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Atlassian launches Rovo, its new AI teammate
During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant. Rovo can take data from first- and third-party tools and make it easily accessible through a new
Atlassian combines Jira Software and Work Management tools
At its Team ’24 event in Las Vegas, Atlassian today announced that it is combining Jira Software with Jira Work Management into a single product under the “Jira” brand. The origins o
How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier
"I think the travel industry has so many different examples of where AI can be used both for the customer and for the employees," said the company's CIO.
Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset
The Overture Maps Foundation today launched the first beta of its global open map dataset. With this, the foundation, which is backed by the likes of Amazon, Esri, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, is getti
PVML combines an AI-centric data access and analysis platform with differential privacy
The Tel Aviv-based company recently announced that it has raised an $8 million seed round led by NFX, with participation from FJ Labs and Gefen Capital.
Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor
Google says its Axion instances offer 30% better performance than other Arm-based instances from competitors.
Chrome Enterprise goes Premium with new security and management features
With Chrome Enterprise, IT departments get the ability to manage employees' browser settings, the extensions they install and web apps they use.
Google Workspace users will soon get voice prompting in Gmail and tabs in Docs
Google is also launching a new feature in Gmail for Workspace that can instantly turn rough email drafts into a more polished email.
Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell platform will come to Google Cloud in early 2025
In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year's announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google or Nvidia.
Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub’s Copilot
Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains.
Google bets on partners to run their own sovereign Google Clouds
Google is renewing its focus on data sovereignty. For the time being, though, it looks like its emphasis is on partnerships, not building its own sovereign clouds.
Magnets are switching up the keyboard game
The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches. Mechanical keyboards quickly went from a niche product to mainstream during the pandemic, as everybody was looking to upgrade their hom
OpenStack improves support for AI workloads
OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it’s still among the most active open source projects in the world and this week, th
DataStax acquires the startup behind low-code AI builder Langflow
DataStax made a name for itself by commercializing the open source Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, but these days, the company’s focus is squarely on using its database chops to build a “
Aerospike raises $109M for its real-time database platform to capitalize on the AI boom
NoSQL database Aerospike today announced that it has raised a $109 million Series E round led by Sumeru Equity Partners. Existing investor Alsop Louie Partners also participated in this round. In 2009
Zip is trying to modernize enterprise procurement
Zip describes itself as the “leading Intake and Procurement Orchestration platform and Intake-to-Pay suite.” That doesn’t sound like the most exciting space to be in as a startup, bu
Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing
Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction. Using Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware and Microsoft’s new qubit-virtualization system, the team wa
OctoAI wants to make private AI model deployments easier with OctoStack
OctoAI (formerly known as OctoML), announced the launch of OctoStack, its new end-to-end solution for deploying generative AI models in a company’s private cloud, be that on-premises or in a vir
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open source fork together.
Adobe’s Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developers
Adobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of more than 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of the company’s AI-powered features from its Crea