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Report: X could be looking at $1B fine from EU over illicit content and misinformation

April 4, 2025 04:05:50

Regulators in Europe are considering fining Elon Musk’s X Corp. $1 billion, according to a report in the New York Times today. The report is based on information provided to the Times by four insiders who each declined to give their names or get into the specifics of a current investigation. The broader allegation is […]

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Cognition AI launches revamped coding assistant Devin 2.0 with much lower starting price

April 4, 2025 01:35:56

Cognition AI Inc., creator of the generative artificial intelligence-powered coding bot Devin, today announced a new version of that tool with more powerful capabilities, and it’s available at a much lower cost than before. It was just over a year ago that Cognition AI took the coding world by storm with the release of Devin, […]

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Google DeepMind outlines safety framework for future AGI development

April 4, 2025 00:22:44

A new paper from Google DeepMind Technologies Ltd., the artificial intelligence research laboratory that is part of Alphabet Inc., this week laid out a comprehensive framework for navigating the risks and responsibilities of developing artificial general intelligence, marking one of the clearest commitments yet from the company on AGI safety. AGIs are theoretical AI systems that […]

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Report: TSMC tentatively agrees to establish chipmaking joint venture with Intel

April 4, 2025 00:22:13

Troubled chipmaking giant Intel Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with its rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to create a joint venture that will take over the running of its chip fabrication plants in the U.S. The news comes via a report in The Information, which cites two sources familiar with the tentative agreement. Nothing […]

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Microsoft scales back global AI data center expansion plans amid emerging low-cost model trends

April 3, 2025 23:47:42

Microsoft Corp. has reportedly pulled back on multiple planned data center projects three months after it announced plans to spend $80 billion to build artificial intelligence data centers through the current fiscal year. Bloomberg, referencing people familiar with the situation, claims that Microsoft had recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Australia, […]

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Oracle reportedly informs clients of system breach following earlier denial

April 3, 2025 23:05:35

Oracle Corp. has reportedly told some customers that a hacker broke into computer systems and stole old client login credentials. The admission comes after the company publicly denied any breach had taken place following a hacker offering allegedly stolen Oracle data on BreachForums. Bloomberg, referencing two people familiar with the matter, claims that Oracle staff […]

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Data management startup Hydrolix reels in $80M

April 3, 2025 22:53:43

Data lake provider Hydrolix Inc. today announced that it has raised $80 million in funding to finance growth initiatives. QED led the investment. It was joined by a dozen other backers, including Akamai Technologies Inc., which resells Hydrolix’s technology to its customers. The round follows a year in which the startup’s revenue grew eightfold. Portland-based […]

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Financial technology startup Plaid closes $575M investment at $6B valuation

April 3, 2025 21:41:22

Plaid Inc., a startup that provides software for connecting financial applications with one another, has raised $575 million in fresh funding. The raise was led by a group of new investors that included Franklin Templeton, Fidelity and BlackRock. Plaid detailed in its announcement of the round today that several returning backers chipped in as well. […]

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AI video generation startup Runway raises $308M round at $3B valuation

April 3, 2025 19:23:41

Runway AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $308 million funding round led by General Atlantic. The growth equity firm was joined by several other investors including Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. The chipmaker also backed Runway’s previous $141 million funding round in 2023. Bloomberg reported that the artificial […]

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Smaller AI models redefine what’s possible with Kubernetes

April 3, 2025 19:08:04

Holly Cummins, senior principal software engineer for Quarkus at Red Hat, and Vincent Caldeira, CTO for APAC at Red Hat, talk about Kubernetes with theCUBE at KubeCon EU 2025.

Kubernetes is emerging as a critical backbone in the race to operationalize artificial intelligence at scale, even as its stateless foundation collides with AI’s deep reliance on data context and state. As AI moves beyond the lab into real-world enterprise systems, the demand for distributed, resilient and orchestrated infrastructure is transforming cloud-native strategies. Organizations are […]

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Kubernetes meets AI: How Google Cloud is engineering stability for the next wave of inference

April 3, 2025 17:00:42

Kubernetes for AI optimizes workloads, scales ML models, and enhances efficiency in modern AI-driven applications.

