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On Thursday, Box filled in a missing piece on its AI platform when it bought automated metadata extracting startup, Alphamoon.
Most startups are looking to solve a problem inside a business, but Bandana, a New York City-based startup, has a different goal. It wants to help people at the lower…
Every piece of software needs to go through software quality assurance testing. It usually involves a human tester creating a series of test cases, and then checking the software interface…
When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job. Over the…
We spoke to Harness CEO and founder Jyoti Bansal about his previous company, which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion in 2017.
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Cloud infrastructure revenue approached $80 billion this quarter
The cloud infrastructure market has put the doldrums of 2023 firmly behind it with another big quarter. Revenue continues to grow at a brisk pace, fueled by interest in AI. Synergy Research reports revenue totaled $79 billion for the quarter, up $14.1 billion or 22% from last year. This marked…
AI agents are all the rage right now, and Tezi, an early-stage startup, is working on one to help HR teams find the perfect candidates for a job opening. The…
For one thing, Wiz could have seen Google’s offer as validation that it’s better off staying independent.
There is no fool proof way to prevent a buggy update like CrowdStrike’s, but there are best practices that could mitigate the fallout.
Let’s start with the premise that many people take notes as they work with customers as part of their jobs. As they take notes, they may need to access a…
Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the sharpest minds and professionals in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies,…
Supply chain management remains a stubborn problem for many mid-market companies that can’t afford SAP or lack sufficient IT resources to manage a complex program. Didero, an early-stage startup, decided…
At a time when many startups have struggled to raise money and keep their heads above water, Kandji, an Apple device management platform, has been an exception. Founded in 2019,…
There is a general consensus today that generative AI is going to transform business in a profound way, and companies and individuals who don’t get on board will be quickly…
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What exactly is an AI agent?
Regardless of how they’re defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.
For months, rumors persisted that Google, and perhaps others, were interested in buying HubSpot, a Boston-based CRM and marketing software company. HubSpot’s market cap ballooned as the rumors persisted, eventually…
HerculesAI (formerly Zero Systems) has been working at automating professional services since 2017, originally concentrating on the legal industry. As part of that, it has actually been building large language…
Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market…
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CIOs’ concerns over generative AI echo those of the early days of cloud computing
CIOs trying to govern generative AI have the same concerns they had about cloud computing 15 years ago, but they’ve learned some things along the way.
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You could learn a lot from a CIO with a $17B IT budget
Lori Beer’s work is a case study for every CIO out there, most of whom will never come close to JP Morgan Chase’s scale, but who can still learn from how it goes about its business.
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ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform
One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more…
He says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it.
By now we know how crucial it is to have quality data for use by large language models (LLMs), but getting data ready for the models has been an early…
When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners. The iPod and the iTunes music store changed…
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In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AI
Companies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a working product is proving much more challenging.
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
When you look at how generative AI is being implemented across developer tools, the focus for the most part has been on generating code, as with GitHub Copilot. Greptile, an…
Taloflow, an early stage startup changing the way companies evaluate and select software, has raised $1.3M in a seed round.
Asana is using its work graph to train LLMs with the goal of creating AI assistants that work alongside human employees in company workflows.
When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But…
