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The yellow brick road to agentic AI
December 21, 2024  17:31:07
The road to agentic artificial intelligence will be paved with stepping stones that progressively build on each other. Our research suggests that agentic AI will not suddenly appear without a strong data foundation built on: 1) cloud-like scalability; 2) a unified metadata model; 3) data mesh organizing principles; 4) harmonized data and business process logic; and an […]

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Researchers open-source Genesis simulation platform for training robots
December 20, 2024  23:54:19
A research group on Thursday released Genesis, an artificial intelligence simulation engine designed to ease robot development.  The group included more than 50 researchers from about a dozen universities. Nvidia Corp. contributed as well along with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, an industrial-academic AI institute staffed by MIT and IBM Corp. experts. Robots often rely […]

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OpenAI details o3 reasoning model with record-breaking benchmark scores
December 20, 2024  22:41:23
OpenAI today detailed o3, its new flagship large language model for reasoning tasks. The model’s introduction caps off a 12-day product announcement series that started with the launch of a new ChatGPT plan. ChatGPT Pro, as the $200 per month subscription is called, features a predecessor of the new o3 LLM. OpenAI also released its […]

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IBM’s AI-first strategy: Driving innovation with hybrid cloud and strategic partnerships
December 20, 2024  21:02:32
The image depicts enterprise AI solutions at the theCUBE on the Ground – IBM Analyst Forum event - 2024 feature article.
As technological innovation frequently outpaces practical application, IBM Corp. has taken a deliberate approach to advancing cloud and enterprise AI solutions, prioritizing functionality, security and sustainable growth. The company’s AI-first strategy reflects its commitment to embedding AI across every facet of the business — not as a standalone product, but as a core driver of enterprise value. “The […]

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Anysphere reportedly raises $100M for its AI-driven Cursor code editor
December 20, 2024  20:19:11
Anysphere Inc., a startup with a popular code editor powered by artificial intelligence, has raised $100 million in fresh funding. TechCrunch reported the investment on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Anysphere is now reportedly worth $2.4 billion, up from $400 million four months ago. The new cash infusion was led by Thrive Capital with […]

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BlueQubit raises $10M to provide quantum computing access to enterprises
December 20, 2024  18:15:41
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BlueQubit Inc., a San Francisco-based quantum software startup, announced Thursday it has raised $10 million in seed funding to expand its platform and bridge the gap between the technology and real-world applications. Nyca Partners led the round with participation from Restive, Chaac Ventures, Presto Tech Horizons, NKM Capital and BigStory VC. Founded by Stanford alumni […]

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Databricks raises a cool $10B as the boom in AI models rages on
December 20, 2024  18:04:40
The bottomless pit of funding for all things artificial intelligence remains… bottomless. Case in point: This week Databricks raised more money than God. That’s going to be one monster IPO next year (maybe) if the economy holds up. Meanwhile, Perplexity raised $500 million for its AI search and immediately bought AI startup Carbon. And continuing […]

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From Jane Austen to algorithms: How Divya Krishnan built a career on two passions
December 20, 2024  17:21:41
Divya Krishnan, vice president of product management at Celonis, talked with theCUBE during an exclusive interview about technology leadership.
Tech pioneers often come from diverse and unique backgrounds, blending distinctive skills and perspectives to shape technology leadership. Divya Krishnan (pictured), vice president of product management at Celonis SE, exemplifies how an unusual journey can redefine the boundaries of this field. When Krishnan headed to college, she wasn’t focused on planning her career. Instead, she […]

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From innovation to application: How Google is shaping the future of cloud-native AI
December 20, 2024  16:30:07
TheCUBE talks with Google about the future of cloud-native AI, including trends, tools and strategies for seamless integration.
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and its integration into cloud-native technologies is reshaping industries. As organizations grapple with the dizzying pace of innovation, thought leaders emphasize the importance of grounding the cloud-native AI conversation in practical applications and strategic frameworks. “You can’t go anywhere without someone sprinkling some AI on a little bit of […]