Kubernetes has evolved far beyond its roots as an open-source container orchestration platform — it’s now a cornerstone of modern AI and machine learning infrastructure. As the chaotic sprint of early innovation gives way to a more focused and deliberate momentum, Kubernetes is powering a new era of intelligent workloads. For developers and enterprises alike, […]

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AI phishing hits its Skynet moment as agents outperform human red teams

April 3, 2025 16:00:52

A new report out today from cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. reveals that artificial intelligence-powered phishing agents have surpassed elite human red teams in crafting effective phishing attacks, a milestone that arguably reshapes the cybersecurity threat landscape. The report describes AI as having reached its “Skynet moment for social engineering,” a reference to “The Terminator” movie franchise, […]

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Portworx helps HSBC handle Kubernetes at scale with no margin for error

April 3, 2025 15:46:54

Venkat Ramakrishnan, president and general manager of Portworx by Pure Storage Inc., and Steve Lewis, global head of engineering for container platforms at HSBC Group, talk with theCUBE about Kubernetes data management during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 event.

In modern banking, money might be the product, but data is the power behind the machine. And when infrastructure is juggling millions of transactions and trillions of dollars in payments, Kubernetes data management becomes critical and resilience isn’t just a goal — it’s the mandate. At HSBC Group, that mandate takes the form of a […]

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Red-teaming startup Yrikka launches with pre-seed funding to secure critical AI systems

April 3, 2025 14:00:41

Red-teaming automation startup Yrikka AI Inc. has just launched its first publicly available application programming interface after closing on a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Focal and Garuda Ventures. The startup provides API access to artificial intelligence agents that can aid in red-teaming efforts to try and identify vulnerabilities in AI systems. Red-teaming […]

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AutonomyAI launches with $4M to build front-end development AI agents

April 3, 2025 13:00:23

AutonomyAI, a company building autonomous artificial intelligence agents to enhance front-end development, announced its launch today with $4 million in pre-seed funding. Investors participating in the capital raise included Inbound Capital, Gilad Shany of Ion Partners and Vikram Makhiija, senior director of Google Cloud Security at Google LLC, among others. Autonomy developed what it calls […]

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Unframe launches with $50M in funding to offer outcome-based AI solutions for businesses

April 3, 2025 13:00:09

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to support global expansion and sales growth while enhancing its platform by accelerating research and development. Unframe was founded by Chief Executive Shay Levi, a co-founder of application programming security startup Noname Security Inc., which […]

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Global VC funding hits $113 billion in first quarter driven by outsized AI deals

April 3, 2025 11:00:54

New reports out today from Crunchbase Inc. and PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reveal that global venture capital rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2025, posting its strongest performance since mid-2022. However, both datasets point to a growing division in the startup ecosystem where a small set of companies and sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, are capturing […]

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Tech stocks slump after Trump announces ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

April 3, 2025 03:08:47

Tech stocks took a steep dive in after-hours trading today after President Donald Trump announced controversial “reciprocal” tariffs, 10% on all goods coming from foreign countries with higher tariffs on what Trump called the “worst offenders.” The tariffs, which will go into effect April 9, hit most tech firms hard. Apple Inc. stock fell 6%, […]

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Penguin Solutions beats estimates and raises guidance on growing AI infrastructure demand

April 3, 2025 01:35:52

Shares of the artificial intelligence infrastructure management company Penguin Solutions Inc. traded higher after-hours today after it posted a solid earnings and revenue beat and raised its full year outlook. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 52 cents per share, crushing the analyst consensus estimate, which called for earnings of […]

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Amazon to send 27 Kuiper communications satellites into orbit this month

April 3, 2025 00:38:12

Amazon.com Inc. said today it has set a date for the long-awaited launch of its first Kuiper internet satellites: They’ll will be sent into orbit on United Launch Alliance LLC’s Atlas V rocket, which is slated to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 9. The mission is a key step for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, […]

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Siemens to buy life sciences R&D company Dotmatics for $5.1B

April 2, 2025 23:37:19

German industrial giant Siemens AG said today it will pay $5.1 billion to acquire the life sciences data startup Dotmatics in an effort to expand its artificial intelligence offerings. The company said the deal to acquire Dotmatics, officially known as GraphPad Software LLC, is expected to close in the first half of 2026, according to […]

