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| Mesh raises $22M for platform that helps businesses manage digital assets | Using Mesh’s platform, businesses can let customers deposit, hold and move digital assets across different platforms, assets that can include cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum. The system is embeddable into customers’ existing infrastructure and apps, which allows them to perform payments and transfers as well as interact with more than 300 cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets without leaving their own system. | FinTech |
| Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive | Bard’s extensions aren’t limited to just Gmail, Docs, and Drive, either. Google also announced that the chatbot will also connect with Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights. This means you can now ask Bard to pull real-time flight information, find nearby attractions, surface YouTube videos on a certain topic, and a lot more. Google will enable these three extensions by default. | Automation & Productivity |
| Solidigm SSD looks to outpace rivals on random writes | Solidigm positions the drive as a fast write cache sitting in front of slower mass capacity QLC (4bits/cell) drives such as its own 61.4TB D5-P5336. The D7-P5810 can also be used in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. | Data Storage |
| Amazon leader says new Gen AI Alexa is a ‘super agent’ | The multimodal, multilingual and multifaceted model is “is hugely complex,” he said, combining computer vision, natural language processing and pattern recognition. Yet, he added, it is the “complex being made simple” for users and developers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Secoda raises $14M to bring AI-driven, Google-like search to enterprise data | “Secoda does not simply give you information, but gives you answers, much like Google…Our customers have been able to leverage the platform to reduce the volume of inbound data requests by over 40%, reduce onboarding times by 50%, and reduce time teams spend on documentation by 90% — huge time savings for data teams," | Data Management |
| AnswerRocket’s GenAI Assistant Revolutionizes Enterprise Data Analysis | Max offers a user-friendly chat experience for data analysis that integrates AnswerRocket’s augmented analytics with OpenAI’s GPT large language model, making sophisticated data analysis more accessible than ever. With Max, users can ask questions about their key business metrics, identify performance drivers, and investigate critical issues within seconds. | Data & Analytics |
| ibi Unleashes the Power of Legacy Systems with Open Data Hub for Mainframe | A breakthrough solution for organizations struggling with data retrieval from legacy data environments, the offering revolutionizes the access and utilization of mainframe data by directly bringing this data into web-based business analytics capabilities. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco boosts its cybersecurity and AI ambitions with $28B acquisition of Splunk | Cisco faces a huge array of cybersecurity companies, including a few large and similarly voracious rivals such as Palo Alto Networks Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Fortinet Inc. and Zscaler Inc. in addition to some of the largest software and cloud computing companies such as Microsoft Corp., Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC. | Security |
| Services at MGM Resorts restored following ransomware attack | “This incident starkly emphasizes the pressing need for robust investment in cyber infrastructure, including regular security audits and thorough employee training programs, to fortify defenses and effectively combat future cyberthreats. Without such measures, the risk of extensive downtime and financial losses remains a looming threat.” | Security |
| Harness debuts new code management tools for its software delivery platform | The open-source Gitness tool that Harness debuted today is designed to help developers manage their code files. Similarly to GitHub, it allows software teams to store all of an application’s code in a single repository for easy access. Built-in collaboration features enable team members to review one another’s software changes for errors before releasing them. | DevOps |
| ServiceNow embeds AI-powered customer-assist features throughout products | ServiceNow's new chatbot works across applications and can summarize customer service interactions and perform case, incident, and agent chat summarizations; act as a virtual agent; and perform search functions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Planck Launches the First GenAI-Enhanced Underwriting Workbench | Planck PLUS is both a strategic toolkit and a trusted co-pilot that leverages the latest AI technologies and proprietary machine learning models to set a new standard in underwriting risk research, insight generation, data attribution transparency, and automation. | Automation & Productivity |
| Starburst Expands Data Lake Analytics Platform to Support Every Stage of the Cloud Journey | “Our new on-prem connectivity means that Galaxy users can now connect to their on-prem data stores and glean value from that data while continuing the cloud migration journey. This connectivity is highly differentiated from other products on the market that require all data to be in a centralized cloud in order to extract its value.” | Data & Analytics |
| Creatio’s Quantum update lets enterprises deploy composable no-code apps | Its no-code approach means you or your company admin don’t need extensive software or computer science experience or even training — simply select the apps offering the capabilities you need, hook up your data, and you’re off to the races. | Automation & Productivity |
| Joint FBI and CISA advisory warns of Snatch ransomware operation | Snatch threat actors are said to be consistently evolving their tactics to take advantage of current trends in the cybercriminal space and have leveraged the successes of other ransomware operations. Affiliates using Snatch have targeted critical infrastructure sectors, including companies and organizations in the defense, food and agriculture and information technology sectors. | Security |
| ServiceNow Vancouver launches with domain-specific generative AI smarts, new automation tools | While ServiceNow started working on LLM capabilities years ago when it acquired Element AI, the company’s first generative AI move took shape in May 2023 when it announced Now Assist for Search, a platform offering that provided natural language responses based on a customer’s own knowledge base. It was backed by ServiceNow’s Generative AI Controller, which allowed organizations to connect their instances to both Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and OpenAI API LLMs and featured built‑in actions for faster intelligent workflow automation. | Automation & Productivity |
| Lenovo Delivers AI at the Edge, Bringing Next-Generation Intelligence to Data | New Lenovo TruScale for Edge and AI brings the proven cost benefits of Lenovo TruScale’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service model to the broadest and most comprehensive edge portfolio on the market, enabling customers to leverage a pay-as-you-go model to quickly deploy powerful edge computing and gain AI-powered insights directly at the source of data creation. | Data & Analytics |
| OpenAI debuts new DALL-E 3 AI image generator | The new model can not only understand more complicated prompts than earlier neural neutrals but also generate higher-quality output. In one internal test, the company entered the same prompt into DALL-E 3 and a previous-generation neural network it released last year. The former model generated a higher-quality image. | Artificial Intelligence |
| trender.ai Launches First All-In-One Contact Intelligence Platform for B2B Tech Sales Teams | The Trender platform finds and provides a rich snapshot of each buyer to better qualify, personalize, engage, and monitor throughout the deal cycle. It combines the best in search, natural language processing, LLM, and generative AI in a patented solution that aggregates buyer data to deliver unique insights. | Automation & Productivity |
| Infinidat adds AFA inside hybrid InfiniBox | Infinidat’s hybrid InfiniBox array is primarily disk-based and has a flash cache with Neural Cache software that loads read data into memory data for the lowest possible latency access – down to 35 microseconds. | Data Storage |
| Neuralink is now searching for human volunteers for its brain-computer interface trials | The Link, a tiny implant that will process and translate a person’s neural signals, will be connected to a series of very small threads that will be inserted into the volunteers’ brains. It’s hoped from there, the person will be able to control a computer or other devices. The system is hailed as a possible victory over nature with technology if, indeed, it is successful. | Emerging Tech |
| Data infrastructure and analytics startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M | DuckDB is an in-process SQL Online Analytical Processing database management system known for its simplicity, rich features and speed. It’s designed to handle complex analytical queries on large datasets efficiently. | Data & Analytics |
| Juniper improves intent-based networking platform (what’s new in Apstra?) | Intent-based networking starts with the network operator defining their intent or design for the network through a simple graphical user interface in Apstra. Baker noted that this intent becomes the single source of truth for network configurations and that single source of truth is held in Apstra’s graph database. | Network Management |
| Application security posture management platform startup Legit Security raises $40M | The service delivers visibility and security control over changing development environments with a unified application security control plane, the company claims, leveraging valuable context and traceability from code to the cloud to prioritize security issues and streamline vulnerability management. | Security |
| Bit Builders, Delivers Turnkey Image Fraud Detection with OrboGraph | At the heart of the OrboGraph AI solution are deep learning models called OrbNet Forensic AI technology. Known for its state-of-the-art fraud detection and prevention capabilities, OrbNet Forensic AI scrutinizes image payment transactions with detection levels of 95%+ on targeted use cases delivering protection to clients of financial institutions. | Privacy & Security |
| HiddenLayer raises $50M to bolster defenses of enterprise AI models | These tools don’t actually access the models, nor compromise the proprietary data and technology of clients. Instead, they passively monitor the performance and operations of enterprises ML/AI models and linked applications in realtime, scanning overarching vulnerabilities and offering recommendations for hardening them, as well as detecting injection of malicious code/malware and deploying defense mechanisms to cut off the attackers and isolate any intrusions. | Security |
| OpenAI seeks diverse group of domain experts to help develop safer, more robust AI models | Red teaming is a pivotal step in the AI model development process, and has taken on more importance as generative AI captures the imagination of the public. It involves putting AI models under intense scrutiny, and enables biases and vulnerabilities to be identified and resolved before anyone else discovers them. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cato Networks raises $238M in equity, steers single-vendor SASE wave to $3B valuation | To address this issue “we have built this platform from the ground up as a converged networking and network security. And the value is the customer experience and the ability [to enable] IT security finally to move at the speed of bigger business and address the requirements they have within a limited budget,” he added. | Security |
| Cisco-F5 partnership yields secure, multisite load balancing technology | ACI is built on Cisco’s intent-based networking technology, which gives customers the ability to implement network and policy changes on the fly and ensure data delivery. ACI Multi-Site typically lets two geographically dispersed data centers link via L2/L3 networks and offers consistent policy enforcement across both sites. The Multi-Pod technology lets multiple groups of equipment within the individual data centers network with each other. | Network Management |
| Oracle offers alternative to SSO, updates cloud-native access governance | The service also is designed to identify potential risks based on the behavior of users or resources, Leung said. “Then over time, it uses machine learning to further recommend things” like granting a bit more access to a certain resource, or restricting access to data based on suspicious user activity. “It’ll save a huge amount of time for administrators, and overall, it improves security posture,” he said. | IT Management |
| Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive | Google’s Bard AI chatbot is no longer limited to pulling answers from just the web — it can now scan your Gmail, Docs, and Drive to help you find the information you’re looking for. With the new integration, you can ask Bard to do things like find and summarize the contents of an email or even highlight the most important points of a document you have stored in Drive. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mosyle launches AI-driven zero trust platform for securing macOS against cyber threats | Over the last several years Mosyle has been building out a mobile device management (MDM) platform known as the Apple Unified Platform. In 2023, the company expanded its capabilities with generative AI to help improve MDM operations. The new Mosyle Automated Zero Trust solution announced today extends the company’s capabilities to help secure macOS devices and is powered by the company’s proprietary LeeryAI artificial intelligence (AI) engine. | Security |
| Tabular, the vendor-neutral data store based on Apache Iceberg, raises $26M in funding | Iceberg is an open-source table format that provides full database functionality on top of cloud object stores, and has been widely adopted by Netflix, Amazon Web Services Inc., Snowflake Inc., Databricks Inc. and many other leading technology firms. | Data & Analytics |
| Qlik Announces Qlik Staige to Help Organizations Manage Risk, Embrace Complexity and Scale the Impact of AI | “Our competitors have made many announcements that promise future products or vision. Our difference is that Qlik customers are already using AI, including leveraging a proven and trusted LLM and a full range of AI-enhanced analytics. Additionally, with Qlik Staige, our customers and partners are transforming organizations – as evidenced by more than 100,000 AI models built using Qlik AutoML.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Oracle taps generative AI to improve customer services and boost marketing and sales | As for actually resolving issues, generative AI authoring will play a key role in helping product and service experts create step-by-step guidance, defining a consistent process agents can follow when attempting to find a solution to customer’s problems. For example, Oracle said, assisted authoring can help a manufacturing or tech company’s service administrator capture a standard set of steps that front-line support representatives must work through with a customer before they escalate the issue to an expert resource. | Automation & Productivity |
| Nokia Launches AVA Data Suite to Run on Google Cloud to Facilitate AI/ML Development | Nokia AVA Data Suite, derived from Nokia’s vast experience in building hundreds of network and subscriber experience use cases, seamlessly integrates with Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Vertex AI to create powerful AI/ML use cases that drive innovation in the telecommunications industry. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft accidentally exposes 38TB of internal data via GitHub repository | “The Microsoft developers used an Azure mechanism called ‘SAS tokens,’ which allows you to create a shareable link granting access to an Azure Storage account’s data — while upon inspection, the storage account would still seem completely private,” Wiz researchers wrote in a blog post today. | Security |
| Data management startup Alcion raises $21M for go-to-market expansion | Alcion argues that the high-value and increasing amounts of business-critical data stored in Microsoft 365 make the service a prime target for malicious actors and new classes of ransomware. Although Microsoft ensures the reliability and availability of Microsoft 365 infrastructure, Alcion claims that it does not protect against cases in which cyberattacks or accidents lead to data loss. | Security |
| Kinetica Launches Native LLM for Language-to-SQL on Enterprise Data | Kinetica today announced a native Large Language Model (LLM) combined with Kinetica’s innovative architecture that allows users to perform ad-hoc data analysis on real-time, structured data at speed using natural language. Unlike with public LLMs, no external API call is required and data never leaves the customer’s environment. This announcement follows Kinetica’s earlier innovation as the first analytic database to integrate with OpenAI. | Data & Analytics |
| Betterleap leverages AI to revolutionize recruitment, launches with impressive $13M in seed funding | The San Francisco-based company says that it has built the world’s largest database of job candidates, with more than 1 billion records from various sources, such as Indeed, LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow and others. The platform also uses generative AI to provide recruiters with data-driven insights and automation, helping them discover the best candidates for their open roles and reach out to them effectively. | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle strengthens identity management and gives customers keep-your-own-key capabilities | Oracle said the cloud-native service provides detailed visibility into how users interact with those resources and reduces risk by allowing only authorized users to see or use restricted assets including source code, patents, databases, applications and infrastructure elements like cloud servers and services. | Cloud |
| Elon Musk says X users soon may have to pay a subscription fee to use the platform | “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” he said. He explained that to create a bot only costs a “fraction of a penny,” but if the person or people behind the bot have to pay a small amount, “a few dollars or something,” that would price the bots off the platform. | Social Media |
| Enterprise-focused generative AI startup Writer raises $100M | All told, Writer offers 14 different AI models, including Palmyra Small, which is made up of 128 million parameters, Palmyra Base (5 billion parameters) and Palmyra Large (20 billion parameters). According to Writer, these models can help businesses do everything from create content and emails to transcribing audio and summarizing it. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Okta Agent Involved in MGM Resorts Breach, Attackers Claim | "MGM made the hasty decision to shut down each and every one of their Okta Sync servers after learning that we had been lurking in their Okta Agent servers sniffing passwords of people whose passwords couldn't be cracked from their domain controller hash dumps," ALPHV wrote on its leak site, in a statement that Emsisoft researcher Brett Callow tweeted out. "This resulted in their Okta being completely out." | Security |
| Industrial control system cybersecurity startup Dragos raises $74M | The Dragos Platform offers industrial cybersecurity technology that gives customers visibility into their ICS/OT assets, vulnerabilities, threats and response actions. The company says the strength of the Dragos Platform comes from its ability to codify OT threat intelligence and insights from the Dragos services team into the software. | Security |
| Google streamlines Chronicle unifies, SIEM, SOAR and Mandiant intelligence | Each component such as SIEM, SOAR and attack surface management has its own console/dashboard. This unification eliminates the need for users to toggle between separate interfaces or products, streamlining the workflow for security operations. Alerts in Chronicle are now automatically grouped into cases on behalf of the users, making it easier for them to focus on triage and allowing for a more enriched and contextualized understanding of security events, | Security |
| Acronis aims cloud data services solution at smaller MSPs | Acronis says Advanced Automation is aimed at helping MSPs transition from simple break-fix services to cloud-centric, subscription-based services, but which require a streamlined approach to often complicated billing and contract management. | IT Management |
| timeOS wants to transform your calendar into an interactive assistant with AI | This week, the three-year-old Los Angeles-founded startup timeOS (formerly called Magical HQ) unveiled its new “TimeAI”, a Chrome browser extension designed to transform commonly used calendars and note-taking programs like those offered by Google and Notion, into dynamic assistants that can automatically provide relevant information during your meetings, summarize them, translate them into 60+ languages, even attend them on your behalf with a simple, static AI avatar that appears in place of you and silently transcribes what’s happening. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco snuffs HyperFlex development, hands HCI future to Nutanix | Cisco announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for its HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP); the last day to order any products related to the system is September 11, 2024, and the last day to renew to an existing subscription is February 28, 2029. Active customers will be able to continue receiving Cisco support as necessary. | Network Management |
| Copresence Announces Launch of Its Digital Avatar Creation App on Apple App Store | COPRESENCE AG (“copresence”), a provider of digital avatar generation software that creates photorealistic 3D models of a user’s face, has announced the open beta launch of its self-titled app on the Apple App Store. The copresence app is designed to create a true digital likeness of a user in minutes, for use across gaming, virtual, augmented and extended reality (VR/AR/XR), and video conferencing. | Automation & Productivity |
| Deci Unveils New Generative AI Foundation Models and Dev Suite, Enabling Rapid Performance and Cost Efficiency | By using Deci’s open-source generative models and Infery LLM, AI teams can reduce their inference compute costs by up to 80% and use widely available and cost-friendly GPUs such as the NVIDIA A10 while also improving the quality of their offering. The models introduced by Deci cater to diverse applications, ranging from content and code generation to image creation and chat applications, among many others. | Automation & Productivity |
| Automated evaluation and security platform startup Patronus AI launches with $3M in funding | Patronus AI automates and scales the manual and costly model evaluation methods commonly found in enterprises to enable organizations to confidently deploy LLMs while minimizing the risk of model failures and misaligned outputs. The platform uses machine learning technology to test and score any language model in order to identify potential failures. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Oracle to colocate in Azure data centers under expanded Microsoft partnership | The new offering, called Oracle Database@Azure, will give customers of both companies a low-latency option to comingle their data with Microsoft’s applications and infrastructure using the existing Azure portal, software development kits and application program interfaces. | Data Management |
| DoubleVerify to Protect Advertisers Against ‘Made for Advertising’ Content with Industry First Holistic Solution | DV developed its proprietary MFA analysis process based on a unique blend of human and artificial intelligence-based auditing. With this release, DV’s solution can be enabled directly by a customer in their brand safety and suitability profile for measurement and monitoring, and in DV Authentic Brand Suitability for pre-bid avoidance. | Marketing Tech |
| TikTok fined $367 million for how it handled children’s data | After consulting with the European Data Protection Board, the DPC found that TikTok set children’s accounts to public by default when they signed up on the platform. That meant that kids’ videos were publicly viewable by default and that comments, duets, and Stitch features were also enabled by default. | Data Privacy |
| Quantum provides plenty of solace to those seeking cheaper cold data | The ActiveScale offering claims to reduce cold storage costs by up to 60 percent through making it easier for organisations to dynamically move cold data across their own on-premises cloud infrastructure, rather than storing it in the public clouds run by the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure. | Data Storage |
| CyberLink Unveils Major Generative AI Updates to its Suite of Innovative Multimedia Software Solutions | Accessible from the easiest editing interface yet, the brand-new AI Art Generator can instantly turn text prompts into captivating images and stickers. While previously complex workflows have been streamlined to one click, enabling users to auto-remove unwanted noises, restore audio, and auto-generate customizable subtitles for videos of any length in English, Japanese, or Chinese, for unmatched clarity for podcasts, voiceovers, narration, or dialogue. | Automation & Productivity |
| Data breach at Caesars Entertainment compromises customer information | Caesars is currently investigating whether the hackers may have stolen additional information. Currently, the company stated in its filing, there’s no indication that loyalty members’ account information, passwords or payment card details were accessed. Caesars added that the breach didn’t affect customer-facing operations across its properties and gaming applications. | Data Privacy |
| Esperanto Technologies Introduces 1st Generative AI Appliance Based on RISC-V | Esperanto’s Generative AI Appliance is an integrated software/hardware solution that can be installed in private datacenters or at the enterprise edge using an industry-standard server form factor. Because it is preloaded and self-contained, it delivers high levels of data privacy and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) while eliminating the need for developers to constantly download, port and tune the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) and Diffusion Models to expensive GPU-based hardware. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Databricks raises $500 million with backing from rival Snowflake’s top client | Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing, Databricks is known for its “lakehouse” platform in the cloud — a combination of data warehouses and data lakes that unifies data, analytics and AI on a single platform so that customers can govern, manage and derive insights from enterprise data and build their own generative AI solutions faster. | Data & Analytics |
| 'Scattered Spider' Behind MGM Cyberattack, Targets Casinos | "Scattered Spider (aka Roasted 0ktapus, UNC3944) leverages a combination of credential phishing and social engineering to capture one-time-password (OTP) codes, or it overwhelms targets using multifactor authentication (MFA) notification fatigue tactics,” according to a CrowdStrike report on the cybercrime group from January. “Having obtained access, the adversary avoids using unique malware, instead favoring a wide range of legitimate remote management tools to maintain persistent access.” | Security |
| New ‘3AM’ ransomware strain used in place of failed LockBit attack | Detailed today by researchers from the Symantec Threat Hunting team, 3AM is written in the Rust programming language and is believed to be a completely new malware family. The ransomware attempts to stop multiple services on the infected computer before it begins encrypting files. Once encryption is complete, it attempts to delete Volume Shadow copies. | Security |
| Adobe publicly launches AI tools Firefly, Generative Fill in Creative Cloud overhaul | Central to the update is the official integration of Adobe Firefly, the company’s new AI engine, directly into Creative Cloud software. Firefly uses generative AI to allow users to create or modify images, graphics, and other media through simple text prompts. For example, a Photoshop user can now add or remove objects from an image by describing the changes in words. | Automation & Productivity |
| MGM Resorts breached by 'Scattered Spider' hackers: sources | "Although members of the group may be less experienced and younger than many of the established multifaceted extortion/ransomware groups and nation state espionage actors, they are a serious threat to large organizations in the U.S.," he added. | Security |
| Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability | Brave Software Inc. and Vivaldi Technologies AS, two other browser makers, also rolled out updates this week after determining their applications are affected. Moreover, it’s believed that the impact of the WebP vulnerability could extend beyond the browser ecosystem. The image format is supported by more than a dozen graphic design tools along with productivity applications such as LibreOffice. | Security |
| Deci roars into action, releasing hyper-efficient AI models for text and image generation | Deci’s entire mission is achieving new standards of efficiency and speed for generative AI inferences — the actual user-facing models — noting that DeciDiffusion is three times faster than direct competitor model Stable Diffusion 1.5, while DeciLM 6B is 15 times faster than Meta’s LLaMA 2 7B. | Automation & Productivity |
| NeuroBlade and Meta’s Velox team up to boost data analytics acceleration | Velox is an open-source unified execution engine that consolidates various software-based optimizations from the query engine ecosystem into a singular high-performance library. Designed for seamless integration with various query engines, such as Presto and Apache Spark, Velox provides a robust foundation. But there are issues, since conventional central processing units can struggle to manage analytical queries surpassing 2 gigabits to 3 gigabits per second efficiently because of limitations in data retrieval and query complexity. | Data & Analytics |
| Amazon launches generative AI tool for sellers to create product listing information | For sellers, the process is very straightforward. They provide a brief description or a few keywords of the product in question, and Amazon’s AI will do the rest, whipping up a detailed description for the seller to review. Assuming they are satisfied with it, they can add the content to their listing. Alternatively, they can edit the AI generated content to their liking. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Meet Phi-1.5, the new language model that could make training AI radically cheaper and faster | By generating curated, high quality, synthetic data using existing LLMs (in this case, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) and training a new model on this, the researchers are able to achieve results comparable to leading LLMs at a fraction of the cost and training time. | Artificial Intelligence |
| EY launches AI platform and LLM after $1.4 billion investment | Today professional services leader EY announced the launch of EY.ai, a comprehensive platform to help clients boost AI adoption. The platform brings together an AI ecosystem with a range of capabilities, with alliances with companies including Microsoft (which provided EY with early access to Azure OpenAI capabilities, such as GPT-3 and GPT-4), Dell Technologies, IBM, SAP, ServiceNow, Thomson Reuters and UiPath. | Artificial Intelligence |
| JetBrains now offers a dedicated integrated development environment for Rust | RustRover has been designed to address issues with Rust by simplifying the coding experience to allow developers to unlock the language’s full potential. Through an array of features tailored specifically to Rust, RustRover enables programmers to concentrate on their strengths and alleviate the complexities associated with the language. | DevOps |
| MGM cyberattack claimed by ALPHV/BlackCat ransom gang | New information has surfaced claiming the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group is responsible for Monday’s debilitating cyberattack on MGM Resorts International. With rumors about a large ransom payment swirling, some insiders say the Las Vegas-based firm may not even be able to pay its employees come Friday. | Security |
| Stability AI debuts Stable Audio bringing text to audio generation to the masses | Stability AI today announced the initial public release of its Stable Audio technology, providing anyone with ability to use simple text prompts to generate short audio clips. Stability AI is best known as the organization behind the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation AI technology. | Automation & Productivity |
| CTERA launches Vault WORM for better data compliance | Vault is designed to provide the flexibility and granularity to create WORM Cloud Folders with customised retention modes for specific periods of time to fit organisations’ specific regulatory or compliance requirements. The CTERA Portal provides centralised control and management of the policies that are enforced at every remote CTERA Edge Filer. | Data Storage |
| Israeli security governance platform startup Zenity raises $16.5M | Zenity argues that though low-code/no-code solutions allow organizations to build tools and services to streamline work and automate repetitive tasks, those features come with risks. Less technical users are more prone to creating apps and automation susceptible to data leaks, implicit sharing and identity misuse, it says | Security |
| Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ event reveals iPhone 15, Apple Watch 9 and new A17 Pro silicon | Alongside the new chip and the “prosumer” phones, the company also announced at its “Wanderlust” press event today the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, which will be powered by the A16 chip, as well as the next generation of Apple Watches, the Series 9, and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 with larger more rugged displays. | Automation & Productivity |
| CertifID raises $20 million in funding to protect real estate industry from fraud | Every month, CertifID plays a crucial role in safeguarding billions of dollars from fraud by providing advanced software, insurance, and proven recovery services. The platform is widely utilized by various stakeholders, including title companies, law firms, lenders, real estate professionals, as well as home buyers and sellers. Additionally, CertifID provides an extra layer of security by offering up to $1 million in direct coverage for every wire transaction it protects, ensuring peace of mind for its users. | Privacy & Security |
| YugabyteDB 2.19: Bridging an Application’s Journey from Lift-and-Shift Migration to Massive Scale | YugabyteDB 2.19 enables midsize applications running on single-node database instances to seamlessly move to a fully distributed database environment. The new co-located tables in YugabyteDB help ensure performance comparable to single-node PostgreSQL for midsize applications. And as the app grows, YugabyteDB seamlessly shifts to a fully-distributed mode to provide the massive scaling benefits of distributed SQL. | Data & Analytics |
| New Skybox Security release includes enhanced attack path analysis | Key features of the news release include a new Attack Surface Map that delivers new ways to visualize, navigate and interact with the attack surface map. Skybox Security customers can now filter and highlight specific segments of their infrastructure, with assets grouped manually or automatically for enhanced comprehensibility. An improved search feature delivers rapid asset location and navigation. | Security |
| Anodot Launches AI-Powered CostGPT for Enhanced Cloud Cost Analysis | When managing cloud costs, automation is key to saving time and resources. CostGPT empowers cloud users to address common cost challenges, including complex pricing models, hidden costs, and inadequate cost monitoring and reporting, with a simple search. | Cloud |
| Intel debuts high-speed Thunderbolt 5 standard with signal modulation upgrade | When needed, Thunderbolt 5 can further increase throughput to 120 gigabits per second using a technology called Bandwidth Boost. Intel developed Bandwidth Boost partly to ease the task of connecting external displays to a PC. Certain monitors, particularly those that offer a high resolution and refresh rate, have significant bandwidth requirements that couldn’t be met as effectively before. | Automation & Productivity |
| With ‘GitHub for data,’ Gable.ai wants to connect software engineers and ML developers | It calls its offering the first data collaboration platform that allows software and data/ML developers to iteratively, build and manage high-quality data assets, but investors have taken to calling it “GitHub for data” — one that other data companies like Kaggle and Hex are investing in. | DevOps |
| Cisco extends business risk observability to cloud-native applications | “I believe the buyer is less concerned, the user who owns the operation is going to use those tools [like Cisco Secure Application],” he added. “I see more of this is being used for the DevSecOps, the ITOps people that want to make sure that I have visibility out to applications in the business.” | Risk Management |
| SQream Secures $45M in Series C Funding Led to Supercharge AI/ML Enterprise Capabilities | SQream’s benchmarks consistently return improvements in expanding data capacity while reducing ingestion times by 90%, preparation times by 90%, footprint by 90%, and costs by 80%, all while using familiar SQL processes combined with the power of data parallelism. | Data Management |
| SAS ups AI features in its analytics and CRM platforms | The new capabilities in Viya that are being previewed this week at the company’s Explore conference create lightweight environments for rapid AI model building, support multiple programming languages and run in a scalable cloud computing environment. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Enfabrica raises $125M to scale up GPUs, memory, networks and storage for distributed AI workloads | The company is the creator of an Accelerated Compute Fabric device, which is a server fabric chip that it says will provide unmatched scalability, performance and total cost of ownership for distributed AI, extended reality, high-performance computing and in-memory database infrastructure. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Teradata Launches ask.ai, Brings Generative AI Capabilities to VantageCloud Lake | By reducing the need for complex coding and querying, ask.ai can dramatically increase productivity, speed and efficiency for technical users and expands analytic use to non-technical roles, who can now also use Teradata’s powerful, cloud-native platform to sift through mountains of data and draw insights. | Data & Analytics |
| New Gigamon release address blind spots in encrypted traffic | The release includes the debut of Gigamon Precyption, a new feature that the company says will enable information technology and security organizations to gain unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across virtual machine or container workloads. With the new visibility, it adds, users can efficiently conduct advanced threat detection, investigation and response across hybrid cloud infrastructures. | Security |
| Machine learning chipmaker SiMa.ai enables low-code AI model development at the edge | The startup offers a platform known as the SiMa.ai Palette, which provides a set of scalable tools for developing machine learning models with high performance and push-button operation. Its GStreamer workflows use advanced scripting and automation on optimized neural network models, and provide pre- and post-processing functions and pipelines that permit the deployment of applications to large numbers of edge devices simultaneously. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Phronesis Launches World’s First L1 Blockchain Leveraging AI and the Sophia Protocol | Phronesis aims to reshape the Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Web3 sectors by harnessing Artificial Intelligence and proprietary consensus technology. Phronesis’ utility can be extended to real-world application solutions in various sectors such as supply chain, gaming, finance, energy, and more. | Blockchain |
| Labelbox Introduces LLM Solution to Help Enterprises Innovate with Generative AI, Expands Partnership with Google Cloud | Labelbox provides a comprehensive suite of tools to perform techniques such as reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), reinforcement learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF), evaluation and red teaming | Artificial Intelligence |
| Apple’s Lightning connector was the first great port — and USB-C might be the last | This week, 11 years to the day after that launch event, it appears virtually certain that Apple is going to remove the Lightning connector from the iPhone. A new law in the European Union mandates that all phones sold in its member countries must use USB-C for physical charging, and Apple has acknowledged it will have to follow the rules. | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce introduces new AI assistant, Einstein Copilot, for all its CRM apps | Specifically, Einstein Copilot Studio “will also provide configurability to make Einstein Copilot available for use across other consumer-facing channels like websites to power real-time chat, Slack, WhatsApp, or SMS,” | Automation & Productivity |
| Open19 shakes up identity, leadership to address data center sustainability challenges | While the organization’s name is changing and its scope is expanding, the team remains committed to the Open19 project and will continue rolling out and encouraging adoption of its new v2 specification. The project’s v1 spec is currently used “across the world,” including in Equinix’s digital services portfolio. | Sustainability |
| Digital forensics and incident response solutions startup Binalyze raises $19M | The Binalyze IREC Engine collects digital forensic evidence from any endpoint in a network, with the company’s AIR management console able to collect 350 different types of evidence in under 10 minutes. The compromise assessment generated allows users to find the relevant events in the gathered digital evidence more quickly and with fewer resources using DRONE, a rapid assisted compromise assessment module. | Security |
| MGM ‘cybersecurity issue’ shuts down slot machines and ATMs in Las Vegas casinos | MGM replaced its homepage with a message apologizing for the site’s outage and providing a list of concierge phone numbers at several locations, like the Aria, The Cosmopolitan, Mandalay Bay, Bellagio, New York-New York, and Vdara. | Security |
| MLPerf 3.1 adds large language model benchmarks for inference | MLCommons is a vendor neutral, multi-stakeholder organization that aims to provide a level playing field for vendors to report on different aspects of AI performance with the MLPerf set of benchmarks. The new MLPerf Inference 3.1 benchmarks released today are the second major update of the results this year, following the 3.0 results that came out in April | Artificial Intelligence |
| Journalist details stolen in hack of old AP Stylebook website | The Associated Press Corp. is warning that users of the AP Stylebook may have been targeted in a phishing campaign following a data breach involving the theft of data from an old AP Stylebook website maintained by Stylebooks.com. | Privacy & Security |
| Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT | Ultimately, Meta wants to accelerate the development of the next generation of generative AI models capable of generating more humanlike expressions. Zuckerberg is determined to assert Meta as a major force in the AI industry, having seen his company’s role in its development overshadowed by the achievements of OpenAI with ChatGPT, as well as Google LLC with its Bard chatbot, and even some notable AI startups such as Cohere Inc. and Anthropic. | ChatGPT |
| McKinsey partners with Salesforce to offer speedy AI adoption plans for enterprises | The collaboration is designed to merge Salesforce’s popular customer relationship management (CRM) software, including its intelligent Einstein applications and Data Cloud, with McKinsey’s specialized AI and data models. | Automation & Productivity |
| Starburst Introduces Python DataFrame Support for Complex Data Transformation and Data Application Workloads | For Starburst and Trino developers and data engineers, this announcement means that they no longer need to offload data to frameworks like PySpark and Snowpark to handle complex transformation workloads. Instead, teams can leverage a single, powerful MPP engine for both their analytical and transformation workloads – reducing the cost and complexity of their stack. | Data Management |
| Google makes Privacy Sandbox generally available in Chrome | Privacy Sandbox likewise enables brands to determine consumers’ areas of interest. However, the technology does so without providing access to users’ browsing histories as third-party cookies do. According to Google, the result is improved consumer privacy. | Data Privacy |
| CISA Warning: Nation-State Hackers Exploit Fortinet and Zoho Vulnerabilities | "Nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized access to a public-facing application (Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus), establish persistence, and move laterally through the network," | Security |
| Multinational Op Takes Down a Cybercriminal Botnet Infrastructure | The FBI gained legal access to the Qakbot infrastructure and then directed its traffic to servers controlled by the FBI. These servers instructed infected computers to download an uninstaller file, which severed their connection to the botnet and prevented further malware installation. The FBI found more than 700,000 computers around the world infected with Qakbot, according to the report. | Security |
