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KNIME Releases AI Companion to Foster Intelligent Collaboration with AI

KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI.

AWS and TCS Collaborate on Responsible AI Platform to Ensure Ethical Approaches and Outcomes Across the Entire AI Lifecycle

TCS and AWS are reaffirming their commitment to responsible AI by launching a comprehensive platform covering the entire AI lifecycle from data preparation to model deployment and monitoring.

RapidCanvas Raises $16M to Deploy its AI Agents

RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.

Crusoe Secures $600M in Series D Round to Power AI

Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to advance its mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate.

OpenAI Continues its Holiday Event with New Canvas Developments

As part of the "12 days of OpenAI," or what the company is calling, "Shipmas," OpenAI unveiled on Day 4 that it's bringing its collaborative canvas tool to all ChatGPT web users, along with some updates.

MLCommons Creates AILuminate, an Important Benchmark to Measure the Safety of Large Language Models

MLCommons is announcing AILuminate, a first-of-its-kind safety test for large language models (LLMs) designed collaboratively by AI researchers and industry experts.

Weaviate Offers New Hosted Embedding Service for AI Applications

Weaviate is launching its latest SaaS service, Weaviate Embeddings, to bring freedom and flexibility to a crucial area of AI development: data vectorization.

SADA Earns New Google Cloud Specialization After Success with GenAI Experimentation

SADA reinforces its commitment to delivering transformative AI solutions that drive customer success.

C3 AI and Microsoft Expand Alliance to Hasten Enterprise AI Adoption

C3 AI, the Enterprise AI application software company, and Microsoft are partnering to accelerate the adoption of Enterprise AI on Microsoft Azure, marking a milestone in C3 AI and Microsoft's existing partnership.

Pega Offers New GenAI Blueprint Features

Pegasystems Inc., The Enterprise Transformation Company, is introducing new AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities in Pega GenAI Blueprint to accelerate the task of modernizing legacy systems.

Clarifai Aims to Advance AI Innovation by Joining the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Open Research Commons

Clarifai, a global leader in AI orchestration and development, announced it's joining the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab's Open Research Commons (ORC).

WEKA Promises to Fast-Track AI Innovation with the Release of Two New Solutions

WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, is releasing two new WEKApod data platform appliances: the WEKApod Nitro for large-scale enterprise AI deployments and the WEKApod Prime for smaller-scale AI deployments and multi-purpose high-performance data use cases.

Timescale Embeds Advanced AI into PostgreSQL

Timescale, a leading PostgreSQL database platform, is expanding its PostgreSQL AI offerings with the launch of a pgai Vectorizer, available open-source and hosted in the cloud.

NVIDIA Offers Enterprise Reference Architectures to Support Growing Needs for AI Factories

NVIDIA is unveiling Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RAs) blueprints to help NVIDIA systems partners and joint customers build their own AI factories—high-performance, scalable and secure data centers for manufacturing intelligence.

UpGuard Transforms Security Assessments with Enhanced AI-Powered Suite

UpGuard, a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and third-party risk management, is releasing Trust Exchange, offering a significant upgrade to its Questionnaire AI capabilities—allowing teams to quickly autofill security questionnaires using existing security documentation such as SOC 2 reports and policy documents, alongside previously completed questionnaires.

Fortinet Introduces AI-Enhanced Data Protection and Insider Risk Management

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, is releasing FortiDLP, a next-generation data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management solution based on Next DLP's innovative technology and integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric, the new solution bolsters Fortinet's overall portfolio of DLP capabilities.

Informatica Introduces GenAI Blueprints to Simplify GenAI Development

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is releasing Generative AI (GenAI) Blueprints to make it faster and easier for customers to build enterprise-grade GenAI applications on several industry-leading technology platforms.

Zencoder Emerges from Stealth with Developer-Centric GenAI Platform

Zencoder, an AI startup focused on enhancing software development, is emerging from stealth mode and releasing a suite of new products that will enhance developers' use of generative AI.

TCS Broadens Partnership with NVIDIA to Create Solutions that Propel AI Adoption Across Industries

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to launch industry-specific solutions that will help customers adopt artificial intelligence (AI) faster and at scale.

Vectorize Raises $3.6M to Revolutionize AI-Powered Data Retrieval

Vectorize, a pioneering startup in the field of AI-powered data integration, announced it has secured $3.6 million in seed funding, along with unveiling its Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform designed to transform how businesses of all sizes leverage their data for AI applications.

Siren and Senzing Collaborate on Transforming Law Enforcement Investigations

This partnership combines Siren's AI tools with Senzing entity resolution technology to help agencies identify individuals and entities more precisely.

Accenture Helps Fight Deepfake Extortion, Fraud, and Disinformation with Latest Investment in Reality Defender

Accenture is making a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection.

Blackwire Labs Launches its First Solution, Blackwire.ai, Democratizing Cybersecurity Skills

Blackwire Labs, a veteran and expert-led tech firm offering trusted AI cybersecurity solutions, is debuting its first tech-enabled product, Blackwire.ai—an enterprise grade GenAI tool that combines human expert-vetted knowledge with blockchain-powered integrity to deliver cybersecurity insights.

