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Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform.
Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines
Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fivetran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at…
Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs
A year ago, Databricks acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion. Now rebranded as Mosaic AI, the platform has become integral to Databricks’ AI solutions. Today, at the company’s Data + AI…
Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform
When one of the co-creators of the popular open source stream-processing framework Apache Flink launches a new startup, it’s worth paying attention. Stephan Ewen was among the founding team of…
Long before product-led growth became a buzzword, Atlassian offered free tiers for virtually all of its productivity and developer tools. Today, that mostly means free access for up to 10…
Tektonic AI raises $10M to build GenAI agents for automating business operations
Only a few years ago, one of the hottest topics in enterprise software was ‘robotic process automation’ (RPA). It doesn’t feel like those services, which tried to automate a lot…
ClickUp wants to take on Notion and Confluence with its new AI-based Knowledge Base
ClickUp Knowledge Management combines a new wiki-like editor and with a new AI system that can also bring in data from Google Drive, Dropbox, Confluence, Figma and other sources.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried every to-do list app and productivity system, only to find yourself giving up sooner rather than later because managing your productivity system becomes…
Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service
Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.
With $21.8M in funding, Tobiko aims to build a modern data platform
Tobiko aims to reimagine how teams work with data by offering a dbt-compatible data transformation platform.
Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes.
Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service.
JFrog and GitHub team up to closely integrate their source code and binary platforms
Among other things, this includes the ability to trace code from source to binary packages across both platforms, single sign-on support and unified project structures.
HoundDog.ai helps developers prevent personal information from leaking
HoundDog actually looks at the code a developer is writing, using both traditional pattern matching and large language models to find potential issues.
Build is Microsoft’s largest developer conference and of course, it’s all about AI this year. So it’s no surprise that GitHub’s Copilot, GitHub’s “AI pair programming tool,” is taking center…
Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Microsoft Copilot. Hopefully, some of those upcoming events…
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs)…
Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build,…
Ampere and Qualcomm aren’t the most obvious of partners. Both, after all, offer Arm-based chips for running data center servers (though Qualcomm’s largest market remains mobile). But as the two…
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.
Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages
A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips.
GitHub on Tuesday announced that Copilot Chat, its AI chat interface for asking coding-related questions and code generation, is now generally available in its mobile app. The Microsoft-owned developer platform…
The new iPad Pros are Apple’s first devices powered by its M4 chip
At its iPad event today, Apple announced its new iPad Pro tablets, powered by its new M4 chips, the fourth generation of its custom SoCs. The new chips feature a…
During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant. Rovo can take data from first- and third-party tools and make it easily accessible…
At its Team ’24 event in Las Vegas, Atlassian today announced that it is combining Jira Software with Jira Work Management into a single product under the “Jira” brand. The…
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How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier
“I think the travel industry has so many different examples of where AI can be used both for the customer and for the employees,” said the company’s CIO.