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28 Aug

Caresyntax raises $180M for its surgical data management platform – SiliconANGLE

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Caresyntax Inc., a startup that helps surgeons provide better patient care, has raised $180 million from investors to enhance its technology. The company detailed today the capital infusion came as an extension to a Series C round it had originally closed in 2021. The bulk of the financing, $100 million, was provided as equity funding while the rest took the form of growth debt. The round included the participation of medical technology investor surgical.ai, BlackRock, French insurer Relyens and several other institutional backers. Caresyntax provides a device called the Smart OR Box that hospitals can install in operating rooms to…

28 Aug

Viggle AI raises $19M in funding for its AI video generator – SiliconANGLE

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Viggle AI, a startup with a popular video generation service of the same name, today announced that it has closed a $19 million early-stage investment. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Two Small Fish. Toronto-based Viggle AI will invest the capital in product development and growth initiatives. Viggle AI, officially WarpEngine Canada Inc., was founded in 2022 by Chief Executive Officer Hang Chu. He was previously a principal research scientist at Autodesk Inc.’s machine learning lab and earlier worked at Nvidia Corp. Viggle AI provides a generative artificial intelligence service that allows users to…

28 Aug

Divers recover body of Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch from superyacht wreckage – SiliconANGLE

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Divers have recovered the bodies of Mike Lynch and four of his guests from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, the Italian Coast Guard announced today. The vessel sank near the coast of Sicily early Monday morning amid an intense storm. Fifteen passengers were rescued by the crew of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, a Dutch ship that was anchored nearby. Lynch’s daughter is still missing. Lynch was one of the U.K.’s most prominent technology entrepreneurs and investors. In 1996, he co-founded Autonomy Corp., a major provider of unstructured data management and search software. The company was acquired by HP…

28 Aug

Redis debuts new data integration and AI features for its database – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMaria Deutscher, Redis debuts new data integration and AI features for its database, SiliconANGLE

Redis Inc. today updated its namesake database with a set of new features designed to ease software development for customers. Some of the enhancements are rolling out for the core open-source version of the platform. Others will become available in the paid version, which includes additional features that simplify infrastructure maintenance and data processing tasks. Many enterprise applications keep their information in two separate programs: a primary database and a second, faster database known as the cache. The cache holds the most frequently accessed records. Workloads can retrieve those records from the cache faster than they could from the primary…

28 Aug

Data management startup Cribl nabs $319M at $3.5B valuation – SiliconANGLE

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Cribl Inc., a startup with a suite of data management tools for enterprises, has closed an oversubscribed late-stage investment worth $319 million. The Series E deal, which was announced this morning, included $200 million in equity funding and a $119 million secondary sale. Alphabet Inc.’s GV startup investment arm was the lead investor. CapitalG, another Alphabet-operated venture fund, participated as well along with GIC, IVP and CRV. “Every company must modernize its data stack as legacy systems already can’t handle today’s rapid data growth, and the arrival of AI further accelerates the need for a modern data platform,” said GV…

29 Jul

X’s new AI training opt-out setting draws regulatory scrutiny – SiliconANGLE

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The Irish Data Protection Commission, the regulator that oversees X Corp.’s business practices in the European Union, has sent the company questions over a newly added privacy setting. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social network noticed the setting in question earlier today. When it’s enabled for an account, that account’s information can be incorporated into the training dataset of Grok, a large language model series developed by another Musk-run company. The setting is turned on by default. The data collection covered by the new setting can currently only be disabled on the web version of X. A similar opt-out option…

03 Jul

Informatica rolls out new integrations for Databricks’ cloud data platform – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIInformatica rolls out new integrations for Databricks’ cloud data platform, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

Informatica Inc. is rolling out new integrations for Databricks Inc.’s cloud data platform that will help joint customers process their business information more efficiently. The integrations were developed as part of an expanded partnership that the companies announced today. In conjunction, Informatica is launching a technical blueprint designed to help customers build applications based on DBRX, an open-source language model that Databricks released in March. Information’s flagship offering is a data management platform called IDMC. It reduces the amount of manual work involved in moving data between a company’s internal systems. The software also promises to ease several related tasks,…

02 Jul

Tinybird reels in $30M for its real-time data platform – SiliconANGLE

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Tinybird Inc., a startup with a platform for powering real-time analytics projects, today announced that it has raised $30 million in funding. Balderton Capital led the Series B investment with participation from returning backers CRV, Singular and Crane. A source told TechCrunch that Tinybird is now worth $240 million. Many applications require the ability to process data immediately after it’s generated. Information about a potential network breach, for example, must be sent to a company’s cybersecurity tools as soon as possible to minimize the amount of time the hackers have to infect internal systems. An e-commerce website, in turn, requires…

04 Jun

Boomi upgrades its integration platform as a service with new AI agents, acquisitions – SiliconANGLE

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Boomi LP has acquired software assets from two companies, APIIDA GmbH and Cloud Software Group Inc., to enhance its flagship integration-platform-as-a-service product. The iPaaS provider announced the deals today at its Boomi World 2024 conference in Denver. Alongside the features gained through the two acquisitions, Boomi detailed several new platform capabilities that it developed in-house. The latter enhancements are headlined by a set of artificial intelligence agents designed to ease customers’ day-to-day work. Boomi launched at the turn of the millennium and became part of Dell Technologies Inc. through a 2010 acquisition. About a decade later, Dell sold the software…

03 Jun

OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMaria Deutscher, OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model, SiliconANGLE

OpenAI today announced the formation of a committee that will be tasked with ensuring its machine learning research is carried out safely. The Safety and Security Committee, as the panel is called, comprises nine members. It will be led by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and three other directors, including board Chair Bret Taylor. The committee’s five other members are OpenAI engineering executives Aleksander Madry, Lilian Weng, John Schulman, Matt Knight and Jakub Pachocki. The panel’s formation comes a few days after word emerged that the GPT-4 developer had disbanded an internal team dedicated to AI safety. The Superalignment…