| How note-taking AI from Google and Apple complete you | Silicon Valley’s tech giants intend to mainstream AI-powered note-taking and journaling. This could open up a whole new connection between the data we collect and the lives we lead. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI startup Imbue closes $200M funding round backed by Nvidia | Imbue says it’s developing large language models “tailor-made for reasoning.” As the company detailed: “Robust reasoning is necessary for effective action. It involves the ability to deal with uncertainty, to know when to change our approach, to ask questions and gather new information, to play out scenarios and make decisions, to make and discard hypotheses, and generally to deal with the complicated, hard-to-predict nature of the real world.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Netskope enhances SASE digital experience monitoring with acquisition | “Kadiska’s approach of leveraging real user-experience monitoring (RUM) with end-to-end network and application performance visibility from user devices to hybrid, SaaS [software-as-a-service] and cloud applications has proven to be a game changer for enterprises around the globe,” | Network Management |
| Apple Rushes to Patch Zero-Day Flaws Exploited for Pegasus Spyware on iPhones | "The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim," the interdisciplinary laboratory said. "The exploit involved PassKit attachments containing malicious images sent from an attacker iMessage account to the victim." | Security |
| Making a sales call? Otter.ai wants to listen, summarize, and help | This week, the 7-year-old company debuted OtterPilot for Sales, an AI assistant that automatically listens to sales calls, auto-transcribes the conversation and keeps track of each speaker, and analyzes key decision-making factors such as Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline (commonly known as BANT), displaying these in a helpful sidebar called “Sales Insights.” | Automation & Productivity |
| SAP acquires LeanIX to focus on AI-assisted IT modernization | ERP leader SAP today announced the decision to acquire LeanIX, a German startup that provides enterprises with a clear picture of their entire software usage, covering everything from what they’ve bought, licensed, and built, to what they plan to add in the future. | IT Management |
| Tencent debuts Hunyuan AI model, opens it up for enterprise use Chinese internet giant Huny | Hunyuan has more than 100 billion parameters and was trained with more than 2 trillion tokens, while OpenAI's GPT-3 AI model, backed by Microsoft, contained 175 billion parameters when it was released in 2020 and Meta's Llama-2 model had 70 billion parameters when it was released this year. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Microsoft suspects China is now using AI in disinformation campaigns to sway US voters | The report’s focus was on possible threats from all of East Asia, but China is the country to watch out for in the realm of disinformation threats. The analysts said that the Chinese Communist Party now has “a new capability to automatically generate images it can use for influence operations” that mimic U.S. voters from left to right to create controversy in regard to racial, economic and ideological matters. | AI Ethics |
| Anthropic announces Claude Pro, a paid subscription for its generative AI chatbot | Claude Pro is the first paid plan for Anthropic’s Claude 2 chatbot service, and it’s being made available to users in the U.S. and U.K. first of all. According to the startup, customers will benefit from longer conversations, the ability to send “many more messages,” priority access during periods of high traffic, and first access to new features and updates. | Automation & Productivity |
| Two Engineers Bring Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Microsoft | Specifically, it claims OpenAI used personal data from social media, stealing their “skills and expertise” in order to make products that could “someday result in [their] professional obsolescence.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| HubSpot announces a range of new AI sales and marketing tools geared toward SMBs | ChatSpot: which uses OpenAI’s hit large language model (LLM) application ChatGPT and combines it with data from a Hubspot user’s Smart CRM to answer all the questions a user might have about their clients or business prospects, such as their funding. It can even help craft and edit marketing content and messages. It’s available in public beta and has already recorded 80,000 total users. | Marketing Tech |
| EU Big Tech Clampdown Probe Bites Apple, Microsoft | The EU on Wednesday named 22 services from six companies (mostly American), including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. Companies on the list have six months to comply with the new tough standards or challenge them in court. The European Commission (the EU’s executive arm) will investigate whether Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Advertising services, along with Apple’s iMessage can be exempt from the regulations. | Data Privacy |
| Microsoft reveals hackers compromised engineer account to gain access to government accounts | Exactly how the consumer key was obtained is what makes the story interesting. Microsoft’s investigation found that a consumer signing system crash in April of 2021 resulted in a snapshot of the crashed process. The crash dumps are not meant to include the signing key, but in this case, a “race condition” allowed the key to be present in the crash dump. | Security |
| Alert: Apache SuperSet Vulnerabilities Expose Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks | Outside of these weaknesses, the latest version of Superset also remediates a separate improper REST API permission issue (CVE-2023-36388) that allows for low-privilege users to carry out server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. | Security |
| Nasuni working with Presidio to manage AWS costs | Nasuni says it’s optimizing AWS cloud use and reducing opex with Presidio’s Proactive Recapture into Savings Management (PRISM) program. It’s said to use an AI/ML engine to save customers from overpaying for cloud instances. Presidio – a US-based consulting, service, and IT systems supplier – says it will “assume all of the overpayment risk of buying, selling, operationalizing and day-to-day managing of RIs (Reserved Instances).” | Cloud |
| You can now make an AI clone of yourself — or anyone else, living or dead — with Delphi | Simply upload as few as four documents containing your communications to it — and as many as thousands, including emails, chat transcripts, even YouTube videos or audio files such as podcasts or voicemails — and Delphi will create an AI chatbot that mimics, as closely as it can, your personality, manner of writing, or speaking, audibly, as of today, through a partnership with voice-cloning startup ElevenLabs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Upbound Spaces brings managed control planes to self-hosted computing environments | Upbound said Spaces is a version of Crossplane that will appeal to businesses with specific, self-managed needs, such as air-gapped servers and their own cloud environments. It enables customers to run control planes where they want while adhering to their unique requirements around data security, regulatory compliance and operational control. Businesses can now deploy fully managed control planes in any cloud or on-premises environment and receive the same benefits as if they were using the standard Upbound managed service | IT Management |
| Meet Intuit Assist, a new AI assistant that can do more than just answer questions | Intuit Assist is the result of years of research and development by Intuit’s engineering and data science teams. It’s the most visible and tangible example of Intuit’s accelerated push to provide value to its 100 million small business and consumer customers from its extensive experimentation with Generative AI over the past two years. | Automation & Productivity |
| Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter | One of the features that Slack AI will offer is channel recaps, which can automatically generate summaries of messages sent on a particular channel. This could likely help you sift through unrelated chatter and catch up on important conversations you might’ve missed. The tool will be able to summarize threads, too. | Automation & Productivity |
| IBM Expands Cloud Security and Compliance Center for Protection Across Hybrid, Multicloud Environments | Research from IBM revealed that more than 77 percent of global business leaders have adopted a hybrid cloud approach, yet more than half of respondents are still concerned about security, and believe compliance in the cloud is too difficult to maintain. To help clients overcome these challenges, the next evolution of the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center aims to help clients continuously monitor and manage their security and compliance from a central dashboard across their hybrid and public cloud environments – not just IBM Cloud. | Cloud |
| Story Protocol launches with $54M to build blockchain-based IP ownership network | It will do so by providing tracking, licensing and revenue sharing for creators across all forms of media including prose, images, gaming video and audio. “In a world of total abundance catalyzed by generative AI, blockchain technology presents the perfect solution for transparent provenance tracking and fair attribution,” | Blockchain |
| d-Matrix Announces $110M in Series B Funding to Make Generative AI Commercially Viable with First-of-Its-Kind Inference Compute Platform | d-Matrix’s recent silicon announcement, Jayhawk II, is the latest example of how the company is working to fundamentally change the physics of memory-bound compute workloads common in generative AI and large language model (LLM) applications | Automation & Productivity |
| Infinidat data protection box bumps up restore speed with Veeam | Herzog claimed a 20 PB Veeam backup set was recovered in 11 minutes and 55 seconds from an Infinidat InfiniSafe system. Spreadsheet maths says this is 1.678 PB per minute and that means 27.96 TBps. At least in this single test, if the reported numbers are accurate, this is much faster than a Pure Storage FlashBlade, with stated restore times of up to 270 TB per hour (4.5 TB per minute and thus 75 GBps. | Data Management |
| Time-series database startup InfluxData debuts self-managed version of InfluxDB | InfluxData said InfluxDB Clustered is the next evolution of the InfluxDB Enterprise platform, aimed at private clouds and on-premises environments. Customers gain all of the capabilities of the standard InfluxDB platform, with the added advantage that it comes packaged and configured for their unique hosting environments and data storage requirements | Data Management |
| Gleen AI arrives with $4.9M in funding to stop AI hallucinations using enterprises’ own data | While these inaccurate responses can be at times humorous or interesting, for businesses trying to rely on them to produce accurate data for employees or users, the results can be hugely risky — especially for highly-regulated, life-and-death information in healthcare, medicine, heavy industry, and others. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Israeli cloud security company Upwind raises $50M | The company’s service protects Kubernetes and container-based services with real-time network and operating system-level data using eBPF DeamonSets and Kubernetes audit logs to detect threats within containers. Upwind’s platform offers continuous visibility into how cloud infrastructure and workloads behave in Runtime to find the most critical threats and risks and to prevent them with context and automation. | Security |
| Zoom launches AI Companion to summarize meetings for late attendees | Zoom plans to expand AI Companion’s capabilities in the future. Users will be able to interact with the assistant through natural language queries and receive help with various tasks, such as meeting preparation, summarizing chat messages, consolidating meeting summaries, composing emails and finding relevant documents. | Automation & Productivity |
| Ushur Launches AI Studio to Democratize AI Model Training and Management for Its Customer Experience Automation Platform | "AI Studio combines the rich visual interface of our process automation FlowBuilder with AI model management capabilities to deliver a truly democratizing experience for the citizen developer. Focusing specifically on training and deploying classification models in this release, we aim to deliver significant efficiencies in time to value and AI ops.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Quantum improves private-public cloud data integration | The data management supplier has added facilities to its DXi backup appliance, FlexSync replication, and ActiveScale object store to move unstructured data to and from public and private clouds for tiering, retention, and integrated public-private cloud workflows. | Data Management |
| Hackers Target High-Privileged Okta Accounts via Help Desk | "Threat actors appeared to either have a) passwords to privileged user accounts or b) be able to manipulate the delegated authentication flow via Active Directory (AD) prior to calling the IT service desk at a targeted org, requesting a reset of all MFA factors in the target account," | Security |
| Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage | The technology roadmap is projected to scale from 100 nm to 3 nm bit sizes, corresponding to areal densities of GB/cm2 to TB/cm2 class. Data reading is achieved with high-resolution microscopic imaging techniques for optical read, or electron beam microscopy for structures below the optic diffraction limit. | Data Storage |
| Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to launch video & audio calling feature to take on WhatsApp | In a post on X on Thursday, Musk said that users will not need a phone number to use the new features that will be made available on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and personal computers, eliminating the necessity for users to possess a traditional phone number. | Automation & Productivity |
| How many jobs are available in technology in the US? | The latest BLS report, however, found that employers across the US economy reduced tech occupations by an estimated 189,000 positions, pushing the unemployment rate for tech jobs up to 2.1% — almost where it was in June, CompTIA said. | Tech Jobs |
| D3, a next-generation domain name company, raises $5M to create new Web3 TLDs that are interoperable with Web2 DNS domains | This is a game-changer as users will now be able to register and trade DNS domains with native Web2 and Web3 functionality without the need for SDKs, APIs, or other user hacks. In addition, D3’s patent-pending technology also provides users seamless domain compatibility across various browsers, email services, and wallets, ensuring a smooth and trouble-free experience. | Web3 |
| Android is getting new features to keep people productive and connected | The Android team is also putting AI to even more use for blind and low-vision users with images in group chat, photos on the camera app and social media using Image Q&A on Lookout. Lookout was launched in 2019 and designed for users with vision impairments and uses AI to help them accomplish everyday tasks such as sorting mail or putting away groceries. | Automation & Productivity |
| StorPool and Proxmox Elevate Virtual Environments with Seamless Storage Integration | This allows IT teams using Proxmox VE to leverage a best-in-class block-storage data platform, running on standard servers available as a fully managed storage-as-a-service (STaaS) bundle. So now, any company utilizing Proxmox can achieve end-to-end automation allowing its IT teams to focus on strategic projects rather than managing individual components. | Data Storage |
| MetaQuiz Sparks Growing Interest with Endless Library of AI-Generated Questions | MetaQuiz leverages AI to deliver dynamic, accurate content, enriching the learning process. Every question comes with an explanation text prior to taking the quiz, deepening the user’s grasp of the subject matter. The use of blockchain technology provides immutable transparency and credibility ensuring that all draws are tamper-proof and verifiable. | EdTech |
| Integral Secures $6.9M Seed Round led by Haystack to Maximize Data Privacy and Quality | Personal and highly revealing healthcare data such as medical records, health histories, and genetic information, when combined with non-healthcare data such as social media activity, purchasing history, and location data, give researchers a deep, holistic understanding of a person’s health and lifestyle. While this combined data set enhances healthcare research and improves health outcomes, it can pose a significant threat to people’s privacy by potentially exposing sensitive information about individuals. | Data Privacy |
| VMware warns customers to immediately patch critical Aria network software holes | VMware Aria is the vendor’s multi-cloud management platform that integrates previously separate VMware services such as vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, and CloudHealth. | Security |
| Pirros, a startup that applies AI to streamline drawing sets for buildings and infrastructure, lands $2 million seed round | With Pirros, architects and engineers can spend more time actually designing buildings instead of documenting them. This is achieved by automatic information aggregation and storage, so that all of a company’s outputs are stored and managed in a centralized, searchable platform for easy future re-use. | Automation & Productivity |
| KryptoGO Launches AI-Powered One-Stop Web3 Cloud Solution | With KG Studio, KryptoGO aims to provide the customer journey and user experience required for entry into the Web3 market. The enterprise-level application offers rapid, secure multi-chain wallets, compliance technology, encrypted financial management, innovative NFT marketing tools, user management, and intelligent analytics. All these features aim to empower businesses to succeed in the era of Web3+AI. | Web3 |
| Ellie.ai €2.5M to help professionals make the most out of their data | Product and data teams can use Ellie.ai’s software to model complex data models and structures to better understand information relationships, such as database models that are needed for running business applications. Its software uses visual modeling to help teams collaborate together to produce high-quality relational and consistent structural models that can be implemented quickly as business logic blueprints. | Data & Analytics |
| Google tackles multicloud connectivity with Cross-Cloud Network | “With Cross-Cloud Network we will now be able to provide you — on demand — any-to-any connectivity where you can actually connect AWS, Azure and others directly into Google Cloud without having to invest in physical infrastructure and manage that life cycle of the infrastructure," | Cloud |
| Microsoft to discontinue the default WordPad word processor in Windows | It appears that Microsoft plans to substitute WordPad partly with Notepad, the simpler text editing application included in Windows. Notepad was released in 1983, a full 12 years before WordPad. The initial version of the tool launched not for Windows but rather MS-DOS, Microsoft’s first operating system. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raises $155M in funding | Its apps are based on what AI21 Labs says is the world’s most customizable and sophisticated LLM, Jurassic-2. It can be used by companies to build advanced, chat-based AI apps capable of performing many tasks at scale. Notably, Jurassic-2 powers the startup’s AI21 Studio, which is a developer platform for building custom, text-based applications; Wordtune, a multilingual reading and writing AI assistant; and Wordtune Read, which is used to analyze long documents in seconds and create a simplified summary. | Automation & Productivity |
| Sprig uses AI to transform product surveys into conversational data | A new feature Sprig calls AI Analysis for Surveys, which, as the name suggests, uses generative AI large language models (LLMs) to intelligently comb through survey data and provide instantaneous insights to the company that conducted the survey. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hyperproof reels in $40M for its regulatory compliance platform | Alongside high-level metrics, Hyperproof aggregates information about specific regulatory compliance issues in a company’s infrastructure. Compliance teams can use the platform to identify internal technology assets that don’t meet cybersecurity or privacy requirements. According to Hyperproof, its platform can also be used to evaluate the effectiveness of suppliers’ compliance efforts. | Data Compliance |
| Google DeepMind unveils tool to watermark and detect AI-generated images | In an announcement published Tuesday, DeepMind researchers unveiled SynthID, a beta tool that embeds a digital “watermark” directly into an AI-generated image produced by Google’s Imagen generative AI model in Vertex AI, the company’s platform for building AI. This way a limited number of users testing out the new tool can mark their images as AI-generated | Artificial Intelligence |
| Gong’s new Call Spotlight uses AI to summarize customer calls for revenue teams | The new AI-driven tool (powered by a mix of proprietary Gong AI models and GPT-4 in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service) automatically transcribes and analyzes a revenue team member’s conversation with a customer over video call, audio call, mobile or desktop, even emails and text correspondence — any communications the revenue team member wants — and auto-generates a summary and key points for the revenue team to act on. | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware warns customers to immediately patch critical Aria network software holes | VMware Aria is the vendor’s multi-cloud management platform that integrates previously separate VMware services such as vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, and CloudHealth. A single Aria Hub console provides centralized views and controls and lets customers see and manage the entire multi-cloud environment. | Security |
| In what could be a landmark case, Open AI lawyers motion to dismiss authors’ copyright claims | These include vicarious copyright infringement — indirectly benefiting from copyright infringement — as well as violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unfair competition, negligence and unjust enrichment. If the company succeeds, the cases will go ahead only on the claim of direct copyright infringement. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Typeface teams with GrowthLoop and Google Cloud to launch unified ‘GenAI Marketing Solution’ | The offering allows teams to produce personalized content — from blogs to social media posts — for their campaigns, leveraging data from Google BigQuery, audience segmentation from GrowthLoop and Typeface’s generative AI smarts. According to the companies, it can cut the time taken to build and launch creative campaigns from several weeks down to days or even a few hours. | Automation & Productivity |
| Arize AI wants to improve enterprise LLMs with ‘Prompt Playground,’ new data analysis tools | But once an organization identifies a large language model (LLM) or several it wishes to use, the hard work is far from over. In fact, deploying the LLM in a way that benefits an organization requires understanding the best prompts employees or customers can use to generate helpful results — otherwise it’s pretty much worthless — as well as what data to include in those prompts from the organization or user. | Data & Analytics |
| Typeface teams with GrowthLoop and Google Cloud to launch unified ‘GenAI Marketing Solution’ | The offering allows teams to produce personalized content — from blogs to social media posts — for their campaigns, leveraging data from Google BigQuery, audience segmentation from GrowthLoop and Typeface’s generative AI smarts. According to the companies, it can cut the time taken to build and launch creative campaigns from several weeks down to days or even a few hours. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell Technologies and Denvr Dataworks to Unleash Generative AI Innovation | The solution can train large language models by managing GenAI datasets that contain hundreds of billions of parameters. With preconfigured tools and templates, organizations can speed the development and deployment of large language models. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Google Cloud and Virtusa Aim to Train Engineers and Push AI | Taking action as other tech companies team-up on AI, the companies will jointly develop a global Generative AI Center of Excellence to collaborate on training and research for the development of solutions meant to support AI adoption by enterprises. Part of the plan includes an investment to help train more than 2,000 engineers to make use of Google Cloud’s AI tech. | Training & Certs |
| LTIMindtree Collaborates with CAST AI to Help Businesses Optimize Their Cloud Investments | This combined offering will empower organizations to optimize Kubernetes management and costs in a single or multi-cloud environments, without any manual intervention. It will also help free up the customers’ time from routine tasks by automating 100% of their cloud-native infrastructure, resulting in increased stability and reduced costs. | Cloud |
| Deepfake scams have arrived: Fake videos spread on Facebook, TikTok and Youtube | Last week, NBC News viewed more than 50 videos posted to those sites that featured computer-manipulated images and audio of well-known people, all of which appeared to have been created to scam viewers out of money. | Privacy & Security |
| Checkmarx warns of unknown threat actor targeting developers through NPM packages | Each of the malicious packages used by the threat actor was designed to execute automatically upon installation. Each NPM package contained three files — package.json, preinstall.js, and index.js — that were used as part of the attack process. | Security |
| Context raises $3.5M to elevate LLM apps with detailed analytics | Today, Context is a full-fledged product analytics platform for LLM-powered applications. The offering provides high-level insights detailing how users are engaging with an app and how the product is performing in return. | Data & Analytics |
| Confirm raises $6.2 million to bring generative AI and network analysis to performance reviews | Confirm’s approach measures employee performance by examining how all employees in the company view one another. ONA operates on the principle that performance isn’t an isolated metric, but a network of relationships and influences within the workplace. | HR Tech |
| Google's Cross-Cloud Network service aims to simplify multicloud networking | “We know that 70-plus percent of our enterprises are going to adopt multicloud. [The] idea behind Cross-Cloud Network is that today many organizations operate bespoke networks with turnkey security to connect to those clouds that are operationally complex to manage and build, thereby resulting in a much higher total cost of ownership and soaring costs," | Cloud |
| Striim Unveils Cloud Mission Critical with Advanced Multi-Node Data Streaming on Google Cloud | This groundbreaking solution not only underscores Striim’s dedication to pushing technological boundaries but also equips enterprises with the capabilities for real-time replication of disparate enterprise data to Google Cloud’s BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL. | Data & Analytics |
| Multinational task force takes down prolific Qakbot malware and botnet operation | The joint operation, which spanned the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Latvia and the U.K., saw law enforcement gain access to the Qakbot botnet on Aug. 25. Upon gaining access to Qakbot, botnet traffic was redirected to and through servers controlled by law enforcement. Qakbot-infected computers were instructed to download a Qakbot Uninstall file that uninstalled Qakbot malware from the infected computer. | Security |
| Couchbase jumps on the generative AI bandwagon with Capella iQ code generator | Couchbase Capella is a cloud-hosted version of the Couchbase NoSQL database that is used to power complex business applications. Unlike traditional databases, such as Oracle Database, Capella can process both structured and unstructured data at the same time, making it a more flexible choice for certain kinds of apps. The ability to handle multiple kinds of data means Capella can serve as a data cache. | Data & Analytics |
| iManage Announces iManage AI, a Powerful New AI Engine to Transform Knowledge Search Across its Platform | The core of the new iManage AI solution is a document classification and enrichment engine that dramatically improves knowledge search and content workflows on the iManage platform. iManage AI builds on models trained on tens of thousands of legal-specific documents to automatically analyze documents and extract key data points, such as Jurisdiction, Parties, or Dates, then save that information with the document. | Automation & Productivity |
| SAP and Google Cloud Enhance Open Data Cloud With New Generative AI Solutions for Enterprises | By integrating generative AI into SAP and Google Cloud’s open data cloud, customers can deploy powerful new solutions that use information from SAP Datasphere and from virtually any other data source to significantly improve business insights, analysis, and decision-making. | Cloud |
| Cisco partnership with Nutanix raises questions over HyperFlex | The Cisco-Nutanix offering integrates Cisco’s SaaS-managed UCS compute, networking, and Intersight management with the Nutanix Cloud Platform suite: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Manager, Nutanix Unified Storage, and Nutanix Desktop Services. It will support UCS rack and blade servers, including initial support for C-Series Servers and planned, future support for UCS X-Series. | Cloud |
| CompTIA to offer advanced cloud networking certification | “Beyond validating technical skills, IT pros who earn a CompTIA Xpert Series certification will have demonstrated their ability to understand, implement, and articulate advanced technology solutions in any business environment.” | Training & Certs |
| Mandiant warns hackers are still targeting Barracuda Email Security Gateway devices | “If you have not replaced your appliance after receiving notice in your UI, contact support now,” the company wrote in an advisory. “Barracuda’s remediation recommendation at this time is full replacement of the impacted ESG.” | Security |
| Rockset Raises $44 Million in Funding to Power Search, Analytics, and AI Applications | Rockset ingests streaming data and uses a highly efficient Converged Index storage format, stored on RocksDB, to deliver low latency search, filtering, aggregations and joins, simply using SQL. . By extending the company’s search and analytics capabilities into vector search, Rockset now enables developers to index and update both metadata and vector embeddings in real time, a vital component to implementing semantic search, recommendation engines and Generative AI applications. | Data & Analytics |
| Google brings new AI to AlloyDB and database migration service | Among the AI focused database announcements is the introduction of AlloyDB AI, which brings vector embeddings to the PostgreSQL compatible cloud database. The new vector embeddings will also be part of the AlloyDB Omni service which is entering public preview today, enabling users to run AlloyDB outside of the Google Cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| UserTesting expands platform with generative AI to scale human insights | “UserTesting AI is a set of capabilities that are designed to be easily understood by our customers as being AI powered, that help a research, design, marketing or product team, essentially achieve more throughput," | Automation & Productivity |
| Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more | Now, you can use Google’s AI to make spreadsheets, whip up slide decks, and summarize all those documents you were never going to actually read. | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware separates out HCI storage in vSAN Max | The essence of HCI is that compute, storage, and networking are all contained in one chassis with the system scaling up or down by adding or removing hardware. However, that means if you want to additional storage capacity, you have to add more compute as well, and vice versa. | Data Storage |
| Cisco services help enterprises set infrastructure, operations priorities | "Using telemetry and high-touch discovery, our experts analyze your IT environment and identify strategies to achieve your desired business outcomes," Wildman said. Then Cisco and partners make recommendations, help customers prioritize IT initiatives, and build an execution plan. | IT Management |
| Google Cloud debuts its most powerful, AI-optimized VMs yet | To meet this need, Google has conceived the Cloud TPU v5e, available now in preview. It’s said to be the most cost-efficient, versatile and scalable cloud TPU it has ever devised, providing integration with GKE, Google’s machine learning framework Vertex AI and various leading AI frameworks, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX. | Automation & Productivity |
| With Duet AI and BigQuery Studio, Google Cloud gives analytics teams tools to bring AI to data | Announced Google’s cloud conference Google Cloud Next 2023, BigQuery Studio, now in preview, provides customers a single interface for data analytics in Google Cloud that allows engineers and developers to work on data without having to switch between tools. It also allows teams to edit SQL, Python, Spark and other languages to run analytics at petabyte scale without additional infrastructure. | Data & Analytics |
| GSA seeks help to ‘get across the finish line’ modernizing cybersecurity, adopting zero trust | "They need to be able to help us run our security operations center and incident response centers, be able to do cyber threat intelligence … be able to do cyber threat hunting. And then because we’ve been doing DevSecOps here at GSA for a long time, using agile for a long time, they need to fit seamlessly into that because they’re the ‘Sec’ in DevSecOps.” | Security |
| Google Cloud launches A3 supercomputer, custom ASICs for AI | Google first introduced its A3 supercomputer powered with Nvidia H100 GPUs in May and today announced A3 VMs will be generally available next month. A3 trains, tunes and serves “incredibly demanding and scalable generative AI workloads and large language models [LLMs]” at three-times the speed and 10-times the networking bandwidth of Google’s previous A2 supercomputer, Lohmeyer claimed. | Cloud |
| Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place | Poe, the AI chatbot platform created by Quora, has added a slew of updates, including a Mac app, the ability to have multiple simultaneous conversations with the same AI bot, access to Meta’s Llama 2 model, and more. It’s also planning an enterprise tier so that companies can manage the platform for their employees, according to an email that was recently sent to Poe users. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise with bevy of cybersecurity features | One of the main selling points of ChatGPT Enterprise is that it provides unlimited access to Advanced Data Analysis, a data science tool that OpenAI debuted earlier this month. The tool was originally known as Code Interpreter. It allows users to run mathematical calculations, visualize the results and change the format of files using natural language commands. | Automation & Productivity |
| SEALSQ Launches the VAULTIC292, a New Cryptographic Module to Secure IoT Devices & Sensors | Designed for cost-effectiveness and seamless integration, VaultIC292 functions as a fortified microcontroller, primed to endow devices with a robust, secure identity. This identity is key for IoT applications such as Smart Home Devices or field sensors. It allows the establishment of a trusted connection to clouds or local networks via the TLS protocol, ensuring impeccable device authentication. | Security |
| Qase raises $6.7M in funding to boost software testing speed by 60% and become the ‘DataDog of TestOps’ | The Austin, Texas-based Qase will use the fresh capital injection to expand its team and launch the first Jira-like marketplace for test management tools designed to boost efficiency for QA teams. With a remarkable 3x year-on-year revenue growth, Qase has processed over 27 million test results for more than 100,000 developers and clients, including notable companies like Wolt, Asana, and SeatGeek. | Automation & Productivity |
| Yahoo Mail Debuts AI Enhancements for a Smarter Inbox | Unique to Yahoo Mail, Shopping Saver surfaces long-forgotten gift cards, discount codes, and store credits in user inboxes, and drafts suggested messages to vendors to help apply those savings after a purchase has been made. Nearly half of U.S. adults have at least one unused gift card, gift voucher or store credit, and now Yahoo Mail users are able to cash in on their inbox. | Automation & Productivity |
| DoorDash debuts AI-powered voice ordering service | The company offers the option to use its AI tool with a service called DoorDash Drive. The latter offering allows restaurants to integrate the food delivery giant’s platform with their websites and apps. When a customer places an order with a restaurant that uses DoorDash Drive, the package is delivered by a DoorDash courier. | Automation & Productivity |
| Fortinet extends SASE to WLAN for microbranch, IoT and OT security | This extension is particularly beneficial for microbranches like retail stores, ATM centers, small health care clinics and small insurance companies where five to 15 employees typically run operations. “Oftentimes, they don’t have enough staff, especially with the cybersecurity skills shortage, to provide full security.” | Security |
| Toren AI Launches Commercial Operations Revolutionizing Industries with State-of-the-Art Video Intelligence Solutions | Toren AI’s advanced object recognition and analytics technologies enhance any camera infrastructure to detect health and safety risks, optimize operational processes, and precisely detect security risks or suspicious activities in protected sites. | Security |
| Multiple news organizations block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler | A separate analysis from startup Originality.ai found that Insider is also filtering requests from OpenAI’s crawler. According to the startup, more than 60 of the world’s 1,000 most visited websites are blocking GPTBot and the list appears to be steadily growing. The crawler has been disallowed by not only news organizations but also tech firms such as Quora Inc. and other companies. | ChatGPT |
| APERIO Closes $9M in Series A1 Funding to Advance Operational Data Quality | “Their solution directly addresses the data-quality roadblocks faced by manufacturers hoping to unlock the full potential of AI. APERIO’s tools and approach tackle data-quality issues at scale, enabling manufacturers to improve their operational technology data infrastructure and governance." | Data & Analytics |
| Augmented data analytics platform ConverSight raises $9M in Series A funding | ConverSight, officially known as ThickStat Inc., is the creator of a no-code and low-code augmented analytics platform that helps organizations to make data-driven decisions. Its generative artificial intelligence-based AI assistant Athena allows business workers to access insights in a conversational way, simply by asking questions of their company’s data. | Data & Analytics |
| NetApp and Google deepen Cloud Volumes Service collab | It is based on NetApp’s ONTAP operating system and its file-based data functions running on the Google Cloud Platform as a native GCP service. It provides multi-access protocol support for NFS V3 and v4.1, as well as SMB, and has features such as snapshots, clones, replication, and cross-region backup. It is the only Google storage service supporting both NFS and SMB. | Data Storage |
| Ikigai Labs Announces $25M in Series A Funding to Bring Generative AI for Tabular Data to All Enterprises | Ikigai Labs solves these challenges by pairing its best-in-class time series forecasting with its no-code AI platform built on top of its three proprietary foundation blocks – aiMatch, for data reconciliation, aiCast, for prediction and aiPlan, for scenario planning and optimization – together with expert-in-the-loop (EiTL), an innovative addition for reinforcement learning. | Data & Analytics |
| Alibaba launches AI models that understand images and have more complex conversations | According to reports, the tech giant said that Qwen-VL was designed to be the advanced evolution of its 7-billion-parameter model, Tongyi Qianwen. This dynamic model showcases a remarkable capability to effortlessly handle both images and text prompts. Its versatility extends from effectively answering wide-ranging questions related to various images to creating captivating captions for those images. | Artificial Intelligence |
| 'Whiffy Recon' Malware Transmits Device Location Every 60 Seconds | Researchers have uncovered the "Whiffy Recon" malware being deployed by the SmokeLoader botnet, which is a customized Wi-Fi scanning executable for Windows systems that tracks the physical locations of victims. | Security |
| South Korea’s Naver launches HyperClova X, a new generative AI service to compete with ChatGPT | With this launch, Naver now joins the ranks of companies unveiling large language models, directly competing with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Naver’s own language model offers a range of services similar to those of ChatGPT. HyperClova X powers an array of new applications including an AI chatbot named CLOVA X, and a generative AI-powered search engine called Cue, which is on par with Microsoft Bing. | ChatGPT |
| Malware-infected advertising grows ever more sophisticated, and lethal | With malvertising, the infected ads are typically placed on legitimate ad networks, which makes them more difficult to spot and remove. The technique continues to use more and more sophisticated mechanisms for getting their infections spread throughout the web and keep them running for a long time. The exploits can operate in one of several ways, including intercepting a user’s clickstream on random hyperlinks and substituting them with redirects to advertising websites. | Security |
| Irreverent Labs, backed by Samsung Next, set to revolutionize video content creation with AI | The young startup, with just about 25 employees today, has been building highly advanced AI models to generate 3D animated videos from simple text prompts. Irreverent Labs said its upcoming “video foundation model” can seamlessly translate prompts into captivating 3D videos with an unprecedented level of quality and control. | Automation & Productivity |
| dbt Labs Builds Momentum as the Industry Standard for Data Transformation | The dbt Community, which is now 80,000+ members strong, remains an essential industry hub for learning and sharing analytics engineering best practices. As the dbt Community continues to scale, dbt Labs remains committed to fostering an environment for data professionals to work alongside one another and contribute to the growth of the modern data stack. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco, Kyndryl step up partnership to cut enterprise security threats | Specifically, Kyndryl will be integrating its own cyber resiliency offering with Cisco’s overarching Security Cloud platform that includes security components such as Cisco’s Duo access control, extended detection and response features, and Multicloud Defense, which orchestrates security and policy across private and public clouds. | Security |
| Modular nabs $100M for its AI programming language and inference engine | Modular has developed a programming language called Mojo that it positions as a faster alternative. The language’s syntax is nearly identical to that of Python, which means it’s relatively easy to use. The key difference, according to Modular, is that Mojo is up to 35,000 times faster. | DevOps |
| Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography | Another image generator? Don’t we have enough to choose from between Midjourney, OpenAI’s Dall-E 2, and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion? Well, Ideogram has a major selling point, as it may have finally solved a problem plaguing most other popular AI image generators to date: reliable text generation within the image, such as lettering on signs and for company logos. | Automation & Productivity |
| Gupshup launches enhanced domain-specific ACE LLM adapted for industry use | The new domain-specific models, called ACE LLM, enable enterprise users to build applications capable of using internal business knowledge to produce natural language conversational experiences fused with industry specific knowhow. These models provide more precise humanlike responses and have a better speed and scale for answering industry questions while doing knowledge work than other models on the market because they have been tuned for those specific industries. | Automation & Productivity |
| Korea’s Naver joins generative AI race with HyperCLOVA X large language model | The company said it has opened beta testing for CLOVA X in English and Korean and will make HyperCLOVA X available to enterprise users, allowing them to customize the model on their own data. It also plans to add an AI function called Cue into its search engine, much like what Microsoft has done with Bing, by November 2023. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Introducing Ask Blue J, the Groundbreaking Generative AI Platform for Tax | Leveraging Blue J’s extensive database of US tax content, coupled with the most advanced large language models and the oversight of an experienced team of legal experts, Ask Blue J generates responsive tax answers, appends primary sources and presents related content, including cases, in seconds. | Automation & Productivity |
| 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity | The TS1170 drive operates at 400MBps raw throughput and supports both 12gig SAS and 16gig FC connectivity. It is also recognized as LTFS-ready. However, JF media is not backwards-compatible with the earlier JE specification. | Data Storage |