Writer Introduces New Frontier Model Palmyra X 004 to Offer Intelligent Action to Enterprise AI Applications

Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise, is offering its newest proprietary large language model (LLM) to push the next generation of AI applications and agents.

Digitate Flamingo Advances AI and Unified Observability to Transform How Businesses Manage Their IT Operations

Digitate is releasing ignio Flamingo, a solution featuring a robust suite of AI-driven capabilities to further the vision of an autonomous enterprise that can rapidly respond to critical threats.

EyePop.ai Debuts Self-Service AI Platform to Help Businesses Create Proprietary Computer Vision Models

EyePop.ai is unveiling its self-service AI platform that aims to empower businesses to build custom computer vision models using their own data or by leveraging curated models from EyePop.ai's library.

Ridge Security Marks Major Leap Forward in Penetration Testing with RidgeBot 5.0

Ridge Security, a leader in AI-powered security validation, is releasing RidgeBot 5.0, a substantial upgrade to its automated penetration testing platform that introduces AI-driven Web API testing, expanded vulnerability management integrations, and an upgraded operating system.

Sonar Introduces New Capabilities to Improve the Quality of AI-Generated Code

Sonar, a leading Clean Code solution provider, is introducing two new product capabilities designed to support better software development in two critical and distinct ways—Sonar AI Code Assurance and Sonar AI CodeFix improve the quality of code produced by generative AI and enhance Sonar's offering with AI to deliver a better developer experience.

Grafana Labs Showcases AI-Powered Advancements, Cloud Breakthroughs, and More in Latest Platform Updates

Grafana Labs, the company offering open and composable operational dashboards, is adding a variety of updates to its platform including advancements in AI/ML for observability, significant enhancements to the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability platform, and the launch of Grafana Labs' new startup program.

Zenity Launches Security Framework Efforts for GenAI Systems, Copilots, and Agents 

Zenity, a leader in securing enterprise copilots and low-code development, is debuting a new security framework, the GenAI Attacks Matrix, focusing on attacks that target the users of various GenAI systems to examine how AI systems interact with and on behalf of their users, and vice versa. 

Salesforce Acquires Zoomin to Unlock Data to Power AI Agents

With this, Salesforce's Agentforce will gain new levels of intelligence, enabling customers to build AI that provides real-time, data-informed responses and actions tailored to individual customer needs, according to the companies.

ProSearch Leverages Relativity aiR for Review to Dramatically Improve Document Review Efficiency with GenAI

ProSearch, a leading provider of legal data intelligence and comprehensive discovery and compliance solutions, announced the company leveraged its early access privileges to Relativity aiR for Review to help clients reduce costs and accelerate project times.

Airtable Launches a Host of Enterprise AI Capabilities

Airtable is introducing new capabilities that uplevel the organization to serve the most critical, large-scale digital operations in the AI era.

New Salesforce Data Cloud Features Power AI Agents

Salesforce is introducing new Data Cloud innovations that advance an organization's ability to transform the customer experience using data and AI.

Deepgram Voice Agent API Introduces Autonomous Voice-Powered Agents

Deepgram, the voice AI leader, is adding Deepgram Voice Agent API that enables natural-sounding, real-time conversations between humans and machines, at enterprise scale.

Uniphore X-Stream Aims to Democratize AI Capabilities Across Finance, Telecoms, and Other Sectors

Uniphore, one of the largest AI-native enterprise companies, is introducing X-Stream, a platform capability that industrializes the conversion of structured and unstructured multimodal data into domain-specific knowledge.

Veritas Makes Cyber Recovery Simpler with AI-Powered Cyber Resilience

Veritas Technologies, a leader in secure multi-cloud data resilience, is offering new AI-driven capabilities that further expand the strength and functionality of the Veritas cyber resilience portfolio.

Sama Debuts Scalable Training Solution for AI Data Annotation 

Sama, a leader in purpose-built, responsible enterprise AI, is announcing the company-wide rollout of its new flexible, scalable productized training platform—building on Sama's commitment to excellence in AI training.

Tecton Expands Platform to Empower Enterprise Production of LLM Applications

Tecton is introducing a major platform expansion to unlock the full potential of generative AI in enterprise applications, empowering AI teams to build reliable, high-performing systems by infusing LLMs with comprehensive, real-time contextual data.

CoreWeave Selects Nokia to Provide Networking Foundation for Hyperscale AI Cloud

CoreWeave to deploy Nokia IP and optical platforms in data centers across U.S. and Europe as part of massive wide area network buildout to support high-performance AI infrastructure.

Privacera Launches Open-Source Framework for Responsible Generative AI Development

Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger and a comprehensive generative AI governance solution, announced the open-sourcing of its Privacera AI Governance (PAIG) solution.

Vantiq and Blaize Collaborate to Democratize and Disrupt AI Computing

The new solution integrates Blaize's powerful Graph Streaming Processor (GSP) technology with Vantiq's intelligent software, according to the companies.

Qlik's Latest AutoML Enhancements Aim to Build Trust in AI 

Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is introducing new enhancements to its AutoML capabilities that make it easier for analytics teams to build and deploy high-performing machine learning models.

