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AI startup Emergence AI raises a ton of cash to enhance office worker productivity

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:57:35 +0000

Emergence AI, a generative artificial intelligence startup that’s focused on enhancing the productivity of business employees, said today it has closed on a $97.2 million funding round led by Learn Capital. Adding to those funds, it has also secured lines of credit totaling more than $100 million, the startup said. For a company that says it’s […]

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is returning to Australia a free man

James Farrell — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:06:37 +0000

After spending years in a British prison, the former Australian hacker and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the U.K., reportedly having agreed to a plea deal with authorities in the U.S. Assange (pictured) had been wanted by U.S. authorities after famously publishing hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, […]

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Klarity Intelligence raises $70M to automate the document review process

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:44:17 +0000

Document intelligence startup Klarity Intelligence Inc. said today it has raised $70 million in new round of funding led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Scale Venture Partners, Tola Capital, Picus Capital, Invus Capital and Y Combinator also participated. Today’s Series B round, which follows an $18 million investment in January 2022, brings the company’s total […]

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Record labels file lawsuits against AI music generators Suno and Udio, alleging widespread copyright infringement

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:23:14 +0000

Three major record labels said today they have filed lawsuits against the generative artificial intelligence music startups Suno Inc. and Uncharted Labs Inc., better known as Udio. The two separate lawsuits against Suno and Udio allege that the AI companies have carried out “widespread infringement” of copyrighted sound recordings at an “almost unimaginable scale.” Leading […]

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LockBit claims Federal Reserve breach, demands ransom not to release stolen data

Duncan Riley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:44:09 +0000

Infamous ransomware gang LockBit is claiming to have breached the U.S. Federal Reserve and is threatening to release stolen banking information if a ransom payment is not made. According to a listing on its dark web leaks site, LockBit claims to have “33 terabytes of juicy banking information containing Americans’ banking secrets” before going on […]

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Amazon reportedly working on new AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT

Duncan Riley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:06:23 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. is reported working on a new artificial intelligence chatbot that will compete directly with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Business Insider, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that the internal project building the AI is called “Metis,” a reference to the Greek goddess of wisdom. Metis is said to be powered by an internal Amazon […]

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OpenAI acquires developer collaboration startup Multi

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:36:22 +0000

OpenAI has acquired Multi Software Co., a startup with a videoconferencing platform for software development teams. Multi co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alexander Embiricos announced the deal in a blog post published today. Embiricos, who was previously a product manager at Dropbox Inc., founded the company in 2019 with former Google LLC engineer Charley Ho. […]

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What to expect during the CDOIQ Symposium: Join theCUBE July 16 to 17

Ryan Stevens — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:06:28 +0000

There’s an ongoing revolution when it comes to data, and it’s become clear in recent months that data is increasingly driving infrastructure architecture. But there are still plenty of questions to answer on that point, including what’s going to enable that trend moving forward. That will be one area of focus during the upcoming CDOIQ […]

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DataStax upgrades its AI development tools with new productivity features

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:56:27 +0000

DataStax Inc. today introduced new versions of Langflow and RAGStack, two software tools designed to ease the development of artificial intelligence applications. Santa Clara, California-based DataStax is backed by more than $300 million in funding. Its flagship product is a cloud-based NoSQL database called Astra DB that is available in two editions. There’s a standard […]

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In a pair of announcements, Pure Storage looks to help customers with AI and ransomware

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:17:10 +0000

Pure Storage made a couple of significant announcements last week at its annual user event, Pure Accelerate, in Las Vegas. First, the company said it had released three new advanced storage-as-a-service service level agreements for the Pure Storage platform: cyber recovery, resilience and site rebalance. The company also announced new capabilities in the Pure Storage platform […]

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EU tentatively finds that Apple breached DMA rules as officials launch fresh probe

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:35:40 +0000

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has reached the preliminary conclusion that Apple Inc. is in breach of the bloc’s DMA regulation. The Commission published its findings today. In conjunction, it announced the launch of a second DMA probe into Apple. Both decisions relate to the company’s restrictions on so-called steering, or the […]

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On theCUBE Pod: The ongoing reaction to the Broadcom VMware acquisition and Nvidia’s unbelievable growth

Ryan Stevens — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:02:34 +0000

There has been plenty of analysis around how VMware Inc. customers might respond in the wake of Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion acquisition of the company. The continued unfolding reaction to the Broadcom VMware acquisition was one of the subjects of conversation for theCUBE Research industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to dive into on the latest […]

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Ollama addresses remote execution flaw following Wiz discovery

Duncan Riley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:00:49 +0000

As generative artificial intelligence continues to grow in popularity and become mainstream, so do security issues surrounding large language models and their support services. A new report today from Wiz Inc. details one such vulnerability discovered in Ollama, the open-source infrastructure project designed to simplify the packaging and deployment of AI models. However, in a welcome […]

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Oracle unveils generative AI-powered digital assistant for U.S. clinicians

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:05:59 +0000

Oracle Corp. is flexing its generative artificial intelligence muscles again with the launch of a new Clinical Digital Assistant for Ambulatory clinics in the U.S. Announced today, the new digital assistant is a mobile offering that integrates clinical intelligence, multimodal voice and screen-driven assistance with generative AI. The app is designed to provide clinicians with […]

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Rivals Apple and Meta Platforms reportedly discussing generative AI partnership

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:31:14 +0000

In a bid not to be left behind in the race to integrate advanced generative artificial capabilities into its hardware, Apple Inc. is reportedly discussing a partnership with its longtime rival Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook. The proposed partnership would see Apple integrate Meta’s Llama 3 large language model with the Apple […]

