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The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, scaling and performance. PostgreSQL is a relational database management system, also known as Postgres, which is …
Pixis raises $85M to use AI to help marketers orchestrate and analyze campaigns
Pixis, a company that provides artificial intelligence tools for planning and analyzing marketing campaigns, today announced it has raised $85 million in new funding to build out its AI product suite and expand its operations. The Series C1 funding round for the …
Alibaba opens Tongyi Qianwen AI model to the public to drive adoption
Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced that it’s opening its Tongyi Qianwen artificial intelligence large language model to the public, making it accessible for developers and enterprise companies to adopt. Tongyi Qianwen was initially unveiled in April …
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI is now commercially available in Express, Photoshop and Illustrator
Creative software developer Adobe Inc. today announced that it’s making its image generating artificial intelligence models, dubbed Firefly, commercially available across its products through the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express after a successful six-month beta test. Adobe introduced Firefly in March …
Howso launches fully auditable and explainable open-source AI engine
Howso, formerly known as Diveplane, the provider of accurate and explainable machine learning models, today announced that it is releasing the Howso Engine into open-source as an alternative to what it calls black box AI libraries in use today. Co-founder and Chief …
Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ event reveals iPhone 15, Apple Watch 9 and new A17 Pro silicon
Apple Inc. today unveiled a powerful new mobile chip called the A17 Pro, based on cutting-edge three-nanometer silicon technology, that will power its new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max lineup. Alongside the new chip and the “prosumer” phones, the …
Salesforce to bring AI assistant to all of its applications with Einstein Copilot
Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users in their everyday work alongside a studio that will allow companies to build their own prompts, actions and models. The new generative AI assistant, …
Nvidia debuts new software to boost AI model performance on its high-end chips
Nvidia Corp. today announced a new open-source software suite called TensorRT-LLM that expands the capabilities of large language model optimizations on Nvidia graphics processing units and pushes the limits of artificial intelligence inference performance after deployment. Generative artificial intelligence large language models …
Tenable to acquire cloud security startup Ermetic for $240 million
Network security management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today announced its intent to acquire Israeli cloud security startup Ermetic Ltd., the developer of an integrated cloud-native application protection platform and a provider of cloud infrastructure entitlement management. According to the agreement, Tenable will …
Story Protocol launches with $54M to build blockchain-based IP ownership network
Story Protocol, a network that’s building a solution for creators to secure their intellectual property ownership, announced its launch today with $54 million in funds in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The project says it aims to “democratize IP creation through …