| CyberLink Launches FaceMe Platform 5.4, a Complete API Solution for Facial Recognition | An on-premise and server based facial recognition API system, supporting various operating systems (Windows, Red Hat, CentOS) and accessible through any web browser, FaceMe Platform 5.4 further improves the process for developers to add facial recognition to applications for ID verification, such as secure system login, and access control. | Facial Recognition |
| Google Drive, Gmail tighten AI-powered zero-trust controls | The new feature “automatically and continuously classifies and labels sensitive data and then applies appropriate risk-based controls,” she added. These controls such as DLP and CAA can be applied based on the customer’s risk tolerance and their security policies. | Security |
| Versa enhances SASE package with AI-based security tools | With our vast SASE deployment base, the telemetry data is leveraged to fine tune Large Language Models (LLMs) to bolster security in real time with a high degree of accuracy and automation, and optimize network operations and performance.” | Security |
| Portkey.ai closes $3M seed round to speed up AI application development | Portkey claims its platform can help companies build AI software faster by reducing the number of features they must implement from scratch. Moreover, the startup promises to reduce the associated costs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Suki Becomes First AI-Powered Healthcare Solution with Enhanced Ambient Integration Across Multiple EHR Systems | Building upon the introduction of bi-directional ambient sync for Epic, Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, is announcing a similar enhancement for Cerner. The most recent iteration of Suki Assistant empowers Cerner users to expedite the creation of clinical documentation with greater ease and efficiency, thereby alleviating cognitive load and reducing documentation time. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI-Generated Works Cannot Get Copyright: US Court | US District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ruled that only works with human authors can receive copyrights in the United States. Stephen Thaler, computer scientist and creator of the DABUS AI system, had appealed the Copyright Office denial. The decision follows losses for Thaler’s efforts to acquire US patents for inventions created by DABUS, short for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SpyCloud bags $110M to help companies respond to login credential leaks faster | The company provides a software platform that helps companies detect when their employees’ login credentials leak online. The platform can, for example, spot if employee passwords associated with an internal supply chain application surface on a dark web forum. It also detects other types of leaked login credentials. | Privacy & Security |
| New Relic Enhances AIOps with the Industry’s 1st AI Recommended Alerts | The industry’s only observability solution that reduces the need to manually build numerous alert conditions using AI makes it easier to understand which signals are most important or what thresholds indicate performance problems. Now, every engineer, regardless of their experience level, can eliminate alerting blindspots—empowering them to detect, resolve, and respond to issues faster. | DevOps |
| Google adds new AI-powered security controls to its Workspace | The features cover aspects of implementing zero-trust security, data loss prevention or DLP, and data privacy controls. Many involve a series of automated improvements that will continuously monitor data placed in Google Drive, using its AI engine. Administrators for Workspace, which Google claims is used by 9 million organizations, can set very granular context-aware policy controls, such as checking particular device locations. | Security |
| Proton debuts VPN for Business, enabling IT departments to control access to content and apps | The aptly named Proton VPN for Business starts at $8.99 per month (on a two-year contract) and enables IT departments to deploy virtual private gateways to control access to content and apps, as well as network segmentation. It also comes with built-in protections against malware, phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks. And it is open-source, allowing experts to independently verify its security claims. | Network Management |
| Styra announces new capabilities for its enterprise open policy agent | The big change is the shift to making Enterprise OPA source available with a commercial license. Previously, the service was available in only two formats: binary or container. Although the formats supported the majority of use cases, they limited Enterprise OPA from being built directly into applications for performance optimization, which requires access to the source code. | Cloud |
| Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI model that can translate 100 languages into speech or text | Officially dubbed SeamlessM4T, the multimodal technology has been publicly released to help researchers build on the development and introduce universal applications capable of delivering speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text-to-text translations. It has been made available along with SeamlessAlign, a multimodal translation dataset totaling 265,000 hours of mined speech and text alignments. | Artificial Intelligence |
| OpenAI now lets users fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo for specific tasks | For instance, customers could create a bot based on GPT-3.5 Turbo that’s trained specifically to provide reliable responses in a specific language, or use concise wording. They could also train it on a specific knowledge base, and use the bot for customer or employee support use cases. | Automation & Productivity |
| TD SYNNEX gets into data migration transport biz | This is quite different from software-defined data migration services from suppliers such as Cirrus Data, Datadobi, Data Dynamics, Komprise, which rely on network data transmission. It is akin to Seagate’s Lyve Drive Mobile Array offering, with its six drive bays for physically transporting data on the drives. | Data Management |
| Report: AI startup Hugging Face hoping to raise millions from Salesforce and other investors | New York-based Hugging Face operates a number of projects, including the BigScience research initiative that has built what is claimed to be the world’s largest open-source natural language processing model. It also offers paid functionality such as AutoTrain, which helps to automate the task of training AI models, and Inference API, which allows developers to host neural networks without managing the underlying infrastructure. | Automation & Productivity |
| Neo4j brings vectors to graph database | With a vector, content is converted into a numerical value, with techniques such as Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) used to enable similarity search. There are a number of purpose-built vector databases such as Pinecone and Milvus in addition to existing database platforms that are being extended to support vectors including PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis. | Datta & Analytics |
| Fauna’s new query language is custom-built for its serverless database | Fauna Query Language is described as a strongly typed database language that combines the ability to express declarative queries and functional business logic in strongly consistent transactions. Unlike imperative queries, which specify exactly what information the database should retrieve, declarative queries describe the information and let the machine figure out how to find and deliver it. | Data & Analytics |
| Anaconda Distribution for Python Brings Data Science to Hundreds of Millions of Microsoft Excel Users | "Excel is the backbone of data analysis in business; with Python in Excel, we’re extending what is possible for our community and creating an ideal medium for data scientists to collaborate with colleagues that rely on Excel. This leap ushers in a new age of Excel where cutting edge visualizations, complex data manipulation, advanced analytics, and machine learning are just a few clicks away in a familiar environment.” | Data & Analytics |
| Tintri launches software-only VMstore and managed infrastructure service | “The new Tintri Cloud Platform and Tintri Cloud Engine offerings are a testament to our commitment to providing customers with all of the tools they need to manage their infrastructure, no matter the size of their workloads or where they are on their hybrid cloud transformation journey.” | Data Management |
| ScyllaDB Announces NoSQL Release With Raft for Strong Consistency | This new enterprise release introduces Raft-based strongly consistent schema management, distributed aggregates that reduce query execution time up to 20X, and numerous other features that further enhance ScyllaDB’s performance at scale. A new Change Data Capture library for Rust was also released, speeding up ScyllaDB’s real-time streaming while requiring less infrastructure. | Data & Analytics |
| Software Makers May Face Greater Liability in Wake of MOVEit Lawsuit | Right now it's unclear if this is the case with MOVEit, and as to what exactly Progress is liable for, Walke says. The software vendor patched the flaw at the heart of the Cl0p attacks on May 31, the same day the flaw was disclosed. However, the class-action suits claim the vulnerability had existed since 2021. | Privacy & Security |
| VMware and Nvidia join forces to support generative AI infrastructure for the enterprise | The new offering, called VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, is a full-stack platform that features generative AI software along with everything an enterprise customer needs to build, train, customize and deploy an AI model out of the box. It’s built on VMware Cloud Foundation and optimized for AI, featuring generative AI software and accelerated computing from Nvidia. | Artificial Intelligence |
| NCSA’s SMM Software Tools Aim to Make Sense of Social Media Data | “Our mission is to create a fully functional system for the acquisition, storage, sharing, analysis and visualization of social media data,” said Wang. “We are continuing to build out a portfolio of tools to serve different communities, including social scientists, educators, public health professionals and people in industry.” | Data & Analytics |
| Breaking down language walls: ElevenLabs launches multilingual text-to-speech for diverse audiences | “ElevenLabs was started with the dream of making all content universally accessible in any language and in any voice. With the release of Eleven Multilingual v2, we are one step closer to making this dream a reality and making human-quality AI voices available in every dialect, | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware repackages cloud offerings as part of a campaign to simplify multicloud management | VMware Cloud, which combines the company’s Cloud Foundation software and Cloud Services, is being repackaged into five editions — Essentials, Standard, Pro, Advanced and Enterprise — that span the stages of cloud adoption in enterprises. The intent is to provide ”a prescriptive pathway for customers to buy and consume VMware cloud based on where they are in the journey to modernization,” | Cloud |
| VMware Tanzu Hub aims to be one-stop-shop for multicloud | One addition to TAP is the Tanzu Application Engine, currently in beta, which allows platform engineering teams to embed requirements like availability, secure connectivity and scalability into a curated “Application Space” that automates enforcement of requirements at runtime, regardless of what cloud or Kubernetes cluster the code is running in. | Cloud |
| Versa Delivers New AI-Assisted Enhancements Across SASE, SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Everywhere (ZTEA), and SD-LAN Products | The Versa Unified SASE Platform integrates a panoramic data set from across the entire infrastructure – from the WAN Edge, Cloud, Campus, remote locations, users and devices – into a unified data lake. VersaAI™ taps into this data lake to extract AI/ML insights that are seamlessly applied across the Versa product suite. | Security |
| Israeli SaaS security platform startup Grip Security raises $41M | This is where Grip steps in, with an approach of leveraging identity as the primary control point to deliver a solution to discover, prioritize, secure and orchestrate the mitigation and remediation of identity risks. Grip claims that by using its platform, visibility is no longer the sole issue for security teams. | Security |
| Rubrik’s new generative AI assistant helps ease cyberattack recovery operations | Specifically, the new tool helps companies to achieve three things: First, it creates a plan to help the company reach its recovery point objective with the cleanest, most recent data. It provides step-by-step guidance to recover unaffected files from the most recent snapshot, while rolling back affected files to the most recent snapshot prior to when the attack was first detected. | Security |
| Striim Launches Striim Cloud 4.2, Democratizing High-Performance Data Integration, Streaming, and AI | “With increased interest from our customers in deploying cloud-based data pipelines for real-time streaming analytics, and incorporating AI-based models for in-line event augmentation with generative AI – Striim is the only unified service that has an integrated intelligence engine with a real-time data integration platform,” | Data & Analytics |
| IBM developing S3 interface tape library | Diamondback S3 will be a low-cost repository target for a secure copy of current or archive data. It will enable any user familiar with S3 to move their data to Diamondback S3. A storage architect can sign up for a 14-day shared trial on a Diamondback S3 managed by IBM, so they can verify the behavior of S3 for tape. | Data Storage |
| Meta reportedly set to launch a web version of Threads this week | The news comes as rival X continues to have no shortage of drama and issues — a prime opportunity for a decent competitor to take market share. The latest in the real-life, badly scripted soap opera, which is X under the control of Elon Musk, includes X seeing a dramatic decrease in downloads and app store ratings since Musk changed the name of the service from Twitter. | Social Media |
| Nutanix puts ChatGPT in a turnkey box | Nutanix wants to make it easier for customers to trial and use LLMs by crafting a software stack including its Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Files and Objects storage, and Nutanix AHV hypervisor and Kubernetes (K8S) software with Nvidia GPU acceleration. | ChatGPT |
| SADA Releases New Enterprise Data Warehouse Modernization Solution | SADA’s EDW services include a discovery assessment, a foundation proof of concept implementation, and a complete Data Warehouse Platform Migration. SADA is partnering with FiveTran and ThoughtSpot, who will help implement these services and transform data into actionable insights. | Data & Analytics |
| CISA warns that hackers are actively targeting Citrix’s ShareFile platform | The platform allows customers to store data in a Citrix-managed cloud environment or on their own infrastructure. According to Citrix, CVE-2023-24489 only affects deployments that use the latter configuration. As a result, organizations running ShareFile on Citrix’s cloud infrastructure are not affected. | Security |
| ThunderSoft Modernizing FOTA Platform with AWS IoT Core | ThunderSoft, a leading provider of operating system technologies and superior edge-to-cloud products and solutions announced its modernizing Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) solution with AWS IoT Core, a service that allows customers to connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices without managing infrastructure, | IoT |
| Cybersecurity company discovers phishing campaign that uses malicious QR codes | Malicious QR codes can be difficult to spot because they encode a phishing link in a visual form, while email security tools are mainly designed to detect standard links. Furthermore, hackers can embed a malicious QR code in another file such as a PDF document to create an additional layer of obfuscation. That makes it even more difficult for organizations to spot phishing attempts. | Security |
| DynamoFL Raises $15.1M Series A to Scale Privacy-Focused Generative AI for the Enterprise | As government agencies like the FTC explore concerns around LLM providers’ data security, DynamoFL’s machine learning privacy research team recently showed how personal information – including sensitive details about C-Suite executives, Fortune 500 corporations, and private contract values – could be easily extracted from a fine-tuned GPT-3 model. DynamoFL’s privacy evaluation suite provides out of the box testing for data extraction vulnerabilities and automated documentation to ensure enterprises’ LLMs are secure and compliant. | Data Privacy |
| Former Google researchers launch startup to build nature-inspired neural networks | The primary innovation in the technology is a software mechanism called attention. Using this mechanism, an AI model can take a large amount of contextual information into account when analyzing a piece of data. Furthermore, the model can prioritize that contextual information and pay more attention to the most important details. | Automation & Productivity |
| Nyriad and RackTop Systems Partner to Advance Secure File Storage | A key differentiator of the revolutionary solution is RackTop’s BrickStor Security Platform which continually evaluates trust at the file level, while Nyriad’s UltraIO storage system ensures data integrity at the erasure coded block level. This unique approach dynamically protects data during all three phases of a ransomware attack. BrickStor SP grants or denies access to data in real time without any agents, | Data Storage |
| Edgecore Networks Introduces New Switches with Cutting-Edge Connectivity for Powering Smart Buildings and IoT-enabled Venues | Small but complete in every detail, the ECS1100 series offers comprehensive solutions with 5 to 10 ports and PoE capabilities ranging from 120W to 250W, making it the most cost-effective prime choice in managed PoE switches for small offices, coffee shops, campuses, and more. | Smart Technology |
| Marqo Secures $5.2M to Bring Continuous-Learning Vector Search to Businesses | "There is over 100 trillion gigabytes of data in the world, the majority of which is unstructured data such as text, images or video. With generative AI creating more content than ever before people, computers and companies need new ways to search. Marqo represents the next generation of search – hyper-relevant, AI-powered and based on human understanding." | Automation & Productivity |
| CISA releases cyber defense plan for remote monitoring and management software | There are two pillars to the plan. Pillar 1, Operational Collaboration, is said to encourage collective action across the RMM community to enhance information sharing, increase visibility and fuel creative cybersecurity solutions. So-called “lines of effort” include cyber threat and vulnerability information and enduring RMM operational community. | Security |
| Arthur launches open-source tool to help companies make data-driven decisions about LLMs | To assist in this evaluation, Arthur also unveiled the Generative Assessment Project. This research project ranks the strengths and weaknesses of LLM offerings on the market from industry leaders such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms Inc. and shares discoveries with the public about their metrics. | Data & Analytics |
| Elemental Cognition, led by IBM Watson’s former head, raises $60M | Founded in 2015, Elemental Cognition pitches its offering an “AI that thinks before it talks” with answers that are “provably correct and fully transparent” to “solve your toughest problems.” The company has as its vision that “We believe that AI’s potential for good is realized only if it can be understood and trusted by people.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Would you sell your data for passive income? Caden raises $15M to give users the option | Founded in 2021, Caden addresses the challenge of user control by placing end users at the center of a data exchange with a two-sided platform. At one side sits an app that allows consumers to automatically pull in personal activity data, such as the movies they watch, where they travel and what they buy from different businesses. They then opt-in to monetize some or all of that information in various privacy-centered ways, creating a safe passive income stream. | Data & Analytics |
| Google DeepMind reportedly developing at least 21 new generative AI features | The search giant’s engineers are reportedly working on at least 21 different generative AI capabilities. One of the main highlights is a feature that can reportedly provide advice about “challenges in people’s lives.” A sample prompt obtained by the Times suggests the feature can process complex user queries containing several lines of text. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM Consulting to help firms build generative AI applications with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service | IBM says it’s a fully managed AI service that’s focused on helping developers and data scientists use OpenAI LP’s powerful large language models to build new kinds of applications. Through the service, developers can access all of OpenAI’s LLMs, including the GPT series that powers ChatGPT, and the Codex LLMs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AptEdge.io leverages AI and AnswerGPT to reduce customer escalations | “AnswerGPT was built around the idea that if we can connect to different areas of information and knowledge, if we can connect to those areas and be able to create answers, find the knowledge, find the answer, get to responses immediately, we can arm our customer-facing teams with instant and accurate answers to questions from customers in real time," | Automation & Productivity |
| New York City bans TikTok on government devices over security concerns | Despite TikTok’s many efforts to convince the U.S. that the app is not a virtual spying machine for the Chinese Communist Party, slowly but surely it has been disappearing from government devices all over the country. It’s currently banned in 30 states, including New York State, which got rid of it around two years ago. | Privacy & Security |
| PowerShell Gallery Prone to Typosquatting, Other Supply Chain Attacks | "If your organization uses PowerShell modules from the gallery, we suggest only using signed PowerShell modules, utilizing trusted private repositories, and exercising caution when downloading new modules/scripts from registries," | Security |
| FloQast Extends Out-of-the-Box Integration with Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, & Word | FloQast’s latest integrations with Microsoft extend and enhance FloQast’s existing out-of-the-box integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP, OneDrive, Excel, Teams, and Outlook and are offered free of charge to customers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google and Deloitte team to connect data science and marketing with AI | ConvergeCONSUMER also now incorporates Google Cloud’s Generative AI App Builder and Generative AI Studio so businesses can quickly develop chatbots, search engines and other tools. The suite of tools uses the Google Cloud Cortex Framework to help enterprises enhance data and generate insights about how they operate, plan and forecast | Automation & Productivity |
| Certinia Release Introduces AI Functionality and Updates Improving Productivity, Efficiency, and Decision Making | The Summer 2023 product release includes updates that support the following use cases: identifying risk and proactive mitigations to scheduled project work, improving service margins, as well as predicting days to pay in cash flow forecasting. | Automation & Productivity |
| Discord.io suffers data breach with 760,000+ users’ info stolen | For the sake of clarity, Discord.io is not affiliated with Discord, but acts as a third-party marketplace where users can create and list custom invites to their Discord channels for discovery. On the service, users can provide attributes and information about their communities so that people can more easily find and join them | Security |
| Dialpad launches generative AI trained on 5 years of proprietary conversational data | The San Francisco-based company, which was founded in 2011 and says it is on a mission to become the “Salesforce of AI,” developed the generative AI model over five years and five billion minutes of proprietary conversational data. DialpadGPT will be added to the company’s AI-powered platform for video meetings, calls and team collaboration. | Data & Analytics |
| AI startup Grit nabs $7M to help developers fix technical debt faster | Software teams spend a significant portion of their work day fixing suboptimal code. New York-based Grit has developed an AI platform that promises to speed up the task. According to the startup, its platform can find technical debt in an application’s code base and generate new, more efficient code with which it can be replaced. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google enhances Search Generative Experience with AI summaries and definitions | The first enhancement the company detailed today is rolling out for the panel in which SGE displays its responses to users’ search queries. According to Google, users will receive the ability to hover over certain words in an AI-generated response to access a definition. Hovering over the word “proton,” for example, might bring up a brief explanation of the subatomic particle. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hackers target Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities to gain persistent access | Citrix NetScaler is an application delivery controller and load-balancing solution offered by Citrix Systems Inc. The devices optimize the delivery of applications over the internet and private networks by distributing traffic across multiple servers, ensuring that application performance is maintained and downtime is minimized. | Security |
| Redis scales vector data, improves data integration capabilities | “This platform is really built to be a remote data structure server, not a database,” Trollope told VentureBeat. “It provides an ability to take what I’m already doing on my local software, outsource it and put it into a distributed system that can do it way faster and make my application that much more clean and simple.” | Data & Analytics |
| MongoDB Announces General Availability of End-To-End Data Encryption Tech | MongoDB Queryable Encryption significantly reduces the risk of data exposure for organizations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application workflows—such as searching employee records, processing financial transactions, or analyzing medical records—with no cryptography expertise required | Data Management |
| Nutanix puts ChatGPT in a turnkey box | GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a type of machine learning large language model (LLM) which can interpret text requests and questions, search through multiple source files and respond with text, image, video or even software code output. | ChatGPT |
| SQream Expands its End-To-End Low-Code Analytics Platform with Flex Connector AI Assistant | This tool will make it even easier for users to collect all of their business data – from CRMs, user applications, and other tools – into one single source, and further minimize the technical requirements to generate quick data insights. | Data & Analytics |
| The New York Times bans use of its content to train AI | To address some of these concerns, OpenAI has recently announced that publishers will be able to block its GPTBot web crawler aimed at improving AI models from scraping their websites | Artificial Intelligence |
| Grit debuts with $7M round, offering AI that auto-analyzes and updates software codebase for devs | “You have experts who go in with scalpels and modify code line-by-line. But what we’re seeing with generative AI is it’s much easier to generate new code. So we just need new tools that are able to move code at scale, like bulldozers.” | DevOps |
| Anthropic raises $100M from SK Telecom to build AI for telecommunications | Anthropic is best known for its chatbot Claude, a powerful generative AI model and rival to OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. The company recently released multiple upgrades to Claude, providing it with numerous capabilities including larger context windows and the ability to read a novel in under a minute. | Automation & Productivity |
| Zenhub unveils AI label suggestions and a roadmap of many more features ‘coming soon’ | He added that Zenhub is considering incorporating “IBM’s Watsonx models and capabilities as a way to bring our AI experience to our on-premise customers.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Clari acquires rival Groove to enhance its sales platform | One core focus of the company’s platform is helping salespeople become more convincing. According to Clari, its platform can analyze a sales representative’s conversations with potential customers and highlight areas for improvement. The software could, for example, point out if representatives should mention a certain popular feature of their company’s product more often | Automation & Productivity |
| Amazon adds AI-powered review summaries to its e-commerce marketplace | Located immediately below each AI-generated review summary is a collection of clickable keywords. If many customers write that a product is user-friendly, Amazon might display a tag that reads “Ease of Use.” Clicking that tag would bring up another AI-generated summary detailing why customers consider the product easy to use. | E-Commerce |
| EY breach exposes Bank of America customer credit card numbers | Experts we‘ve talked to fear that Cl0p has opened Pandora‘s box. Since the chain of attacks showcases a nearly perfect supply-chain hack, where just one software exploit opened the doors to thousands of companies, other criminal groups will be keen to replicate Cl0p‘s success. | Security |
| Stellar Cyber and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Partner to Offer Expanded Cybersecurity Capabilities | With integrations and support for all enterprise data sources, field-vetted AI/ML-driven correlation, and purpose-built intelligent automation, the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform eliminates manually-intensive security tasks while enabling security teams to quickly monitor, identify, and respond to threats in their cloud, on premises, OT and hybrid environments. | Security |
| Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs | “What specifically differentiates it from the Catalog API is that it shows your negotiated contract pricing and discounts, if any, for all the SKUs, specific to your account," | Cloud |
| IBM set to deliver mainframe AI services, support | Set for delivery on Sept. 29, z/OS 3.1, the operating system grows IBM’s AI portfolio to let customers securely deploy AI applications co-located with z/OS applications and data, as well as a variety of new features such as container extensions for Red Hat and Linux applications that better support hybrid cloud applications on the Big Iron. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Atmosfy raises $12M for its app that lets you discover local businesses through immersive short videos | While video has taken over as the go-to method for consuming content online, the world of online reviews seems stuck in the past, relying on old-fashioned static images, dated text descriptions, and the same old star rating system from the era of print media. | Social Media |
| Hammerspace notches up AWS global rendering partnership | According to an AWS blog, AWS Thinkbox Deadline serves as a render manager that allows users to use a mix of on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-based resources for rendering tasks. The platform offers plugins tailored for specific workflows. The Spot Event Plugin (SEP) oversees and dynamically scales a cloud-based render farm based on the task volume in the render queue. | Automation & Productivity |
| US Probes Microsoft Email Breach, Cloud Security | “The CSRB will assess the recent Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion … and conduct a broader review of issues relating to cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure affecting applicable CSPs [cloud service providers] and their customers,” | Security |
| XWorm, Remcos RAT Evade EDRs to Infect Critical Infrastructure | Eventually, this chain culminates in the loading of XWorm malware establishing communication with a command-and-control (C2) server, an analysis by the firm revealed. XWorm can carry out a wide range of functions, from loading ransomware to acting as a persistent backdoor. | Security |
| Quest Software Empowers Data Democratization and Accelerates Innovation with Erwin Data Modeler 12.5 | The solution meticulously documents existing data sets, facilitating accurate and efficient migration to new cloud environments, thereby optimizing data operations and fostering data-driven innovation. | Data Management |
| Red Hat rivals form Open Enterprise Linux Association | Three of Red Hat’s chief enterprise Linux competitors are banding together to create an alternative to Red Hat-based software, after the company made changes to its terms of use earlier this summer, making it more difficult to access its source code. | DevOps |
| Wanclouds Launches Enhanced Multi-Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery as a Service Capabilities | For companies running SAP on VMware on-premise, or in the cloud, backing up or migrating SAP applications and HANA databases has been historically cumbersome and costly. Wanclouds’ VPC+ SaaS application reduces these costs and technical complexities to bring simplicity and speed to migrating and backing up SAP applications to public clouds or across clouds. | Cloud |
| Alias Technologies Launches BeFake An Innovative AI-Driven Mobile App Challenging the Social Media Authenticity Status Quo | Powered by Alias Technologies’ cutting-edge AI, the BeFake app is an engaging way to amplify your presence on social media, using your own imagination to create something new. Users input text prompts, transforming them into captivating augmented visuals. From creative selfies to imaginative group photos, BeFake allows individuals to vividly express their authenticity, transcending the limitations of the physical world to explore the vast expanse of their creativity. | Social Media |
| Check Point to Acquire Perimeter 81 to Deliver the Fastest and most Secure SASE Solution in the Industry | The company, recognized as a leader in the Forrester Zero Trust Wave, brings an innovative approach to SSE that combines cloud and on-device protection. Perimeter 81 is offering a unique suite of capabilities, including Zero Trust Access, full mesh connectivity between users, branches and applications. | Security |
| Osano Secures $25M Series B to Advance Data Privacy Platform | As organizations expand their global footprint, evolving regulations, laws and standards have unique requirements that must be met to maintain compliance. With Osano, business leaders can rest assured that their data privacy and compliance programs are up to par and resources are reallocated to focus on compliance tasks that can’t be automated. | Data Privacy |
| SandboxAQ unveils Sandwich, an open-source meta-library of cryptographic algorithms | It furnishes developers with a unified API, enabling the integration of chosen cryptographic algorithms into applications. According to SandboxAQ, this agility permits adaptation to evolving technologies and threats and mitigates the necessity for code rewrites. | DevOps |
| Unravel Data Launches Cloud Data Cost Observability and Optimization for Google Cloud BigQuery | This launch comes on the heels of the recent BigQuery pricing model change that replaced flat-rate and flex slot pricing with three new pricing tiers, and will help BigQuery customers to implement FinOps in real-time to select the right new pricing plan based on their usage, and maximize workloads for greater return on cloud data investments. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft changes Services Agreement to add restrictions for AI offerings | The Microsoft Services Agreement changes come at a moment when Terms of Service changes related to AI are making headlines. For example, video conferencing and messaging provider Zoom is facing severe backlash for changes it quietly made to its Terms of Service (TOS) back in March related to AI — raising new questions about customer privacy, choice and trust | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dell Credentials Bug Opens VMware Environments to Takeover | Dell Compellent reached its end of life in 2019, and holds less than a 1% share of the data storage market, according to Enlyft. However, organizations still using Dell storage integrated with VMware environments need be aware of CVE-2023-39250, a "high" impact vulnerability affecting these systems. | Security |
| Bionic Announces Integration with ServiceNow for Industry Leading Application Security Posture Management | Bionic, the industry’s first Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform at Black Hat USA 2023 announced a series of new product innovations to help enterprises manage application risk in production. Bionic has introduced a new ServiceNow Service Graph Connector that provides engineering and security teams with a real-time configuration management database (CMDB) of their cloud applications, microservices, and dependencies in production. | Security |
| Cloud-based workspace collaboration startup Genemod launches new AI solution | Genemod AI uses machine learning algorithms to facilitate collaboration in the realms of electronic lab notebooks and inventory management. The new solution includes features to perform tasks such as streamlining documentation, providing secure, traceable backups accessible from any location and to manage large quantities of data effectively. | Automation & Productivity |
| CISA: 'Whirlpool' Backdoor Sends Barracuda ESG Security Down the Drain | CISA identified Whirlpool as a backdoor that establishes a Transport Layer Security (TLS) reverse shell to the attacker's command-and-control (C2) server. Malicious traffic in these reverse shells can be hard to detect because the traffic is encrypted, and often blends in with normal HTTPS traffic | Security |
| FiscalNote Launches “FiscalNoteGPT”, a Generative AI System Built Specifically for the Policy and Regulatory Industry | Among its initial capabilities, FiscalNoteGPT assists customers by identifying pressing policy and regulatory concerns, generating new insights and recommendations, summarizing timely and relevant issues, and finding pertinent answers and information from FiscalNote’s proprietary databases, consisting of thousands of trusted internal and external sources which form the basis of FiscalNote’s award-winning, incisive, and actionable content | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | Microsoft is now working on Windows Copilot, a new sidebar for Windows 11 that is powered by Bing Chat and can control Windows settings, answer questions, and lots more. Windows Copilot is expected to be available this fall as part of a Windows 11 update that will also include native RAR and 7-Zip support. | Automation & Productivity |
| Rasgo launches Rasgo AI, a generative AI agent for enterprise data warehouse analytics | Unlike other GPT integrations that provide only natural language chat interfaces, Rasgo said its AI stands out by employing GPT for “intelligent reasoning,” which enables it to think and act like a knowledgeable business analyst for data warehouses. | Data & Analytics |
| CISA Adds Microsoft .NET Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Due to Active Exploitation | "Proof-of-concept exploit code is available, or an attack demonstration is not practical for most systems," the company said. "The code or technique is not functional in all situations and may require substantial modification by a skilled attacker." | Security |
| Fireblocks researchers uncover ‘BitForge’ vulnerability affecting multiple crypto wallets | The researchers explained that the BitForge vulnerability affects wallets that implement particular multiparty computation protocols, including GG-18, GG-20 and Lindell 17. This is an important security measure in digital asset transactions that enables multiple parties to agree to execute a transaction by dividing a single private key among them. This makes a crypto wallet more difficult to hack and also means that no one person can access the funds without the others. | Blockchain |
| Verizon’s BlueJeans surrenders to Zoom. What went wrong? | “This acquisition is ultimately yet another proof point that carriers struggle to provide and sell end-user services other than pushing bandwidth through a network,” Park said. “It’s not that service providers lack distribution, customer touch points or business synergy; they just lack the attention span to build a business model on anything that isn’t bandwidth.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Scaleflux ups computational storage SSD capacity | The company provides CSD 3000 drives featuring an SFX 3000 ASIC, a system-on-chip with twin quad-core ARM processors, hardware compute engine, and a PCIe gen 4 interface. It provides transparent compression/decompression, increases the drive’s logical capacity, and also its endurance by reducing the drive’s write storage burden. | Data Storage |
| Cisco bolsters mobile core technology with Working Group Two buy | Introduced in February, the Mobility Service is designed to simplify how service providers build, manage, and deliver new mobile services globally at scale and supports a variety of technologies to bring 5G, edge, and cloud technologies, Cisco says. | Network Management |
| Amplitude adds AI features to simplify business intelligence queries and data governance | “The goal of Ask Amplitude is not just to tell you the latest viral cat videos. It’s to teach you how to build a funnel analysis, which events in your taxonomy represent watching videos and subscribing, and which properties contain the video and platform information,” he wrote. “The resulting chart is a foundation of knowledge for you to build on and answer all sorts of follow-up questions on your own.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Incident management platform startup Rootly raises $12M to accelerate its product roadmap | Rootly argues that the growing complexity of information technology systems and the continued push toward remote work have made managing and resolving incidents harder than ever. The company claims that its platform differs in that while other tools act as fire alarms for incidents, “none can automate putting out the fire the way Rootly can.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Western Digital enhances OpenFlex JBOF | The SN655 provides up to 1,100,000/125,000 random read/write IOPS and sequential read/write speeds of up to 6.8/3.7GBps. In comparison, the older SN650 model achieved up to 970,000/109,000 random read/write IOPS and a sequential speed of 0.66/2.8GBps. | Data Storage |
| AI data exploration startup Virtualitics raises $37M for growth and innovation | Virtualitics’ main offering is “Intelligent Data Exploration,” which delivers AI capabilities that make advanced analytics possible for more people and organizations. The Virtualitics AI technology automatically discovers hidden patterns in complex, multidimensional data, delivering 3D visuals and immersive experiences that guide more informed decisions. | Data & Analytics |
| DataRobot announces new applied generative AI offering for building trustworthy AI apps | These enterprise-grade LLMs allow businesses to do research using their own internal data and records, quickly summarize large documents and receive answers using natural conversational language. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sweet Security raises $12M for its cloud runtime defense platform | Sweet’s Cloud Runtime Security Suite features include detection and response, discovery and prevention – all in runtime. The runtime sensor takes under five minutes to deploy and immediately provides cloud-native cluster visibility, streaming key application data and business logic to its servers to profile workload behavior anomalies and contextualize them with traditional tactics, techniques and procedures. | Security |
| Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build AI blockchain solutions using OpenAI | Aptos Labs is a Layer 1 blockchain, meaning that the technology is designed to facilitate digital asset trading and transactions at a large scale. It was designed to rival blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum, which is the second-largest blockchain by market capitalization It provides programmable smart contract transactions through a scripting language called Move. | Blockchain |
| Radiant Security Announces Revolutionary AI-Powered SOC Co-Pilot | “It was never feasible for SOC analysts to review every alert they received. There aren’t enough hours in the day or analysts in the SOC for this to work. Instead, alerts end up being filtered out or left unaddressed, thus creating blindspots where attacks can go undetected,” | Security |
| Aerospike Unveils New Curated Dashboards for Comprehensive Observability and Management | The new dashboards provide comprehensive observability of the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform across multiple clouds, data centers, regions, clusters and nodes. With intuitive navigation, customers can quickly search for and see the metrics that matter most, drill down to granular details and set up custom alerting enriched with severity information and related alerts | Data & Analytics |
| Oracle Delivers OCI Compute Services Anywhere with Compute Cloud@Customer | Organizations can use the same OCI services in their data centers and Oracle Cloud Regions, while developers and IT managers can use the same APIs and management tools to deliver a consistent user experience everywhere. Organizations can also consolidate existing workloads and deploy new cloud-native applications on a fully managed cloud platform in their data centers, enabling them to capitalize on OCI’s cost-effective consumption model to streamline operations and reduce costs. | Cloud |
| AIxCC competition offers $18M for AI-driven cybersecurity solutions | The challenge is led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in collaboration with top AI companies including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. DARPA has committed $18.5 million in prize money for the competition, with $4 million as the top prize. | Security |
