AWS launches new healthcare-focused services, powered by generative AI

Amazon is expanding its range of health-focused apps and services with a platform that offers AI tools to help clinicians transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients. At its annual AWS Summit conference in New York, Amazon unveiled AWS HealthScribe, an API to create transcripts, extrac

Generative AI capabilities come to Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight, Amazon’s business intelligence service, is getting a few upgrades — courtesy of generative AI. Announced at AWS Summit New York this afternoon, QuickSight will soon be able to generate visuals, fine-tune and format those visuals when given instructions in natural lang

Amazon expands Bedrock with conversational agents and new third-party models

Amazon continues to march unencumbered toward a generative AI future. At AWS Summit New York, one of its annual conferences, Amazon announced the launch in preview of Agents for Bedrock — Bedrock being Amazon’s platform that provides a way to build generative AI-powered apps via pretrai

Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s results indicate the AI game is more of a long-term strategy

Alphabet’s and Microsoft’s quarterly results have sent their respective shares in opposite directions. Alphabet’s stock is up about 6% in morning trading, while Microsoft’s is off a little more than 3.6%. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. R

Egnyte is bringing generative AI capabilities to its storage platform

Egnyte introduced some new generative AI tools today, and revealed more of what's coming on the AI roadmap. The company also pointed out that it has been incorporating AI into the platform for over a decade, and is not simply jumping on the bandwagon of the moment. Today, it’s announcing

Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools

"speakable-summary" dir="ltr" role="presentation">Protect AI, a startup building tools to harden the security around AI systems, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Acrew Capital, boldstart ventu

Growth driven by AI will be the metric to watch this earnings cycle

With Alphabet and Microsoft reporting their quarterly results today, there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny on the ability of their investments in new AI tech to drive growth. The two American tech giants have benefited from their early entrance into this space. Microsoft’s investments i

Cloud camera security startup Solink raises $60M

Solink, a company that provides physical security systems for businesses, including closed-circuit camera analytics, today announced that it raised $60 million in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs with participation from Omers Ventures and BDC IT Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Michael Matta said

Thales enters app security market with $3.6B Imperva acquisition

French aerospace and defense group Thales is procuring cybersecurity company Imperva from Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.6 billion. The news comes four years after private equity giant Thoma Bravo acquired Imperva for $2.1 billion, taking the San Mateo-based company private eight years after it had

OneTrust hauls in another $150M on a $4.5B down round valuation

OneTrust has been raising money by the bushel since it was founded in 2016, raising a $200 million Series A in July 2019, a $210 million Series B in February 2020, and a $300 million Series C in December 2020. Those rounds came with valuations of $1.3 billion, $2.7 billion and $5.1 billion, respect

Time for tech’s report card

A lot of the world is busy digesting Twitter being rebranded to “X,” but more serious things are happening in the world of tech: Worldcoin is here! I kid. What actually matters today is that we are embarking on another earnings cycle, which means we can study tech’s largest and we

Reining in API sprawl

W elcome to the technewss Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It's inspired by the daily technewss+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Today I’m looking at a recent acquisition that shows the drive toward more resilient API

Red Hat saved IBM's bacon this quarter

IBM reported earnings this week, and if we're being honest, the results were rather uninspiring. The company generated revenue of around $15.5 billion, down a disappointing 0.4% from its year-ago result. However, even inside its less-than-stellar report, there were some favorable tidbits for th

GitHub’s Copilot Chat is now in public preview for businesses

Earlierthisyear,GitHubannouncedCopilotX,aninitiativetoextenditsCopilotcodecompletiontooltomoreusecases,includingaChatGPT-basedcode-centricchatbot.Untilnow,thischatbotwasonlyavailableinaprivatepreview,butstartingtoday,CopilotChatisnowavailableasalimitedpublicbetaforallGitHubbusinessusersonVisualStud