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Amazon Web Services Inc. is using its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today to broaden the scope of its Q Business generative artificial intelligence assistant with new features and integration with its QuickSight business intelligence tool. Q Business, which AWS introduced …
Cloud security firm Upwind nabs $100M funding at $900M valuation
Confirming earlier reports, cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today said it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding at a $900 million valuation, or roughly triple that of a him$50 million funding round 15 months ago. Since its founding …
Oracle database on AWS cloud enters limited preview
Oracle Corp. today announced a limited preview of its Exadata Database offering on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The announcement makes good on plans Oracle announced in September that appeared to put an end to the long-standing feud between the two …
Safety and reliability concerns temper agentic AI mania
When information services and technology firm Thomson Reuters Corp. acquired accounting software firm Materia in October, it paved the way for what it sees as the future of its business. Materia, which is the business name of Credere Technologies Inc., builds software …
AI agents are practical. Reliability is another matter.
Building artificial intelligence agents that can interact with each other reliably across services presents technical challenges that have never been tackled before. According to one AI researcher, that will limit their use to a narrow set of business processes for the next …
Strong renewals propel Nutanix past Wall Street estimates
Nutanix Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and sent the stock up more than 4% after hours. The company swung from a loss of $15.85 million, or seven cents a share, a year ago to a …
Microsoft integrates source-code analysis into its cloud security suite
Endor Labs Inc. says Microsoft Corp. has natively integrated its software composition analysis technology into its Microsoft Defender for Cloud cloud-native application protection platform. That means security teams can consolidate their application security and cloud security programs into a single platform and …
Procore to add AI agents to its construction management software platform
Construction software firm Procore Technologies, Inc. today announced plans to release a set of artificial intelligence agents early next year that are tuned to enforcing project efficiency, improving safety, enhancing decision-making and streamlining workflows. Agents are based on Procore AI, a unified …
StarTree brings batch-like flexibility and performance to streaming data
StarTree Inc., the developer of a managed service based on the Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, today rolled out a set of enhancements aimed at helping organizations more efficiently accommodate evolving data structures, enhance query performance and streamline user access management. …
Dell boosts Azure AI storage and adds services to support Copilot+ PCs
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced new products and services for Microsoft Corp. platforms that address data protection, resiliency and security. Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will be a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking to simplify storage management in multicloud environments. …