U.S. Special Operations Command Awards Contract to Quantexa to Gain Access to Biggest Datasets for Building Intelligence

Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors, announced it has signed its first contract with the U.S. federal government through a new deal with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

Jitterbit Harmony Delivers its AI-Infused, Low-code Capabilities for Business Transformation

Jitterbit, a global leader in accelerating business transformation for enterprise systems, is offering the "next era" of integration, orchestration, automation, and application development with its unified AI-infused, low-code Harmony platform.

Root Signals Secures $2.8M to Make GenAI Outputs Measurable and Reliable

Root Signals, a startup based in Helsinki and Palo Alto specializing in generative AI (GenAI) measurement with LLM-as-a-judge techniques, announced it has raised $2.8M in recent funding, enabling the company to help businesses accelerate GenAI adoption by providing them with enterprise-grade tooling to comprehensively measure, control, and monitor LLM applications.

Anthropic Arms Teams with More Context to do Better Work with the Release of Claude Enterprise Plan

Anthropic is introducing the Claude Enterprise plan, aiming to help organizations securely collaborate with Claude using internal knowledge.

Redis Announces a Plethora of AI Capabilities to ‘Help Developers Build Fast Apps – Fast’

Redis announced it is "at the start of Redis' second act—a new era of fast, where Redis is an essential part of the new stack for AI."

F5 and Intel Simplify the Security and Delivery of AI Services

F5 is bringing robust application security and delivery capabilities to AI deployments powered by Intel with a joint solution.

MUSC Health Leverages AI Agent Powered by the Amelia Patient Engagement Solution

MUSC Health's new AI agent, named Emily, leverages Amelia's integration with Epic and is currently available 24/7 to answer calls within MUSC Health's patient access center.

Broadcom Introduces Suite of Updates to Hasten Enterprise Edge AI Readiness

According to the company, edge computing is expected to play a pivotal role in the deployment of AI applications and Broadcom is evolving its software-defined edge portfolio to help enterprises address the growth of AI and non-AI workloads at the edge.

SoftServe Launches GenAI Solutions Powered by NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints

SoftServe, a premier IT consulting and digital services provider, unveiled the first release of SoftServe Gen AI Solutions accelerated with NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, assisting enterprises bypass challenges with full-scale production of generative AI (GenAI) applications, along with democratizing GenAI access to expedite adoption.

The BIX AI Assistant Provides Robust Risk and Exposure Management

Balbix, an AI-powered Cyber Risk and Exposure Management platform, unveiled its BIX conversational AI assistant, improving the cyber risk and exposure management experience.

The Enterprise AI Sourcebook is Here

We decided this Sourcebook was timely, given how enterprise AI has caught mainstream attention and triggered the imaginations of those working in IT, knowledge management, and a score of other areas within the enterprise. AI is dominating headlines, and people want to know how they can best apply the various technologies under the AI banner.

TCS Plans to Reinvigorate Xerox’s Technology Services with GenAI

The deal will showcase the enterprise-wide potential of cloud and generative AI to improve business and IT service delivery.

Goodfire Secures $7M to Uncover Deeper Insights into Generative AI Models

The funding will accelerate the development of groundbreaking tools to understand, edit, and debug AI models.

Qlik Answers Uncovers Unstructured Business Data  

Seamlessly integrates with Qlik's trusted analytics platform, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency for improved business outcomes.

Cequence Releases API Security Testing Suite for Generative AI Applications

While many cybersecurity companies use AI to protect against threats, Cequence is focusing on using AI to defend specifically against attacks targeting AI applications.

SSI Strategy and Metalmind Collaborate on Life Sciences Enterprise AI Solutions

Through this partnership, SSI Strategy will leverage Metalmind's advanced capabilities in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) to enhance its service delivery.

IGEL and Lenovo Partner on AI-Ready Devices to Simplify the Deployment of AI

IGEL, provider of the secure endpoint OS for "now and next," is deepening its partnership with Lenovo—releasing new AI-ready endpoint devices pre-loaded with IGEL OS as an extension of IGEL OS' new integrated support for the Intel Core Ultra processors family.

Protect AI Secures $60M in Series B Financing to Boost Security for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Protect AI leads in security posture management with its comprehensive, end-to-end platform.

Teradata and DataRobot Collaboration Accelerates AI Innovation 

New analytics integration of the DataRobot AI Platform with ClearScape Analytics aims to help maximize AI potential across the enterprise. 

With the Power of NVIDIA, EXL Plans to Create Enterprise-Wide Data and AI Applications

EXL, a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company, is launching an initiative to develop and deploy production-grade AI applications in insurance, healthcare, banking, financial services, media, and retail using the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The platform includes accelerated computing, networking, and software.

Deloitte and Anthropic Form Alliance to Help Enterprises Across Industries Deploy AI Solutions

Deloitte and Anthropic are partnering to accelerate the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) across public and private sector clients.

The EU AI Act Rolls Out as World’s First Major Suite of Laws Governing AI

The European Union's sweeping AI reforms controlling the use of AI by businesses and governing bodies has officially come into force on Thursday, August 1, 2024.