a list of webpage links but rather a detailed natural language answer. The chatbot can process input of varying complexity, including advanced questions such as requests to explain recent scientific discoveries in a simplified form. | Automation & Productivity |
| Armo Integrates ChatGPT for Cloud-Native Security | The integration allows users to create custom controls without needing to understand how to use OPA or the Rego language. “All they need to do is to write in their own words what they want to check, and ChatGPT and Armo will return the exact control written in Rego, with the description and suggested remediation,” | Security |
| Turn up the Volumez: Storage orchestrating startup exits stealth | The Volumez engine provisions the data path to local on-premises or raw public cloud storage services, such as Amazon EC2 Instance Store, Google Compute Local SSDs, and Azure Ephemeral OS Disks. Volumez claims its technology makes ultra-high performance data services composable, scalable, and universal across public and private clouds. | Data Storage |
| NetApp pushes ONTAP into Google’s cloud | Google Cloud VMware Engine can use the fully managed Cloud Volumes Service as a datastore, enabling on-premises VMs, using ONTAP as an external datastore, to be moved to GCP (or AWS or Azure) and get the same data management and performance facilities. | Cloud |
| Microsoft Outlook and Teams suffer another global outage | “Users primarily located in the North American region attempting to access Outlook.com may be unable to send, receive, or search email,” Microsoft said in a post on its service status page. “Additional functionality such as the calendar consumed by other services such as Microsoft Teams would also be affected.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Nix management startup flox raises $16.5M, launches open-source platform | Nix is a cross-platform package manager that employs a functional deployment model where software is installed in unique directories. The new flox open-source platform provides convenience, collaboration and control throughout the systems development life cycle, according to the company. | DevOps |
| This notorious ransomware has now found a new target | The Linux variant of Clop ransomware has been uncovered and detailed by cybersecurity researchers at SentinelOne, who say it's active in the wild. However, they also suggest a flawed decryption mechanism means that, for now, the Clop Linux variant is still in the experimental stages of development. | Security |
| NetApp announces new portfolio of storage programs and flash storage for data centers | The service is said to evolve the storage lifecycle by allowing organizations to avoid complex, costly and time-consuming refresh cycles. By enabling ongoing, nondisruptive hardware upgrades, NetApp Advance ensures efficient, secure and sustainable storage with new guarantees to meet the needs of organizations. | Data Storage |
| Cequence Security Enhances API Security Testing Capabilities | For scenarios where no API specifications exist, security teams can leverage real-time API traffic analysis to baseline API specifications based on runtime traffic, eliminating the need to search for owners of legacy APIs or create specifications from scratch. | DevOps |
| Microsoft Announces Latest AI-powered Capabilities in Viva Sales | Viva Sales would bring in the power of OpenAI Service and GPT to provide an enriched access to sales data and insights, hosted on Azure and Microsoft Cloud. From reminding sales people about meetings and calls to sending personalized email and chat messages, Viva Sales prowess is well-defined in the context of hyperautomation for sales intelligence. | Automation & Productivity |
| Ctrl+e Unveils Building Intelligence and Energy Management Platform | By providing real-time visibility and control over a building’s devices and energy consumption, the platform empowers building owners to effortlessly adapt and optimize energy usage, reduce building expenses, eliminate carbon emissions and unlock meaningful insights into any building’s health and safety. | Sustainability |
| Microsoft’s new Teams Premium tier integrates with OpenAI's GPT-3.5 | Teams Premium, a new tier of Microsoft Teams now generally available to customers, uses the new version of GPT — the OpenAI artificial intelligence engine and database on which ChatGPT is based — to underpin the AI capabilities that will be available to users of the new version of the collaboration application | Automation & Productivity |
| Tuxera SMB Server Offers Novel Scale-out Feature Compatible With Linux | Where many enterprise storage systems rely on a single SMB server for operations, scale-out allows for a multi-SMB service that can route to multiple file cluster nodes and storage systems, providing faster throughput at low CPU and memory usage. | Data Storage |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux arrives in Oracle’s cloud | RHEL will be available on Oracle’s VMs, ranging in size from 1 to 80 CPU cores and from 1GB of memory up to 1024GB. Initial support will be limited to the newer OCI virtual machine shapes, which use AMD, Intel and Arm processors. | Cloud |
