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Featherless.ai Inc., a serverless inference platform startup that hosts open-source artificial intelligence models, today revealed it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its global infrastructure and launch a marketplace for specialized open models. Founded in 2024, Featherless.ai pitches itself …
Netomi banks $110M to embed agentic AI deeper into enterprise customer service
Enterprise customer experience platform provider Netomi Inc. today announced it has raised $110 million in new funding to expand its agentic artificial intelligence platform and accelerate deployment across regulated, high-volume enterprise environments. Founded in 2016 and formerly known as msg.ai, Netomi offers …
Atlassian soars, Twilio and Five9 rally as AI adoption powers earnings beats
Shares of Atlassian Corp., Twilio Inc. and Five9 Inc. all jumped in late trading today after the three software companies posted better-than-expected quarterly results, with each pointing to artificial intelligence adoption as a driver of accelerating revenue and stronger guidance. Atlassian led …
DigiCert debuts AI Trust framework to secure agents, models and content
Digital security company DigiCert Inc. today introduced a new AI Trust framework to help organizations secure AI systems and their outputs, along with new capabilities to help secure autonomous agents and artificial intelligence models. As AI is accelerating innovation at an unprecedented …
OpenMetadata maker Collate launches AI Analytics for chat-driven dashboards
Semantic intelligence company Collate Inc. today announced the launch of Collate AI Analytics, a new chat-based tool that lets data analysts find data sources, write queries and build dashboards from plain-language prompts in a single interface. Collate, the company behind the open-source …
Meta shares drop after-hours as capex guidance overshadows earnings beat
Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but raised its capital expenditure guidance for the year and disclosed …
Qualcomm shares surge on earnings beat, $20B buyback and data center timeline
Shares in Qualcomm Inc. rose more than 15% in late trading today after the chipmaker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and announced a fresh $20 billion share buyback authorization alongside a firm timeline for its long-awaited …
Wiz finds AI has moved from tool to infrastructure, broadening the attack surface
A new report out today from Google LLC-owned cloud security company Wiz Inc. finds that artificial intelligence has shifted from experimental tooling to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of observed environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The State …
Auvik launches Aurora AI agents to speed ticket resolution and prevent outages
Information technology management software provider Auvik Networks Inc. today announced the launch of Auvik Aurora: artificial intelligence-powered IT agents that are designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot and optimize their networks. The company says the new agent offering was purpose-built for network …
Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents
Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the ability to switch languages mid-call. The extended model is being pitched by …