The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings, includ...
Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise
Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.
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Yann LeCun just left Meta, raised a billion dollars in four months, and planted a flag in Paris.
AMI Labs closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation — Europe's largest seed ever, second globally only to Thinking Machines Lab's $2 billion raise last ...
DarcyIQ Launches Support for AWS Partner Central Agents
DarcyIQ connects to the Newly Launched AWS Partner Central Agents Experience, Enabling AWS Partners to Manage Opportunities, Unlock Funding, and Accelerate Deals Innovative Solutions, the fastest growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner that delivers AI and data services to gr...
Veritone Data Refinery Helps Safeguard Personal Data with Veritone Redact
Veritone Data Refinery removes personally identifiable information from unstructured data using automated redaction software, Redact, reinforcing Veritone’s longstanding commitment to ethical, privacy-first AI Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), a leader in building enterprise AI and data solutions, cont...
Rapid7 Advances 2026 PACT Program to Boost Partner Profitability
New tiers and simplified deal motions support scalable, partner-led MDR growth Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD), a global leader in AI-powered managed cybersecurity operations, announced 2026 updates to its PACT Partner Program designed to strengthen alignment between Rapid7 and its partner ecosystem and accele...
Knowtion Health Announced the Acquisition of revly
Acquisition of revenue cycle firm expands Knowtion’s claims routing services to serve a broader range of providers. Knowtion Health, a leading healthcare revenue cycle company, today announced its acquisition of revly, a provider of intelligent reimbursement solutions and optimization services, expa...
Acsense Launches Safe Configuration Management to Eliminate IAM Outage Risk
Acsense, the IAM Resilience Platform, today announced the launch of Safe Configuration Management, a new capability designed to help enterprises safely test, validate, and deploy identity configuration changes without risking outages or compliance failures. 2.5 years of data, backups included — by e...
Surf AI Launches with $57 Mn to Help Enterprises Operationalize Security
New agentic platform allows companies to continuously find and close exposure gaps through coordinated use of AI agents and manual controls Surf AI, the agentic operations platform for modern security teams, today announced its launch and $57 million in funding to accelerate the development of its A...
Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users
Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses.
World launches tool to verify humans behind AI shopping agents
As AI agents take the reins for online shoppers, Sam Altman's unconventional startup is looking to expand its verification offerings to support agentic commerce.
NetApp Accelerates Momentum in AI Leadership with NVIDIA
NetApp AI Data Engine is launching to address complex data challenges NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced enhancements to its enterprise-grade data platform, enabling customers to remove roadblocks to AI innovation. In addition to supporting the lates...
D-ID Announced the Launch of V4 Expressive Visual Agents
V4 Avatars combine low-latency and highly cost-effective performance, diffusion-powered expressive delivery, and consistent identity for real-time user engagement and long-form enterprise video D-ID, a leader in enterprise-grade AI avatar solutions, today announced the launch of V4 Expressive Visual...
Gamma adds AI image generation tools in bid to take on Canva and Adobe
The company's new product, called Gamma Imagine, will let users employ text prompts to create brand-specific assets like interactive charts and visualizations, marketing collateral, social graphics, and infographics.
The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI generated pull requests. Going so far as to stop accepting PRs from external contribut...
AttivoERP Acquires Acuity Consulting Group to Boost Innovation
AttivoERP, a leading Value-Added Reseller of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Acuity Consulting Group LLC, a respected ERP advisory and operational consulting firm. This strategic move underscores AttivoERP’s dedication to delivering comprehensive, cli...
Okta Announces New Blueprint for the Secure Agentic Enterprise
New framework helps enterprises answer defining questions to secure the agentic era Customers can leverage Okta for AI Agents, generally available (GA) April 30, 2026, to implement this framework Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA), the leading independent identity partner, today announced a new blueprint for...
Orangekloud, Intellsync Partner for SME AI Transformation
Orangekloud Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: ORKT) (“Orangekloud” or “the Company”), a Singapore-based technology company offering the eMOBIQ® No-Code platform for the development of mobile applications and SaaS subscription-based ISV Solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Intellsync Sdn. B...
Matillion Announced the Appointment of Tim O’Neil as CRO
Data industry veteran joins to scale enterprise go-to-market as AI Data Automation drives growing demand Matillion, builders of the AI Data Automation platform ‘Maia’, today announced the appointment of Tim O’Neil as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). O’Neil brings deep expertise in enterprise data softwa...
Carahsoft, ServiceNow Expand Partnership Across U.S. and Canada
Partnership Extends ServiceNow AI Platform Availability Through Carahsoft’s 10,000+ resellers into Healthcare, Financial Services, Critical Infrastructure, and Enterprise Markets Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted IT Solutions Provider®, and ServiceNow, (NYSE: NOW), the AI control tower for bus...
GPT-5.4 mini and nano are smaller, faster versions of GPT-5.4 optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.
Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models
Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages remain poorly represented in open corpora. A team of researchers from Google and other collaborat...
Hammerspace Debuts AI Data Platform Using NVIDIA Reference Design
The Only AI Data Platform for AI Anywhere, at Scale Unify Data In-Place and Automate High-Performance Delivery to GPUs Across Hybrid Cloud Hammerspace, the high-performance data platform for AI Anywhere, announced today the general availability of its new AI Data Platform (AIDP) solution. AIDP is a...