| Rambus Delivers 6400 MT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver to Advance Server Memory Performance | “We were first in the industry to 5600 MT/s, and now we have raised the bar with our Gen3 DDR5 RCD capable of 6400 MT/s to support a new generation of RDIMMs for server main memory.” | Data Management |
| OneSpan acquires blockchain provider ProvenDB to enhance digital agreement security | ProvenDB uses blockchain technology, which adds a layer of security to transactions by mirroring them across multiple copies of ledgers that are all protected by cryptographic hashes and designed to be immutable after data is added. Once information is added to ProvenDB, digital signatures are generated and registered and its secure storage provides proof of document integrity, ownership and creation time. | Blockchain |
| Zillow’s New Ai-Powered Natural-Language Search Is a First in Real Estate | Now home shoppers can enter phrases like “$700K homes in Charlotte with a backyard” or “open house near me with four bedrooms” directly into the Zillow search bar, rather than starting with a location and having to filter their way to the homes they want. They can also save their searches and have Zillow notify them when new qualifying listings come online. | Automation & Productivity |
| BuzzFeed’s stock price soars as company announces AI content push | Peretti explained that OpenAI’s starring role at the company will at first be mostly “enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience.” He added that down the line, he expects AI to play a much bigger role in writing content, although he said humans will always be the company’s main source of content. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Encord Launches Open Source Active Learning Toolkit to Speed Up Real-World Applications of Computer Vision | “As many ML engineers know, the performance of all models depends on the quality of their training data. Encord Active is first and foremost a framework built to help machine learning engineers understand and improve their data quality iteratively and effectively, ” | Machine Learning |
| Unbabel introduces new Self-Service and Quality Intelligence options to enable greater accessibility to LangOps | The free 14-day trial solution gives anyone access to Unbabel’s full capabilities, and enables them to quickly and easily set up translation pipelines using AI combined with human editors, request translations, and integrate with Zendesk within 5 minutes. Unbabel also announced free public access to its Quality Intelligence solution enabling anyone to receive a demo using Unbabel’s industry-leading quality estimation technology. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless | To get started with OpenSearch Serverless, customers need to create a collection. Collections are a logical grouping of indexed data that works together to support a workload, while the physical resources are automatically managed in the backend. Customers don’t have to declare how much compute or storage is needed, or monitor the system to make sure it’s running well. | Automation & Productivity |
| One AI Powers 50,000 Companies and Developers with Advanced Language AI Capabilities | One AI curates and trains state-of-the-art NLP building blocks that can be enhanced with customer data to meet their unique business needs. The platform makes it easy to stack and access these building blocks via API, so users can quickly and easily create custom language processing solutions, with support for text, audio and video inputs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Fiverr Launches New Categories as Searches for AI-related Services Increased over 1400% | Searches for AI-related services have increased over 1400% in the last six months on the platform. Business leaders are not only eager to integrate AI into their operations, sales and marketing campaigns, but are also searching for the people who are skilled using these new tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell confirms it has acquired Cloudify to boost its cloud orchestration capabilities | Cloudify’s tools cater to companies that have to juggle multiple infrastructure management platforms. For instance, a company might use VMware Inc.’s vSphere virtualization platform to manage its on-premises services, along with Kubernetes in support of its public cloud deployments. | Cloud |
| NSA and CISA alert: This phishing scam could give hackers control of your PC | The warning comes following the discovery of an email phishing campaign that tricks victims into downloading legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software, which allows attackers to gain access to bank accounts. | Security |
| Hacker finds copy of TSA no-fly list on exposed cloud storage | A copy of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s “no-fly list” has been found by a Swiss hacker exposed on the open internet in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. | Security |