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Dave Vellante’s Breaking Analysis: The complete collection
December 20, 2024  11:33:12
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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PitchBook: Enterprise tech momentum in 2025 will be fueled by AI growth and crypto revival
December 20, 2024  05:01:45
The enterprise technology market is set to undergo transformative changes in 2025, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, crypto and vertical integration, according to the annual 2025 Enterprise Technology Outlook report from PitchBook Data Inc. To no one’s surprise, given the massive growth in the sector through 2024, the report leads with AI and machine learning. OpenAI […]

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TransUnion’s AI initiatives pay off in some unexpected ways
December 20, 2024  04:56:50
Venkat Achanta, chief technology, data and analytics officer at TransUnion, talks with theCUBE about multicloud data management at Supercloud 7 2024
Since launching a massive data lake earlier this year to support its analytics, application development and artificial intelligence use cases around the globe, TransUnion LLC has begun to realize the benefits of deploying artificial intelligence models in back-office cases – and they’re not necessarily what you would expect. Self-service AI models for data preparation are helping […]

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UK coalition of creatives rejects government plan on AI copyright exemption
December 20, 2024  02:21:57
A coalition of publishers, news media, musicians, photographers and film producers has rejected a proposal issued earlier this week by the U.K. government to allow artificial intelligence companies to train their large language models on their content if they don’t opt out. Since the rise of generative AI, tech companies have found themselves in legal tangles with the artists who […]

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Automated accounting software startup Aiwyn raises $113M
December 20, 2024  01:18:30
Revenue management lifecycle automation software provider Aiwyn Inc. said today it has closed on $113 million in fresh funding. The round was led by the global investment firm KKR, which participated through its Next Generation Technology III Fund, and Bessemer Venture Partners. The round is significant, bringing the startup’s total amount raised to date to $127 […]

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Accenture’s stock moves higher as generative AI demand powers strong earnings beat
December 20, 2024  00:49:23
Shares of the professional services company Accenture plc moved higher after it posted a strong earnings and revenue beat in its fiscal 2025 first quarter and increased its outlook for the full year. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.59 per share, easily beating Wall Street’s target of $3.42 […]

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Database belonging to Builder.ai found exposing 1.29TB and 3M+ records
December 19, 2024  23:44:32
More than 3 million records and 1.29 terabytes of data belonging to a prominent artificial intelligence startup have been found exposed on a misconfigured cloud storage system. Discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and detailed by Website Planet, the unprotected database was allegedly found to belong to Builder.ai, an AI-powered software development platform provider that had […]

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AI-powered 3D modeling startup Backflip closes $30M round
December 19, 2024  23:30:16
Backflip Inc., a startup helping engineers create 3D models faster, today announced that it has closed a $30 million early-stage funding round. NEA and Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A raise. They were joined by a Who’s Who of angel investors: Microsoft Corp. Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, Android founder Rich Miner and Ashish Vaswani, […]

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Instagram to add video editing features powered by Meta’s Movie Gen AI model
December 19, 2024  23:16:18
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has teased the imminent arrival of new generative artificial intelligence-powered video editing features for the social media application. They’ll arrive soon, allowing users to “change nearly any aspect” of their videos using simple text prompts. They’re powered by parent company Meta Platforms Inc.’s Movie Gen AI model, and will launch sometime next […]

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BlackBerry reports strong earnings, topping expectations
December 19, 2024  22:58:11
Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. were mostly flat in after-hours trading today despite the company delivering solid beats for its fiscal third-quarter earnings. For the quarter that ended on Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of two cents, up two cents from the same quarter of the previous year, on revenue of $162 million. […]

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Google debuts reasoning-optimized Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model
December 19, 2024  21:54:04
Google LLC today released a new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, that’s optimized for reasoning tasks. The company says the algorithm can tackle problems across fields such as programming, physics and math. It’s based on another Google model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, that debuted earlier this month. The latter algorithm is positioned as […]