| AI-powered observability startup Middleware closes on $6.5M funding round | Middleware has built what it says is a disruptive and powerful, AI-based cloud observability platform that’s specifically designed to monitor modern software applications. The vast majority of today’s applications are based on newer technologies such as Kubernetes, microservices and distributed systems, making it more difficult for enterprises to understand their behavior. | Cloud |
| Jericho Security secures $3M to counter AI-powered phishing attacks | Jericho assists enterprises in defending against social engineering phishing attacks by leveraging AI to create sophisticated simulations and educational content for employees. In the company’s own words, it “uses AI to fight AI,” acting as a white hat for organizations. | Security |
| Solvo introduces SecurityGenie, a prompt-based cloud security solution | Powered by technology from OpenAI LP, SecurityGenie uses natural language processing to assist security engineers and executives in quickly identifying and remediating security risks such as misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and compliance violations. SecurityGenie allows users to ask questions about their cloud resources, networks, databases, entitlements and identities and can scan a corporate environment to provide comprehensive answers. | Security |
| Microsoft unveils next-gen AI solutions to boost frontline productivity amid labor challenges | Microsoft says that over 60% of these workers grapple with monotonous tasks that detract from more meaningful endeavors. Confronted by mounting challenges stemming from labor shortages, skill gaps and supply chain disruptions, frontline workers have been increasingly tackling complex work demands. | Automation & Productivity |
| Deepset raises $30M to help enterprises unlock the value of LLMs | By 2025, the global datasphere is expected to grow to 163 zettabytes. Of this, the data from enterprise systems will be nearly 60%, meaning teams will have a mountain of data to deal with. This will make searching, retrieving, summarizing and analyzing relevant, work-related information quite a task. | Data Management |
| HPE teams with PhoenixNAP for bare metal cloud offerings | Bare metal servers are basically virtual machines with no operating environment. You select the number of cores, memory, storage, and networking bandwidth, and the hardware is provisioned for you, but you have to bring your own operating system, platform, and operating environment. | Cloud |
| Osano secures $25M to expand its privacy compliance platform | The suite is designed to simplify privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage and scale their privacy program to increase trust and stay compliant. Osano claims that users of its suite can “serve as stewards of consumer privacy” with automated, simplified compliance that ensures consumer consent. | Data Privacy |
| Kyndryl and Microsoft Collaborate to Speed the Evaluation and Adoption of Enterprise-Grade Generative AI for Business | Leveraging the partnership’s Joint Innovation Centers, Kyndryl’s growing patent portfolio in data and AI, and its access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Fabric, the two companies will rapidly design, develop and drive new generative AI innovations and solutions across their enterprises | Artificial Intelligence |
| Weights and biases raises $50M to advance LLMOps efforts for generative AI | One of the first tools that Weights and Biases announced for LLMOps is the company’s W&B Prompts tool, which is now being enhanced to expand the scope of what it can do. The latest update to the prompt tool can log all of a user’s LLM requests and helps to enable larger production scale use cases. | Automation & Productivity |
| IBM to launch Meta’s Llama 2 on WatsonX, an enterprise AI platform for businesses | IBM also added that after the launch of Meta’s open-source AI model, it plans to introduce more software like AI tuning studios, fact sheets, and other generative AI models, | Artificial Intelligence |
| Airbyte Makes Hundreds of Data Sources Available for AI Applications | The vector database destination in Airbyte now enables users to configure the full ELT pipeline, starting from extracting records from a wide variety of sources to separating unstructured and structured data, preparing and embedding text contents of records, and finally loading them into vector databases – all through a single, user-friendly interface. | Data & Analytics |
| Got vulns? vuln_GPT debuts as AI-powered approach to find and remediate software vulnerabilities | Vicarius announced its vuln_GPT initiative, an LLM designed to help organizations quickly find and create scripts for vulnerability management and remediation using simple queries. Vicarius has a community known as vsociety where researchers and users can collaborate and submit their own remediations for known security vulnerabilities | Artificial Intelligence |
| Horizon3.ai raises $40M to build out its enterprise-wide proactive security platform | Horizon3.ai’s fully automated NodeZero solution assesses the attack surface of a hybrid cloud – cloud-native, on-premises, edge and the internet of things and does not require agents to be installed or attack scripts to be written or maintained. The solution discovers and fingerprints an attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. | Security |
| Kognitos goes self-service with business automation powered by generative AI | With the self-service model, Gill explained, business users can for example use the Kognitos service to extract data coming out of an invoice or a purchase order and use it as part of a larger business process. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI-generated deepfake books were just sold on Amazon under a real author’s name | In a blog post, she explained that persuading Amazon to take the books down was far from simple. When she told the company that someone was writing under her name without her consent, she was asked, “Please provide us with any trademark registration numbers that relate to your claim.” She said she didn’t have one, after which Amazon sent a message back saying the books were staying and the case was closed. | Artificial Intelligence |
| OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators | Without fanfare or an official announcement, ChatGPT maker OpenAI launched a new website crawling bot this week for scanning website content to train its large language models (LLMs). But after news of the bot broke, a revolt ensued, as website owners and creators quickly traded tips on how to block GPTBot from scraping their sites’ data. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Multiplayer emerges from Stealth with $3M in funding to make it easier for teams to work on distributed software with AI | “This is an idea whose time has come. With distributed software being the norm today and teams being more spread out than ever, the gap in the market for a tool like Multiplayer has become very clear. Developers no longer need to bypass design reviews because they are ‘too much trouble.’ Multiplayer gives them an easy, organized way to share ideas and information before final implementation.” | DevOps |
| Metaplane Announces Major Update to Monitoring Capabilities | Metaplane has also expanded its data monitoring capabilities for Snowflake customers, providing visibility into the freshness and row count for every table in their database, not just the ones they choose to monitor. This valuable metadata ensures that users can easily delve into unmonitored data whenever necessary and eliminates the typical 3-5 day training period for adding new row count and freshness monitors, allowing users to start monitoring data instantly. | Data & Analytics |
| Rackspace Launches Hosted Private Cloud Generative AI Solution Architecture, Powered by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA AI | The solution can be deployed and managed at an “AI-ready” Rackspace data center within Rackspace’s global footprint or on-customer premises, so customers can focus on innovation and take advantage of cloud adjacency and performance. | Cloud |
| Introducing opentext.ai and OpenText Aviator | With the acquisition of Micro Focus in January 2023, OpenText expanded its mission to include new AI capabilities with Vertica and IDOL, including geospatial and time series analytics, in-database machine learning, unstructured data analytics, sentiment analysis, etc. Moreover, OpenText has layered in world-class cybersecurity, protecting data and metadata at the code level, within core applications, and in the cloud as it engages with machine learning engines. | Data & Analytics |
| MaxLinear pushes out 3rd gen Panther storage accelerator | MaxLinear says its new card is designed for storage workloads such as database acceleration, storage offload, encryption, compression, and deduplication enablement for maximum data reduction. The company says the Internet of Things, HPC, AI/ML and analytics workloads are all increasing storage IO needs. | Data Storage |
| FeatureByte Unveils Its Self-Service Feature Platform | One of the key challenges in enterprise AI is the significant time and effort required to prepare, deploy and manage data (also called Feature Engineering). With the FeatureByte platform, enterprises can accelerate AI innovation by enabling data scientists and ML engineers to focus on creative problem solving and iterating rapidly on live data. | Data & Analytics |
| Rubrik acquires data security startup Laminar for reported $100M+ | According to the startup, its platform can automatically map out all the records in a company’s cloud environment. The software then uses machine learning to automatically find files that contain sensitive data such as passwords. | Data Management |
| Nephio R1 aims to simplify open-source cloud-native automation for telcos | Nephio was started in April 2022 with seed code from Google and the support of multiple telco vendors to help automate cloud-native operations for 5G. The Nephio community has grown to more than 70 organizations since its launch last year and the code is now ready for its first release (R1). | Automation & Productivity |
| Freshworks Unveils AI-Powered Customer Service Suite with Freddy Generative AI Integration | "The new Freshworks Customer Service Suite is firmly rooted in generative AI technology and empowers businesses to automate customer resolutions, supercharge agent productivity and make smart decisions quickly at a price point that every company wants," | Automation & Productivity |
| Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM for code generation | StableCode is being made available at three different levels: a base model for general use cases, an instruction model, and a long-context-window model that can support up to 16,000 tokens. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetSPI bridges security gaps with new ML/AI pentesting solution | Claimed to be the first of its kind, NetSPI’s ML/AI Pentesting solution focuses on two core components: identifying, analyzing and remediating vulnerabilities on machine learning systems such as large language models, and providing grounded advice and real-world guidance to ensure security is considered from ideation to implementation. | Security |
| Bud Financial launches Bud.ai, a generative AI platform for hyper-personalized banking | The company asserts that by integrating its large language model (LLM) technology, financial services organizations can unlock the potential of their vast amounts of unstructured data, gaining clearer insights into individual financial positions or a detailed view of a bank’s portfolio, all through a single integration. | Automation & Productivity |
| Simon Data reels in $54M for its AI-powered customer data platform | Simon Data’s platform includes built-in machine learning models for processing marketing records. The models can determine the likelihood that a website visitor will make a purchase, forecast customer churn and perform related tasks. | Data & Analytics |
| Tractian gets $45M to expand AI monitoring of industrial machinery | Tractian uses sensors, edge computing hardware, and AI models to monitor industrial machines and identify potential failures based on vibrations and frequency patterns. The company’s AI analyzes machines’ “fingerprints” to detect specific mechanical issues like wear, imbalance and misalignment. | Automation & Productivity |
| Syxsense adds generative AI to its endpoint management suite | Cortex Copilot enables information technology and security administrators to simplify and speed up the process of creating endpoint management and security workflows by allowing them to use natural language queries to automate tasks and generate scripts. | IT Management |
| FBI investigates ransomware attack on California-based healthcare provider | As of Sunday evening EDT, hospitals and medical clinics run by Prospect were struggling to restore services. The East Connecticut Health Network advised on its website that all elective surgery, outpatient medical imaging, outpatient blood draw, urgent care and its wound center are closed until further notice. | Security |
| Hopr.co Granted Second Patent for Secure Communications Technology | “Platform for Optimizing Secure Communications,” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.) The patent extends Hopr’s initial “Password Hopping System” technology to cloud machines with a new and more sophisticated feature that addresses the increased cyber risk of legacy transport security by catering to the speed and scale of cloud operations. | Security |
| Protecting data in the era of generative AI: Nightfall AI launches innovative security platform | The challenge is to keep confidential data secure while allowing employees to be more productive using gen AI and ChatGPT at the browser, app and API levels. Cloud data loss prevention (DLP) platform Nightfall AI today announced the first data security platform for gen AI that spans API browser and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application gen AI protection. | Security |
| Neptune Software Delivers Innovative No-Code Tools for Business Technologists and Enterprise Developers | With the no-code app building feature, users can quickly start a fast app development journey, even with minimal technical knowledge.A simple drag-and-drop designer, coupled with pre-made application building blocks, enables true rapid application development, allowing users to build applications for mobile, tablet, and desktop simultaneously, once, and ensuring a seamless user experience across devices. | DevOps |
| Salesforce introduces design studio for AI model development | Organizations can use Einstein Studio with real-time customer data from the Data Cloud, which connects customer data from any source and aggregates it into a single customer profile. The platform eliminates the need for an extract/transfer/load stage when used with SageMaker and provides point-and-click access to data in the data cloud. The company has also published a Python software development kit for connections to other sources. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI adds ‘huge set’ of ChatGPT updates, including suggested prompts, multiple file uploads | Among the new features Kilpatrick highlighted are example prompts (already visible for the author, see screenshot below), suggested replies and follow-up questions (which Kilpatrick wrote is “very useful to reduce fatigue”), a default GPT-4 setting so that paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers don’t have to toggle on the latest/most advanced publicly available OpenAI large language model (LLM) every time they start a new chat, support for multiple file uploads when using the OpenAI Code Interpreter plugin, and more. | Artificial Intelligence |
| GoStudent raises $95M to pursue VR and AI-driven tutoring | GoStudent intends to build an AI-driven lesson planner trained on local curriculum that will save tutors an average of 15 minutes per lesson. This would be a tremendous amount of time considering the more than 23,000 tutors on the platform and the amount of time spent with students, and it would enable tutors to spend more time with children rather than planning. The company will also introduce AI-driven content learning to the platform to allow students to study between lessons. | Training & Cert |
| Protecting data in the era of generative AI: Nightfall AI launches innovative security platform | The challenge is to keep confidential data secure while allowing employees to be more productive using gen AI and ChatGPT at the browser, app and API levels. Cloud data loss prevention (DLP) platform Nightfall AI today announced the first data security platform for gen AI that spans API browser and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application gen AI protection. | Security |
| Tromzo secures $8M to lead the charge in AI-powered application security posture management | Tromzo’s platform integrates with existing security tools, source code systems, and cloud platforms, and leverages its Intelligence Graph and AI capabilities to prioritize and remediate the most critical vulnerabilities across the software environment. | Security |
| Uncoder.IO Now Powered by AI: An Ultimate IDE for Detection Engineering | SOC Prime, the world’s largest and most advanced platform for collective cyber defense, announces the upgrade of its Uncoder.IO project to Uncoder AI, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Detection Engineering, which converts generic Sigma rules along with tactical threat intelligence IOC collections into 64 SIEM, EDR, XDR, and Data Lake query formats. | Security |
| Datadog launches AI helper Bits and new model monitoring solution | Accessible via chat within the company platform, Bits learns from customers’ data — covering everything from logs, metrics, traces and real-user transactions to sources of institutional knowledge like Confluence pages, internal documentation or Slack conversations — and uses that information to quickly provide answers about issues while troubleshooting or remediation steps in conversational. | Data & Analytics |
| Tech giants make security workforce and education commitments | The initiative is designed to address the immediate and long-term demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals, with hundreds of thousands of cyber job vacancies nationwide. The strategy will supplement ongoing national security efforts including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. | Tech Jobs |
| Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online | Google is making it a lot easier to find and remove your contact information from its search results. The company will now send out notifications when it finds your address, phone number, or email on the web, allowing you to review and request the removal of that information from Search. | Data Privacy |
| Fortinet bolsters SD-WAN services, security with new software, next-generation firewalls | The Underlay Performance Monitoring Service for SD-WAN utilizes the vendor’s core central management system FortiManager and FortiGuard’s database of hundreds of popular SaaS and cloud implementations, to offer visibility into the performance of the underlay network. The underlay network is typically made up if the physical network infrastructure supporting traffic between distributed cloud or remote office resources. | Network Management |
| Microsoft solidifies telecom aspirations, launches Azure Operator Nexus 5G cloud platform | It provides operators with a pre-validated telecom platform that can run from the cloud to the edge and allows operators to select where to run their network functions in support of their 5G or 4G LTE network. The cloud is Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, with the edge being an operator’s on-premises location housing validated server hardware. | Cloud |
| Boomerang brings in-email meeting scheduler to enterprise users | “This is our patented live image technology. The reason it feels like this is suddenly possible is because nobody has done it before. It’s not an HTML component in the email. We are using a combination of an image map and real-time dynamic image generation that works with our server-side to live update from users’ calendars without leaving the email." | Automation & Productivity |
| Kinetic Business Launches All-In-One Security Solution to Protect Businesses from Cyberthreats | Kinetic MDR provides a proactive approach to cybersecurity by continuously monitoring and analyzing network activity, detecting and responding to potential threats, and providing remediation strategies.It takes the burden of security management off a business by integrating a firewall, intrusion prevention, and continuous monitoring.This offers the reporting and compliance posture businesses need. | Security |
| WiMi Developed a Cloud-Based Optimization System for Highly Reliable Graphics Rendering Engines | WiMi’s cloud-based highly reliable graphics rendering engine optimization system contains several key technology modules. The cloud-distributed graphics processing system, intelligent optimization algorithms based on big data, client-side graphics processing software, and security and stability assurance modules together constitute the infrastructure of the system | Automation & Productivity |
| Endor Labs raises $70M to transform application security by securing open-source components | Because more than 90% of the code used to build modern applications is derived from open-source software, Endor Labs decided it was best to build the foundation of its platform on OSS governance. Its focus is on helping teams choose and maintain secure, high-quality open-source software, and by doing so it says it can reduce the vulnerability noise by around 80%. | Security |
| Torq Hyperautomation Platform Transforms SecOps With Torq Socrates, the Generative AI Agent Designed to Close 90% of Tier-1 Tickets Autonomously | Torq announced a powerful evolution of the Torq security Hyperautomation platform: Torq Socrates, cybersecurity’s first Tier-1 analysis AI Agent. Torq Socrates is designed to transform security operations by using AI to hyperautomate key security operations activities, including alert triage, contextual data enrichment, and incident investigation, escalation, and response | IT Management |
| IBM carbon calculator uses AI to optimize cloud workloads | The major hyperscale cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft, share a history of offering similar cloud emissions calculator tools. According to Gartner analyst Ed Anderson, IBM’s cloud carbon calculator stands out for its use of machine learning (ML) and advanced algorithms like linear regression to reveal emissions hotspots or anomalies based on patterns and trends. | Cloud |
| Google updates experimental Search Generative Experience | 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. Today’s updates include more images and videos to go with its explanations, plus a reduction in the time it takes to generate overviews of whatever topics users are searching for. | Automation & Productivity |
| Adaptiv adds zero trust to SD-WAN, aims for SASE product | There is no shortage of SD-WAN vendors in the marketplace, with big names like Cisco, VMware and Palo Alto Networks, among others. Adaptiv Networks is targeting a specific segment of the market, aiming to help serve the needs of small and medium-sized businesses that have limited or no security and networking skills. | Network Management |
| MemVerge and SK hynix Accelerate Memory Pooling and Sharing Software Development with CXL Flight Simulator | “CXL is here. A variety of memory expansion cards, memory pooling and switch products are already available in limited quantities, but not all software developers have access to them. We are happy to contribute to the community and enable software developers to tap into the massive CXL market opportunity without delay.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Rabbet Introduces First Generative AI Feature for Construction Finance | Rabbet, the leading provider of construction finance software, launched its cutting-edge generative AI feature, Rabbet Vantage. Applying Rabbet’s conversational query experience to the wealth of construction finance data tracked on Rabbet transforms how commercial real estate owners, lenders, and servicers interact with financial data, ushering in a new era of efficiency and insights. | Automation & Productivity |
| Itseez3D launches Avatar SDK Deep Fake Detector to bolster user identity protection | The platform empowers facial verification systems and digital identity management platforms with tools to combat the escalating number of fraudulent attempts. By leveraging machine learning (ML) algorithms, the platform can analyze facial features, distinguishing between genuine photos and synthetic 3D avatars. | Security |
| Salesforce debuts Sales Elevate, bringing its cloud into Slack | The offering, which goes into general availability from today, will come at an additional cost of $60 per user per month – over Slack’s regular paid plans – and save executives from going back to Sales Cloud for basic day-to-day tasks such as updating their pipelines and adding deal values. | Automation & Productivity |
| Smarter Security for Students and Staff Using AI | IntelliSee AI Risk Mitigation Platform features active monitoring – a reliable, proactive solution that overlays and continuously scans live surveillance camera feeds for threats.“IntelliSee covers multiple risks for one flat rate, detecting threats from drawn guns to trespassers.This deep-learning AI evolves ongoing as it protects students, staff, and property,” | Security |
| New NodeStealer Variant Targeting Facebook Business Accounts and Crypto Wallets | NodeStealer was first exposed by Meta in May 2023, describing it as a stealer capable of harvesting cookies and passwords from web browsers to compromise Facebook, Gmail, and Outlook accounts. While the prior samples were written in JavaScript, the latest versions are coded in Python. | Security |
| seoClarity Ushers in a New Era With the Launch of ChatGPT-Powered Assistant for SEO | Its superpower lies in its ability to leverage any LLM, allowing an ease of development for future rollouts that allow clients to choose the most suitable one for each task, increasing speed and efficiency in enterprise SEO. | Automation & Productivity |
| Suki’s Unparalleled Flexibility Expands With The Launch of Mac App | Suki Dictate on Mac expands the use of Suki’s proprietary technology to serve clinicians everywhere and makes Suki the only voice assistant that supports all platforms including iOS, Android, web, Windows, and now Mac. | Automation & Productivity |
| HitPaw Launches Cutting-Edge Photo Enhancer v2.5.0, Ushering in a New Era of Image Enhancement | HitPaw Photo Enhancer now allows users to export photos with adjustable DPI settings, ranging from 72 to 300.This customizable feature ensures each image is tailored to its intended purpose, guaranteeing impeccable results for web usage or high-quality prints. | Automation & Productivity |
| Akamai’s new API Security solution seeks to combat rising cyberthreats | Akamai argues that API security has become a critical concern for organizations as API attacks continue to grow, with a report from Akamai in April finding that API attacks increased by 137% in 2022. Once a WAAP product has authorized an API, security teams have no visibility into its use within the organization. Malicious actors are said to be aware of this blind spot and have shifted to abusing the vast API attack surface. | Security |
| CoreWeave came ‘out of nowhere.’ Now it’s poised to make billions off AI with its GPU cloud | CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by three commodities traders who turned their cryptocurrency mining hobby into an Ethereum mining company, using GPUs to verify blockchain transactions — doing business out of a New Jersey data center. By 2019, the founders had pivoted — fortuitously, in hindsight — to building a specialized cloud infrastructure spanning seven facilities that offered GPU acceleration at scale. | Cloud |
| GoDaddy Powered-AI Helps Developers Grow Their Business and Build WordPress Sites | The new GoDaddy Managed WordPress brings AI into site building and managing customer relationships. By answering a few simple questions, users can have the first draft of a starter site completely built, with images included. And when it comes to working with customers, The Hub by GoDaddy Pro uses AI as a virtual assistant. | Automation & Productivity |
| Revolutionizing the 3D Printing Landscape: Creality Cloud’s Advanced Features and Thriving Community Lead the Way | In June 2023, Creality Cloud launched the Designer Partnership Program to take great support for 3D designers, offering commission-free sales, over $900 incentive cash rewards, and complimentary 30-day free membership, unlocking premium features for enhanced productivity | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco buys Internet BGP monitoring firm CodeBGP | Privately held Code BGP will slide into Cisco’s ThousandEyes network intelligence product portfolio and bring a cloud-based platform that among other features, maintains an inventory of IP address prefixes, peerings and outbound policies of an organization via configured sources, like BGP feeds. BGP tells Internet traffic what route to take, and the BGP best-path selection algorithm determines the optimal routes to use for traffic forwarding. | Network Management |
| VAST Data launches unified data platform for the age of AI | “Encapsulating the ability to create and catalog understanding from natural data on a global scale, we’re consolidating entire IT infrastructure categories to enable the next era of large-scale data computation,” | Data Management |
| Cisco’s new XDR features strengthen cyber resilience against ransomware | Cisco announced its XDR service in April, introducing deep telemetry and visibility across network and endpoints. The addition of ransomware protection is centered on the ability to reduce the time between the beginning of a ransomware outbreak and the snapshotting of essential business information to nearly zero. The upgrade aligns with Cisco’s broader vision for a unified, artificial intelligence-driven, cross-domain security platform. | Security |
| Neon lands $46M for its serverless Postgres database management system | Neon is positioned as a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres. It separates storage from computing and substitutes the PostgreSQL storage layer by redistributing data across a cluster of nodes. This makes storage capacity virtually unlimited and allows users to save money by assigning little-used storage to low-cost tiers. | Data Management |
| MIT CSAIL unveils PhotoGuard, an AI defense against unauthorized image manipulation | In the research paper “Raising the Cost of Malicious AI-Powered Image Editing,” the researchers claim that PhotoGuard can detect imperceptible “perturbations” (disturbance or irregularity) in pixel values, which are invisible to the human eye but detectable by computer models. | Data Privacy |
| Yext Debuts AI-Driven Conversational Chat and Content Management in Its Summer ’23 Release | Yext Chat: Removes the technical and expertise barriers for companies to create experiences using conversational, natural language. Unlike existing chatbots, it is designed so any authorized user can design experiences or even create business processes by interacting with the chatbot as though they were giving informal guidance to a colleague | Automation & Productivity |
| Abbey Labs secures $5.25M for identity and access management innovation | Employees requesting proper access to do their jobs battle inefficient, insecure and costly layers of processes that, while aiming to make companies secure and compliant, also create bottlenecks and take away valuable work time. | Automation & Productivity |
| Akkio raises $15M to advance no-code AI platform for businesses | AI is the need of the hour today, but taking advantage of its capabilities is difficult owing to the engineering complexities involved. Akkio tackles this challenge by providing enterprises with no-code tools to quickly build and deploy AI for tasks like churn reduction, attrition prediction, fraud detection and sales funnel optimization. | Automation & Productivity |
| Menlo Security debuts new tools for blocking advanced browser-based threats | To address that challenge, Menlo Security has equipped HEAT Shield with artificial intelligence features. Those AI features can scan the code elements of the websites that a worker visits to find malware. Moreover, the service uses computer vision to detect visual clues that may suggest a website is malicious. | Security |
| Monte Carlo debuts new tool for monitoring data reliability | “They can basically go into the tool, define what constitutes the data product — what are the objects that are actually the data product, whether it’s tables or BI reports or models — and understand not just what’s going on with those specific objects but what’s going on with everything that’s upstream of them,” | Data Management |
| Fiverr launches Business Solutions and Neo AI matching algorithm | Earlier this year, VentureBeat reported how the company experienced a 1,400% increase in searches for professionals with AI-related skills on its marketplace. And today, Fiverr is announcing the launch of two new services — Fiverr Business Solutions and Fiverr Neo, both of which it hopes will leverage the sudden boom of interest in AI to further cement Fiverr’s place as the first stop when businesses need help with their creative projects. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell Technologies Expands AI Offerings to Accelerate Secure Generative AI Initiatives | New Dell Generative AI Solutions, expanding upon May’s Project Helix announcement, span IT infrastructure, PCs and professional services to simplify the adoption of full-stack GenAI with large language models (LLM), meeting organizations wherever they are in their GenAI journey | Artificial Intelligence |
| AuditBoard Unveils New IT Risk Management Solution | AuditBoard ITRM enables effective collaboration between IT security, and other functions in the business to accelerate the identification and classification of IT systems, perform business impact assessments, and remediate identified issues. The solution also enables CISOs to more effectively report on IT risk in financial terms to the CFO and the board, helping to drive business alignment and unlock investments. | IT Management |
| Putting Generative AI to Work: Smartsheet Announces New AI Features that Unlock the Power of the Smartsheet Platform | By connecting large language models (LLMs) to customers’ private business data, Smartsheet can securely deliver insights and data visualizations and help build project and portfolio management solutions in response to simple natural language questions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft Azure OpenAI service approved for use on sensitive government systems | The authorization will allow government departments’ cloud apps to integrate with and adapt models including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and DALL-E for specific tasks, including content generation, summarization, semantic search, and natural language-to-code translation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IntegrateAI Launched by Eduscape | “AI is not the boogeyman, nor a threat to effective teacher practice. The opportunities to drive inquiry and enhance learning across all subject areas is limitless. We must ensure however, that educational leaders recognize the value, remain current with best practices, provide effective professional development, and implement policies that drive classroom adoption while protecting the student.” | EdTech |
| IBM debuts AI-powered carbon calculator for the cloud | The calculator can be accessed via IBM’s cloud dashboard, where it provides a range of graphs and charts to track total carbon emissions created by a customer’s use of IBM’s cloud, breaking it down on a per-service, per-department and per-location basis. | Cloud |
| Merkle Unveils Revolutionary Generative AI Technology | With the exponential growth of data and the rising demand for personalized experiences, brands are now faced with the challenge of leveraging their first-party data. Merkle’s GenCX solution solves for this by building large knowledge models (LKMs) and leverages the power of large language models (LLMs) on its clients’ proprietary data assets to drive insights, audiences, creative, and campaign recommendations through an intuitive chat-based interface. | Data & Analytics |
| Google is training robots the way it trains AI chatbots | The new model trained on web and robotics data, leveraging research advances in large language models like Google’s own Bard and combining it with robotic data (like which joints to move), the company said in a paper. It also understands directions in languages other than English. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dynatrace boosts observability platform with generative AI | Dynatrace has incorporated generative AI into its Davis AI engine to let customers more quickly create dashboards, determine the root cause of incidents, and speed mean time to repair. | Automation & Productivity |
| Identiv Simplifies Cyber-Secure Access Control with Primis | The suite features Primis on-premises access control, Primis Cloud, Primis Mobile, and the EG-2 controller. By transforming traditional physical access control systems into user-friendly, cyber-secure solutions, Primis simplifies security. | Security |
| Passage Raises $6 Million to Launch AI-Driven Virtual World Builder | "We were able to validate this early on in 2020 when we built experiences for large brands and retail audiences. Back then, producing a 3D experience was a long, expensive process that we managed personally. Now, anyone will be able to create an immersive world using simple drag-and-drop tools in their browser. Through our partnership with Sortium AI, this is even easier, making it possible for everyone to generate beautiful 3D assets and experiences.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Hackers Abusing Windows Search Feature to Install Remote Access Trojans | The novel attack technique, per Trellix, takes advantage of the "search-ms:" URI protocol handler, which offers the ability for applications and HTML links to launch custom local searches on a device, and the "search:" application protocol, a mechanism for calling the desktop search application on Windows. | Security |
| Credo AI Introduces AI Registry, The Easiest Way To Get Started With AI Governance | Credo AI’s AI Registry also provides built-in policy intelligence that automatically surfaces information about potential risks of AI systems based on where and how they are being used. Customers can use AI Registry to identify high risk AI use cases that need governance and to prioritize AI initiatives based on risk-to-revenue potential. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Switchboard, led by Google BigQuery veterans, announces $7M series A funding for data product platform | Data products, a concept popularized by the “data mesh” approach to business domain-oriented data and analytics, are applications, APIs, data feeds or simple datasets that are owned, supported and internally marketed by enterprise business units, and made available to other such groups. Developing data products has, for the most part, required the work of data engineers and analytics specialists, a fact that has stymied the decentralized approach to data-driven business that the data mesh paradigm seeks to enable. | Data Management |
| Capgemini Launches New Set of Generative AI Offerings | “Custom generative AI for Enterprise” enables enterprises who have sensitive data to have custom generative AI assistants fine-tuned with their key proprietary data, in order to get maximum business value impact. The Group has designed a platform to combine the power of pre-trained open large foundation models (LFMs) with enterprise proprietary data to fine-tune LFMs to the needs of each client. | Automation & Productivity |
| Box extends AI efforts with Microsoft 365 Copilot integration | Box is now growing its AI reach with a plugin that enables organizations to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to Box content. Microsoft 365 Copilot is also a gen AI technology that allows Microsoft 365 users across Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Teams to create and query content. | Content Management |
| SentinelOne unveils cloud data security products for Amazon S3, NetApp | The new threat detection for NetApp and Amazon S3 products can automatically scan every file added to these two storage platforms for file-borne and zero-day malware, detecting and quarantining malicious files in real time. | Security |
| OpenAI can’t detect AI-generated content after all; shut down its AI Classifier tool due to low accuracy rate | “As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy. We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated, | Artificial Intelligence |
| Government services provider Maximus hit by MOVEit attack | After ordering an investigation of the incident, Maximus found data belonging to at least 8 million to 11 million individuals had been affected. The data stolen included personal information, including Social Security numbers, protected health information and personally identifiable information. | Privacy & Security |
| Ansys supplements customer support with generative AI agent | Ansys isn’t a newcomer to AI. It uses machine learning to improve turbulence models in computational fluid dynamics, predict computational spending and in process integration and design optimization software for the construction of reduced order models. | Automation & Productivity |
| MemVerge puts lowering carbon emissions in AWS cloud app on the Spot | Its Memory Machine Cloud software enables users to submit jobs to the AWS cloud in a serverless way and have them run in EC2 Spot instances, with dynamically modified sizes as needed to economize on cloud resources. The Memory Machine Cloud Essentials edition is free and includes a WaveWatcher calculator to track cloud app carbon emissions of cloud apps so organizations can right size for a lower carbon footprint. | Cloud |
| Beyond Work raises $2.5M to make work more ‘human’ with LLMs | “In most cases, people are not using the software, it is using them to further the purposes of others. Click a button here, change a bit of data there … and if you’re lucky it will trigger something for someone you don’t know or see — and then, maybe, just maybe, you can get on with your real work | Automation & Productivity |
| Fermyon brings NoOps database to WebAssembly; AI capabilities on horizon | But rather than just using the open-source SQLite technology, Fermyon has partnered with software firm Turso, which manages a SQLite-compatible distributed database platform. With this integration, Fermyon can automatically provision a database for developers, allowing them to start writing SQL queries for data and applications almost immediately. | DevOps |
| Stack Overflow jumps into the generative AI world with Overflow AI | Overload AI is not a single product, rather, it is a series of initiatives including updated AI search on both the public and enterprise platforms. For enterprise, there is also an Overflow AI Visual Studio code extension as well as a Slack integration. | Automation & Productivity |
| AWS expands Bedrock with new AI models and complex task automation | Amazon Bedrock is the company’s fully managed service that provides customers with foundational generative AI models. Customers can use the service to train and fine-tune their models with their own data on Amazon’s high-performance infrastructure in a secure environment all without the need to manage anything. | Automation & Productivity |
| Egnyte adds generative AI smarts to streamline content collaboration | The California-based company said it is using private instances of various AI models to provide users with summarization, transcription and search capabilities across multiple file types. The move will enable enterprises to find and synthesize information buried in a massive trove of documents and media files much more quickly than ever before. | Content Management |
| The banking trojan malware Qakbot is surging again. Here’s what it means for defenders | Back in January, Microsoft disabled Office macros by default — and it was certainly about time, since default malware-laced macros have been a persistent thorn in security managers’ sides for years. So Qakbot switched over to using infected OneNote files to gain a toehold in users’ personal computers. This choice proved effective cover, since users are familiar with the cloud repository and many use it for benign purposes | Security |
| ServiceNow partners with Nvidia and Accenture on ‘AI Lighthouse’ for rapid enterprise AI adoption | The three partners each claim to offer a different benefit to customers who adopt AI Lighthouse: the ServiceNow enterprise automation platform and engine, Nvidia’s AI supercomputing and software and Accenture’s consulting and deployment services. | Automation & Productivity |
| Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum | Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic will be the founding members of the Frontier Model Forum, an umbrella group for the generative AI industry. The group plans to focus on safety research, as well as the identification of best practices, public policy, and use cases for the rapidly advancing technology that can benefit society as a whole. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Startup UniFabriX uses CXL memory technology to boost rack density | UniFabriX is pitching its Smart Memory Node technology as an alternative to socket-connected DRAM, which restricts memory capacity and bandwidth in CPUs. UniFabriX's technology is based on CXL (Compute Express Link), an industry-supported interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. | Automation & Productivity |
| Stability AI levels up image generation with new Stable Diffusion base model for better image composition | Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0 is the new, leading-edge flagship text-to-image generation model from Stability AI. The release comes as Stability AI aims to level up its capabilities and open the model in the face of competition from rivals like Midjourney and Adobe, which recently entered the space with its Firefly service. | Automation & Productivity |