| KoreAI updates make it easier to build low-code chatbots with ChatGPT’s large language model | The addition of support for zero-shot and few-shot models to Kore.AI’s platform means that companies can now leverage the power of LLMs and generative AI to create more capable chatbots than before. The LLM behind ChatGPT, for example, eliminates the requirement for finding initial training data. | Automation & Productivity |
| Big tech backs Google in defending internet liability protections | A week after Google filed a defense brief to the US Supreme Court, warning that altering Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) would "upend the internet," a number of corporations —including Twitter, Meta and Microsoft, have filed their own legal briefs — supporting Google’s argument that narrowing the statute could have dire consequences for digital publishers. | Tech for Good |
| ThriveCart raises $35M in funding to help businesses build eCommerce carts and funnels | One of the challenges faced by eCommerce entrepreneurs is shopping cart abandonment. Research from Baymard Institute shows that about 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned. That means, for every 10 customers who add an item to their shopping cart, seven of them leave without completing the purchase. That’s why one tech startup is on a mission to address this problem. | Sales & Marketing |
| SAIC Launches New Data Science Platform Named Tenjin | As a collaborative environment, Tenjin supports full-code technical data scientists and machine learning engineers, while also enabling non-technical users to contribute and understand AI and data-driven decision-making. Tenjin offers extensibility and interoperability with its open architecture and cloud agnostic flexible deployment model. | Data & Analytics |
| WANdisco Launches Data Activation Platform 2.0 to Supercharge Massive Data Movement to Any Cloud | Supporting both the WANdisco Data Migrator and Edge to Cloud solutions, the updates maximize the speed and scale of on-premises and edge data transfers through precise control over migration throughput, cleanup, and prioritization, among other features. | Data Management |
| ClearML Releases New Reports Feature to Share Real-Time Results of ML Projects | This new feature makes it easy to create and share real-time reports within ClearML as well as connect to third-party editors such as Confluence, Monday, Notion, Colab (Jupyter), and others using embed code. A report can contain charts that auto-update continuously throughout an experiment lifecycle. | Automation & Productivity |
| Optable Expands Flash Node Capabilities Allowing Customers to Match and Activate With Advertisers | This expansion will allow publishers and media owners to activate audiences based on matches obtained using clean room functionality in Snowflake, without data being moved out of Snowflake. | Data & Analytics |
| CloudHedge is Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud-Native Computing | “OmniDeq smartly automates multiple workflows of legacy application modernization and enhancing deployability across environments. Further, OmniDeq continuous modernization platform powered by R6Ai brings predictability & drives efficiency,” | Cloud |
| Chord, a tech startup led by former Glossier execs, raises $15M to expand its headless eCommerce platform | Chord’s technology stack, which combines headless commerce and data infrastructure, does not require a massive and costly team to build and operate. Chord’s infrastructure also integrates into a brand’s system and is pre-configured and instrumented for best-in-class data collection and modeling, as well as synthesized insights. | eCommerce |
| Pliops spreads wings with RAID supercharger | It is a key-value-based (KV) controller with built-in hardware engines for compression, encryption, RAID and other low-level storage functions. These functions are typically carried by system software, which Pliops refers to collectively as a storage engine. | Data Storage |
| aiOla Raises $25 Million to Interface Natural Language to AI Solutions in Traditional Manufacturing | “aiOla’s proprietary and patented natural-language interface technology is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the ‘gold rush” in AI adoption. Our technology spans any language or jargon for any process, offering an instant and lasting impact across a variety of industries and verticals.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Client management startup Copilot secures $10M in funding | Copilot’s platform is accessible through a web-based interface and a mobile app that each business can customize with its brand assets. The portal includes a messaging tool for sharing project details, as well as a built-in file storage service. The file storage service offers an electronic signature feature that makes it easier to process contracts. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hat trick: Mailchimp hacked for the third time in one year | Mailchimp’s latest data breach was detected on Jan. 11 when an authorized actor was found to be accessing tools used by customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration. The attack vector involved the hacker successfully targeting Mailchimp employees and contractors with a social engineering attack to gain access to select Mailchimp accounts using employee credentials compromised in the attack. | Privacy & Security |
