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Construction safety startup SafeGuard AI lands $8M initial funding round
Construction technology startup SafeGuard AI Inc. Co. today said it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round to develop its technology that uses machine learning to predict and prevent accidents during construction. The company also said it plans to expand the use of its decision-making toolset beyond construction to include compliance coverage. Citing ...
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C3 AI’s Tom Siebel sees power and peril in AI’s march to the mainstream
Any list of computer industry figures who could legitimately be classified as a living legend would have to include Tom Siebel. He and co-founder Pat House started Siebel Systems Inc. in 1993 and grew it to a $2 billion-a-year giant that practically defined the customer relationship management market for large enterprises. Oracle Corp. bought Siebel ...
IBM acquires Ahana, joins the Presto Foundation
IBM Corp. has acquired Ahana Cloud Inc., a startup that offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed price. In doing so, IBM becomes a member of the Presto Foundation, which curates the project that in 2013 was spun out of Facebook Inc., now Meta Platforms Inc. The ...
AWS doubles down on generative AI training
Amazon Web Services Inc. is extending its reach further into the domain of artificial intelligence software development with the release today of several new tools for generative AI training and deployment on its cloud platform. In a post on the AWS Machine Learning blog, the company detailed new offerings that include the ability to build ...
Snowflake’s newest industry cloud targets manufacturers
Snowflake Inc. today is rolling out its sixth industry-specific offering, this one targeting manufacturers. The Manufacturing Data Cloud is aimed at supporting companies in the automotive, technology, energy and industrial sectors in addressing information silos within their organizations and collaborating more efficiently with partners, suppliers and customers. Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in ...
Slingshot collaboration platform gets data catalog capabilities
Development tools maker Infragistics Corp. today is announcing the addition of data cataloging capabilities to its Slingshot collaboration software. The company said the catalog can be used by non-technical users to unify data across an organization and create visual dashboards. Slingshot’s data catalog can be used with a wide variety of data sources, including the most ...
Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding
Observability platform maker Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, bringing its total funding to $150 million. The seven-year-old firm, which takes credit for popularizing the term “observability” as an evolution of application performance management, has staked its reputation on ...
C3.ai shares tumble on criticism by short seller
Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3.ai Inc. tumbled for the second straight day on Wall Street in the wake of allegations by a short seller of accounting irregularities. The selloff also dragged down shares of other AI firms, which in general have bucked the downtrend among tech stocks this year. C3.ai’s stock fell ...
HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup recovery data services with uptime guarantees. The new file and block offerings are based on the HPE Alletra Storage platform the company introduced two years ago ...
Databricks aims at manufacturers with its newest vertical lakehouse
Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry. The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Tata Steel Ltd. This vertical ...