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Neon Inc. a two-year-old startup that’s building a serverless version of the open-source Postgres database management system, said today that it has raised $46 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundraising to $104 million. Postgres, which is also known as …
Ansys supplements customer support with generative AI agent
Engineering simulation software vendor Ansys Inc. today announced a limited beta release of a multilingual, conversational, virtual assistant that uses generative artificial intelligence technology and runs across its portfolio. AnsysGPT was developed with OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT technology on the Microsoft Corp. Azure …
Groopit brings its ‘crowdsolving’ service to Salesforce
Groopit Inc. said its crowdsourcing service has been integrated with Salesforce Inc.’s customer relationship management software to enable sales leaders to harvest input from across their organizations. Groopit enables managers to gather data in real-time for the purposes of competitive intelligence, product feedback, …
IBM misses on revenue but sees AI leading a new round of growth
IBM Corp., which is typically the first major information technology company to report earnings each quarter, today beat profit expectations and narrowly missed revenue forecasts in its fiscal first quarter but set an optimistic tone for the rest of the year. The …
Qualtrics folds generative AI into its entire line of customer and employee feedback products
Qualtrics International Inc. today announced what it says is the most significant upgrade of its platform for collecting feedback from employees and customers in six years: a round of new artificial intelligence-based features that improve the quality of information gathered about customers …
Nasuni says it can restore millions of files hit by ransomware in seconds
Nasuni Corp., a provider of cloud file services, today added targeted restore capabilities to its Nasuni Ransomware Protection service that reduce investigation time and speed recovery. The company also said it has integrated its software with Microsoft Corp.’s Sentinel cloud-based security information …
Automox enlists ChatGPT to create scripts for endpoint device management
Automox Inc., the maker of a cloud-native platform for managing Windows, macOS and Linux endpoint devices, is adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities that enable users to create automation scripts using natural language. Automox’s service can store and execute scripts that perform hundreds …
Walmart goes all-in on generative AI – but with guardrails
The generative artificial intelligence feeding frenzy is just a few months old, but retail giant Walmart Corp. has been using the technology for years. The company unveiled its plans to build a conversational AI platform more than three years ago and was experimenting …
Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers
Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use. But over the past three weeks that …
LeanIX makes software-as-a-service renewals a team sport
LeanIX GmbH is adding a feature to its software-as-a-service management platform that gives organizations better insight into the state of their existing SaaS applications and the renewal terms associated with them so renewal decisions can be more informed. Renewals Board works much like …