| Metahood raises $3M to build a platform for trading metaverse real estate | Web3 metaverse real estate uses nonfungible tokens, a type of crypto asset that uses blockchain technology to allow users to have provable ownership of virtual land inside of virtual worlds. The tokens themselves represent ownership of land plots inside different virtual worlds. | Metaverse |
| T-Mobile hacked yet again as 37 million customer records stolen | In a filing today with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, T-Mobile said a bad actor first retrieved data through an application programming interface on or around Nov. 25. The breach wasn’t detected until Jan. 5, and the company cut off access to the API one day later. | Privacy & Security |
| Baker Hill Partners with FlashSpread, a BeSmartee Company, to Automate the Tax Return Spreading Process | FlashSpread streamlines the tax analysis process by converting PDF and scanned tax returns into standardized, spreaded reports with the click of a button. As a result, financial institutions and lenders can process more business loan applications with increased accuracy. | Automation & Productivity |
| Nextdata launches tools to transform its vision of a ‘data mesh’ into reality | The creators are tasked with ensuring the quality and relevance of the data, and they’re responsible for sharing it with others across their organization who may want to use it. The data mesh employs a consistent, organization-wide set of definitions and governance standards to ensure consistency, while a metadata layer is used to make it searchable, so others can find what they need. | Data & Analytics |
| Action1 Provides Free Tool to Eliminate Organizations’ Exposure to Compromise after LastPass Breach | The company empowers IT teams with automated scripting capabilities to identify all LastPass installations installed as browser extensions, and eliminate threat actors’ chances to leverage potentially weak or reused master passwords to break into organization’s critical systems by working directly with vulnerable users. | Privacy & Security |
| Okta Optimizes No-Code for Identity Management | Okta’s progressive profiling lets developer teams build custom login flows to collect user data over subsequent logins. “This means users can sign up quickly and organizations can still capture first-party data without adding friction up front,” Ramji said, citing research that shows 44% of users are frustrated with long-winded login processes. | Privacy & Security |
| Mavenir Introduces Fixed Wireless Access Solution | This offering provides a competitive solution in a low-footprint deployment that leverages public and private cloud infrastructure. Mavenir’s FWA solution delivers high throughput, differentiated QoS control, geo-restriction, home-zoning, differentiated charging, advanced power savings, and many more features. | Network Management |
| Nest co-founder launches Mill, a sustainable kitchen bin that turns food scraps into chicken feed to combat food waste | To put food waste into a perspective, “if food waste was a country, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind China and the United States.” | Sustainability |
| Got It AI launches truth checking tool to fix ChatGPT’s inaccuracies | The startup said its tool makes it possible for enterprises to deploy ChatGPT-like experiences without the risk of it providing incorrect responses to employees or users. As a result, companies can use the tool to deploy conversational AI that leverages extensive knowledge bases, such as those used for external customer support or internal user queries. | Automation & Productivity |
| Meta sues AI startup Voyager Labs for allegedly creating fake accounts to scrape Facebook and Instagram users’ data | According to the filing in the District Court for the Northern District of California, Meta alleged that Voyager Labs created over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts, that the startup later used to exploit publicly posted information from over 600,000 other users, including posts, likes, photos, and friends lists. | Data Privacy |
| Samsung launches new desktop gumstick SSD | All three are M.2 gumstick format drives with NVMe interfaces across a PCIe gen 4 connection and meant for OEM use. They are built with V-NAND, Samsung’s term for 3D NAND, and are mainstream desktop/notebook SSD products. | Data Storage |
| AuthID-Okta integration assists in eliminating passwords and preventing unauthorized access | Verified CloudConnect complements Okta’s Workforce and Customer Identity and Access Management platforms to secure desktop and mobile devices with cryptographic FIDO2 passkeys, enrolling and securing workforce users and customers. | Security |
