Axiado claims its chip can prevent cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are on the rise. In Q1 2024, organizations experienced an average of around 1,300 attacks per week. The cost of attacks is climbing, as well. Per Statista, cybercrime-related losses could surge to over $13 billion by 2028. Software is one way to combat these attacks. Hardware is anoth

Tuskira unifies and optimizes disparate cybersecurity tools

Cyberattacks are on the rise, and the victims are high-profile. According to a KPMG survey, close to half of companies with $1 billion or more in annual revenue recently suffered a security breach. Surprisingly, an overabundance of security tools may be contributing to the problem. In a separate po

Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open source AI infrastructure platform

A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. Cake integrates and secures more than 100 components for enterprises, including data source a

This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback

In this hyperconnected world we live in, it’s easier than ever to send feedback to the companies we patronize. But just because businesses offer more ways to get in touch doesn’t mean they’re poring over every comment. According to a 2020 survey from Productboard, 90% of companies

Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its data centers 

AI's surging power demand has put several Big Tech firms at risk of blowing through their climate commitments. But Amazon has partnered with Orbital, an AI startup, to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — and they're using an AWS data center as a first sit

Amazon SageMaker gets unified data controls

It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, streamlining

Amazon’s Q Business AI agents get smarter

A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business. The focus for Q Business is on new integrations that can help businesses bring in more data from third-party tools, the ability for th

AWS wants Amazon Q to become your buddy for the entire software development life cycle

At its re:Invent conference, AWS announced on Tuesday a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub Copilot. The focus here is on going beyond code completion and helping developers with a wider range of routine tasks involved in the end-to

AWS and GitLab team up to bring Amazon Q agents to GitLab’s Duo Assistant

GitLab, the popular developer and security platform, and AWS, the popular cloud computing and AI service, today announced that they have teamed up to combine GitLab’s Duo AI assistant with Amazon’s Q autonomous agents. The goal here, the two companies say, is to accelerate software inn

Clarifai introduces vendor-agnostic orchestration capabilities

Clarifai, once known as the young computer vision startup working with the Pentagon on its controversial Project Maven, has distanced itself from its early years of espousing questionable ideas on AI ethics, its interest in building autonomous weapons — years before Silicon Valley warmed up to de

AWS’ new service tackles AI hallucinations

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably. Announced at AWS’ re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, the service, Automated Reasoning checks, validates a mod

AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region availability), strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and, the company says, “4x

AWS’ Trainium2 chips for building LLMs are now generally available, with Trainium3 coming in late 2025

At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). These chips, which AWS first announced a year ago, will be four times as fast as their predecessors, with a single Trainium2-powered EC2 instan

AI comes to software reviews as Stackfix raises $3M

Marketplaces for software and services based on reviews are starting to reach their sell-by date. The user-generated reviews on sites like G2 and Capterra (one of Gartner's three software directories) have often been accused of being paid for by software vendors. In fact, eight out nine of th