Amplitude buys Command AI to bolster its app engagement offerings
Amplitude, a publicly traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly known as CommandBar.
Most of Command AI’s 30-person, San Francisco-based team will be joining Amplitude. Command AI’s co-founder and CEO James Ev
YouTube gets better playback speed controls, collaborative playlists in new update
YouTube on Tuesday added new features to its mobile, web, and TV apps, including granular controls for playback speeds, a redesigned mini-player, collaborative playlists and badges.
Until now, users had controls to increase the playback speed in increments of 0.25x. With the latest release, YouTub
Early automates code testing for developers
Early is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses generative AI to generate unit tests, helping programmers catch potential bugs early in the development cycle. The company, which launched in August, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by Zeev Ventures, with participati
Inversion Space gets reentry license for orbital cargo delivery capsule demo
Inversion Space has become the third company to receive a spacecraft reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration, paving the way for the startup to launch and return its tech pathfinder mission for orbital delivery later this year.
The three-year-old startup has ambitions of transfo
How customer service AI startup Neuron7 convinced Keith Block to invest
Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million Series B round led by Keith Block and his year-and-half-old venture firm, Smith Point Capital.
Neuron7 sits in one of the most promising areas for AI technology: customer service. But unlike the hoards of C
Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
Creating engaging videos isn’t only about the visuals. So much of the appeal of good video content is about the audio, but finding (or maybe even creating) the right audio effects can be a time-consuming process. At its annual MAX conference, Adobe is showing off Project Super Sonic, an exper
Google supercharges Shopping tab with AI and personalized recommendation feed
After bringing generative AI to Search in 2023, Google is supercharging its Shopping tab with the technology. The company announced on Tuesday that it will use AI to help users shop for products based on exactly what they're looking for. It also launched a new scrollable feed of personalized, s
Career Karma founders launch OutRival to help companies build AI agents
Ruben Harris and Timur Meyster, the founders of the upskilling platform Career Karma, announced today the launch of the company OutRival, which offers a service that hosts and lets businesses build their own customer service agents to take on customer interactions.
AI agent companies are hot right
Monogoto, an innovator in 'connectivity as a service,' raises $27M
Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations and expansions in mobile networks, on-device processing, and the cloud. But behind the scenes, there remains a lot of fragmentation: Different regions, technologies, tar
Xscape is building multicolor lasers to connect chips within data centers
The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside data centers through “interconnects.” But those interconnects have limited bandwidth, which limits AI training performance. A 2022 survey found that AI developers typically struggle to use more than 25% of a GP
Port hosts internal tool hubs for devs
Port, a platform designed to centralize multiple dev tools and workflows in a single dashboard, has raised $35 million in a Series B led by Accel with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners.
Yonatan Boguslavski and Zohar Einy, now Port’s CEO, founded the company in 2022 after serving t
SimpliSafe's new outdoor monitoring service combines AI with human agents
SimpliSafe has announced the addition of Active Guard Outdoor Protection to its monthly subscription offerings. The new tier includes an added layer of 24/7 monitoring to the home security service. Outdoor Protection Pro is available for $50 a month, a price that includes the Boston-based firm'
20VC closes new $400M fund to ‘make Europe great again,’ says Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings (pictured above), the U.K. podcaster who broke into the world of tech with his 20-minute interviews of venture capitalists and founders, parlayed that fame into becoming a VC himself. Now, Stebbings has closed his third investment vehicle, and it’s his biggest yet: 20VC, the f
Gladia believes real-time processing is the next frontier of audio transcription APIs
French startup Gladia, which offers a speech-recognition application programming interface (API), has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round. Essentially, Gladia’s API lets you turn any audio file into text with a high level of accuracy and low turnaround time.
While Amazon, Microsof