| HPE Acquires Pachyderm to Expand AI-at-Scale Capabilities with Reproducible AI | "Pachyderm’s unique reproducible AI software augments HPE’s existing AI-at-scale offerings to automate and accelerate AI and unlock greater opportunities in image, video, and text analysis, generative AI, and other emerging large-language-model needs to realize transformative outcomes.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Expanded Cloudflare-Microsoft relationship helps organizations enhance zero-trust security | The new integrations between Cloudflare and Microsoft allow customers to deploy zero-trust security tools in minutes, with no complex code changes. The integration also includes claimed industry-first features, such as Cloudflare’s Remote Browser Isolation technology. | Security |
| Intel Inaugurates Confidential VM, Guns for AMD | “VM isolation effectively removes the cloud service provider or other cloud tenants from the trust boundary with cryptography and hardware. It adds technological strength to compliance and sovereignty programs with little impact to the existing applications that run within the virtual machine.” | Cloud |
| Aptum Strengthens its Hybrid Multi-Cloud MSP Position with the Acquisition of Montreal-based CloudOps, an AWS, Google and Edge-to-Cloud SaaS Orchestrator | Aptum will enhance its Hybrid Cloud Management Portal by leveraging CloudMC’s API-driven, modular and extensible, edge orchestration platform. It will accelerate the existing development of a single pane of glass for hybrid multi-cloud workload management. | Cloud |
| Ava Labs teams with AWS for one-click Avalanche blockchain node deployment | The function will include a feature to distribute validators to secure the subnet across different regions and availability zones to improve robustness. Ava Labs defines subnets as “effectively ‘blockchain-as-a-service’ secured by some portion of Avalanche validators, ” which in turn are computers that are dedicated to maintaining a blockchain’s integrity. | Blockchain |
| Metaplane Raises $8.4M to Ensure Organizational Trust in Data | It automatically monitors modern data stacks from warehouses to BI dashboards, identifies normal behavior (e.g. lineage, volumes, distributions, freshness), and then alerts the right people when anomalies arise. | Data & Analytics |
| DeepL targets AI translation for enterprises with fresh $100 million | According to the company, it uses a novel NN design to understand the nuanced interpretations of phrases and sentences and is able to convey them in a target language. | Artificial Intelligence |
| New Microsoft 365 Basic offers additional services at a reduced price | The new Microsoft 365 Basic will be available starting Jan. 30 for $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year and replaces a previous 100-gigabyte OneDrive storage subscription with additional features. The tier offers 100GB of storage, web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and other apps, ad-free Outlook web and mobile access, and Microsoft technical support. | Automation & Productivity |
| Experts Detail Chromium Browser Security Flaw Putting Confidential Data at Risk | "Specifically, the browser did not properly check if the symlink was pointing to a location that was not intended to be accessible, which allowed for the theft of sensitive files." | Privacy & Security |
| Supermicro storage servers get a boost from Sapphire Rapids | In addition to the processor, every major sub-system has been dramatically upgraded w/ up to 2X improvement in memory performance with DDR5, 2X better I/O bandwidth w/ 80 lanes of PCIe Gen 5 I/O that will support higher performance accelerator cards, and 400 Gbps networking and improved manageability and security.” | Data Storage |
| Cisco warns customers of critical vulnerabilities in small business routers | The vulnerabilities have been found in Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G and RV082 routers. Using the access, an attacker can bypass authentication or execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. | Security |
| Observability platform Chronosphere raises additional $115M in Series C funding at a $1.6 billion valuation | In fact, customers that use Chronosphere’s cloud native observability platform, which enables customers to transform their data based on the need, context, and utility to optimize costs, improve user experience, and solve problems faster. The average customer optimizes their data set by 48% for significant additional cost savings. | Cloud |
| Microsoft unveils VALL-E, a text-to-speech AI that can mimic a voice from seconds of audio | The company said its tool, VALL-E, can keep the emotional tone of the speaker for the rest of the message while also simulating the acoustics of the room from which it first heard the voice. Not only can it do this from a short audio sample — which is unheard-of so far — but Microsoft says no other AI model can sound as natural. | Artificial Intelligence |
| planetRE Announces AI Intellectual Assistant within Socialite CRM | The new feature called AI Intellectual Assistantä allows users to generate contents on any topics, create realistic art and imagery prescribed via short natural language phrases and transform any loaded picture using a library of AI transformations – all with full user control for automated email, text and predictive marketing campaigns. | Automation & Productivity |