| AWS debuts new AI-powered data management and analysis tools | Users can interact with Entity Resolution through a visual interface. According to AWS, creating a software workflow that finds related records and links them takes a few clicks. Users can manually configure record linking workflows or use a preconfigured AI model provided by AWS to automate the process. | Data Management |
| Protect AI raises $35M to expand its AI and machine learning security platform | “Machine learning models and AI applications are typically built using an assortment of open-source libraries, foundational models and third-party datasets. AI Radar creates an immutable record to track all these components used in an ML model or AI application in the form of a ‘machine learning bill of materials (MLBOM),’” | Security |
| CNAPP tool aims to address software engineering risks | The future of cloud application security requires a focus on hardening CI/CD systems and processes, he said, as attackers increasingly target engineering workstations to gain access to sensitive information. Organizations should prioritize the building of cloud AppSec workflows and conduct analyses against realistic attack scenarios, he advised. | Security |
| GigaIO introduces single-node AI supercomputer | What makes GigaIO's device – called SuperNODE – notable is that it offers a choice of GPUs: up to 32 AMD Instinct MI210 GPUs or 24 NVIDIA A100s, plus up to 1PB storage to a single off-the-shelf server. | Automation & Productivity |
| Palo Alto Networks introduces CI/CD Security to Prisma Cloud | CI/CD Security by Prisma Cloud offers graph-based CI/CD security that has been designed to provide better visibility in engineering ecosystems. The service offers protection from the Open Worldwide Application Security Project Top 10 CI/CD risks, pipeline posture management and attack path analysis via the Cloud Application Graph. | Security |
| New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks | The author also states that the tool could be used to write malicious code, create undetectable malware, find leaks and vulnerabilities, and that there have been more than 3,000 confirmed sales and reviews. The exact large language model (LLM) used to develop the system is currently not known. | Privacy & Security |
| The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download | We’ve covered Arc a lot in recent months, both because it’s a good browser and because it’s a big new idea about how you use the internet. The Browser Company’s ultimate plan is to build “the operating system for the internet.” Arc isn’t just a place to see webpages; it has tools for taking notes, making visual and collaborative easels with others, redesigning webpages to your liking, and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI’s Sam Altman launches Worldcoin, an iris-scanning crypto project to ‘verify’ every human online | To acquire a World ID, users undergo an in-person iris scan using the Worldcoin ‘orb’ – a unique silver ball, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The orb’s iris scan performs a verification process to ensure that the individual is indeed a real human, and upon successful confirmation, a World ID is generated for them. | Privacy & Security |
| Network giants unite to fight security risks | Right now, it’s way too easy for malicious cyber actors – including nation states and criminal groups – to find open vulnerabilities, to run remote code execution, and to find end-of-life products that are no longer being maintained, | Security |
| TikTok announces new text and e-commerce features amid social media battle to become meta | As Twitter tries to become the everything app, TikTok becomes Twitter, while Meta-owned Instagram also becomes Twitter through its fairly new Threads app. Threads has reportedly seen a huge drop in user numbers just recently after a promising start to its existence. It’s not the only company struggling to outdo Twitter in a battle that has become rather political. But it’s quite uncertain many of these companies will succeed in becoming everything apps. | Social Media |
| Mobilo raises $4.1M to revolutionize business networking and eliminate millions of business cards thrown away every year | Mobilo has come up with ways to save trees and also lower emissions while saving capital spent on printing. The company aims to stop the endless, unnecessary cycle of printing and discarding business cards through smart business cards that only need to be tapped on the phone once for instant contact details to be shared. | Automation & Productivity |
| New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection | Successful exploitation requires the presence of certain libraries on the victim system and that the SSH authentication agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. SSH agent is a background program that maintains users' keys in memory and facilitates remote logins to a server without having to enter their passphrase again. | Security |
| AWS offers new generative AI training courses targeting beginners and experts | For nontechnical users, AWS has created a new introductory coding course for Amazon CodeWhisperer, a code-generating companion that provides generative AI-powered suggestions and recommendations. The initial course is all about discovering the capabilities of Amazon CodeWhisperer and setting it up, while the AWS Jam Journey course is a more interactive, hands-on module for users to gain practical experience. | Training & Certs |
| New monday.com data infrastructure to speed platform performance | The newly released foundational model of mondayDB allows boards and other items to load five times faster, while also offering customers new use cases and custom workflows, as well as extended API and data manipulation capabilities, the company said. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI launches Android version of its ChatGPT app | Both the iOS and Android versions of ChatGPT are available at no charge. Consumers can, however, use the apps with a paid ChatGPT Plus subscription. The subscription is priced at $20 per month and offers faster chatbot response times along with priority access to updates. | ChatGPT |
| Niantic 8th Wall introduces web AR features to track hands, fingers and wrists | 8th Wall has created its own specialized hand model that can track the entire hand, including the palm and the wrist, allowing developers to create apps for fine-tuning attachment points for virtual objects that can rest on a user’s hand. The model includes up to 36 attachment points stretching across the fingers, knuckles, wrist and palm. | Emerging Tech |
| Talon Cyber Security Delivers Most Complete Enterprise Browser Security Portfolio with the Launch of the Talon Extension | With the launch of the Talon Extension, Talon delivers the most comprehensive browser security coverage with unified policy management for hybrid deployments. The company’s portfolio empowers customers with a single view into browser activity across any environment, powered by the Talon Enterprise Browser, Talon Extension and Talon Mobile. | Security |
| ReBid Launches FREE GPT-Based AI Assistant for Advertisers to Scale Campaigns Across Multiple Platforms | This new AI assistant empowers advertisers to make data-driven decisions with ease, optimizing campaigns, and improving ROI across platforms such as Google & Meta. Built on the latest GPT technology, the AI assistant can understand natural language and provide highly accurate insights based on past campaign data. | Data & Analytics |
| Cohere releases Coral, AI assistant designed for enterprise business use | Finally, Coral offers privacy and security by storing sensitive data in a secure data environment that is cloud-agnostic. Enterprises can use major cloud providers like Oracle, Amazon and Google, deploy in a virtual private cloud, or use on-premises. | Automation & Productivity |
| Thales acquires cybersecurity provider Imperva for $3.6B | One of Imperva’s main focus areas is application security. It sells a firewall that companies use to block malicious network traffic from reaching their applications. Imperva also offers tools that filter malicious requests sent to websites, application programming interfaces and serverless workloads. | Security |
| New OpenText Cloud Editions release harnesses AI and analytics capabilities | OpenText Magellan Data Discovery and BI Reporting, another core component of OpenText’s Cloud Editions, is now available on the public cloud. The release provides a user-friendly interface for advanced data discovery and visualization powered by the analytical capabilities of OpenText Vertica. | Data & Analytics |
| Dynatrace combines predictive and causal insights with generative AI to redefine observability | It’s a causation engine that provides not just data, but also answers questions about the performance of software applications, the infrastructure they sit on, and the end-user experience. It helps organizations to modernize and automate enterprise cloud operations, push out software updates more frequently, and deliver optimal user experiences for their employees and customers. | Data & Analytics |
| Einblick Launches Deep AI Integration, Empowering Users to Go from Prompts to Multimodal Data Workflows | Einblick today released Einblick Prompt, bringing the power of OpenAI and ChatGPT straight into their canvas-based data notebooks. Prompt is an AI agent that reasons and solves users’ natural language prompts, allowing them to generate and debug code, create charts, and build machine learning models in seconds. | Automation & Productivity |
| Sysdig Sage brings power of generative AI to cloud security with an LLM controller approach | While declining to name the specific LLMs used by Sage AI, Degioanni explained that his team has built an “LLM controller” which orchestrates requests to different LLMs. The controller also filters and sanitizes data in a way designed to improve accuracy and reduce the risk of any potential AI hallucination. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Everlaw integrates generative AI features to help legal teams to build their cases | The AI can also assist legal teams by building evidence-based legal texts in the company’s Everlaw Storybuilder trial preparation platform that assists legal teams in crafting case narratives and workflows by organizing documents and doing reviews. By using information from stored documents, the AI can create a rough draft from key evidence with full citations that are prepared for editing and fact-checking. | Automation & Productivity |
| Managed Service Providers for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure Formed to Advance Small and Medium Enterprise Cybersecurity | MSPs and MSSPs play an essential role in facilitating IT, cybersecurity, and supply chain risk management across critical infrastructure sectors, the federal contracting base, and especially in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Within the DIB, MSPs and MSSPs are commonly responsible for 40% - 70% of the IT and cybersecurity requirements that must be implemented and maintained to satisfy DoD regulations and to ultimately achieve certification at Level 2 under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. | Security |
| Nitel goes global with international network-as-a-service plans | The idea is to provide a more or less out-of-the-box network product that allows small and medium-size companies to hand the vast majority of their connectivity issues off to Nitel, which manages configuration and provisioning. | Network Management |
| Cloud video surveillance company Solink raises $60M for global expansion | Features of the platform include solutions for forensic security and real-time active security monitoring, catering to the specific needs of various industries. Clients can use the platform to manage after-hour alarm systems with video verification, monitor unauthorized access control and optimize service speed for patrons. The features are centralized and readily available via a web or mobile app. | Security |
| Salesforce’s latest AI updates enable sellers to integrate purchase experiences everywhere | For instance, Reorder Portal is a new integration that helps businesses to grow their revenue faster by providing customers with personalized self-serve reordering opportunities. It leverages the AI-powered Next Best Actions in Sales Cloud and allows sales representatives to identify and target repeat buyers and send automated emails inviting them to reorder past purchases. | Automation & Productivity |
| LimaCharlie Unveils SecOps Cloud Platform | Enterprise security teams need a hosted environment of communicative protection solutions – rather than siloed collections of tools. A 2022 survey by Gartner, Inc. found that 75% of organizations pursued security vendor consolidation in 2022. However, there is no practical SecOps environment that streamlines the procurement, deployment and integration of security tools. | Security |
| PurpleCube Unified Data Orchestration Platform to Replace All Legacy Data Integration | PurpleCube, a modern data management software company, announced the industry’s first cloud-native, unified data orchestration platform designed to replace all generations of legacy data integration, preparation, replication, engineering, messaging, and API integration platforms. | Data Management |
| Verizon seeks out a unique broadband use for its mmWave spectrum | The test beamed a signal using licensed mmWave spectrum in the 37 GHz–39 GHz band between a centralized, rooftop radio site and a radio sitting on a simulated building. That signal was then transmitted through coaxial cable throughout the building to a data processing unit tied to a modem, which then used the building’s existing wiring to transport a broadband signal to end-user routers. | Network Management |
| FPT Software Launches FezyFlow, A No-code Workflow Platform | FPT Software, a global IT service provider, announces the official launch of its no-code workflow platform, FezyFlow. With a vision to promote a new age of AI-assisted no-code platform, FezyFlow aims to empower enterprises in their digital transformation journey by leveraging their non-IT resources. | Automation & Productivity |
| Qualtrics Launches XM/os2 The Next Generation of The Qualtrics Platform Fully Enabled With AI | Qualtrics now captures and analyzes more than 3.5 billion conversations and interactions a year—including call center conversations, chat logs, survey responses, social media posts, product reviews and more—creating the largest database of experience profiles in the world. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Google will start deleting inactive accounts: Gmail, Docs, YouTube at risk | Your dormant Gmail accounts could get wiped later this year if you haven’t logged in for a while—or interacted with any other of Google’s services while logged in. A new update to Google’s policy on inactive personal accounts now puts them on the chopping block after two years, a move that Google says is for better security. | Automation & Productivity |
| Superblock Raises $8M for “Over Protocol,” a New Layer 1 Blockchain Focusing on Lightweight Full Nodes | Over Protocol is a new layer 1 blockchain based on a protocol named “Ethanos” that only considers active accounts valid, enabling full nodes to discard obsolete data and operate with less storage, thus allowing for reduced storage requirements. With Over, anyone will be able to run a node and become a validator on their PCs at home. Ethanos has been published at EuroSys’21. | Blockchain |
| Google, Microsoft and Amazon among 7 AI giants making ‘voluntary’ safety pledge | “A voluntary system can work within the scope of ‘common usage,’ but it will only work for organizations that operate legitimately. I am far less concerned with one of the major players having flaws in their publicly available AI tools than I am with a hostile nation or cybercriminal organization building out their own capability and using it against the general public,” Parkin added. | Artificial intelligence |
| Threads’ daily active user base has reportedly declined by 70% | Sensor Tower also evaluated app engagement as part of its research. According to the company, the average amount of time that Threads users spend in the app plummeted from 19 minutes to four. SimilarWeb Ltd., which provides an analytics platform of the same name, shared similar findings. | Social Media |
| The end of AI content creation? OpenAI, Google, and others pledge to watermarking AI content for safety, White House says | As part of the collective effort, the seven companies made commitments to implement a system for “watermarking” all types of AI-generated content, including text, images, audio, and videos. This watermarking process will technically embed a marker in the content, allowing users to easily identify instances where AI technology has been utilized. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Vectice Introduces Auto-Documentation Solution for ML Projects & Governance to Simplify Compliance with EU AI Act | Vectice, a leader in ML Auto-Documentation and Governance, has announced the release of its latest product: Auto-documentation for ML projects & their governance. This novel solution arrives at a critical juncture as the EU AI Act comes into effect, imposing fines that are a staggering 50% higher than those under GDPR for non-compliance with full model lifecycle documentation requirements. | Data Governance |
| Google is testing new AI tool that can write news articles | One of the three individuals familiar with the product told the Times that Google believed that its new product could function as a personalized assistant for journalists. The idea was to automate certain tasks, thus giving journalists more time for other important aspects of their work. The company viewed this technology as a responsible solution that could guide the publishing industry away from the potential pitfalls of generative artificial intelligence. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Lenovo all-flash arrays aimed at optimizing AI workloads | Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DG enterprise storage arrays use all-flash storage and quad-level cell (QLC) architecture, the densest flash storage available. They’re capable of up to six times faster performance and up to 50% less cost compared to HDD arrays, Lenovo asserts. | Data Storage |
| Cosmic Wire raises $30M to expand cross-chain Web3 platform | Finck stated that his company’s philosophy contrasts sharply with other platforms, as it does not involve trading access to users for ownership. Instead, the company embraces a decentralized approach through cross-chain technology, ensuring interoperability and security “in a true zero-trust environment with no backdoor access, and transparent as all data usage is containerized and time-stamped on the chain. | Web3 |
| Teleport Introduces Teleport Assist: An AI Chat Interface for Fast Infrastructure Troubleshooting | Beginning with SSH and bash, DevOps teams can use Teleport Assist to verbally chat with their cloud environments. Specifically, engineers can ask questions and give instructions in English to massive fleets of servers. In future versions, all other cloud resources, such as SQL databases and Kubernetes clusters, will be added to Teleport Assist. | IT Management |
| Cisco, Arista, HPE, Intel lead consortium to supersize Ethernet for AI infrastructures | “It is time to begin with a clean slate to build a modern transport protocol supporting RDMA for emerging applications,” Ullal wrote. “The [consortium’s] UET (Ultra Ethernet Transport) protocol will incorporate the advantages of Ethernet/IP while addressing AI network scale for applications, endpoints and processes, and maintaining the goal of open standards and multi-vendor interoperability.” | Network Management |
| Solidigm Introduces the World’s Highest Capacity PCIe SSD for Massive Data Storage from Core to Edge | Solidigm, a leading global provider of innovative NAND flash memory solutions, is proud to announce another industry-first quad-level cell (QLC) solid-state storage drive (SSD) for the data center — the Solidigm D5-P5336. Offered in capacities from 7.68TB to 61.44TB, the Solidigm D5-P5336 makes it possible to store up to 6X more data in the same space compared to an all hard disk drive (HDD) array. | Data Storage |
| Microsoft intros user content backup for M365 | Numerous data protection suppliers offer user data protection services for SaaS apps like M365 and Salesforce because SaaS providers primarily protect their infrastructure rather than user content. Microsoft is enhancing its approach by providing user content protection for SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online services. Furthermore, Microsoft will offer an archival storage tier for SharePoint at a lower cost than standard SharePoint storage to address rising storage costs. | Data Management |
| Soracom Adds Generative AI Capability to IoT Connectivity | These new services, named Soracom Query, Soracom Relay, and Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence, can work together or separately to analyze IoT device data on the fly or connect devices to the powerful AI/ML capabilities now available through leading hyperscale platforms. | Data & Analytics |
| Azure MANA smartNIC boosts network speed | “Azure Boost is an innovative system that offloads virtualization processes, including networking, storage, and host management traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS, onto purpose-built hardware and software.” | Network Management |
| The Industry’s First Data Masking and Tokenization SaaS Solution Gains Momentum with Adoption Across Fortune 500 and Global 2000 Customers | It allows existing SaaS key management customers to embrace data masking and tokenization while allowing new customers to start off with that as a standalone use-case. The benefits from the platform approach deliver greater business agility without compromising on security. | Data & Analytics |
| GitHub announces public beta of Copilot Chat IDE integration | According to GitHub, developers will be able to effortlessly tackle complex tasks through simple prompts using Copilot Chat. The company asserts that this will empower every development team member, regardless of experience level, to build complete applications or debug extensive codebases in minutes rather than days. | Automation & Productivity |
| 200,000+ OpenAI credentials found for sale on the dark web | Pointner warned that generative AI chatbots also bring an additional concern. “With these credentials, fraudsters can gain access to all types of information users have inputted into the chatbot, such as content from their previous conversations and use it to create hypercustomized phishing scams to increase their credibility and effectiveness,” | Security |
| Compute.ai aims to power up supercloud by going beyond the data warehouse | “Our view of the semantic layer is simply metadata that connects the different data silos so that you can put it all together. The use case for that would be … the ephemeral data that you don’t have time to put into a data warehouse, you don’t have time to run the analytics and the statistics on that, because if you take the time to actually put it into that data warehouse it’s gone.” | Data & Analytics |
| ChatGPT can now remember how users want it to behave | Some examples of instruction prompts might be “Write the answer in less than 1,000 words” or “Keep the tone formal throughout,” and they enable users to direct the kinds of responses ChatGPT will provide them with. A math teacher using ChatGPT can instruct it to create a lesson plan bearing in mind his students are just six years old, or a developer might want to specify the programming language used when asking it to create snippets of code. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell acquires venture-backed AIOps startup Moogsoft | The platform works by collecting diagnostics data from a company’s infrastructure and analyzing that data to find technical issues. Moogsoft gathers information about events such as server outages. It also collects metrics, data points that usually don’t describe specific events but rather trends such as a gradual decrease in application performance. | Data & Analytics |
| 6G Breakthrough: NTT Achieves 300 GHz Band High-Speed Data Transmission with Beamforming | The researchers succeeded in achieving the world’s first wireless data transmission via beamforming in the 300 GHz band, which is expected to be utilized in the realization of sixth-generation (6G) communications. | Network Management |
| FedML raises $11.5M to foster collaborative AI model training at the edge | The startup explains that many businesses are interested in training and fine-tuning AI models on their own proprietary datasets, so they can better perform tasks around customer service, product design and business automation. But it’s difficult for them to use this data, which is often regulated or siloed, in a safe way with existing, cloud-based AI training systems. | Artificial Intelligence |
| EnGenius to release Wi-Fi 7 router for the enterprise | The key upgrades in Wi-Fi 7 include wider channels (up to 320MHz), 4K quadrature amplitude modulation rather than 1K, and muiltilink operation, which uses multiple radio bands at the same time to serve one connection. All that adds up to a substantially increased theoretical throughput peak, at 46Gbps. | Network Management |
| Unstructured raises $25M for large language model data processing expansion | The company provides its users with three starting points: an open-source Python library, containers and a cloud-hosted application programming interface. The API can process more than 20 natural language file types from raw to LLM-ready data and enterprise-grade data connectors. | DevOps |
| DataStax Delivers a Production-ready, Massively Scalable, HIPAA-enabled, PCI Compliant Vector Database to Fuel Enterprise-wide Generative AI Applications | DataStax today announced the general availability (GA) of its vector search capability in Astra DB – the popular database-as-a-service (DBaaS) built on the open source Apache Cassandra database – delivering orders of magnitude more data and lower latency than other leading databases for building game-changing generative AI applications. | Data & Analytics |
| Nasuni says it can restore millions of files hit by ransomware in seconds | Noting that distributed file shares create a greater vulnerability to and longer restore times from ransomware attacks, Nasuni said its add-on ransomware protection can recover millions of files in seconds as well as quickly detect and stop attacks in progress. Targeted restore capabilities provide precise file restoration in seconds | Data Management |
| Wallaroo.AI and Ampere Computing Collaborate to Bring Energy-Efficient, Low-Cost ML Inferencing to the Cloud | Benchmarks have shown as much as a 6x improvement over containerized x86 solutions on certain models like the open source ResNet-50 model. Tests were run using an optimized version of the Wallaroo Enterprise Edition on Dpsv5-series Azure virtual machines using Arm64 Azure virtual machines using Ampere Altra 64-bit processors; however, the optimized solution will also be available for other cloud platforms. | Cloud |
| Fortinet unveils data center firewalls with AI support | The 387Gbps 3200F series and 164Gbps 900G series feature support for the vendor’s AI-Powered Security Services, which blend AI and machine-learning technologies to make customers aware of cyber threats and act on protecting resources much more quickly, | Security |
| Prospective Raises $6M Seed to Access, Analyze and Visualize Large Datasets in Real Time | Prospective is tailored to handle tasks that demand high-performance, precision and granularity. By streamlining the data retrieval and operationalization processes, Prospective empowers builders, consumers, and analysts to derive actionable insights that were previously inaccessible | Data & Analytics |
| Privacera Unveils Governed Data Stewardship Solution to Power Data Democratization and Federate Data Governance | This innovative offering transforms how IT organizations distribute data ownership and stewardship into lines of business to speed up self-service data sharing and access governance. By eliminating a significant IT bottleneck, Privacera reduces IT complexity and cost, reduces the volume of service desk tickets, increases business agility, and keeps data safe and well-regulated. | Data Management |
| Microsoft unveils Copilot pricing, adds new generative AI capabilities | At its annual Inspire event for resellers Tuesday, Microsoft offered new details on how it is rolling out generative AI capabilities across its product line, announcing that Copilot will be available to customers for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Tractable raises $65 million in funding led by SoftBank to assess insurance claims using AI | “Tractable’s AI has helped millions recover faster from accidents and natural disasters. In SoftBank we have a partner who understands the full application set of our technology at a granular level, combined deep networks within the insurtech, automotive and property sectors" | Automation & Productivity |
| Pay up! Thousands of authors tell AI leaders they want to be paid when their work is used | The authors don’t mince their words, calling the use of their work an “inherent injustice” as the companies’ AI systems scrape their words without “consent, credit, or compensation.” The letter states that generative AI tools owe their “existence to our writings,” which is actually only partially true given that large language models, or LLMs, work on myriad data sets. Just recently, Reddit Inc., one of the world’s busiest forums, also expressed its discontent with data being scraped from its platform for free. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Threads user exodus: Meta’s so-called ‘Twitter killer’ app’s user engagement plunges just a week after red-hot debut | Specifically, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the platform experienced a decrease of approximately 20% in daily active users compared to Saturday. Additionally, the average time spent by users on the app plummeted by 50%, dropping from 20 minutes to just 10 minutes. These figures indicate a significant pullback in user activity and demonstrate a decline in the app’s overall appeal. | Social Media |
| White House announces cybersecurity certification program for connected devices | More than two dozen organizations have already signed up for the White House’s new IoT security initiative, which is known as the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program. The participants include tech giants such as Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Multiple chipmakers, among them Qualcomm Inc., are taking part as well along with several major electronics retailers and universities. | Security |
| SAP invests directly in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic and Aleph Alpha | As for why SAP chose these three gen AI startups to invest in over any others: “All three companies – Aleph Alpha (Germany), Anthropic (U.S.) and Cohere (Canada) are each recognized for industry leadership, innovation, and a unique vision for advancing AI and the potential to transform industries. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Facebook parent Meta unveils LLaMA 2 open-source AI model for commercial use | Not only is this new large language model (LLM) now available, it’s also open-source and freely available for commercial use — unlike the first LLaMA, which was licensed only for research purposes. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Digital.ai Boosts Predictive Intelligence and AI Across the Software Delivery Lifecycle, Offers New Support for Enterprise-grade Generative AI Coding Tools | Digital.ai’s AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform reflects enterprise demand to use AI to improve decision making, help govern and orchestrate the release of software created and optimized by generative AI tools, and automate software delivery workflows further with AI. | DevOps |
| DataStax brings vector database search to multicloud with Astra DB | Anuff explained that DataStax’s vector search uses vector columns as a native data type in Astra DB. With vectors as a data type, Astra DB users can query and search much as they would with any other type of data. | Data & Analytics |
| High Wire Networks Introduces Next-Gen, Industry-Disruptive Cybersecurity Technology Utilizing New Overwatch Universal Secure Enterprise Browser Extension | The advanced technology is delivered through a proprietary Overwatch by High Wire universal web browser extension that combines simplicity of deployment and use with unrivalled capabilities. This innovative approach is anticipated to disrupt the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) space, add a new dimension to Identity and Access Management (IAM), and revolutionize the way enterprises secure their organizations. | Security |
| Splunk launches a generative AI assistant to tame observability data | The main offering is the new Splunk AI Assistant, which is a ChatGPT-style generative AI chatbot that enables users to interact with observability data in a more natural, conversational way, and squeeze insights out of it more easily, Splunk said. One advantage is that it enables users to create Splunk Processing Language-based queries by simply asking questions of their data in natural language. | Data & Analytics |
| Lenovo unveils data management solutions for enterprise AI | Lenovo has announced its latest data management innovation, launching the ThinkSystem DG Enterprise Storage Arrays and ThinkSystem DM3010H Enterprise Storage Arrays. These all-flash arrays are designed to simplify AI workload enablement and unleash the value of data. | Data Management |
| Cybercrime detection company Netcraft raises $100M to drive growth | The company’s threat detection and response platform uses extensive data collected over years of collecting threat data. Using the data, Netcraft’s platform delivers real-time threat identification and validation, benefiting customers and the broader online community. Notably, many of the world’s major browsers and leading antivirus software vendors use Netcraft’s intelligence feeds. | Security |
| Affitrum is Disrupting the Digital Advertising Industry and Addressing Fraud | Affitrum aims to tackle fake news and unethical advertising by building a community-powered platform where members can vote against advertisers with questionable practices. And by leveraging advanced AI software, the project hopes to offer timely data-driven insight and metrics to content creators. The establishment of a feedback channel will enable marketers to refine their ads and measure performances against competitors in a more organized and efficient manner. | Data & Analytics |
| Nasuni teams with Microsoft Sentinel to shield file data from cyber-threats | “Furthermore, with the new targeted restore capabilities, our platform can execute precision restores of the affected files in seconds. The service is powered by Nasuni’s patented global ransomware recovery process, which can recover millions of files in minutes.” | Security |
| Wix announces AI text-to-website generator | All a user has to do is interact with the Wix AI chatbot and describe the intent of their planned website. The bot asks a few questions to capture the right intent, and generates the entire website almost instantly, including a homepage and all the inner pages with text and images. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hammerspace nabs $56M for its data orchestration platform | When a Hammerspace-powered application requires access to a record stored on remote infrastructure, administrators don’t have to create a copy of that file. Instead, the application can use Hammerspace to retrieve the original version of the file from the system where it’s kept. The result, according to the startup, is that fewer data copies are needed. | Data Management |
| Runway raises $27M to make financial planning more accessible and intelligent | The platform integrates with over 100 data sources, such as QuickBooks, NetSuite, Google Sheets and AWS, and automates the process of updating and maintaining financial forecasts. Runway also uses artificial intelligence to generate insights, scenarios and recommendations based on the business data and goals. | Automation & Productivity |
| Automox enlists ChatGPT to create scripts for endpoint device management | The scripts, called Worklets, are written in Microsoft Corp. PowerShell for Windows clients and Bash for macOS and Linux and work with an agent installed on the endpoint. The new Otto AI capabilities enable developers and even business end-users to state their needs in plain English with the corresponding scripts generated by OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT. | Automation & Productivity |
| US government agencies got hacked after Microsoft lost its keys | But fast forward four days later, Microsoft said that it still doesn’t know how Chinese hackers stole an inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key used to breach the Exchange Online and Azure AD accounts of these organizations. The company remains tight-lipped about how Chinese-backed hackers managed to acquire a crucial key that allowed them to infiltrate multiple email accounts, including those of various federal government agencies. | Security |
| Teleport introduces AI-powered chat interface to streamline DevOps troubleshooting | Use cases include troubleshooting common issues, with Teleport Assist suggesting commands and scripts based on an enterprise’s unique requirements to debug and resolve common issues plaguing infrastructures. It can be used to collect infrastructure details by interpreting natural language and generating commands to help DevOps teams more easily manage and access their cloud infrastructure. | Automation & Productivity |
| Data Extraction Tool May Lead to Discovery of New Polymers | The pipeline extracts material property records from published papers and populates the data into a new application called Polymer Scholar. The platform works like a browser to search polymers and materials properties by keyword, rather than reading through countless articles. | Data & Analytics |
| Cradlepoint differentiates its SASE platform with 5G support | The phased rollout of Cradlepoint’s 5G SASE solution will enable enterprises to create hybrid wireless and SD-WAN environments that optimize availability, quality of service, and security to edge, distributed, and mobile locations. | Network Management |
| Google’s AppSheet no-code app builder rolls out to more Google Workspace users | Google is also making AppSheet available in the Business Plus tier of Workspace, as well as the Education Standard version and an edition geared towards nonprofits. Previously, the tool was included in only three of the productivity suite’s enterprise and education subscription tiers. Companies could also buy licenses through a standalone subscription. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cribl Announces New Features to Scale and Secure Open Observability for Large Enterprises | Recently, Cribl Search pioneered the concept of federated “search-in-place” and further solidified its position as a trailblazer in the industry by introducing Search to Amazon Security Lake earlier this year. Today’s release amplifies support for S3 buckets, Azure Blob, and GCP/GCS, and has uniquely integrated the capability to search against API-based endpoints like Zoom, Okta, and Google Workspaces. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco hosts containerized firewall on Catalyst switches to protect mixed IT/OT networks | “The integration of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems, also known as IT/OT integration, is a crucial process in industries such as manufacturing, energy, and utilities. While IT systems handle data management, OT systems manage physical processes and control systems for critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment plants, and manufacturing equipment,” | Network Management |
| Flatfile Launches Data Exchange Platform to Optimize File-Based Data Imports for Businesses | Flatfile, a pioneer of AI-assisted data exchange, this week announced the release of its Flatfile Data Exchange Platform, the industry’s first extensible platform for file-based data import. With this new release, Flatfile is reinventing the file-based data import category that has been defined by one-size-fits-all, single-purpose csv-import tools, with an extensible, API-first and event-driven data exchange platform for enterprise developers. | Data Management |
| GigaIO Unveils SuperNODE, a 32-GPU Solution for Generative AI and Accelerated Computing | Available today, the 32-GPU engineered solution, called SuperNODE, offers a simplified system capable of scaling multiple accelerator technologies such as GPUs and FPGAs without the latency, cost, and power overhead required for multi-CPU systems. | Automation & Productivity |
| Startup UniFabriX uses CXL memory technology to boost rack density | UniFabriX is pitching its Smart Memory Node technology as an alternative to socket-connected DRAM, which restricts memory capacity and bandwidth in CPUs. UniFabriX's technology is based on CXL (Compute Express Link), an industry-supported interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. | Automation & Productivity |
| Auvik Solution Aims to Eliminate Shadow IT with Capabilities to Discover, Manage and Secure SaaS Environments | In fact, in the first quarter of 2023 Auvik SaaS Management has recorded 559.2% growth in usage of ChatGPT. The fast rise of popular generative AI tools such as ChatGPT have contributed to this trend. These tools are typically not deployed through central IT teams and instead are sourced directly by business stakeholders, often going unreported. | IT Management |
| Meta pushes envelope on AI training efficiency with new CM3leon image generator | Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed CM3leon, an artificial intelligence model built for image generation tasks that can be trained using only a fraction of the hardware required by similar neural networks. | Automation & Productivity |
| GitHub updates platform with passkey authentication, DevOps streamlining | “Passkeys offer the strongest mix of security and reliability and make accounts significantly more secure without compromising account access, which remains an issue with other 2FA methods like SMS, TOTP and existing single-device security keys,” | Security |
| Netscout claims new ML-based DDoS protection for the edge is 90% effective | The AED platform is deployed at the network edge in front of a firewall, helping to identify potential risks and defend against advanced DDoS attacks with a combination of ML smarts and Netscout’s threat intelligence capabilities. | Security |
| National Cybersecurity Strategy implements ‘secure by design’ principles | The new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan outlines more than 65 high-impact federal initiatives involving 18 different agencies and designed to combat cybercrimes and build a cyber-skilled workforce for the future. | Security |
| WormGPT: New AI Tool Allows Cybercriminals to Launch Sophisticated Cyber Attacks | According to findings from SlashNext, a new generative AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT has been advertised on underground forums as a way for adversaries to launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. | Security |
| Google Bard launches in EU, overcoming data privacy concerns in the region | In addition to making Bard more widely available, Google has also introduced a host of new features including text-to-speech capabilities, shareable Bard conversation links, Google Lens compatibility, and the ability to customize Bard responses — for example, adjusting for tone and style. | Automation & Productivity |
| Walmart goes all-in on generative AI – but with guardrails | The Playground is connected to the internet but doesn’t share internal data. “From an information security perspective this helps us sleep better at night because instead of having associates using public instances of ChatGPT or others we have a controlled environment where we get to see what goes in, what comes out, we can identify hallucinations and can work more collaboratively,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Kyndryl services blitz to target AI, security, sustainability | Bridge integrates all manner of management tools, intellectual property, and processes that Kyndryl has cultivated through years of delivering services – it was, after all, a division of IBM until November 2021. It then takes that centralized information and uses it to deliver as-a-service capabilities and applications that help control and manage enterprise infrastructure. | IT Management |
| Microsoft Bug Allowed Hackers to Breach Over Two Dozen Organizations via Forged Azure AD Tokens | "Storm-0558 acquired an inactive MSA consumer signing key and used it to forge authentication tokens for Azure AD enterprise and MSA consumer to access OWA and Outlook.com," the tech giant said in a deeper analysis of the campaign. "The method by which the actor acquired the key is a matter of ongoing investigation." | Security |
| Pinecone leads ‘explosion’ in vector databases for generative AI | The company said Thursday it has “way more than 100,000 free users and more than 4,000 paying customers,” reflecting an explosion of adoption by developers from small companies as well as enterprises that Pinecone said are experimenting like crazy with new applications. | Automation & Productivity |
| RecruitBot raises more funding to expand AI-driven recruitment platform | The company said that unlike traditional hiring platforms, RecruitBot is equipped with filters, including support for diversity, equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, combined with machine learning. This allows for rapid identification of candidates ideally suited for a role. | HR Tech |
| Google drops two new big AI announcements: A better Bard and new NotebookLM service | There are five new modes users can switch between for the types of responses they want Bard to provide: simple, long, short, professional or casual. What’s the difference? Google offers this example: “You can ask Bard to help you write a marketplace listing for a vintage armchair, and then shorten the response using the drop-down. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI startup Nomic raises $17M to build its open-source alternative to GPT-4 | New York-based Nomic, founded last year, has so far released two products, including an open-source large language model similar to ChatGPT that’s called GPT4ALL. It’s free to download for anyone to use, and it can run on small devices such as a laptop. The company’s second product is Atlas, which is a tool that makes it possible to visualize unstructured datasets that can be used to build other LLMs | Automation & Productivity |
