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IBM Corp. is using its Think 2025 conference in Boston this week to introduce a sweeping set of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud technologies aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of AI agents. The venerable tech giant said it’s focused on making the …
Construction tech startup Field Materials raises $10.5M to automate materials procurement
Construction technology startup Field Materials Inc. has raised $10.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to nearly $19 million. The company applies artificial intelligence and document digitization to a construction materials and equipment rentals market that …
Beyond autocomplete: Reasoning models raise the bar for generative AI
If you go to ChatGPT.com, choose the o4-mini model from the drop-down menu and enter a prompt, you’ll see a message you’ve probably never seen before. “Thinking,” the chatbot responds as several seconds pass. It then presents a summary of the question …
StarTree boosts AI agent support in its real-time analytics platform
StarTree Inc., the developer of a managed service based on the Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is enhancing support for artificial intelligence workloads with two enhancements being announced today. They include support for Anthropic PBC’s Model Context Protocol and vector embedding …
UiPath plunges into agentic AI with development and orchestration platform
UiPath Inc. is putting meat on the bones of the plans it announced last October to enter the agentic artificial intelligence market with today’s rollout of what it calls a comprehensive platform for building and orchestrating teams of AI agents. The platform …
Cloud optimization startup Cast AI raises $108 million to achieve ‘almost unicorn’ valuation
Cast AI Group Inc., a six-year-old startup that specializes in optimizing the efficiency of cloud-native environments, today said it raised $108 million in a Series C round that brings its total funding to $181 million. Two blue-chip investors led the funding: G2 …
Acceldata can now spot data anomalies across multiple dimensions
Data observability vendor Acceldata Inc. today announced Adaptive AI Anomaly Detection capabilities in its xLake Reasoning Engine that automatically identify hidden, multidimensional data anomalies before they can disrupt business operations. Launched in February, the xLake Reasoning Engine is a core component of …
HPE boosts Aruba security and data sovereignty features for private clouds
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its security portfolio across its Aruba Networking and GreenLake cloud families, aiming to close gaps in zero-trust network access and private-cloud protection for regulated industries and multinational enterprises. Today’s announcements include new policy-based controls in …
IBM beats forecasts and says it’s well-positioned to weather a trade war but stock falls on outlook
Expressing confidence that it can weather the winds of an uncertain economic climate, IBM Corp. today reported revenue and earnings that beat analysts’ expectations and reaffirmed its guidance for the full fiscal year. Still, investors were worried about IBM’s outlook, especially given …
Startup Kollegio raises $2.8M for AI-powered college counseling service
When Senan Khawaja was in college a few years ago, he started a service counseling prospective college students on how to get into their desired institutions. He eventually built a small team with hundreds of clients, “but helping the wealthiest students get …