| Seek AI raises $7.5M to build generative artificial intelligence platform for data | Seek AI provides a cloud-based AI platform that allows business users to ask on-the-spot, or “ad hoc,” questions about data and uses AI to write new code queries to answer those questions. The platform uses generative AI like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and GPT-3 to automate this process and provides natural language processing to understand written text. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – in particular its Science and Technology Directorate research arm – and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) picture a multicloud collaborative sandbox that will become a training ground for government boffins to test analytic methods and technologies that rely heavily on artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. | Security |
| Flare, the Layer 1 oracle network, launches with the distribution of over 4 billion tokens to millions of recipients | The airdrop is a significant milestone for Flare as developers can now start to take advantage of Flare’s EVM and native data acquisition protocols, the State Connector, and Flare Time Series Oracle. These native protocols, secured by the network, provide decentralized access to high-integrity data from other blockchains and the internet, enabling the creation of new use cases and monetization models. | Blockchain |
| Identity thieves exploit security flaw to steal credit reports from Experian | The Experian website ostensibly required several questions to be answered to obtain a credit report, but the identity thieves discovered that they could trick Experian into giving them access to credit reports. Obtaining access was as simple as editing the address displayed in the browser URL bar at a specific point in the identity verification process | Privacy & Security |
| Syntiant to Introduce Turnkey Edge AI Security Solution at CES 2023 | The company will display its edge AI audio, sensor and vision processing capabilities, including audio event detection such as glass break, person or vehicle detection for smart cameras and doorbells, as well as inferences based on sensors, which include accelerometers for tamper detection. | Security |
| AMD unveils exascale data-center accelerator at CES | The accelerated processing unit (APU) is a mix of 13 chiplets, including CPU cores, GPU cores, and high bandwidth memory (HBM). Tallied together, AMD's Instinct MI300 accelerator comes in at 146 billion transistors. | Automation & Productivity |
| Meta rolls out a new ad delivery system in response to discrimination | “After the ad has been shown to a large enough group of people, the VRS measures aggregate demographic distribution of those who have seen the ad to understand how that audience compares with the demographic distribution of the eligible target audience selected by the advertiser," | AI Ethics |
| Conversational AI startup NLX raises $4.6M to fuel expansion and product development | NLX says it enables brands to create personalized voice, chat and multimodal conversations in one place through an end-to-end no-code platform. The platform provides a one-stop shop for building, managing and analyzing all self-service conversions | Automation & Productivity |
| CatchProbe receives $1M in funding from Applied Value Group to eliminate misinformation in cyber intelligence | Founded in 2017 by Turkish engineer and entrepreneur Batuhan Tosun, CatchProbe provides actionable web intelligence, OSINT, deception systems, threat intelligence, and digital crime analytics solutions and products through the world’s first AI-Driven SaaS-based centralized and autonomous intelligence platform. | Security |
| Microsoft looking at OpenAI’s GPT for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint | Microsoft has reportedly been using OpenAI’s GPT technology to improve Outlook search results so users can find what they’re looking for without having to search using keywords in emails. Microsoft is also said to have looked at how these AI models could suggest replies to emails or recommend document changes to improve Word users’ writing. It’s not clear if Microsoft plans to launch these features, or if it’s just experimentation for now. | Automation & Productivity |
| AAG launches MetaOne Wallet to simplify and streamline the Web3 user experience | MetaOne will also play a vital role in helping drive the mainstream use and acceptance of Web3 primitives as the AAG team rolls out support for multiple blockchains in the coming weeks and the AAG Academy spearheads the efforts to raise awareness about crypto and Web3. | Web3 |
| Malicious PyPI Packages Using Cloudflare Tunnels to Sneak Through Firewalls | The malicious code, as is increasingly the case, is concealed in the setup script (setup.py) of these libraries, meaning running a "pip install" command is enough to activate the malware deployment process. | Security |