| Squirrly Company Releases First Batch of AI Digital Assistants for Marketin Revolutionizing Business Success | The impact was astonishing, with three times more clients experiencing success and customer acquisition compared to previous methods. Squirrly’s Digital Assistant outperformed competitors like WordPress.org and WordPress.com, cementing its position as a game-changer in the industry. | Automation & Productivity |
| Secure Code Warrior raises $50M for product innovation and go-to-market efforts | Its Learning Platform gives coders their own preferred learning pathway using a human approach that uncovers what the company says is the “secure developer inside of every coder.” Doing so is said to help development teams ship quality code faster, so they can focus on creating safe software. | DevOps |
| AP partners with OpenAI to explore news industry use cases for generative AI | AP didn’t say exactly how it intends to integrate OpenAI’s LLM technology into its news business. However, OpenAI clearly intends to benefit from the increased access to AP’s news trove, as it will gain massive amounts of data to train and refine its AI systems. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cisco addresses the rising identity-based attacks with Oort acquisition | Oort offers an API-driven, cloud-native and agentless platform that is designed to help eliminate identity visibility gaps across diverse data sources, uncovers misconfigurations, identifies security vulnerabilities and leverages predictive identity analytics to proactively stop attacks, | Security |
| Kinetica Announces Free Cloud Offering, Empowering Developers with Instant Access to Advanced Analytics | Unlike other offerings that expire after a trial period, provide limited functionality or require that the customer pay for infrastructure and storage, Kinetica Cloud is totally free forever for up to 10GB of data with full Kinetica database functionality, including Kinetica’s SQL-GPT, using Generative AI to turn language into SQL that executes quickly. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft makes ‘late’ entry into busy SSE market, rebrands Azure AD | Microsoft introduced its new zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and secure web gateway (SWG) services under its Entra suite, leading to its official entry into the busy security services edge (SSE) market. The tech giant also rebranded its popular Azure Active Directory (AD) into Microsoft Entra ID. | Security |
| Zluri raises $20M to help enterprises deal with SaaS application sprawl | Zluri’s software helps to resolve SaaS sprawl through a comprehensive application discovery engine and library of more than 800 SaaS integrations. This gives companies precious visibility into who is using what, enabling them to build a complete directory of all of the SaaS licenses they’re paying for. | IT Management |
| Crunchy Data Launches Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes Version 5.4 | Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes 5.4 introduces support for ARM, a game-changing advancement that brings significant cost savings and improved price-to-performance ratio for businesses. By harnessing the power of ARM architecture, Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes now enables organizations to leverage cost-efficient hardware while delivering exceptional performance. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco amps up security analytics software | Enhancements in SNA release 7.4.2 include the ability to more efficiently gather, process and store data; advanced detection capabilities; improved telemetry support; and the ability to run on Cisco’s high-performance UCS M6 hardware. | Security |
| Microsoft reveals Chinese hackers breached US government emails | The attackers gained access to the Microsoft accounts through forged authentication tokens using an acquired Microsoft account consumer signing key, according to a blog post. That in turn provided the attackers an opening into Outlook Web Access in Exchange Online and Outlook.com. | Security |
| Elon Musk is leading a new AI startup that aims to understand the universe and compete with ChatGPT | Charles King of Pund-IT Inc. said Musk has managed to put together some strong and exceptional talents for xAI’s fledgling team, and noted his aspirations to build a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.” However, he said the company will likely struggle to outdo its more established rivals. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM intros safer entry-level FlashSystem | These snapshots are IBM’s Safeguarded Copy (SGC) which lets you make regular immutable snapshots on the same storage as the production data. These copies can be instantly accessed to recover data, which is faster than carrying out a mass restoration from a backup target array, the public cloud or a tape library. The now superseded 5035 did not have this capability. | Data Storage |
| Google’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today | The core of NotebookLM seems to actually start in Google Docs. (“We’ll be adding additional formats soon,” the blog post says.) Once you get access to the app, you’ll be able to select a bunch of docs and then use NotebookLM to ask questions about them and even create new stuff with them. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell cosies up to Microsoft with services for Azure and 365 users | The Texan vendor’s multicloud services for Azure include running containers & workloads natively in Azure, using Azure Stack HCI for hybrid, multicloud and edge use cases, and running VMware in the Azure cloud. | Cloud |
| Anthropic unveils Claude 2, an AI model that produces longer, safer responses | The new version has been trained on additional data to generate responses of up to 4,000 tokens, up from around 512 tokens in the last version released just four months ago (Claude 1.3). According to Anthropic, Claude 2 also significantly improves performance on metrics like coding, math and logic problems while generating more harmless responses, addressing concerns about potential misuse. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Exabeam Delivers Behavior Monitoring Solution Specifically for Federal Departments and Agencies | Among the compliance levels within M-21-31 that present comprehensive, detailed guidance for logging, orchestration, automation, response, user behavior monitoring, access, and incident visibility, the Exabeam offering will help agencies and departments achieve maturity Level EL3 (Event Logging Tier 3). | IT Management |
| IOTech’s Edge Connect enables real-time connectivity for industrial edge devices | Edge Connect can read and write data from devices at rapid speed to support the highest volumes of data with low-latency, enabling businesses to tap the unique value generated by analyzing data in close to real time. | Data & Analytics |
| IBM watsonx Now Available for Enterprise AI Stacks | IBM users can tap the company’s expanded AI capabilities along with AI development toolkits from the Hugging Face community for a range of generative AI innovations. watsonx is pre-trained on numerous use cases supporting simple and complex NLP tasks such as AI-generated content, code generation, text analytics, classification, conversational AI, summarization, and much more. | Automation & Productivity |
| ChaosSearch Unveils Chaos AI Assistant: Introducing Conversational AI for Log and Event Data Analytics | The core of this advancement lies in empowering users to engage in dialogues with their data, realizing actionable insights through natural language queries. This novel approach democratizes data analytics, making it accessible and intuitive for expert users, entry-level users, and non-technical users alike. | Data & Analytics |
| Collective raises $50M funding to launch AI-powered finance platform for freelancers | To meet the increasing demand, Collective used large language models (LLMs) to develop AI copilots. These copilots collaborate with a company’s tax experts, accountants, bookkeepers and relationship managers, significantly reducing the time required for essential processes like bank reconciliation and expense categorization. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dashworks launches AI assistant to streamline internal knowledge for enterprises, raises $5M | Whenever a query is made, Dash AI uses an API call to connect to the relevant applications and source the required information in real time. This means there’s no need to store or index proprietary information as is the case with legacy enterprise search solutions | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce plans 9% price hike for some of its most popular cloud products | Salesforce isn’t the only big tech provider to respond by increasing the cost of its products. The 2023 ITAM Insights Report shows that multiple software firms have either increased or harmonized their pricing in certain regions. For instance, IBM Corp. in January raised prices for a whole host of its Passport Advantage Eligible offerings. Canadian customers were hit with a 19% increase, while in the U.K. and Europe, prices were hiked by 24%. | IT Management |
| Selector Enhances Network Observability and AIOps Platform with Full-Stack Capabilities | The Summer release enables organizations to delve deeper into their network infrastructure, cloud environments, containers, and applications, providing a holistic view of their entire application ecosystem. This empowers IT operations teams to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize resource allocation, and prevent service interruptions. | Network Management |
| Aporia launches root cause analysis tool for real-time production data analysis | The company asserts that its Production Investigation Room (Production IR) tool provides data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts with a “one-of-a-kind” unified monitoring platform that offers a digital environment for real-time data analysis, root cause investigation and deep insights. | Data & Analytics |
| Upwork Launches New Generative AI Tools and Services Hub, Creating Central Destination for Skilled AI Talent and Work | Upwork has seen significant adoption of generative AI among independent professionals and businesses on its platform, with over 450% growth in weekly job posts related to generative AI compared to last year. To support this demand, Upwork unveiled its new AI Services hub, bringing AI-related work, skills and tools together into one place for customers | Tech Jobs |
| Checkout.com introduces AI-powered Identity Verification service for enhanced security | Checkout.com’s new Identity Verification service uses generative artificial intelligence trained on billions of identity and facial recognition documents. The solution leverages an in-depth list of identification documents from 195 countries, enabling the Identity Verification service to verify nearly every citizen worldwide. Coming into the launch, Checkout.com’s Identity Verification verified more than 10 million identities and identified more than 1 million fraudulent identities in its beta testing phase. | Privacy & Security |
| Honeywell acquires SCADAfence, eyes $10B operational technology security market | Upon closing, Honeywell plans to integrate SCADAfence’s technologies into its Forge Cybersecurity+ suite within Honeywell Connected Enterprise, which is its software arm focusing on digitalization, sustainability and OT cybersecurity software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. | Security |
| WiMi Hologram Cloud Developed a Novel Layered Fog Architecture for IoT SAaaS | WiMi’s novel layered fog architecture can be called Sensor and Actuator Service Layered Fog Delivery. It is more fault-resistant and maintains network connectivity by dynamically reassigning tasks from the failed node to the nearest active node. The architecture keeps track of user-pre-specified instructions. | IoT |
| Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta over copyright infringement in AI training | Much of BookCorpus, the plaintiffs say, was copied from a site called Smashwords, a host for self-published novels, which were under copyright. Additionally, the complaint alleges that there is no way that the book-based data sets used to train OpenAI came entirely from legal sources, as no legal databases offer enough content to account for the size of the “Books1” and “Books2” sets. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Beware of Big Head Ransomware: Spreading Through Fake Windows Updates | "One Big Head ransomware variant displays a fake Windows Update, potentially indicating that the ransomware was also distributed as a fake Windows Update," Fortinet researchers said at the time. "One of the variants has a Microsoft Word icon and was likely distributed as counterfeit software." | Privacy & Security |
| Verifiable reels in $27M to automate delay-ridden healthcare credentialing processes | The company is addressing inefficiencies in healthcare administration costs, which make up about one-quarter of the estimated $4 trillion that is spent on healthcare in the U.S. each year. Lack of real-time access to data such as job histories, certifications and competency statements requires manual labor and incurs delays of between 60 and 120 days. | Automation & Productivity |
| Infisign Launches Groundbreaking Identity and Access Management | One of Infisign’s key features is its cryptographic algorithm which overhauls the existing Hardware Security Modules. By enabling DID communications, Infisign can reduce implementation costs for customers by around 80%. This cost-effective innovation is said to have the potential to significantly impact the cybersecurity landscape. | Privacy & Security |
| Quantexa commits to AI with $155M investment and new agnostic large language model | Its new Q Assist platform is an agnostic large language model that allows analysts to interrogate Quantexa’s platforms with natural language queries, enhancing entity resolution, graph analytics and scoring capabilities. According to the company, the product breaks new ground in decision intelligence by enabling analysts to efficiently navigate large volumes of data using natural language. | Artificial Intelligence |
| CloudSoda brings some fizz to data migration | “We’ve … gone from a centralized data movement model to a distributed data movement model, and we can move data quickly, securely and automatically from anywhere to anywhere. We’re trying to just be storage agnostic ecosystem aware.” | Data Management |
| Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users | Users aren’t just signing up: they’re posting, too. As of Thursday, my colleague Alex Heath reported that there have already been more than 95 million posts and 190 million likes shared on the app. | Social Media |
| Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says | A number of brands, including Netflix, Amazon, NFL, and Pepsi, have also expressed their vote of confidence in Threads by signing up to the app. However, many major names — Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Disney — remain mysteriously absent, at least as of the time of publication. | Social Media |
| OpenAI launches new alignment division to tackle risks of superintelligent AI | Current techniques for aligning AI include reinforcement learning from human feedback, but Leike and Sutskever said that as AI systems become smarter than humans, humans can no longer be relied upon to supervise the technology. | Artificial Intelligence |
| dtSearch Releases Version 2203.01 and Begins Beta Testing of Version 2023.02, Enhancing Search Capabilities for Enterprises and Developers | The product line’s proprietary document filters cover popular “Office” formats, website data, databases, compression formats, and emails with attachments. dtSearch products can run either “on premises” at organizations or in a cloud environment such as on Azure or AWS | Automation & Productivity |
| Two Spyware Apps on Google Play with 1.5 Million Users Sending Data to China | The report shows that both spyware apps, namely File Recovery and Data Recovery (com.spot.music.filedate) with over 1 million installs, and File Manager (com.file.box.master.gkd) with over 500,000 installs, are developed by the same group. These seemingly harmless Android apps use similar malicious tactics and automatically launch when the device reboots without user input. | Privacy & Security |
| Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions | Lightning Labs built its new tools atop Langchain, a framework for simplifying developing AI applications by combining LLMs with external data, and the L402 protocol, which is a Lightning-native authentication mechanism. Together these form LangChainBitcoin, a suite of tools that allows AI agents to directly interact with the bitcoin network to hold, send and receive currency. | Blockchain |
| Enhanced AI security on the horizon with Nvidia and Intel collaboration | Nvidia Corp. is collaborating with Intel Corp. to provide extensive attestation services for Nvidia H100 GPUs, using Intel Trust Domain Extensions and Intel’s trust service, “Project Amber,” for customers that deploy confidentiality-preserving artificial intelligence solutions. | Security |
| Vishing Goes High-Tech: New 'Letscall' Malware Employs Voice Traffic Routing | To facilitate the routing of voice traffic, "Letscall" utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as voice over IP (VOIP) and WebRTC. It also makes use of Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) and Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) protocols, including Google STUN servers, to ensure high-quality phone or video calls and bypass NAT and firewall restrictions. | Privacy & Security |
| Mixpanel Adds Generative AI So Companies Can ‘Chat With Their Data’ | Mixpanel‘s application of generative AI allows queries built by AI to be reviewed so people can understand the source and accuracy of the report created, without the need to expose their proprietary data to the Large Language Model (LLM). | Artificial Intelligence |
| Twitter competitor Bluesky raises $8M; launches paid custom domains in a bid to remain sustainable | “In the business of advertising, where social media companies exchange user data to serve ads to specific audiences, users become the product. Bluesky’s business model must be fundamentally different — we are a public social network and our code is all open source, so we have no “moat” when it comes to data.” | Social Media |
| Mindbreeze Unveils AI Platform for Enterprise-Level Knowledge Management | In contrast to applications such as ChatGPT, whose data origin is usually not traceable, Mindbreeze InSpire uses existing company data as the basis for machine learning to ensure that the data used to train the models always belong to the respective company and do not flow into a public model. Existing and generated content is always secure, correct, trustworthy, and, above all, traceable. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Mastercard launches new AI real-time anti-fraud tool in UK | Based on the results from TSB, Mastercard estimated that the number of scam payments prevented over the course of a year could save almost $127 million if implemented across all banks in the U.K., should the performance remain the same. The company said it’s assessing bringing its technology to global markets as well. | Privacy & Security |
| OpenAI launches its GPT-4 API into general availability | The startup will open access to new developers later this month. Further down the road, OpenAI intends to increase the API’s usage limits. The company’s long-term plans, meanwhile, include the launch of a so-called fine-tuning capability, which will enable developers to enhance GPT-4’s accuracy by training it on custom datasets. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Silicom Launches Edge AI Product Line and Announces Partnership with Hailo | The new product line integrates Hailo’s AI-accelerators into Silicom’s existing Edge platforms, thereby solving performance challenges for Edge AI use cases. As a result, Silicom’s products will be able to offer visual processing and AI inference at the edge at a uniquely attractive price/performance ratio. | Automation & Productivity |
| Threads already has over 95 million posts | There’s still a lot missing from Threads. You can’t delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account, for example, and the app doesn’t have features like DMs, a reverse-chronological following feed, or a planned integration with the decentralized ActivityPub protocol. But these launch numbers point to a promising start for Meta’s new Twitter competitor. | Social Media |
| Vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 switches may allow encrypted traffic to be intercepted | The vulnerability, designated CVE-2023-20185, stems from a problem in the implementation of the ciphers used by the switches’ CloudSec encryption feature. If an attacker is in an on-path position between the ACI sites, they could exploit the vulnerability by intercepting the encrypted traffic and breaking the encryption using cryptanalytic techniques. | Security |
| Jamf and Google Cloud Collaborate to Enable Collaborative, Mobile Workforces Through New Advanced Security and Management Workflows | Jamf’s integration with BeyondCorp now supports device compliance signals for iOS and iPadOS. The addition of Apple’s mobile platforms builds on last year’s release of the Jamf and Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp integration for macOS. Jamf is the first management platform to support Apple desktop and mobile devices in this Zero Trust framework. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dig Security adds optical character recognition to help find sensitive information in image files | With the release, Dig can detect that data in image files even when it’s stored in multicloud environments, such as passports and driver’s licenses. The OCR capabilities are critical as enterprises increasingly collect and store data in image files, since Dig claims that unless enterprises can map all sensitive data, the data remains open to mass exposure. | Document Management |
| Meta unspools Threads | Ultimately, Mosseri told me in an interview today, the company hopes to let your audience with you when you leave the new app. That’s a level of freedom the users of Facebook or Instagram — or really any other big social app — have never had. | Social Media |
| OpenAI forms research team to tackle dangers of AI ‘superintelligence’ | The startup believes that current approaches to preventing AI harms are insufficient because they rely on humans to scrutinize machine learning models. “Humans won’t be able to reliably supervise AI systems much smarter than us,” Sutskever and Leike explained. They believe the answer to the challenge is to develop a “roughly human-level automated alignment researcher” powered by AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Kinnu, creator of a generative AI-powered learning app, raises $6.5M in funding | Kinnu’s platform uses generative AI as one part of a three-pronged approach to content creation. First, human experts create a course outline or pathway. That’s fed into Kinnu’s large language models, similar to those that power OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, which identify the main idea of each course and create relevant revision questions in various formats, such as multiple choice. Kinnu then makes these AI-powered educational courses available through its mobile application. | EDTech |
| IBM shutters Cloud for Education service just two years after launch | The launch came at a time when it was assumed they would all embrace remote learning given the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The service offered educators access to computing lab resources from any location via a number of research-optimized virtual machines that were preconfigured with applications such as IBM’s SPSS statistics software. | EDTech |
| ImmuniWeb offers free email security testing amid rising cyberthreats | The new free email security test is designed to provide a thorough response to potential cyberthreats by providing a comprehensive check of email server security, encryption and compliance with best practices. The service’s features include identifying DNS misconfigurations, discovering potentially compromised credentials and detecting active phishing and squatting campaigns. The tool also enables users to verify if their email server is listed on any dark web sites or spam lists. | Privacy & Security |
| Oracle Offers Free Training and Certification Program as Demand for Cloud and AI Accelerates | To help accelerate careers in high growth areas like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and to keep up with the growing demand for Oracle Cloud services, Oracle is offering free training and certification testing* worldwide. The new program includes instruction and certification on in-demand skills across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AI/ML, data management, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. | Training/Certs |
| Anaconda Assistant Launches to Bring Instant Data Analysis, Code Generation, and Insights to Users | Anaconda Assistant provides a familiar chat-box interface and enhances the Jupyter Notebook coding experience by leveraging the latest in AI to instantly accomplish data tasks like generating plots, describing dataframes, generating code snippets, debugging errors, and asking follow-up questions. | Data & Analytics |
| Quantagonia raises €4.3M to bridge classical and quantum computers | Quantagonia says that researchers continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible with classical computers, especially in areas such as optimization algorithms, simulation processes and artificial intelligence. However, it claims that the industry is close to reaching the absolute limit of what classical computers are capable of. | Quantum Computing |
| Sama Launches Platform 2.0, Delivering 99% Client Acceptance Rate for AI Training Data | Platform 2.0 has successfully achieved a 99% client acceptance rate for AI training data through SamaAssure, the industry’s highest quality guarantee, with an annotation delivery rate of up to 300+ million frames, 850+ million shapes and 10 billion annotation points a month. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Instagram’s Twitter competitor Threads is already live on the web | Instagram’s new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn’t supposed to launch until July 6th but the web interface is live right now for everyone to explore. It provides an early look at what to expect from the full Threads app that will launch on iOS tomorrow and presumably Android too. | Social Media |
| Layer 3 Super Public Chain, Creating A New Paradigm Of Digital Economy | The Layer 3 public chain’s original series of core technologies build a cross-chain ecosystem integrating public chain, wallet, decentralized transaction, decentralized application and other layers to serve finance, artificial intelligence, metauniverse and other fields. | Blockchain |
| OpenAI suspends ChatGPT browsing feature over alleged paywall bypass concerns | Called “Browse with Bing,” the feature was launched for ChatGPT Plus customers in March and was pitched at the time as allowing paying users to obtain up-to-date information and search the internet. ChatGPT, without the feature, is restricted to finding information it was trained on — publicly available data on the internet as it was at the end of 2021. | ChatGPT |
| Scribble Data Launches Hasper: A Full-Stack Applied AI Data Products Engine | Hasper is the latest addition to Scribble Data’s flagship product, the Enrich Intelligence platform. The platform now enables building more sophisticated end-to-end workflows seamlessly using both structured and unstructured data, with conversational interfaces. | Automation & Productivity |
| Technossus and Cyrano.ai Partner to Drive Business Success through Advanced Conversational Intelligence | “Partnering with Technossus is a natural fit for us. Their expertise in technology modernization and data analytics perfectly complements our conversational intelligence capabilities. Together, we can unlock the full potential of AI in driving customer engagement and revenue growth." | Artificial Intelligence |
| Report: US to restrict sale of AI cloud services to Chinese companies | The Journal’s sources said that the upcoming Commerce Department rules will apply to cloud services powered by artificial intelligence chips. Services from Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the two largest players in the cloud market, will reportedly be among the affected offerings. It’s believed providers will have to seek government permission before they can sell the services covered under the upcoming rules to customers in China. | Cloud |
| SodaGPT Introduces No-Code Capabilities for Self-Serve Data Quality Testing | “SodaGPT is a huge step forward for the democratization of data, providing a no-code, GenAI tool that ensures everyone can get involved in data quality testing and, as a result, make data-informed decisions." | Data & Analytics |
| Amsterdam-based tech startup Aito bags €6M to bring its finger sensing and haptic touch solutions to market | What makes Aito’s solution even more impressive is its ability to be fully customized to meet individual user preferences. This means that sensitivity and haptic feedback can be fine-tuned to deliver real-world sensations like virtual buttons with edge effects, volume controls using a slider, spring effects during scrolling, and much more. | Automation & Productivity |
| Perception Point launches AI model to combat generative AI-based BEC attacks | To address this escalating threat, the company has developed an innovative detection model based on LLMs, which utilize transformers — AI models capable of comprehending the semantic context of the text, similar to renowned LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. | Security |
| ChatGPT Lawsuit: OpenAI sued for scraping and stealing private data from millions of people without their consent | OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT, has found itself in hot water again for allegedly scraping “300 billion words from the internet, including books, articles, websites, posts,” and personal information of people without consent. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday. | ChatGPT |
| Cubbit storage is a hybrid of Web2 and Web3 | Cubbit’s solution is not fully decentralized. There is a centralized component, the Coordinator, which manages metadata, S3 gateways, and Swarms (clusters of storage nodes). This gives the user better control and is easier to manage. | Data Storage |
| Zesty aims to take on cloud cost control | Israel startup Zesty claims its software can reduce AWS EC2 instance cost by up to 45 percent by automatically managing AWS discount commitments. The Zesty Disk feature, it reckons, can save up to 70 percent on cloud storage costs by automatically shrinking and expanding block storage volumes as real-time application needs change over time. That’s because AWS users generally buy by provisioned capacity. | Cloud |
| Researchers warn unpatched Fortinet firewalls are exposed to critical vulnerability | The vulnerability, designated as CVE-2023-27997, is a “heap overflow” issue found in FortiOS, the operating system that powers FortiGate firewalls. The vulnerability, which is ranked as 9.8 Critical, allows an attacker to undertake remote code execution and potentially run arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. | Security |
| Celestial AI raises $100M to expand Photonic Fabric technology platform | To address these challenges, Celestial AI has collaborated with hyper scalers, AI computing and memory providers to develop Photonic Fabric. The optical interconnect is designed for disaggregated, exascale computing and memory clusters. | Artificial Intelligence |
| As Twitter’s woes continue, Meta looks set to launch a new competitor | The name Threads as an app or service linked to Meta and Instagram dates back to 2019 when it was reported that Threads for Instagram would be an “intimate” message feature for Instagram. The version that has seemingly come about since, however, screams much more of a Twitter competitor than enhanced messaging for the users of the photo-sharing app. | Social Media |
| ReTeam Introduces Revolutionary AI-based Assistant, ReTeam Assistant, Transforming the Future of Team Interactions | ReTeam Assistant is a state-of-the-art, AI-powered digital assistant designed that leverages ChatGPT in a controlled fashion to assist users in finding a better way to say the right words within a team conversation. For people who are not fully comfortable with or adept at social interactions, this assistance can make the difference between being ignored, passed over for opportunities and being valued and recognized | Automation & Productivity |
| DDoSia Attack Tool Evolves with Encryption, Targeting Multiple Sectors | Python and Go-based implementations of DDoSia have been unearthed to date, making it a cross-platform program capable of being used across Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. | Security |
| Businesses may soon be fined $50,000 for every fake review you read online if the newly proposed FTC rules are approved | While this represents a significant step by the federal government to deter the deceptive market of fake reviews, the FTC’s rules do not hold major review sites like Yelp, Google, Tripadvisor, and Amazon directly accountable. | Marketing Tech |
| Cloudian sacrifices some snapshots for software update | He highlighted that HyperStore 7.5.1 introduces HyperStore File Services – a streamlined approach to data management. This update seamlessly integrates file cache functionality into the Cloudian HyperStore object storage system, allowing users to access files quickly from either all-flash or HDD-based servers, creating a scalable central repository. | Data Storage |
| Runway draws fresh $141 million as next-level generative AI video begins to emerge | “We’re heading to a world where most of the content and media and videos that you consume will be generated, which requires a different type of software and tools to allow you to generate those kind of stories.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cyware raises $30M to fuel growth of its AI-powered ‘cyber fusion’ platform | The platform can trigger various automated actions in response to the threat information it collects. In one example, a cybersecurity team could configure the software to run an antivirus scan automatically on systems that exhibit unusual activity and, if malware is found, disconnect them from the network. Cyware’s algorithms can send alerts to cybersecurity team members when an incident is too complex to remediate automatically. | IT Management |
| AI Foundation launches AI.XYZ to give people their own AI assistants | The platform enables users to design their own AI assistants that can safely support them in both personal and professional settings. Each AI is unique to its creator and can assist with tasks such as note-taking, email writing, brainstorming, and offering personalized advice and perspectives. | Automation & Productivity |
| Calibo Launches Data Intelligence Studio on the Snowflake Data Cloud | Joint customers can reduce costs by 30% through simplification, rationalization, and reusability; boost productivity by 40% with cutting-edge automation and self-service capabilities; and go to market a remarkable 50% faster with Data Intelligence Studio. | Data & Analytics |
| Inflection AI sets off fireworks with $1.3B funding, highlighting surging interest in LLMs (and Nvidia H100s) | The Forbes report also said Nvidia and CoreWeave are now helping Inflection install a cluster that will consist of a whopping 22,000 H100s — which Inflection believes to be the largest GPU cluster for AI applications in the world (even ahead of Meta’s 16,000 GPU cluster announced in May). | Automation & Productivity |
| Nokod Security raises $8M to enhance low-code/no-code app security | The platform seeks to address issues with low-code/no-code and RPA on platforms such as Microsoft PowerApps, ServiceNow Inc. and UiPath Inc. that the application security stack does not cover. Nokod argues that while these platforms provide businesses with fast application development with minimal complex coding, the applications and automation create a new attack surface and introduce the risk of compliance violations. | Security |
| VMware adds data sovereignty to Tanzu k8s management for regulated orgs | The cornerstone of Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed is its air-gapped deployment capabilities, which help ensure outside networks can’t make unwanted connections. Targeted at platform teams, the update simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster Kubernetes while maintaining compliance with data sovereignty requirements. | Data Management |
| Causely launches Causal AI for Kubernetes, raises $8.8M in seed funding | Causely is entering a crowded market of observability and monitoring tools for cloud-native applications, such as those from DataDog, New Relic, Splunk and others. However, Causely claims to have a unique value proposition and differentiation by focusing on causality, not correlation, and capturing it in software in an automated way. | IT Management |
| ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces new class action lawsuit over data privacy | “Because the OpenAI Language Models cannot function without the expressive information extracted from Plaintiffs’ works (and others) and retained inside them, the OpenAI Language Models are themselves infringing derivative works,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Responsible AI Institute Forms Inaugural Responsible Generative AI Consortium and Launches First in Series of Industry | “Now, more than ever, we need to work together to make AI safe and aligned with human values. The creation of our Responsible Generative AI Consortium, with its practical testbeds and GenAI Safety Ratings, is a vital step towards our mission of helping AI practitioners to build, buy and supply safe and trusted AI systems.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| NewSpring leads $29M round for remote work security company Venn | Founded in 2010, Venn describes itself as a pioneer in what it calls the “secure bring-your-own-PC” field with technology designed to facilitate and secure remote work on any computer. The company’s solution offers features similar to mobile device management, such as “bring your own device” or BYOD programs, but for laptops. | Automation & Productivity |
| Tabnine unveils AI-powered coding chatbot for software developers | The new tool, named “Tabnine Chat,” uses Tabnine’s own in-house large language models and runs inside the company’s integrated development environment that professional software developers use to write and prototype code, which means that they don’t need to go anywhere to use it. That means it has the full context of their projects and can understand the nature of the work. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sourcegraph unveils Cody 5.1, a free code AI tool that can write entire files and tests | The new version provides Cody with a broader view of code context across repositories and improved automation capabilities, allowing it to generate code, fix bugs and refactor projects with less human intervention. | Automation & Productivity |
| IP Fabric raises $25M in new funding to improve network visibility and security | To solve these challenges, IP Fabric has created an application programming interface-based platform that can rapidly discover, model and visualize complex networks, giving users end-to-end visibility and control over their entire infrastructure. It provides customers with both a high-level overview, and also granular detail of their network state by creating a flexible network model, which can then be used to detect vulnerabilities and inefficiencies, and verify policy compliance. | Network Management |
| Unity Unleashes the Power of AI for Creators, Supercharging Content Creation and User Engagement | Unity Sentis is a cross-platform runtime inference engine that helps deploy AI models in any Unity project, and Unity Muse consists of tools used to accelerate creation of RT3D content. Together, both Unity Muse and Unity Sentis leverage AI to enhance the interactivity of gameplay and RT3D powered experiences, while accelerating creative workflows. | Automation & Productivity |
| Typeface lands $100M for its generative AI content creation engine | Typeface’s generative AI engine isn’t limited to just short-form content, Sood said. “We have built workflows to handle really long content,” he said. “We’re probably not at the stage where we can write a 200-page book, but we can produce long videos just fine.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle taps generative AI to streamline HR workflows | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM is an end-to-end cloud solution that enables HR teams to manage every stage of the employee lifecycle, from attracting, screening and hiring talent to onboarding, managing payroll and helping with skill development. | HR Tech |
| Tamr Launches Smart Curation, a Snowflake Native App in the Data Cloud | This new app allows data teams to monitor their data products seamlessly and proactively. Tamr and Snowflake’s joint customers can now alert users to potential data quality issues directly in Snowflake and feed the resolutions back into their data products with ease, strengthening trust in the data and improving overall efficiency. | Data & Analytics |
| Cybersecurity insurer Corvus implements AI enhancements for streamlined underwriting | The AI enhancements have been integrated into Corvus’s proprietary Risk Navigator platform to provide a more streamlined and automated workflow for underwriters. The AI-driven features introduced by Corvid use large language models and natural language processing to facilitate tasks such as industry verification, application intake and guideline validation. | Automation & Productivity |
| Thales Partners with Google Cloud to Build New, Generative AI-Powered Security Capabilities | The CipherTrust Platform’s Intelligent Protection service will add a new machine learning feature, ‘Data Discovery and Classification Machine Learning,’ powered by Vertex AI, enhancing conventional discovery and classification. With machine learning, data is classified into various categories and subcategories, leveraging ‘named entity recognition’ to discover a range of sensitive information types. | Security |
| Meta’s system cards show how AI powers content recommendations on Facebook and Instagram | “For example, sharing a post is often an indicator that you found that post to be interesting, so predicting that you will share a post is one factor our systems take into account. As you might imagine, no single prediction is a perfect gauge of whether a post is valuable to you. So we use a wide variety of predictions in combination to get as close as possible to the right content, including some based on behavior and some based on user feedback received through surveys.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Optical interconnect startup Celestial AI raises $100M to tackle AI’s ‘memory wall challenge’ | Celestial AI’s answer to the challenge is to increase the rate at which processors can retrieve data from memory and send information back. The startup’s Optical Fabric interconnect transfers data between memory chips and processors not in the form of electricity, which is the usual approach, but rather using light. Because light travels faster than electricity, network speeds increase. | Automation & Productivity |
| Faros AI Raises $20 Million To Catalyze AI-Native Software Engineering Intelligence | With Lighthouse AI, users will be able to gather insights about engineering operations coming from disparate systems, leverage natural language for exploratory data analyses, and eventually have guided AI-driven navigation, making every user a power user. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Matillion unifies tools, launches Data Productivity Cloud platform | To date, Matillion has offered tools including a service for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and data connectors to help move data from source locations into data warehouses. With the Data Productivity Cloud, Matillion is integrating all of its tools to better support data operations (DataOps). | Automation & Productivity |
| Versori, a UK-based tech startup, gets $3.5M in funding to grow its AI-powered data infrastructure platform | “More than $350B is spent on complex data integration problems currently solved by consultancies and service providers. Versori’s Switchboard solution is making any-to-any system integrations possible with the incredibly fast time-to-value that the market needs." | Data Management |
| Cyera raises $100M to expand data security platform for AI-driven enterprises | According to Segev, Cyera’s security platform sets itself apart by going beyond analyzing data through plain pattern recognition or threat signature detection. Instead, it actively and consistently identifies and draws inferences from the customer’s data environment. | Security |
| AI rivalry heats up as Baidu and DeepMind aim for OpenAI’s top spot | By enhancing the power of a language model with the logic and planning capabilities of a game-playing AI, Hassabis contended, the new generative AI system would emerge with superior problem-solving facilities. “At a high level you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models," | Artificial Intelligence |
| RelationalAI and Snowflake join forces to revolutionize enterprise AI decision-making | The coprocessor allows Snowflake customers to run knowledge graphs, prescriptive analytics and rules engines within Snowflake. This eliminates the need to move data out of Snowflake into separate systems for those capabilities. Customers can now build fraud detection, supply chain optimization and other AI-driven applications entirely within Snowflake. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Alkira launches extranet-as-a-service to simplify cloud networking | By leveraging the vendor’s Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs) – virtual points of presence built on public cloud hyperscale infrastructure – customers can virtualize and automate manual cloud networking tasks and deploy, manage and grow an extranet at scale. This capability is significant because it decreases the amount of time needed to onboard a new partner or customer from multiple months to a few hours | Cloud |
| Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge | Microsoft says its related Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge will support nonprofit, social enterprise, and academic or research institutions that use generative AI for social and economic good. | Training/Certs |
| AWS launches AppFabric, aims to ease SaaS application connectivity | According to the company, IT and security teams can integrate third-party apps within their organization using AppFabric via a few clicks in the AWS console. The integration eliminates the need for customized point-to-point (P2P) integrations and provides a unified view of application usage and performance. | IT Management |
| Syxsense Unveils Novel Unified Endpoint Management Strategy | Syxsense began as a patch management company, but it has steadily expanded into vulnerability scanning, endpoint management, remediation, mobile device management and zero trust. It still offers patch management at the core of its products but also provides a combined patching and vulnerability management product with Syxsense Secure. | Security |
| OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s smartphone startup Nothing raises $96M to build the “Apple Of Android” | Their first phone, which runs on the Android OS, had a transparent casing to highlight its technological components, utilized environmentally friendly materials, and included LED lights on the back that illuminated when receiving calls or playing music. Priced below $400, it garnered accolades for its design and garnered a devoted following of enthusiasts | Automation & Productivity |
| Verizon Business fixed-wireless access gains control, security updates | The cloud-based Business Internet Portal is a router management dashboard that provides an enterprise’s IT department with a central platform in which to manage FWA-based broadband connectivity. This includes the ability to monitor and self-manage routers that connect to the Verizon FWA service for backhaul connectivity and beam out a Wi-Fi signal to company employees and internal devices for that connectivity. | IT Management |
| ‘Anatsa’ malware targets banking users in US, UK and Central Europe | Dubbed “Anatsa” by researchers at ThreatFabric B.V., the banking Trojan is distributed through malicious apps in the Google Play Store and is estimated to have had over 30,000 installations since March. Anatsa has advanced device-takeover capabilities that can circumvent existing fraud control mechanisms. | Security |
| Apple wants Xcode to make you smarter | Think of it like a ChatGPT assistant inside Xcode that avoids plagiarism or invention. What’s also interesting is that rather than creating a learning system that directs developers in how they build applications, this embodiment learns how a developer works in order to provide relevant assistance and suggestions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Snowflake stresses app development in flurry of rollouts | Snowflake said users will be able to use the model to extract content such as invoice amounts and contractual terms easily from documents and fine-tune results using a visual interface and natural language. It plans to expand the platform’s capabilities to include more types of unstructured data over time. | Data & Analytics |
| Cost-cutting fast Lightbits block storage available for AWS and Azure | Lightbits is the fourth storage company I have come across that is taking advantage of public cloud ephemeral storage instances to provide block storage that is both faster than and more affordable than the cloud provider’s own block storage instances – EBS in AWS’s case. The other three vendors are Silk, Dell with PowerFlex and Volumez. | Data Storage |
| Cisco widens its ThousandEyes vision with enhanced observability | SamKnows is a privately held network observability provider that is focused on monitoring broadband connections. It uses millions of “vantage points” on home routers and mobile devices that glean insight into the performance of corresponding internet service providers (ISPs). The company explained that its platform is similar to speed-test applications like Ookla and Fastly. | Network Management |
| Google has reportedly killed its Project Iris augmented reality glasses | According to the publication, Google is now focused on software instead of hardware. It’s building a “micro XR” platform it could license to other headset manufacturers, much like how Google provides Android to a broad ecosystem of phones. | Automation & Productivity |
| Identity fraud prevention provider Socure acquires Berbix for $70M | The company tracks online and offline data, including email, phone ownership and device parameters, behavioral data, physical address, IP and geolocation, social media and broader internet information to confirm and authenticate identities in real time. | Privacy & Security |
| Edge Impulse’s New Particle Photon 2 Support Puts Machine Learning Into IoT Applications | Using its Studio platform, users are able to easily collect sensor data, refine features, build models, and deploy directly to devices, bringing powerful and valuable capabilities to industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to transportation | Machine Learning |
| Virtuozzo pitches MSPs an alternative cloud | "Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud was built to overcome all of those problems. One cloud, designed for MSPs; all of the core cloud services an MSP’s customer needs; one easy-to-use interface; and pricing that actually makes sense for today’s economy.” | Cloud |
| Snowflake unveils Container Services for Data Cloud flexibility, partners with Nvidia | Snowflake claims this allows users to run a variety of workloads more securely within Snowflake, including full-stack applications and LLM model training, which expands the scope of Snowpark and provides flexibility in building and deploying applications. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hitachi Vantara taps CTERA’s cloudy file services | “We are excited to collaborate with CTERA to continue to build out our multi-cloud data services. This collaboration empowers our customers with unparalleled control, security, and scalability in managing their distributed data across multi-cloud environments.” | Data Management |
| Data stolen in hack of spyware provider LetMeSpy | The service, as the name suggests, is “stalkerware,” a form of software that can be used to spy on a mobile device. In LetMeSpy’s case, the company pitches itself as a tool for parental control or employee tracking, although it doesn’t take much imagination to know that it can also be used for nefarious purposes. The app collects are shares SMS messages, call logs and the phone’s location while remaining “invisible to the user. | Privacy & Security |
| Indico Data Enhances Indico Intelligent Intake Solution Leveraging Azure OpenAI Services | Indico was the first to market with a secure large language model solution for the enterprise and has maintained a strong leadership position in the rapid adoption and deployment of subsequent innovations such as BERT, RoBERTa, GPT-2, GPT-3 and more. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Ramon.Space raises $26M to build dedicated servers and storage for the space industry | Ramon.Space, as the startup is known, is the creator of various software-based computing hardware for the space industry. It builds equipment that enables satellites and spacecraft to store, process and analyze vast amounts of data in orbit and connect with Earth-based systems. | Data Storage |
| The end of plaintext: Fortanix launches breakthrough for searching encrypted data | Confidential Data Search taps into confidential computing, an emerging field focused on performing complex operations on encrypted data without decrypting it. Fortanix deploys encrypted databases in Trusted Execution Environments, secure areas of computer memory where data can be decrypted and used but is inaccessible to outside systems. Queries are also encrypted to protect the identity of the analysts conducting searches. | Data Privacy |
| Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines | Gallego said BYOC is a fundamentally different model from that of other cloud pipeline services because it doesn’t require customers to upload their data to the cloud provider. “We basically separate the control and data plane so that Redpanda lives inside the customer’s network, but they still experience a fully managed cloud,” he said. | Data & Analytics |
| CalypsoAI raises $23M to stop employees sharing sensitive data with generative AI chatbots | That’s where the startup’s CalypsoAI Moderator tool is intended to be useful. Launched earlier this year, CalypsoAI Moderator is a generative AI governance tool that works by actively monitoring the use of large language models in real time, providing full auditability, traceability and attribution for costs, content and user engagement. | Data Privacy |
| Cato Networks launches AI-powered tracker for malware command and control | The system is predicated on the idea that domain reputation tracking is insufficient to quickly identify the command servers used to remotely control malware. That’s because most modern malware uses a domain generation algorithm (DGA) to rapidly generate pseudorandom domain names — which the deployed malware also has a copy of. | Security |
| Databricks acquires generative AI startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal | Notably, it would provide customers a way to serve and customize generative AI models and retain control, security and ownership of their own data without spending a lot of money. | Data & Analytics |
| Braze unveils Sage AI, a GPT-powered tool for marketers | Sage AI includes an AI Recommendation engine as a beta version within Sage AI. Leveraging machine learning, this engine matches relevant items from its CSV-importing and actioning tool Braze Catalogs with customers who are most likely to purchase them. | Marketing Tech |
| Virtuozzo’s new hybrid cloud offering helps MSPs sell services at lower cost | Virtuozzo is the creator of a portable, flexible and elastic hyperconverged infrastructure software that merges system containers, a hypervisor and software-defined storage resources into a single, efficient platform. Its software is typically deployed atop virtual environments, and is widely used by hosting providers, independent software vendors and MSPs to provide high-density and high-performance cloud virtualization services at lower costs. | Cloud |
| New Relic Redefines Application Performance Monitoring with APM 360 to Unlock Daily Insights for All Engineers | APM 360 correlates all essential telemetry data across the application stack and development cycle, such as deployment changes, key transactions, service-level objects (SLOs), logs, infrastructure, errors, security, debugging, and more | Data & Analytics |
| Snowflake and Nvidia partner to let businesses use their own data to build custom AIs | Using the Snowflake Data Cloud, enterprise customers can feed proprietary data into large language models for customization, allowing the training and fine-tuning of generative AI chatbots without moving it. That allows the data to remain fully governed where it’s at, maintaining security and privacy, while also reducing overhead. | Data & Analytics |
| Reltio Enhances Master Data Management with AI-Driven Real-Time Capabilities in Latest Release | Unlike other solutions that require weeks of manual effort before the ML recommendations can be effective, Reltio’s entity resolution capability delivers instant value. Industry and domain-specific ML models can now be enabled with a click of a button and make it easy for data stewards to review and consolidate matches – ultimately yielding high-quality data for the organization to use, and greater efficiency in data management. | Data & Analytics |
| NoTraffic closes on $50M funding round to accelerate smart traffic management | NoTraffic thinks it can do a better job of managing this traffic with an AI-powered software platform that’s paired with a network of smart sensors deployed at intersections, conflict points and complex roadways. By combining this infrastructure with a marketplace for mobility services around traffic detection, efficiency, safety and data analysis, NoTraffic says, traffic authorities gain the ability to better manage traffic flow and even prioritize traffic flow for specific forms of transport, such as buses, bicycles, cars or even pedestrians | Smart Cities |
| Contentsquare bolsters its digital experience platform in its Summer 23 release | The first new offering is advanced mobile analytics, which provides experience monitoring for mobile apps across all major frameworks, including Apple iOS, Android, Flutter and React. The world had been shifting to mobile-first, but the use of mobile devices exploded during the pandemic as it forced every business to create a tough free engagement model, which often starts with the phone. | Data & Analytics |
| German climate startup 1KOMMA5°raises €430 million in funding to create ‘virtual power plant’ for your home | Founded less than two years ago by CEO Philipp Schröder, 1KOMMA5° has introduced an innovative IoT device called Heartbeat, which functions as an air traffic control system for managing the energy consumption within your home. This device seamlessly connects various energy infrastructure components such as solar panels, energy storage, car chargers, and heat pumps, optimizing the entire system for maximum efficiency. | Sustainability |
| Faros AI raises $20M to make software engineering teams smarter | The platform is centered around an AI engine called Lighthouse AI, which will be generally available in the third quarter. The company said Lighthouse AI is designed to enable a series of AI-powered features that will help teams to make sense of the huge amounts of data created by engineering organizations. Engineers will be able to talk to the platform in natural language and perform exploratory data analysis, generating insights to boost software development processes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Konsolidator Releases an AI-powered Mapping Module | Konsolidator announces the release of its new mapping module, which is powered by OpenAI. With AI auto-map, Konsolidator makes it easier for customers to map local accounts to group accounts which is an important and time-consuming task during onboarding. The feature cuts significant time away from the customers’ workload during onboarding and brings Konsolidator closer to a complete self-onboarding process. | Automation & Productivity |
| White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding | The funding, authorized in Biden’s 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, will be distributed proportionally to states based on need with each state receiving at least $100 million. Monday’s allocations were made using broadband coverage maps that were recently updated to include more than one million new locations. | Automation & Productivity |
| Keen Research Launches KeenASR SDK for Web, Empowering Web App Developers with On-Device Speech Recognition | KeenASR SDK for Web provides EdTech developers with a powerful tool to voice-enable their web applications. By integrating on-device speech recognition, developers can provide young learners with engaging educational and entertainment content. This transformative interactivity creates a sense of magic and excitement as children see their words transformed into actions or responses within immersive experiences. | EdTech |
| IBM reportedly close to acquiring software company Apptio for $5B | One key feature underpinning Apptio’s services is its in-memory cost analytics platform. The platform is designed with next-generation capabilities and is the foundation for applications that deliver insights into an enterprise’s infrastructure, applications and business services. The gathered insights encompass both on-premises and cloud-based systems. | Data & Analytics |
| Wilstech Introduces eMOBIQ(R), a No-Code Mobile Application Platform | The launch of eMOBIQ(R) and the eMOBIQ(R) Challenge is in line with the Government of Malaysia’s goal to be a digitally inclusive nation. For the nation to succeed, cross-industry collaboration and government policies, from the Twelfth Malaysia Plan, MyDIGITAL, to Industry4WRD, amongst others, would need to go hand in hand to facilitate growth, development, and creating a prosperous, inclusive and sustainable Malaysia | DevOps |
| Dataiku Announces Breakthroughs in Generative AI Enterprise Applications, Safety, and Tooling | Having identified common design patterns for the application of Generative AI, Dataiku has built an initial batch of 16 Generative AI Use Cases that apply this revolutionary technology to real business needs. This new approach will allow enterprises to move out of an artisanal approach of building custom Generative AI projects and into the industrial-scale development and deployment of these use cases, moving out of the research lab and into the corporate office. | Artificial intelligence |
| Progress Helps Organizations Unlock the Full Potential of IT Infrastructure Management with WhatsUp Gold | The enhanced Configuration Management add-on offers improved performance, greater security and an expanded number of performed tasks. Organizations can add devices to their Configuration Management task in line with the technical limitations documented for the product. | IT Management |
| Bennet wants a federal agency to regulate artificial intelligence | Their bill is one of the first pieces of legislation calling for the regulation of AI (artificial intelligence) and social media in Congress. The bill comes after Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, most known for the platform ChatGPT, gave his testimony in front of Congress. | AI Ethics |
| Striim Announces Fully Managed Real-Time Streaming and Integration Service for Analytics on the Databricks Lakehouse | Striim, Inc. announced Striim for Databricks, the first streaming SaaS solution to integrate database change streams using change data capture (CDC) technologies from enterprise-grade databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other sources to the Databricks Lakehouse. | Data & Analytics |
| Exclusive: The next computer in the cloud could be an IBM mainframe | VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only woman-founded and women-led mainframe systems integrator in history. That is a bold position, but perhaps more important is its pair of revolutionary software applications called Lozen and Zaac that connect native mainframe data with various third-party distributed, cloud-based applications. | Cloud |
| Chainstack Launches Global Elastic Nodes, Empowering Developers With The Most Reliable Infrastructure for Web3 | Global Elastic Nodes are a load-balancing solution that route API requests to the nearest location maximizing responsiveness, reliability, and achieving upwards of 99.95% availability for the service. Because the load-balancer can switch between nodes or geographical locations if these are under stress, fail, or experience a lag, developers can deliver powerful user experiences without disruptions. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetApp Introduces Continuous Delivery Solution, Spot Ocean CD | The combination of Spot Ocean and Ocean CD extends our Kubernetes automation and optimization solutions to application delivery, reducing complexity and burdens for DevOps teams while connecting how applications are delivered with how they are operated in production to provide greater agility, reliability and efficiency. | Automation & Productivity |
| Botco.ai launches GenAI Chat Cloud with enterprise-grade privacy and security | So employees can ask questions about their business, or a certain dataset, in natural language, and receive answers in a conversational way. The most important capability of InstaStack is that its models can refresh themselves by interacting with changing data sources to reflect the most current information. | Automation & Productivity |
| MongoDB Launches AI Initiative with Google Cloud to Help Developers Build AI Powered Applications | MongoDB Atlas is the multi-cloud developer data platform used by tens of thousands of customers and millions of developers globally to quickly build and scale applications using a single platform. With an integrated operational data store at its core, MongoDB Atlas is uniquely positioned to help organizations of all shapes and sizes build applications powered by generative AI faster and with less complexity. | Data & Analytics |
| Harness unveils AIDA, a generative AI assistant for software development lifecycle | According to the company, unlike traditional AI applications that primarily focus on code development, AIDA addresses the entire SDLC, encompassing code error resolution, security vulnerabilities and cloud cost governance | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cybercrime Group 'Muddled Libra' Targets BPO Sector with Advanced Social Engineering | Another unique hallmark is the use of compromised infrastructure and stolen data in downstream attacks on victim's customers, and in some instances, even targeting the same victims over and over again to replenish their dataset. | Security |
| Accelerant raises $150M for its insurance underwriting platform | Accelerant’s platform is geared toward a segment of the market known as the specialty insurance industry. Specialty underwriters create policies for companies seeking to insure high-priced and, in some cases high-risk, assets. A manufacturer, for example, might buy such a policy to cover its most expensive pieces of equipment. | Automation & Productivity |
| Talent Select AI automatically screens job candidates’ for psychological & personality traits during interviews | Talent Select AI, a 16-year-old digital interview and psychometric assessment firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is aiming to disrupt the industry entirely with its natural language processing (NLP)-powered candidate screening tool, which does away entirely with self-reporting examinations from job candidates. | HR Tech |
| Biome Analytics Partners with Ascend.io to Eliminate $10B in Wasteful Spending from US Healthcare Industry | The Ascend Data Pipeline Automation Platform is an end-to-end solution for building data pipelines with intelligence to automatically detect and respond to changes across an organization’s ecosystem, ensure data quality, and control the cost of data processing. | Data & Analytics |
| OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports | Enterprise customers using ChatGPT often tailor the technology to their specific uses, which range from identifying financial fraud from online transaction data to answering questions about specific markets based on internal documents. According to the news report, makers of such models could offer them to other businesses through OpenAI's proposed marketplace. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Bigeye Acquires Data Advantage Group, Boosting Its Automated Data Mapping Capabilities | The integration of Data Advantage Group’s extensive data lineage capabilities allow Bigeye to automatically map data lineage across transactional databases, ETL platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, and business intelligence tool. | Data & Analytics |
| Stravito launches generative AI tool for enterprise search and knowledge management | Instead of offering a single answer per document, Stravito’s answer engine delivers a comprehensive analysis. Moreover, the company claims that its answer engine is adept at handling complex datasets, even when they present conflicting information. For instance, the engine will identify and highlight the discrepancies if different sources provide varying numbers. | Automation & Productivity |
| DuckDuckGo launches privacy-first Windows browser in beta | Characteristically, the browser puts user privacy front and center. DuckDuckGo said that the browser (called simply “DuckDuckGo for Windows”) boasts “best-in-class” privacy functionality, which is enabled by default. It blocks trackers before they load, which DuckDuckGo said lets it consume fully 60% less data than Google Chrome. | Data Privacy |
| First Directory of Virtual CISO Providers Launched by Cynomi | The industry’s first-ever directory of virtual Chief Information Security Officer service providers has gone live today at www.thevcisodirectory.com. This extensive list of virtual CISO (vCISO) providers, collated by Cynomi, means that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can easily tap the expertise of qualified cybersecurity professionals to protect their digital assets and ensure compliance. | Security |
| UserWay Launches Beta Version of the Free Generative AI Product FixMyCode.ai | UserWay the market leader in digital accessibility, announced the beta launch of FixMyCode.ai, the first coding assistant trained in digital accessibility and ADA compliance. The product was featured as #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt on the day it went live, | Automation & Productivity |
| Mendix introduces chatbots and embedded AI models with latest platform release | The first major enhancement in Mendix 10 is a toolkit called the ML Kit. It allows developers to incorporate AI models into applications they build using Mendix 10. The toolkit supports models based on ONNX, an open-source neural network format that is widely used in the enterprise. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Acryl Data Secures $21Million Series A to Accelerate the Future of Data Management, Adding Data Observability and an Open Control Plane for Data | Acryl Cloud is a community-driven data management platform that delivers central controls across the decentralized data stack. With a mission to bring clarity to data, Acryl offers a best-in-class Data Catalog alongside solutions for data governance and observability. It is delivered as a managed service and extends the DataHub Project’s open source capabilities with features that reduce friction in the operational management of data. | Data Management |
| Lenovo extends its portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure | The new Lenovo AI portfolio includes AI-ready solutions, more than 70 AI-optimized upgraded edge-to-cloud server platforms, the new ThinkEdge SE360 V2 edge server, ThinkEdge SE350 V2 edge server, ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server for data centers and AI updates to the Lenovo ThinkPad commercial laptops. | Automation & Productivity |
| AWS Generative AI Innovation Center aims to make it easier to develop, build and deploy GenAI | The first step will connect enterprise customers with experts from AWS and the AWS partner network to go over business priorities and vision, then “work backwards” to create a list of potential use cases for AI, he said. From there, they will build a proof of concept based on different use cases and customer requirements and data, select the right models and define paths to navigate technical or business challenges. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Deep Instinct uncovers new JavaScript-based malware dropper | The PindOS dropper exhibits a change in how Bumblebee is used, shifting from using PowerShell to JavaScript. The change indicates an attempt by the threat actors to adapt and refine their attack methods to maximize efficiency and evade detection. | Security |
| Vention Opens its Cloud Platform to Python Programmers | Our native Python integration allows programmers to automate their systems within the integrated MAP environment for a seamless transition from design to automation. The integration also eliminates the need for separate environments and ensures a smooth and efficient deployment experience. | DevOps |
| DIY data science hits the Spot for MemVerge | MemVerge supplies Big Memory computing software, combining DRAM and persistent memory DIMMs into a single clustered storage pool for applications to use with no code changes and run in-memory with less storage IO. It has developed so-called AppCapsules and in-memory snapshots which can can be used to deliver instant recovery for stateful in-memory apps. | Data Storage |
| Prophecy’s generative AI assistant ushers in a new era of data pipeline automation | The capability has the potential to make pipeline development a breeze and save data engineers precious time for other more pressing tasks. Previously, we have seen gen AI being looped in for other aspects of data workflows such as data querying and cataloging. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco is buying network monitoring, analysis firm Accedian Networks | The company, which competes with players including IBM, SolarWinds, Progress, NetScout, and Kentik, is already a Cisco business partner. Cisco offers Skylight for near-real-time network performance monitoring, analytics, and assurance within its Cisco Crosswork Network Automation platform for service providers. | Network Management |
| Opera’s New Native Browser AI, Aria, Now Available for All Android Users | Aria, Opera’s new browser AI, is now available for all users of the Opera browser for Android. A result of Opera’s collaboration with OpenAI, Aria affords users free access to a leading generative AI service – expanded through Opera’s own Composer architecture – with access to live results from the web. Natively built into the browser, Aria marks a new type of browsing experience for the future of the web. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs | Those characteristics include a number of features, from AI-powered redubbing of a speaker’s words into another language while maintaining the sound of their voice, to human-like AI voiceovers, to AI powered short clip production from a longer piece of video to unique, original, AI-created royalty-free music for videos. | Automation & Productivity |
| Commvault and VAST team up for faster restores | The two will produce a validated design that can create backups from public clouds, datacenters, SaaS apps, containers, and the edge, and store them on a VAST cluster. The system will have fast restores; “instant recovery” is the claim, from VAST’s infrastructure instead of slower restores from purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA). | Data Storage |
| Dun & Bradstreet Launches D&B.AI Labs, Leveraging the Power of Its Data Assets with AI | Accelerating innovation, D&B.AI Labs will create a transformative hub for its customers to pursue co-development of groundbreaking solutions tailored to their specific needs, while exploring the power of Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary data and analytics, and the company’s ongoing application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), among other technology. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Integral releases open-source AI tool for evaluating code reliability | Integral provides a platform that helps healthcare organizations ensure their data analytics initiatives comply with regulations. The startup built Robin AI, the open-source tool it debuted today, to make its software engineers more productive. Integral claims the tool has helped reduce the number of bugs that its developers must fix manually. | Data & Analytics |
| MotherDuck Announces 1st Release of Next-Gen Cloud Analytics Platform After Raising $47.5M | MotherDuck, builder of a serverless, easy to use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, today announced the first ever release of its cloud analytics platform, which makes it easy to analyze data of any size regardless of where it lives by combining the elegance and speed of an in-process database with the collaboration and scalability of the cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| AWS Generative AI Innovation Center aims to make it easier to develop, build and deploy GenAI | To help bridge that gap between exploration and realization, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. The company is investing $100 million in the program that will help guide businesses through the process of developing, building and deploying generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Apple Vision Pro SDK out now with in-person developer labs coming next month | Developers can get a head start on building apps for Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro headset today with newly released developer tools that will allow them to develop for visionOS, the spatial operating system that it runs on. | Automation & Productivity |
| data.world Launches Data Governance Application with Generative AI | The data governance-focused Eureka Bots join the data discovery-focused Archie Bots and DataOps-focused BB Bots to address the most pressing challenges to working effectively with data, automating data management processes, and delivering governed data for AI. | Data Governance |
| MosaicML releases open-source 30B parameter AI model for enterprise applications | The company said that the MPT-30B model surpasses the quality of the original GPT-3 released by OpenAI LP in 2020. And because it’s built on a sixth of the number of parameters at 30 billion – GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters – it can be trained more quickly and it can be deployed on local hardware more easily. | Artificial Intelligence |
| NordPass to Launch Passkey Support on Mobile Devices | In the upcoming months, NordPass users will be able to store, manage, and share passkeys across all devices, including mobile. To date, this feature was available on desktop apps, web pages, and browser extensions only. | Privacy & Security |
| Armilla AI debuts AutoAlign, allowing enterprises to fine-tune their AI models to block hallucinations, harm | Today, Armilla announces its new product: AutoAlign, a web-based platform for fine-tuning popular open source LLMs such as LLaMA and Red Pajama and internal organization LLMs with HuggingFace interfaces to reduce hallucinations and harmful responses, weeding out bias. | Artificial Intelligence |
| System Initiative’s New Collaborative Power Tool, which Completely Rebuilds DevOps, Heralds the Second Wave of DevOps | “System Initiative’s focus on keeping engineers in that flow state, through visual modeling and faster feedback loops, is a better way of interacting with infrastructure. Mix in the ability to customize and extend the system fully, and you have the beginnings of a transformation in how folks package and share best practices or understand their compliance posture." | DevOps |
| Google slams Microsoft for locking customers into Azure cloud platform | The specific loophole Google is referring to is Microsoft’s policy of charging third-party cloud infrastructure providers, such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services Inc., a fee to run software like Windows Server and Office on their respective platforms. Those costs are ultimately passed onto customers. But there is no additional fee to run Microsoft’s software on the Azure cloud. | Cloud |
| Dropbox unveils two AI-based products, launches $50M AI venture fund | Dropbox Dash is a new AI-powered universal search tool designed to connect tools, content and apps into a single search bar to eliminate the time wasted spent toggling between apps when users are looking for content. | Automation & Productivity |
| In the AI arms race, Metal aims for enterprise dominance with $2.5 million war chest | “The success metric for us are live applications that solve problems that can be used by enterprises that can improve people’s lives, and improve the way that people work,” said Lowe. “We want to change the narrative that there’s all this experimentation; we want to see real-world deployments.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle more than triples query speed in new generation of Exadata processors | The machine is based on Advance Micro Devices Inc.’s fourth-generation EPYC processors, which pack 96 cores into a single socket. Its storage server has 22% more data capacity and the all-flash storage servers support 2.4 times the capacity of the previous systems. Database servers now also have 50% higher memory capacity to enable more databases to run on the same system. | Automation & Productivity |
| Meet MAGE, MIT’s unified system for image generation and recognition | In a major development, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have announced a framework that can handle both image recognition and image generation tasks with high accuracy. Officially dubbed Masked Generative Encoder, or MAGE, the unified computer vision system promises wide-ranging applications and can cut down on the overhead of training two separate systems for identifying images and generating fresh ones. | Automation & Productivity |
| Opaque Systems unveils confidential AI and analytics tools ahead of Confidential Computing Summit | They comprise a privacy-preserving generative AI optimized for Microsoft Azure’s Confidential Computing Cloud, and a zero-trust analytics platform: Data Clean Room (DCR). According to the company, its generative AI harnesses multiple layers of protection by integrating secure hardware enclaves and unique cryptographic fortifications. | Artificial Intelligence |
| KKCompany Launches BlendVision One, a Cloud-based One-Stop Streaming Technology Service | BlendVision One provides live streaming, smart video encoding, and VOD (video-on-demand) hosting platform, allowing users to instantly enjoy the world’s leading multimedia streaming technology by simply logging in to their accounts. | Automation & Productivity |
| Sierra Wireless Partners with Amdocs to Simplify Adoption of Private Networks | This collaboration taps into this growing market while providing an integrated and cost-effective solution for customers to create a resilient, modern private network which includes Sierra’s leading portfolio of IoT routers and modules, as well as the company’s software and service solutions to provide increased coverage and enhanced security for private 4G and 5G networks. | Network Management |
| Squirro Launches 1st Enterprise-Ready Self-Service Generative AI Application for an Organization’s Own Data | The Squirro application has been designed predominantly for use in knowledge management, risk, compliance and audit, service, and sales. It’s a LLM-agnostic language solution, fully integrable across enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics, SharePoint, Salesforce, and many others. | Data Management |
| Liberate’s Generative AI-powered FNOL Plugin Revolutionizes Claims Communication | To populate FNOL form fields, claimants can type or speak answers in their native language. The FNOL AI plugin transcribes speech to text in real time. It also goes a step further and intelligently converts the transcribed text into structured data fields. | Automation & Productivity |
| Checkmarx and Brinqa join forces for enhanced cyber risk management | The partnership is aimed at addressing the increasing security risk of insecure code, which is a prominent source of data breaches. The companies argue that despite application vulnerabilities being involved in 46% of data breaches in 2022, many organizations continue to overlook application security, focusing more on perimeter, network and endpoint security. | Security |
| WiMi Creates A Visual Human-Computer Interaction System Based on Hybrid Vision Models | WiMi Hologram Cloud a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality (“AR”) Technology provider announced that it has created a HCI system with hybrid vision model based on computer vision and mixed reality. The system achieves natural interaction between the user and the computer in real-time and with realism through the hybrid vision of virtual images and real scenes via human eyes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mosyle brings generative AI to Apple Device Management | The company has introduced Mosyle AIScript, which it says is the first generative AI-powered macOS scripting tool. The thinking is that IT admins can use natural language with it to create scripts to manage Mac hardware fleets. | IT Management |
| Cloudflare Partners with Databricks to Reduce Cost and Complexity of Sharing Data Across Clouds | “Delta Sharing provides the first open protocol for sharing data across diverse computing platforms, clouds and regions. Today’s announcement shows just how much demand there is for this in the industry, with Cloudflare joining the ecosystem." | Data Management |
| Otter AI Chat brings new collaboration and insight to real-time voice transcription | Now Otter is taking its AI a step further than just transcribing and providing a post-meeting summary. With the new Otter Chat capability, an integrated AI chatbot inside the user console enables users to ask questions about a meeting in progress. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco sets a foundation for AI network infrastructure | The company has added the 5nm 51.2Tbps Silicon One G200 and 25.6Tbps G202 to its now 13-member Silicon One family that can be customized for routing or switching from a single chipset, eliminating the need for different silicon architectures for each network function. This is accomplished with a common operating system, P4 programmable forwarding code, and an SDK. | Network Management |
| DevOps platform-as-a-service startup Render raises $50M | Render is the creator of a unified DevOps platform-as-a-service that enables developers to build and run all of their apps in the cloud, with free Secure Sockets Layer, a global content delivery network, private networks and auto-deployment options from Git. | DevOps |
| Orca Security expands partnership with Google Cloud to secure enterprise cloud estates | The partnership seeks to bolster the security of cloud workloads, data and users. By integrating the Orca Cloud Security platform with Google security products such as Google Chronicle, Security Command Center and VirusTotal, the companies aim to safeguard multi-cloud development and runtime environments. | Security |
| Intel branding change spells new era for AI hardware | Intel announced on Thursday that the upcoming Meteor Lake processors will bring major change to its classic naming convention. The Core i series, which has used the same branding for 15 years, will drop the “i” from its naming scheme starting with the upcoming Meteor Lake processors. Meanwhile, the Intel Core brand will now have a new segment: the performance-focused Ultra brand. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Kyndi Expands Its NLP Portfolio, Introducing Generative AI Functionality for Enhanced Efficiency | Built for enterprises, Kyndi’s generative AI-powered Answer Engine is designed to revolutionize the way employees and customers find answers to their queries. With enhanced capabilities built into Kyndi’s award-winning products, including Kyndi Natural Language Platform and the two applications built on top of it, Kyndi Clarity and Kyndi Natural Language Search, enterprise users can now receive direct and trusted answers rooted in enterprise content, every time they have questions about a business. | Automation & Productivity |
| Inpixon Announces ChatGPT Integration Bringing AI-Powered Insights and Conversational Query to RTLS | By leveraging real-time location data and analyzing it in the context of other operational data, businesses can identify opportunities to streamline operations, reduce delays, optimize material flows, and minimize waste. | Data & Analytics |
| HPE’s AI cloud move taps supercomputing for LLMs | The platform is the first in a series of industry and domain-specific AI applications planned by HPE; future support will come for climate modeling, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, manufacturing and transportation. Furthermore, HPE GreenLake for LLMs will run on supercomputers and AI software that are powered by “nearly 100%” renewable energy, according to the company. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SecuPi Delivers FPE Encryption, Sovereignty and ABAC for Hybrid Cloud through Google Cloud Marketplace | This solution enables organizations to de-identify and control access across all Google Cloud managed data services, including BigQuery and Vertex AI, while maintaining end-to-end protection of sensitive data and remaining compliant with the strictest financial, federal, telecom secrecy, sovereignty, privacy, and security regulations. | Security |
| Justice Department expands cybersecurity efforts with new NatSec Cyber | NatSec Cyber is designed to bolster collaboration between key partners, including the Criminal Division’s Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division. The new section will also serve as a resource for prosecutors in the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices and 56 FBI field offices across the U.S. | Security |
| Japanese Startup FLUX Raises $32Million Series B for No-code AI Platform | When developing solutions that include optimization or predictive analytics capabilities, it generally takes a significant amount of time and development cost to structure the available data in a way that the AI can use it. FLUX is able to efficiently develop AI-based solutions because every solution is built on the same FLUX AI architecture. | Data & Analytics |
| Speedata Launches Workload Analyzer for Enterprises Looking to Accelerate Spark Queries | Speedata’s Workload Analyzer tool analyzes log files, providing data engineers and platform administrators with valuable insights into the performance of their Spark queries. The tool demonstrates how an enterprise’s workload would perform in different environments, assisting engineers in determining the impact of certain infrastructure decisions such as deploying a faster network or adding more servers. | Automation & Productivity |
| Rose Rocket raises $38M for its transportation management system | The startup’s platform enables trucking companies to create a web-based portal for each customer. In the portal, the customer can place orders on a self-service basis, which reduces manual work for logistics teams. Rose Rocket’s platform also automates the task of generating a quote after an order has been placed. | Automation & Productivity |