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Adaptive Security raises $43M for its AI cyberattack simulation platform

April 2, 2025 22:49:45

Adaptive Security Inc., a startup that helps companies test their cybersecurity posture using simulated social engineering attacks, has raised $43 million in fresh funding. Andreessen Horowitz and the OpenAI Startup Fund led the Series A round. Adaptive Security detailed in its funding announcement today that more than a half-dozen other backers chipped in as well. […]

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Cyberhaven nabs $100M for its AI-powered data protection platform

April 2, 2025 21:19:51

Data security startup Cyberhaven Inc. today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round to support its growth efforts. The Series D investment was led by StepStone Group with participation from Schroders and Industry Ventures. The raise values Cyberhaven at more than $1 billion, or about seven times what it was worth following […]

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How Dynatrace is redefining observability for AI-native systems

April 2, 2025 20:59:35

Alois Reitbauer, chief technology strategist of Dynatrace, talks about real-time observability at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – 2025.

As artificial intelligence accelerates innovation in software development, the need for real-time observability has never been greater. The convergence of generative AI and platform engineering has introduced unprecedented complexity across digital systems. Already under pressure to maintain high velocity, developers must now navigate unpredictable execution flows and AI-native workloads. Real-time observability has shifted from a […]

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Qualcomm weighing acquisition of publicly traded chip designer Alphawave

April 2, 2025 19:16:22

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. may seek to buy Alphawave IP Group PLC, a U.K.-based designer of connectivity chips. The potential deal was disclosed on Tuesday. In a filing with the London Stock Exchange, Qualcomm stated that it’s weighing an acquisition but “there can be no certainty that any firm offer will be made, nor as to […]

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Kong brings API expertise to AI governance management

April 2, 2025 19:02:37

Marco Palladino, co-founder and chief technology officer of Kong, discusses the updates to AI Gateway with theCUBE's John Furrier.

Responding to growing demands for improved governance in enterprise artificial intelligence, application programming interface specialist Kong Inc. has unveiled an enhanced version of its Kong AI Gateway. AI Gateway functions as a retrieval engine for large language models and provides the infrastructure for managing the entire AI governance lifecycle. The 3.10 version takes the technology a […]

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Platform engineering maturity brings new challenges and deeper collaboration

April 2, 2025 16:29:56

Harriet Lawrence, principal product manager for OpenShift, and Kirsten Newcomer, senior director of OpenShift and security product management at Red Hat, talk to theCUBE about platform engineering at KubeCon EU 2025.

As platform engineering continues to evolve, enterprises are navigating challenges that range from early adoption hurdles to advanced scalability and compliance. Modern cloud-native organizations are embracing new architectures and processes, but the journey is far from linear. Conversations around DevSecOps, data sovereignty and artificial intelligence-enablement are intersecting with technological advances such as GitOps, Service Mesh […]

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KubeCon day 1 keynote analysis: Taming multicloud complexity with cloud-native observability and automation

April 2, 2025 16:08:07

Paul Nashawaty, Savannah Peterson and Rob Strechay of theCUBE Research, discuss cloud-native observability at KubeCon EU 2025.

Cloud-native observability is reshaping how organizations approach complexity and skill gaps in information technology. As companies navigate the evolving landscape of cloud-native technologies, significant challenges around observability, multicloud integration and talent acquisition continue to emerge. The growing reliance on multiple observability tools underscores an industry trend toward platform consolidation, driven largely by the demand for […]

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French startup Gladia launches next-generation multilingual speech-to-text AI model Solaria

April 2, 2025 16:05:36

Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Gladia SAS, developer of AI transcription and audio intelligence services, today announced the launch of Solaria, a state-of-the-art AI model designed for real-time multilingual communications. Although many businesses outsource transcription and translation for call centers and other business uses to save on cost, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to build real-time support […]

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Parasail promises to power any AI workload with on-demand access to cloud-based GPUs

April 2, 2025 13:00:59

Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced the launch of its new AI Deployment Network, a new cloud-hosted platform that provides enterprises with immediate, cost-efficient and on-demand access to powerful graphics processing units. Parasail says its AI Deployment Network is special because it allows companies to tap into a massive, contract-free pool of high-performance […]

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