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ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced its next major product release: A generative AI model code-named Strawberry, officially called OpenAI o1. To be more precise, o1 is actually a family of models. Two are available Thursday in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1-mini, a smaller, m

Is a business coach really worth the investment? Execs often seek coaches to bolster aspects of their work, like communication skills and their productivity. At least anecdotally, these skills do appear to get better with coaching — a survey from the nonprofit International Coach Federation found

Stefanos Loukakos, formerly a director at Meta's business-focused Messenger division and, briefly, the tech giant’s blockchain org, noticed several years ago that online retailers were struggling to connect with potential shoppers. The problem, in his opinion, was that their mar

MariaDB‘s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management. MariaDB also announced a new CEO in former Micro Focus executive Rohit de Souza, who replaces Paul O’Brien after just 16 mon

Earlier this year, software supply chain platform (and binary specialist) JFrog announced a partnership with GitHub that, among other things, allowed developers and the teams that support them to trace code from source to binary package across the two platforms. On Tuesday, at JFrog’s SwampUp

AppCD is a startup that aims to make it easier for developers to set up infrastructure to run their applications by inferring what’s needed from their source code. The company on Tuesday announced that it has rebranded as StackGen and closed what is now a $12.3 million seed round (after first

Can AI ever fully replace translators? Not likely. AI translations tend to lack the lexical richness of their human-translated counterparts, mainly because AI models make choices based on probability — not lived experience. Certainly, AI can produce “accurate” translations, but the tr

Streaming data and Kafka specialist Confluent on Monday announced that it has acquired WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming data solution. Confluent plans to use WarpStream’s cloud-native solution to fill out its portfolio by offering a new service (Confluent WarpStream) that can sit in b

Automation and IT monitoring company Progress on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit. Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta said that the deal, which is expected to close by November 30, will bolster Progress’ portfolio with

Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues.  Israeli developer Eden Federman (pictured above, r

Like every Big Tech company these days, Meta has its own flagship generative AI model, called Llama. Llama is somewhat unique among major models in that it’s “open,” meaning developers can download and use it however they please (with certain limitations). That’s in contrast

Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash (after subtracting the value of shares Salesforce already owns). Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company r

Software documentation — the resources that explain how software works and how to use it — has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plaintext, docs today are more interactive and user-friendly than they used to be. But crafting them is stil

Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered toward enterprise customers that want more administrative controls and increased security. Claude Enterprise will compete with OpenAI’s business-specific solution, ChatGPT Enterprise, released roughly a year ag