| Ekinops Provides Direct Routing Voice and Security Capabilities to Microsoft Teams Customers from the Azure Marketplace | ONEvSBC is a Microsoft-certified SBC for Teams Direct Routing. It involves hosted Azure services and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) for a smooth migration to Teams phone system services. | Automation & Productivity |
| Starburst broadens support for other data sources in update of managed Trino service | The new release includes a public preview of Gravity, a centralized access and governance layer for all connected data sources such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 and Microsoft Corp.’s Data Lake. Galaxy includes a metastore, automated data cataloging, search features, attribute-based access control and the ability to create and share data products, which are curated packages of data that others can access. | Data & Analytics |
| InRule Makes Big Data More Accessible for Automation with Downsampling and Calibration in Machine Learning | InRule’s downsampling capability reduces the overall size of a data set, allowing teams to train machine learning (ML) models more quickly when working with data sets where the prediction target rarely occurs, while reducing cloud costs for Model Ops infrastructure. | Machine Learning |
| InterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage | Volumez provides a cloud-based control plane for provisioning NVMe block access storage for Linux-based, Kubernetes-organized applications running primarily in the AWS and Azure clouds but also on-premises. Users can specify capacity, performance, resilience and security needs with declarative statements. | Data Storage |
| Okta moves passkeys to cloud, allowing multi-device authentication | The overarching Workforce Identity Cloud portfolio includes passwordless authentication and access management through Okta’s FastPass, Device Assurance, Multi-Factor Authentication, and Privileged Access products. | Security |
| Bitdefender warns of new exfiltration malware targeting remote desktop protocol workloads | First noticed in its use as part of a state-sponsored East Asian espionage operation called RedClouds, the server-side implant, dubbed “RDStealer,” monitors RDP connections with client drive mapping enabled, infecting connecting RDP clients with a Logutil backdoor and exfiltrating sensitive data. | Security |
| Opera launches its generative AI-enabled browser powered by OpenAI | The company says Opera One was redesigned from the ground up in preparation for AI-based browsing and allows users to access its AI sidebar, which is directly integrated with a chatbot named Aria. It’s enabled by the company’s partnership with OpenAI LP and uses GPT-3.5 to pass user prompts that can access information from the internet. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Generative AI startup Parrot raises $11M in Series A funding to grow its AI-powered transcription platform | Parrot revolutionizes the deposition process for legal professionals by offering a significant departure from the current norms. By harnessing their proprietary large language models (LLMs), which are extensively trained in legal and insurance jargon, Parrot has the ability to provide highly precise transcripts right after deposition, in stark contrast to the traditional turnaround time of days or even weeks. | Automation & Productivity |
| Synthetic voice AI firm ElevenLabs raises $19M along with a new detection tool | The ElevenLabs platform allows anyone to produce lifelike speech from text using synthetic voices, cloned voices or completely artificial voices that can be customized according to customer needs. Generated voices can be tailored according to gender, age and accent preferences. Voices can also be set to reflect tone, intonation and emotion, leading to highly realistic content. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Observe.ai unveils 30-billion-parameter contact center LLM and a generative AI product suite | Although a few similar offerings have been announced recently, Observe.ai emphasized that its model’s distinctive value lies in the calibration and control it provides users. The platform allows users to fine-tune and customize the model to suit their specific contact center requirements. | Automation & Productivity |
| Databricks Announces Lakehouse Apps and Expands Its Marketplace with AI Models and New Data Providers | “With Lakehouse Apps, software providers can offer their rich, secure apps within the lakehouse, which is exciting both for Databricks customers and for software vendors, greatly reducing the friction for applications to reach new customers," | Data & Analytics |
| True Anomaly launches new solutions to enhance cybersecurity in space | The new solutions, Digital Range application and On-Orbit Range, merge digital and live elements to offer a unique, comprehensive training and testing platform. The Digital Range application has been built for efficiency and allows users to perform test and training functions with virtual Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicles, simulated assets and various preprogrammed scenarios. | Security |
| Cloudflare launches Observatory to simplify website performance evaluations | The company’s new Observatory tool collects data on how long a website’s pages take to load. It then visualizes the collected information in graphs to ease analysis. Behind the scenes, Observability generates the graphs using two types of telemetry data and an open-source tool developed by Google LLC. | Data & Analytics |
| Oracle one-ups AWS, Google, Microsoft with EU Sovereign Cloud | To address that concern, Oracle’s new sovereign cloud regions in Frankfurt, Germany, and Madrid, Spain, offer the same cloud services, service level agreements (SLAs), support and price point as Oracle’s public cloud regions. “There’s no premium to running in these regions,” Leung noted. However, both EU Sovereign Cloud regions are supported by EU-based personnel and operated by separate EU legal entities. | Data Privacy |
| HPE expands GreenLake with new cloud services, SaaS offerings and private cloud options | t’s also adding new software-as-a-service offerings for backup and machine learning, expanding the HPE Greenlake private cloud portfolio, and extending its partnerships with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Equinix Inc. | Cloud |
| Avaya Enterprise Cloud Enables Global Organizations To Future-Proof Communications | Avaya Enterprise Cloud provides a dedicated software instance hosted on Microsoft Azure for contact center and unified communications functionality. The solution enables organizations to pursue hybrid cloud models by hosting parts of their communications infrastructure in a dedicated cloud instance, while integrating seamlessly with premise-based technology – a capability in high demand from large enterprises everywhere. | Cloud |
| Parallel Domain Unveils Data Lab, a Self-Serve API for Synthetic Data Generation | Data Lab alleviates the challenges of costly, time-consuming, and privacy-challenging data management endeavors through its synthetic offering. The platform allows the creation of varied, specific, and tough scenarios in a safe and controlled environment to ensure that autonomous systems are thoroughly tested and prepared, thereby enhancing AV safety and reliability. | Data & Analytics |
| Reddit hackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes | In a post shared by researcher Dominic Alvieri, BlackCat claims to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit and threatens to release it publicly if demands aren’t met. The group wants a $4.5 million payout in exchange for the data and also demands Reddit roll back its planned API pricing changes that spurred user and moderator protests last week. | Security |
| Compass UOL Launches AI Cockpit with Generative AI | AI Cockpit brings together a selection of several generative AI, AI, and automation tools in an integrated development environment that expedite the entire software development life cycle process in its five phases: analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Terra Quantum Breaks Records in Quantum Key Distribution, Paving Way to Offering Unprecedented Security | Researchers with Terra Quantum, a leader in quantum technologies, have set a world record for securing long-distance communications with quantum encryption, paving the way to offering enterprises with an affordable, unprecedently secure way to send data over existing fiber-optic networks. | Security |
| Blk DNM Introduces Intelligence Into Clothing With Blockchain, In First Use Of ‘Connected Fashion’ | Swedish-American fashion brand BLK DNM today unveils the first-ever example of connected fashion (garments that exist both physically and virtually, each aspect ‘twinned’ via technology) with the launch of BLK DNM Society and integration of blockchain-powered hardware and software into its products. | Blockchain |
| Apple beefs up enterprise identity, device management | To create and work with Managed Apple IDs, Apple Business/School Manager needs to be federated with an organization’s identity provider. This year, Apple is making major improvements in what identity providers can be used with OpenID now being supported and support for Okta coming later this year. | Security |
| Microsoft discloses detailed analysis of Layer 7 DDoS attacks | The Layer 7 DDoS attack affected Microsoft services, including Azure, Outlook and OneDrive. A “Layer 7” attack is a form of DDoS that targets the application layer of the internet protocol suite, overwhelming a service with a high volume of requests and causing service disruptions or outages. Storm-1359 hacking group is more commonly known as Anonymous Sudan. | Security |
| DiagnaMed Launches a Generative Artificial Intelligence Medical Chatbot, Dr. GenAI | In addition, Dr. GenAI is ready to learn about a person using their medical information, such as physical traits, vitals, and lab test results. Dr. GenAI is not a replacement for doctors and can be prone to errors, but it aims to encourage a person to be more active in their overall health care. | MedTech |
| Meet Tapcart, a tech startup that’s revolutionizing mobile eCommerce and generating over $5 billion for retailers | It has blazed a trail in mobile app development, generating an astonishing $5B+ in sales. Tapcart has a number of brands that it supports, but one of the most recognizable is The Messi Store. As the name suggests, this is the official lifestyle brand of soccer legend Lionel Messi. | Automation & Productivity |
| WiMi Hologram Cloud to Introduce A 3D-CNN-based Hologram Classification Algorithm | The hologram image passes through convolutional, pooling, and fully connected layers, from which the algorithm extracts feature information and filters and optimizes it layer by layer. This enables fast and accurate automatic recognition and classification of 3D objects. 3D-CNN can efficiently extract 3D features of multiple resolutions and combine them to improve classification performance | Automation & Productivity |
| Meta introduces Voicebox, a generative AI model for speech | All the model needs to learn is raw audio and its accompanying transcription. According to researchers, other models cannot generalize across multiple tasks and must be pretrained specifically for different tasks with specialized training. That sets the Voicebox model apart as it can do multiple different tasks without any specific training. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datadobi charts course for AI with StorageMap | Even the cloud providers can be seen as downplaying object in favor of file. Datadobi co-founder and chief revenue officer Michael Jack said AWS “is doubling down on replacing datacenter file processing.” It has a large storage team and has been recruiting from the major datacenter file storage suppliers. “If you want to take out large datacenters it has to be file.” | Data Storage |
| Comet teams up with Snowflake to simplify AI development for enterprises | Comet’s new integration will make finding the training dataset associated with a neural network easier. Thanks to the integration, the platform can automatically display which Snowflake dataset was used in what AI project. It also surfaces related details: If there are multiple versions of a given file, it can point out which specific version was used for AI training. | Artificial Intelligence |
| WiMi Hologram Cloud to Introduce A 3D-CNN-based Hologram Classification Algorithm | The implementation steps of this algorithm technology include: first, the hologram is feature extracted and pre-processed to transform it into 3D tensor data. Then, the 3D-CNN is used to train and learn the features of the hologram and extract its high-level semantic features. Finally, a classifier is used to classify the obtained features to achieve the automatic classification of the hologram. | Cloud |
| Workato partners with OpenAI to ease business automation | “Built using OpenAI models, the Copilot is like a Workato-expert coworker who generates workflow recipes and data connectors through a natural conversation. It has been trained on millions of data points from Workato’s public community,” | Automation & Productivity |
| Lenovo announces edge servers as part of $1 billion AI push | First up is the new ThinkEdge SE360 V2, an edge server designed to provide advanced computing performance for AI applications such as computer vision, voice AI, and generative AI. The ThinkEdge SE360 V2 is built on Intel and Nvidia processors with support for Nvidia's AI Enterprise software platform and Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 platform for processing intense workloads at the data source. | Automation & Productivity |
| How Google is using generative AI for virtual try-ons | Available starting today for shoppers in the U.S., the capability will make buying clothes online a tad easier. However, instead of superimposing the digital version of an outfit on the buyers’ virtual avatars, much like what many brands have done, the company is using generative AI and producing highly detailed portrayals of clothing on real models, with different body shapes and sizes. | Artificial Intelligence |
| edX Launches Groundbreaking AI MicroBootCamp in Partnership with Leading Universities | The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence MicroBootCamp program will initially be offered by 12 university partners including Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Southern Methodist University, The Ohio State University College of Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Denver, University of Kansas Jayhawk Global, University of Central Florida, University of New Hampshire Professional Development & Training, University of Richmond, and others. | Training/Cert |
| Recruiting automation startup Humanly lands $12M as it doubles down on AI | The startup aims to address a pain point in the hiring process where limited data is exchanged between a hiring manager’s bots, screening tools, and interview transcripts. The use of multiple tools often make candidates feel as though they are “being interviewed by three different companies,” | Automation & Productivity |
| Virtana Acquires OpsCruise, Enhancing Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Observability | OpsCruise’s solution empowers ITOps/DevOps/SRE teams to predict performance degradation and pinpoint its cause. This is enabled by the deep understanding of Kubernetes and popular technologies used in modern applications, coupled with OpsCruise’s unique contextual Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based behavior profiling. | Automation & Productivity |
| Pure Storage Delivers an Industry First: All-Flash Solutions for Every Storage Need | This week at Pure//Accelerate 2023, Pure Storage announced it has achieved its goal of becoming the first technology provider that can satisfy the entirety of a customer’s storage needs with all-flash. Only Pure Storage can do this because of its unique differentiation in native flash management, its Purity architecture, its Evergreen subscription, and its cloud operating model. | Data Storage |
| Google to wind down Google Domains, sell assets to Squarespace | The service is similar to those provided by GoDaddy Group Inc. and NameCheap Inc., which offer simple domain name registration services across top-level domains such as .com, .org and .net. Google Domains exited beta test mode in 2022 and now represents the fifth-largest registrar for such domains. | Automation & Productivity |
| Open Architecture, AI-driven Data Observability Startup Telmai Raises Oversubscribed Seed Funding of $5.5M | Telmai delivers the first and only data observability platform to identify record value level data quality issues and anomalies at their source before data is ingested into data warehouses and AI models. Telmai uses ML to enable a low-code, no-code interface that automatically identifies issues for structured, semi-structured, and streaming sources and predicts future outcomes. | Data & Analytics |
| Google advises employees not to enter internal information into AI chatbots | According to Reuters, Google’s AI policy also extends to coding automation tasks. The company has reportedly asked its developers to avoid “direct use” of code generated by chatbots. Bard offers code generation capabilities as part of its feature set, as do competing services such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AI startup Cohere raises $270 million in funding to take on OpenAI ChatGPT; now valued at $2.2 billion | Cohere has strategically positioned itself as a neutral provider, offering enterprises the opportunity to utilize models that are not tied to specific cloud providers such as Microsoft. By providing this flexibility, Cohere aims to empower businesses to leverage the power of foundation models without being locked into any particular cloud ecosystem. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SASE must be more than secure – it needs speed (Cato makes move to 5 Gbps) | Cato just announced that it is accelerating its secure access secure edge (SASE) platform with new power that the company claims can enable 5 Gbps of bandwidth with all security inspections enabled, on a single encrypted tunnel. Previous iterations of Cato’s technology could only achieve bandwidth of 3 Gbps under those conditions. | Security |
| Web3 developer platform Alchemy launches AI-enabled tools | The new products Alchemy is launching include an AI-powered assistant for Web3 development called ChatWeb3 and a plugin for OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT capable of accessing blockchain data. The products will be rolling out over the next few weeks. | Web3 |
| Meta releases I-JEPA, a machine learning model that learns high-level abstractions from images | Initial tests show that I-JEPA performs strongly on many computer vision tasks. It is also much more efficient than other state-of-the-art models, requiring a tenth of the computing resources for training. Meta has open-sourced the training code and model and will be presenting I-JEPA at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) next week. | Machine Learning |
| IBM touts error mitigation for greater quantum computing performance | Most recently, IBM researchers shared an experiment that showed by mitigating errors, a quantum computer was able to outperform leading classical computing approaches. IBM used its 127-qubit Eagle quantum processor to generate large, entangled states that simulate the dynamics of spins in a model of material and accurately predict its properties. | Quantum Computing |
| Salesforce to invest $500 million in generative AI startups; unveils new AI Cloud offering | By bringing these products together, Salesforce aims to provide businesses with a unified platform that leverages AI capabilities across multiple areas. The company revealed that the starter pack for the AI Cloud service will be available at an annual price of $360,000, Reuters reported. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Beware of fake security researchers who deliver malware | First, the attack impersonated security researchers, copying images of real analysts and attaching fake names and social media accounts to make them more believable. And like the 2016 election hacks by the Russian Internet Research Agency, each social account referenced other phonies to establish a sense of authenticity and amplify their reach. | Privacy & Security |
| Sysdig Partners with Google Cloud to Build Generative AI into its CNAPP | Sysdig’s cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) consolidates security to enable real-time vulnerability management, entitlement management, posture management, and threat detection and response. With Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Sysdig can build AI-powered features and experiences that up-level security teams and protect cloud software development. | Security |
| JustCall launches AI-driven platform to improve call center ops via sentiment analysis | By harnessing the power of AI, JustCall iQ offers real-time coaching and sentiment analysis, aiming to allow call center agents to quickly achieve optimal performance. According to the company, its approach enables agents to achieve peak performance within days instead of the conventional months-long training methods. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mandiant attributes Barracuda Networks malware campaign to China-linked hackers | On May 19, Barracuda discovered a hacking campaign targeting customers of its email security gateway appliances. Companies and government agencies use such appliances to scan employees’ messages for malware. Barracuda determined that hackers had been targeting customers as early as last October. | Security |
| Refuel AI nabs $5M to create training-ready datasets with LLMs | “Within an hour, they (users) will have enough data to start training their AI models, which they can then seamlessly connect into their model training infrastructure. As these teams collect more data (especially from production), they can re-route it into Refuel for labeling, measuring performance and improving their datasets for model re-training,” | Automation & Productivity |
| Western Digital HAMR tech ’18 months away’ | This is unexpected as Western Digital has been prioritizing its MAMR (microwave-assisted magnetic recording) technology over HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording), saying HAMR will likely follow MAMR. Now it’s suggesting MAMR is a relatively short-term stopgap technology. Competitor Seagate has a 30TB HAMR drive coming this quarter and will be volume shipping HAMR drives in three to four quarters. | Data Storage |
| Clop MOVEit hacking victims now include Department of Energy facilities | Federal News Network, citing multiple sources, claims that Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico, experienced data breaches involving the MOVEit vulnerability. The DOE confirmed the report, although it noted that it did not affect agency data. | Security |
| Zilliz offers access to database to combat AI hallucinations | Startup Zilliz has made its open source Milvus vector database available to use – on various pricing tiers starting with a freemium offering – as it attempts to grow amid the generative AI frenzy. | Data & Analytics |
| Networking visibility expands beyond ops team silos with new Visibility Without Borders platform | According to Chaffee, one of the biggest challenges large organizations face is the segregation of NetOps and SecOps teams, which tend to have different goals, different budgets and siloed approaches to solving problems quickly. Additionally, he noted that today’s digital transformation efforts have created more complexity and “blind spots” as IT infrastructure has become more distributed. | Network Management |
| Pathlight promises ‘human-level’ conversation analysis with new multi-LLM tool | Available starting today, Pathlight CI goes a step ahead of traditional machine learning-based solutions and deciphers nuances in language and context to provide enterprises with deep context and trends in customer conversations. According to the company, it can deliver human-level analysis while maintaining the speed and scalability synonymous with AI. | Automation & Productivity |
| OctoML debuts self-optimizing compute service for generative AI applications | “OctoAI makes models work for business, not the other way around. We abstract away all the complexity so developers can focus on building great applications, instead of worrying about managing infrastructure.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dremio leverages generative AI for data discovery with Text-to-SQL and more new features | The new Text-to-SQL Experience refers to a tool that enables users to specify what they’re trying to query in natural language. The tool will then translate those queries into Structured Query Language code. In other words, it’s making data discovery more accessible, as users without SQL skills will be able to create queries themselves – something that wasn’t possible before | Data & Analytics |
| DataStax 1st to Tap Generative AI to Streamline Data Pipelines | DataStax today announced a new, GPT-based schema translator in its Astra Streaming cloud service that uses generative AI to efficiently and accurately transfer data between systems with different data structures within an enterprise. An industry first, the new Astra Streaming GPT Schema Translator automatically generates “schema mappings,” a traditionally difficult and time-consuming process when building and maintaining event streaming pipelines. | Data & Analytics |
| Zscaler applies AI, LLMs to predict breach paths | Zscaler’s threat research and incident response team says that it is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to predict breach paths by performing impact analysis while recommending policies to prevent future attacks. The vendor plans to productize this prediction capability, which has been used internally. | Security |
| Informatica bets big on data privacy with Privitar acquisition | The deal will strengthen the privacy layer of Informatica’s tech stack, particularly the company’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform, enabling enterprises to democratize the use of data across departments while adhering to regulations and ethical data principles at the same time. | Data Privacy |
| Rows’ AI Analyst Enhances Spreadsheet Data Analysis, Offering Automated and Intuitive Insights | Rows, the next-generation spreadsheet for businesses, has launched Rows AI Analyst, its latest feature. The new tool will transform how spreadsheets are used, by automatically generating insights through transforming and analysing data. In a first of its kind, it will blend interpretation, analysis and reporting. | Data & Analytics |
| New Dropblock Mobile App Offers Free, Completely Secure Data Storage and Sharing | Dropblock for mobile launches a free, Web3 storage application offering individuals, developers, and business users a unique and completely secure mobile storage and data sharing solution. Simply download Dropblock today from the App Store or from the Google Play Store to get 5GB of secure blockchain storage for free. | Data Storage |
| OpenAI announces updates to API, including improved function calling capabilities | To help deal with this surge in demand, OpenAI has announced some changes to its API, such as improved function calling capability, more steerable versions of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo, a new 16k context version of GPT-3.5 Turbo, and a 75% cost reduction in the Embeddings model, the latter resulting in reduced costs for developers that pay for the API. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Canva announces developers platform and a $50M fund for app development | The investment initiative aims to provide support to app developers in building, growing and marketing their apps on the Canva App Marketplace. The fund will offer financial grants and expert guidance to help developers, especially those from groups underrepresented in the global market, to transform their app concepts into tangible products. | Automation & Productivity |
| AMD unveils AI processor, looks to challenge Nvidia | Weighing in at 146 billion transistors, the MI300X comes with up to 192GB of high-bandwidth HBM3 memory shared by both the CPU and GPU. It has a total of 13 chiplets on the die. The chip also has a memory bandwidth of 5.2 TB/s, which is 60% faster than Nvidia’s H100. | Automation & Productivity |
| Trust Lab raises $15M to fuel efforts to prevent harmful internet content | The platform doesn’t outright say if something is good or bad. It’s designed to provide the moderation staff the information needed to make that decision on their own by augmenting their own intelligence. Examples could also be using heuristics and artificial intelligence to find reputable information sources on the open web or discovering information about a particular trend. | Privacy & Security |
| Deepchecks raises $14M to validate machine learning models continuously | Deepchecks says the only way to ensure high-quality machine learning models are regularly updated is to draw on the lessons learned from software development, and apply regular testing and validation. To that end, it has built a platform that helps MLOps teams gain visibility into their machine learning models at every step, from development to deployment to operation and production. | Automation & Productivity |
| Intuit Mailchimp Launches More Than 150 New and Updated Features | Some of the features that have recently launched or will be released soon include custom reporting and analytics, advanced segmentation, more e-commerce automations, customer journeys for Shopify merchants, enhanced support options, and updates to Mailchimp’s Standard plan. | Automation & Productivity |
| Primer raises $69M for its AI-powered analytics tools | San Francisco-based Primer provides analytics software that is used by government agencies and enterprises to scan large amounts of data for useful insights. According to the company, its software is powered by proprietary natural language models. Those models are based on the Transformer architecture, the neural network design that underpins ChatGPT and many other advanced artificial intelligence systems. | Data & Analytics |
| Trend Micro launches GPT-based cybersecurity assistant for the copiloted security operations center | Companion integrates with the Trend Vision One XDR or extended detection and response platform. It can explain cross-layer event alerts, decode tracker scripts, create breach mitigation recommendations, email automations and help-desk ticketing, and automate incident reporting. The overall aim is to accelerate incident investigations. | Security |
| Cybersixgill launches AI-powered cyberthreat intelligence solution | Cybersixgill’s generative AI intelligently responds to customer inquiries with data and insights that match the challenges and use cases specific to their organization. The result is claimed to be a solution that can deliver a range of outputs, from high-level threat summaries for C-level executives to vulnerability exposure analyses for managed service providers to comprehensive forensic incident reports for detection and response teams. | Security |
| Grafana celebrates 10th anniversary, launches v10 with richer dashboards and hardened security | There are a lot of features here, but the main goals were to make it easier to: get started with Grafana; share your dashboards with the world; correlate your data to resolve incidents faster; and use automation to build more interactive, consistent dashboards,” | Automation & Productivity |
| FireEye veterans launch threat intelligence firm Silent Push with $10M in funding | The company argues that as cyberthreats continue to grow, organizations have traditionally focused on detecting threats by using intelligence feeds with indicators of compromise. Silent Push’s approach goes beyond traditional IOCs by providing the capability to understand what attackers are doing before an attack and delivering a detailed analysis of the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by threat actors. | Security |
| New Google Cloud generative AI products aim to reduce security risks, address talent gap | The workbench platform is powered by the specialized security large-language model (LLM) Sec-PaLM, which is trained on a corpus of threat, intel and historical data. It uses AI to find critical vulnerabilities and malicious code submissions, flags unknown threats and helps expedite risk assessment. | Security |
| Generating mania: Month-old Paris-based startup Mistral AI raises $113M in seed funding | Mensch explained that they ultimately decided to get together and form Mistral AI, with a mission to bring generative AI to enterprises. “At the moment we have proof that AI is useful in some cases,” Mensch said. “But there are still too many workers in different fields being asked to be creative, and we need to figure this out for them. We want to give them tools that are easy to use to create their own products.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| AI video creation startup Synthesia reels in $90M from investors | London-based Synthesia offers a platform that can generate realistic, AI-powered avatars for use in videos. The platform offers about 140 prebuilt avatars that can read out a user-supplied script in more than 120 languages. According to the company, its technology enables organizations to create content such as employee training videos faster and more cost-efficiently than would otherwise be possible. | Automation & Productivity |
| VergeIO launches IOfortify ransomware defense | The VergeOS controlling software presents these nodes to tenants and protects the VMs, meaning systems, applications, and files. Immutable clones are made, globally deduplicated and stored, then used as the basis for recovery in the event of ransomware attacks. | Security |
| Bynder Unveils Its Next Wave of AI Innovation, Further Strengthening Its Market Leading DAM Platform | This new feature will be fully integrated with Bynder’s DAM. It marries editorial content with creative imagery for speed of execution, collaboration, and delivery of exceptional content experiences, enabling teams to scale content creation and bring it to market faster. | Automation & Productivity |
| Accenture announces jaw-dropping $3 billion investment in AI | Accenture said it will double the size of its Data & AI practice team from 40,000 employees at present to 80,000 through a combination of hiring, training and — key for AI-focused startups — acquisitions. Accenture’s total workforce is 738,000 people, according to recent reports, meaning AI professionals would constitute about 10% of the company’s total workforce following this team buildout. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Salesforce To Expand Data Cloud Connectivity with New Connectors from CData | CData Software a leading provider of real-time data connectivity solutions announced that Salesforce Data Cloud customers will have access to select connectors from CData that can be leveraged to expand the Connectors Catalog and bring more data into Data Cloud from their SaaS, database and file-based sources. | Data & Analytics |
| Lacework and AWS join forces to improve cloud anomaly detection | Amazon GuardDuty findings with Lacework’s composite alerts are said to provide a richer investigative context that helps security professionals prioritize, reducing investigation times and delivering a heightened level of cloud security for joint customers. | Cloud |
| CTERA the latest file systems crew to add ransomware detection | “Organizations need to concentrate their defense around their file storage and backup systems, which are the primary target of any attacker. By integrating this capability into our file system, we are providing integrated cyber resilient storage without relying on any third-party products and without impacting performance.” | Data Storage |
| Amazon Web Services beefs up its security offerings | The goals, as described by Becky Weiss (pictured), an AWS cloud engineer presenting at AWS’ annual re:Inforce conference in Anaheim, California, are to bring more zero-trust features further across its cloud infrastructure and to make it easier for its customers to screen the more than 1 billion API calls per second for potential bad actors, evidence of malware, and vulnerabilities | Security |
| Snorkel AI looks beyond data labeling for generative AI | One approach to solving this issue, one that multiple vendors are pursuing, is the concept of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where sources for the generated results are cited. But what happens when there are no sources? That’s a data problem, and it’s an issue that Snorkel is looking to solve with its Snorkel Foundry. | Data & Analytics |
| Percepto raises $67M for industrial inspection drone technology platform | Its drone solution acts to automate the visual inspection workflow of entire facilities by providing quick analysis of leak-detection, overheating, infrastructure deterioration and other problems for potentially hazardous locations. | Automation & Productivity |
| ServiceNow unveils Now Assist for Virtual Agent, a generative AI solution for self-service | This tool utilizes generative AI to deliver direct and contextually accurate responses to user inquiries. Integrated with the Now Platform, it will enable users to swiftly access relevant information and connect with digital workflows tailored to their needs. | Automation & Productivity |
| Versity open-sources S3 gateway with no poison pill | The gateway will enable users to send data to an S3 store and retrieve it as well. Versity’s Scale Out Archive Manager (ScoutAM) archives data to object stores and tape libraries and handles multi-petabyte archives – with 60PB installations not unusual | Data Storage |
| GENAI Creates Mai Cloud | Generative AI Solutions Corp. is pleased to announce the creation of MAI Cloud, its Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud service that will provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) power for AI computing requirements, including rapid processing power, large-scale storage, and state-of-the-art software applications, all delivered via the cloud over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis | Cloud |
| Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout | While the problems were going on, for many Verge staffers, Reddit.com wasn’t loading, but some subreddits were. There were around 43,000 user reports of issues on Downdetector at the peak of the issues, but the reports have since fallen significantly. | Apps |
| At WWDC, Apple hones in on device management | The entire purpose of DDM is to move much of the logic for securing and managing devices onto the devices themselves. This allows an iPhone or iPad, for example, to configure itself and make changes as the state of the device changes — and only alert an MDM server when such events occur or in response to new declarations that are released. | IT Management |
| Grammarly Announces Set of Integrations to Simplify Workflows and Reduce Complexities Created by App Overload | The use of an increasing number of workplace apps is intensifying information silos and causing knowledge workers to constantly switch between different contexts, eroding productivity. The average professional switches between apps and websites nearly 1,200 times a day. | Automation & Productivity |
| Wallaroo.AI Launches Unique Workload Orchestration Capabilities to Help Scale Production Machine Learning (ML) Workflows 5- 10x, with 40% Time Savings | As enterprise AI teams upload their models, they can now define their ML workload steps and set up a schedule with just a few lines of code, if they use the Wallaroo.AI platform with the new Workload Orchestration features. Behind the scenes, this new technology orchestrates scheduling and infrastructure utilization, data gathering and inferencing while ensuring resilience. Teams can then monitor workloads and review results as needed. | Automation & Productivity |
| Salesforce adds generative AI support across its application portfolio | The Trust Layer is said to prevent proprietary data from becoming part of public models, improve the quality of AI-generated content and integrate generative AI responses into business processes while ensuring that data privacy, security, residency and compliance regulations are met. | Artificial Intelligence |
| More than six thousand subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes | Moderators began planning the actions last week after the developers of some of Reddit’s most-beloved third-party apps said they wouldn’t be able to afford the platform’s updated API pricing. On Thursday, the developers for Apollo for Reddit and others announced they would be shutting down their apps on June 30th due to the API changes. | Apps |
| Ascend.io Enhances Integration with Databricks to Boost Transparency and Collaboration in Data Pipeline Automation | With this integration, joint customers can now take full advantage of Databricks as a cloud data compute platform in Ascend’s new second-generation remote data plane architecture, which allows users to leverage Ascend’s DataAwareTM control plane within their Databricks lakehouse | Data & Analytics |
| SymphonyAI Acquires 1010data to Expand Enterprise AI Capabilities | “This strategic acquisition accelerates and strengthens SymphonyAI’s mission to become the leading enterprise AI SaaS company delivering value to the most critical and resilient industries. 1010data’s customers will benefit from additional depth and velocity of technology innovation as the organizations unite," | Data & Analytics |
| Google releases Secure AI Framework to help companies protect AI models from hacking | According to Google, SAIF can help companies stave off attempts to steal a neural network’s code and training dataset. The framework is also useful for blocking other types of attacks. In particular, Google says that SAIF makes it more difficult for hackers to tamper with an AI model and cause it to generate malicious output. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Adobe offers copyright indemnification for Firefly AI-based image app users | The indemnification offer is similar to the one available for Adobe’s Stock assets product — though not, according to an Adobe spokesperson, identical. The basic idea of the Stock indemnification is that, as long as the customer is using the product within the terms and conditions, Adobe will compensate the customer for any IP-related legal claims that might arise. | Automation & Productivity |
| Skillsoft Launches ChatGPT Learning Journey for Businesses to Harness the Potential of Generative AI | Blending on-demand courses and hands-on experiences, Skillsoft’s ChatGPT Learning Journey provides a thorough exploration of the technology, beginning with an introduction to large language models and their capabilities and progressing through practical applications, advanced techniques, industry impacts, and key ethical considerations. | ChatGPT |
| PhotoRoom, Google Cloud partner to democratize generative AI photo editing | PhotoRoom claims that its platform’s newly added generative AI capabilities will decrease the time needed to produce photography content, reducing it to under an hour while ensuring optimal accuracy and quality. | Automation & Productivity |
| Managed cybersecurity provider Blackpoint Cyber reels in $190M from investors | The main highlight of the company’s product portfolio is an MDR, or managed detection and response, service. The service allows MSPs to have Blackpoint Cyber monitor their corporate customers’ infrastructure for breach indicators. After detecting a potential cyberattack, it carries out an investigation and remediates any compromised systems it finds. | Security |
| WordPress launches generative AI assistant to enhance content writing | WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts. The new tool, called Jetpack AI Assistant, is now readily available on WordPress.com and seamlessly integrates into the editor interface. | Automation & Productivity |
| Granica launches from stealth with AI efficiency platform and $45M in funding | Claimed to be the industry’s first AI efficiency platform, Granica’s platform is said to bring novel, fundamental research in data-centric AI to the commercial market as an enterprise solution. The company’s solution puts into operation a next-generation approach to AI efficiency via data reduction and data privacy, enabling AI teams using AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage to derive maximum value from their growing volumes of training data, according to the company. | Artificial Intelligence |
| LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy | Dubbed AI Copy Suggestions, the feature allows users to generate introductory text and headlines for ads. It uses data from the LinkedIn platform to ensure relevancy while also giving users the option to make changes (if required) and keep the content aligned with their brand language. | Automation & Productivity |
| Insight Announces Launch of Generative AI Service Offering | “Insight is an established leader in data and AI, and we have invested heavily in creating business impact through our Insight Lens framework, which can quickly ingest terabytes of enterprise data across dozens of sources into a central repository for improved visibility, analysis and business value. The addition of generative AI capabilities will fast-track clients’ ability to accelerate data-driven transformation,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| French software startup Pigment raises $88M in funding backed by Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey’s money manager, Iconiq Capital | They have recently introduced a new service called Pigment AI, leveraging the growing interest in AI and similar products like ChatGPT. This innovative service enables clients to extract valuable insights from data, identify patterns, and automate analysis and reporting processes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco vision takes networking to the cloud in a big way | The Cisco Networking Cloud, unveiled at this week’s Cisco Live! customer event, will involve a broad range of software and cloud system integration and has as its ultimate, if somewhat vague, goal to converge networking platforms over time, culminating in a unified management platform that works on premises or cloud for improved visibility and enterprise automation, | Network Management |
| 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 Intelligence |
| 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 compu |