| TrustRadius Enables Buyers With Comprehensive Technology Insights, Pioneering the First B2B Decisioning Platform | To continue that journey, and influenced by data collected from 2,185 technology buyers in the 2022 B2B Buying Disconnect report—virtually 100% of technology buyers expect to find user feedback, specs, pricing, and product demos without having to engage a salesperson—TrustRadius is building the ultimate B2B technology decisioning platform. | IT Management |
| Fathom.fm Launches New Version of Revolutionary AI-Powered Podcast Player—Now With ‘More Future’ | Now Fathom has been completely re-designed to include both game-changing features (like creating custom clips and AI chapters) and daily driver features (downloads, much faster UI), so Fathom easily replaces listeners’ go-to daily podcast player. | Automation & Productivity |
| Twitter data breach shows APIs are a goldmine for PII and social engineering | Insecure APIs provide cybercriminals with a direct line to access user’s personally identifiable information (PII), usernames and passwords, which are captured when a client makes a connection to a third-party service’s API | Security |
| Confluent acquires stream processing startup Immerok | A stream processing application is a program that processes data in near real-time. A cybersecurity tool, for example, might process breach alerts in near real-time to speed up the detection of malware. In contrast, many traditional applications only analyze new information hours or days after it’s generated. | Data & Analytics |
| Rumble Launches a New Interface for Desktop and Mobile Web | Each video will also show useful statistics such as total views, number of comments, as well as likes and dislikes. The site’s search function will also now include both Channels and Videos within a single search, removing the need to search multiple times. | Automation & Productivity |
| Enfabrica intros hyper-distributed data moving ASIC | The initial product is a server fabric interconnect ASIC, a massively distributed IO chip. It will be part of an integrated hardware and software stack to interconnect compute, storage and networking to get applications executing in servers faster. This sounds like a Data Processing Unit (DPU) or SmartNIC device. | Automation & Productivity |
| CData Software Releases Certified Power BI Connector for CData Connect Cloud | Certified by Microsoft, the CData Connect Cloud Power BI Connector enables Connect Cloud users to access and analyze more of their disparate cloud data from within their Power BI dashboards. | Data & Analytics |
| New LogRhythm capabilities offer a force multiplier for security teams | Designed to streamline security analytics, the latest Axon updates are said to make it easier for teams to detect, investigate and report on potential threats. The additional features also reduce the burden of managing threats and the operating infrastructure. | Security |
| Confluent acquires Apache Flink vendor Immerok to expand data stream processing | “Streaming data has become very mainstream, and Kakfa is a platform now in almost every company,” Kreps told VentureBeat. “So, the next kind of logical problem to solve is, ‘What do you do with the streams of data and how can you make it easier and easier to build applications around?’” | Data Management |
| Arista floats its answer to the strain AI puts on networks | “What we are starting to see is a wave of applications based on AI, natural language, machine learning, that involve a huge ingestion of data distributed across hundreds or thousands of processors—CPUs, GPUs—all taking on that compute task, slicing it up into pieces, each processing their piece of it, and sending it back again,” | Network Management |
| Aporia Launches Direct Data Connectors, the Industry’s First Solution for Monitoring Large-scale Data to Ensure Safe and Trustworthy AI | Aporia, the observability platform for machine learning, announced today the launch of Direct Data Connectors (DDC). DDC is a novel technology to monitor machine learning models in production by connecting directly to training and inference datasets, without the need to duplicate any data | Data Management |
| Apple brings AI narration to audiobooks | “This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator,” reads each audiobook listing that uses Apple’s digital narration service. The listings include both free and paid books, and a report in The Verge says that although the voices sound perfectly intelligible, they also have an unmistakable “artificial edge” that lacks the same warmth as a human storyteller’s voice. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Arcion Introduces SAP Sybase ASE Connector for Ultimate Migration Flexibility | This new extension to the Arcion CDC platform enables high-volume database migration and real-time data replication with guaranteed delivery, 100% transactional integrity, and sub-second latency, with zero downtime | Data Management |