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Decoding the chess moves of Snowflake and Databricks

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:07:00 +0000

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform basket, but that’s proving impractical. As such, firms are moving to an open model where they maintain control of their data and can bring any compute […]

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Apple delays release of Apple Intelligence, two other new features in the EU

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:46:46 +0000

Apple Inc. today disclosed that Apple Intelligence, a recently introduced suite of artificial intelligence features, won’t become available in the European Union this year. The disclosure comes about two weeks after the iPhone maker announced the AI capabilities at its WWDC developer event. Apple Intelligence debuted alongside several other new features, including two remote device […]

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Transforming digital journeys: The role of integrated cloud and AI in modern business

Alice Gillin — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:11:42 +0000

With the combined forces of cloud computing and artificial intelligence revolutionizing digital transformations, tech giants such as Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. are now focusing on integrated cloud and AI solutions to enhance enterprise infrastructure. This collaboration aims to accelerate transformation journeys by fully unlocking the power of data, providing businesses with cohesive […]

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US Treasury sanctions 12 Kaspersky executives

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:04:12 +0000

The U.S. Treasury Department today announced sanctions against 12 executives at Kaspersky Lab Inc., a Russian antivirus maker. The sanctions are being rolled out by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. A day earlier, the Commerce Department banned Kaspersky from selling its antivirus software and other products in the U.S. The […]

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Hacking group Qilin leaks data stolen from UK medical testing provider Synnovis

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:52:02 +0000

A ransomware gang has reportedly published 400 gigabytes of data stolen from Synnovis, a UK-based provider of medical testing services. The U.K.’s healthcare system, the National Health Service, said today that law enforcement agencies are working to verify the data. “The National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre are working to verify the data […]

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AI models keep getting smarter — but how smart can they get?

Robert Hof — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:02:11 +0000

As Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company this week, if only for a few days, it’s apparent that the race to develop even better generative artificial intelligence models isn’t slowing down. This week we saw Anthropic provide a leap in its Claude large language model, along with news that OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup […]

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Collaborative developer tool Multiplayer launches with IT architecture auto-documentation feature

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:45:26 +0000

Multiplayer Software Inc., the developer of a collaborative tool for software design of backend systems, announced today that its platform is now generally available after being in beta test mode since February. In addition to the general availability launch, the new toolset includes a beta observability feature for system architecture. This feature automatically documents technical […]

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HPE and Danfoss partner to reduce energy consumption worldwide

Devony Hof — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:04:31 +0000

Whether or not artificial intelligence will be a force for bad or good is being hotly contested in the public forum, and that extends to its climate impact. AI requires enormous power consumption, putting further strain on the environment. Bit in its partnership with Danish company, Danfoss A/S, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is trying to save […]

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OpenAI acquires enterprise information retrieval startup Rockset

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:00:13 +0000

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, today acquired Rockset Inc., a startup known for a high-speed database of the same name designed for information retrieval. The aim is to provide the artificial intelligence company a platform for its customers to better index and query their data. Rockset’s platform enables users, developers and enterprise businesses to rapidly search capabilities […]

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Digital disruption at TM Forum’s DTW24-Ignite conference

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:21:42 +0000

The Telemanagement Forum bills itself as a driving force for digital transformation for telecommunications companies and the technology vendors that serve them. This transformation was prevalent across the TM Forum’s DTW24-Ignite flagship conference in Copenhagen this week. I interviewed several vendors at the conference and boiled down my list to nine of the most disruptive. Many […]

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AI’s uncertain path: Companies weigh strategy and implementation in 2024

Ryan Stevens — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:54:23 +0000

When taking stock of the artificial intelligence revolution, so much has changed even since the beginning of 2024. Despite that, companies still need to fully grasp the implications of the technology, as well as how to approach AI investment. It’s not quite the Gartner Trough of Disillusionment, according to Zeus Kerravala (pictured), founder and principal analyst […]

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Enhancements for HPE GreenLake cloud set the stage for hybrid and AI deployments

Mark Albertson — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:26:37 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has been steadily refining GreenLake cloud, a hybrid cloud designed to deploy and manage resources across public and private infrastructure. This week, HPE rolled out Private Cloud AI, a self-serve cloud experience in partnership with Nvidia Corp. and enabled by the GreenLake hybrid platform. “We kept hybrid cloud in mind, and […]

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Rapid tech advances and real-time data drive the next wave of innovation

Ryan Stevens — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:37:25 +0000

The rapid evolution of technology is not just a buzzword; it’s the driving force behind today’s most significant innovations. Real-time data, once a niche aspect of tech, has now taken center stage, influencing everything from artificial intelligence to cloud ecosystems. “We started to see the formation a few years ago, where if you’re building an […]

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Dave Vellante’s Breaking Analysis: The complete collection

Dave Vellante — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:33:12 +0000

Breaking Analysis is a weekly editorial program combining knowledge from SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Branded as theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, the program is our opportunity to share independent, unfiltered editorial with SiliconANGLE, theCUBE and Wikibon communities. The program and conclusions we produce are data-driven, tapping ETR’s proprietary spending data set. Episode 221 – […]

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AI startup Sierra’s new benchmark shows most LLMs fail at more complex tasks

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 02:59:01 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence startup Sierra Technologies Inc. is taking it upon itself to “advance the frontiers of conversational AI agents” with a new benchmark test that evaluates the performance of AI agents in real-world settings. Compared with previous benchmarks, Sierra’s 𝜏-bench goes further than simply assessing the conversational capabilities of AI chatbots, measuring their ability […]

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