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AI world model startup Decart reels in $32M
December 19, 2024  19:53:17
Artificial intelligence developer Decart.AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $32 million early-stage funding round led by Benchmark. The Series A investment also included the participation of Sequoia Capital and Zeev Ventures, which provided the startup with $21 million in seed financing just a few weeks earlier. The latest cash infusion reportedly boosted […]

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Patronus AI releases Glider: a small, high-performance AI evaluator model for other models
December 19, 2024  18:00:30
Patronus AI Inc., a startup that builds tools for companies to detect and fix reliability issues in their large language artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of a small but mighty AI model that can evaluate and judge the accuracy of much larger models. The company calls its model Glider, a 3.8 billion parameter […]

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Smart ring startup Oura nabs $200M at $5.2B valuation
December 19, 2024  17:20:45
Oura Health Oy, the maker of health-tracking smart device Oura Ring, said today it has raised $200 million in a new late-stage funding, doubling its valuation since 2022 to $5.2 billion. Fidelity Management & Research Co. and DexCom Inc., a global leader in the development of glucose monitoring sensors, participated in the Series D round. […]

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Causal AI: The next frontier in transparent and accountable AI systems
December 19, 2024  16:34:44
Discover how causal AI enhances AI understandability, delivering transparency, trust and high ROI in advertising and decision-making.
As artificial intelligence evolves, causality has emerged as the cornerstone for ensuring transparency and trust, transforming industries such as advertising while redefining decision-making. Unlike gen AI, which focuses on predictions and patterns, causal AI explores the “why” behind outcomes. In doing so, causal AI has become a key linchpin in the emergence AI understandability. Causal […]

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Decentralized Storage Alliance welcomes six new members to advance data solutions
December 19, 2024  14:00:31
The Decentralized Storage Alliance today welcomed six new members as the organization continues its mission to transform enterprise data storage with decentralized solutions. Founded in 2022, the DSA is a professional organization dedicated to advancing decentralized storage solutions for enterprises. The alliance fosters innovation in secure, scalable and cost-effective data storage with the goal of […]

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Overture makes its open-source transportation dataset generally available
December 19, 2024  13:30:50
The Overture Maps Foundation, a consortium backed by several major tech firms, today made its transportation dataset generally available. The dataset contains information about more than 53 million miles of roads worldwide. The consortium envisions companies using it to power ride-sharing apps, logistics software, navigation tools and a range of other services. The Overture Maps […]

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OpenAI goes retro, making ChatGPT available over the phone
December 19, 2024  01:49:33
On day 10 of its Christmas holiday-themed press blitz, OpenAI announced one of the most intriguing updates yet, saying ChatGPT is now available over the telephone. It’s now possible to call ChatGPT directly, and for free, at 1-800-CHATGPT, and engage with it for up to 15 minutes per month, though standard carrier fees may apply. […]

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Perplexity AI gets $500M in funding, immediately spends some of it to buy RAG startup Carbon
December 19, 2024  01:13:47
Perplexity AI Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence search engine and a competitor to OpenAI, today revealed it has closed on a hefty $500 million funding round that brings its value to a cool $9 billion. The round was announced by Bloomberg, and came shortly after Perplexity confirmed it had closed on its second-ever […]

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Zimperium warns of growing threat of sophisticated mobile phishing attacks targeting executives
December 18, 2024  23:37:00
A new report out today from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. is warning of the growing sophistication of “spear phishing” campaigns targeting corporate executives, particularly through their mobile devices. For the past few months, researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have observed spear phishing attempts that demonstrate social engineering sophistication: Threat actors are impersonating trusted business platforms and […]

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Supreme Court to hear arguments on looming TikTok ban
December 18, 2024  23:34:32
The U.S. Supreme Court will review a law that requires TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. to sell the app or face a ban. The Justices will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. 10, according to an order released today. The legislation requiring ByteDance to offload TikTok or face a ban is set to take […]

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