| Aviatrix, Equinix Encrypt Multi-Cloud Networking | This new service is particularly suited for large enterprises in need of management consolidation or simplification. “It allows customers who are using Aviatrix in the cloud to extend that operational model,” including connections management, visibility, and security, to all corners of an environment. | Network Management |
| Withings’ U-Scan lets you do urinalysis at home on a daily basis | One of the company’s most technologically advanced devices to date, U-Scan is a miniaturized health lab that hygienically sits within any toilet bowl to unlock the wealth of health information in daily urine. | MedTech |
| Linbit pushes DRDB-based software as SAN replacement | Savvy Linux users can provide SAN services to physical, virtual and containerized applications without buying a SAN product, by using LinBit open-source software based on DRDB, which is included in the Linux distribution. | Data Storage |
| Snowflake acquires Myst, looks to build time-series forecasting capabilities | Over the last year, Snowflake has worked aggressively to expand its data cloud. The Montana-based company has been focusing on building machine learning extensibility into the platform, and with this deal, it has taken a step in this direction. | Data & Analytics |
| SpyNote Strikes Again: Android Spyware Targeting Financial Institutions | "The reason behind this increase is that the developer of the spyware, who was previously selling it to other actors, made the source code public," ThreatFabric said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "This has helped other actors [in] developing and distributing the spyware, often also targeting banking institutions." | Privacy & Security |
| MeetKai rolls out creator tools for conversational AI and the metaverse | Rather than shoot for the extreme high-end of 3D graphics, MeetKai is targeting experiences that anyone can access via a web browser, without the need for expensive specialized hardware, | Metaverse |
| D2iQ Announces Newest Release of Its Kubernetes Platform | DKP 2.4 includes feature enhancements, version upgrades, and expanded infrastructure support across the leading cloud service providers, enhancing and unifying the management of fleets of Kubernetes clusters across hybrid, multi-cloud, and multi-cluster environments. | Cloud |
| Job applicant data stolen in breach of burger chain Five Guys | A subsequent investigation determined on Dec. 8 that the data accessed was in relation to its employment process. The form letter only states that the data stolen were applicants names before a field labeled “Variable Text 1.” Presumably, the field would be populated with further information relating to the affected job applicant. | Data Privacy |
| Progress Software acquires NoSQL data integration engine MarkLogic | Progress said the deal will give it a unified enterprise-grade semantic data platform for deriving value from complex data. MarkLogic is a multimodal database that can be used as a document store, a native DBMS for use with the extensible markup language, a Resource Description Framework store and a search engine. | Data & Analytics |
| Landis+Gyr & MicroEJ Collaborate on App OS Platform for Next Gen Smart Meters | MicroEJ, the leading provider of software containers for IoT and embedded devices, and Landis+Gyr, a global leader in energy management technologies, announced their collaboration to expand the app development environment for the next generation of smart meters. This collaboration establishes the digital foundation for more efficient and sustainable energy management. | Sustainability |
| The Evolving Tactics of Vidar Stealer: From Phishing Emails to Social Media | When a user creates an account on an online platform, a unique account page that can be accessed by anyone is generated," AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) disclosed in a technical analysis published late last month. "Threat actors write identifying characters and the C2 address in parts of this page." | Privacy & Security |
| Intel debuts new laptop processors with up to 24 cores | The 13th Gen Intel Core processor series, which is also known as Raptor Lake, includes more than two dozen central processing units. Some are designed for high-end laptops that prioritize performance over power efficiency. Other Raptor Lake chips will ship as part of entry-level and midrange notebooks | Automation & Productivity |
| IRS Implements Robotic Process Automation Technology from UiPath Within Its Finance and Procurement Divisions | The IRS CFO office plans to use bots to format financial data and aims to deploy others to perform tasks such as consolidating information from multiple data sources, extracting data from documents, and retrieving data related to property and equipment vouchers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Uniphore Introduces Q for Sales: Real-Time EQ to Transform Remote B2B Buying Experiences | Built on Uniphore’s unique conversational AI and automation platform, Q for Sales leverages Computer Vision, Tonal Analysis, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to capture and make recommendations on the full emotional spectrum of sales conversations to boost close rates and performance of sales teams. | Marketing Tech |