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Bill Hilf, a veteran systems architect and conservationist, argues that we must prioritize system diversity and "recovery over performance" to prevent a chain reaction of failures that could collapse our critical infrastructure. Read More
Enterprise AI adoption is becoming universal, but value extraction from investment remains stubbornly weighed down by a type of “cognitive debt” as AI-generated systems quietly outpace the organizations meant to oversee them. Research shows the gap between AI enthusiasm and AI outcomes is widening.
Enterprises are pushing past AI experiments and demanding production-grade deployments, but fragmented data and poorly scoped agents are stalling progress. The question is no longer whether AI agents can execute tasks — it’s whether the underlying data fabric can give them enough context to execute
Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. today announced it agreed to acquire Astreya Inc., a San Jose-based information technology managed services firm specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center operations. The deal is worth about $60
Enterprises can't fix their GPU waste problem because the fix makes the problem worse. Releasing idle capacity would improve utilization, but the same shortage driving GPU prices up is exactly why no team will give capacity back. So the fleet sits at roughly 5%, billed by the hour, and the cycle tig
Certifyde Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million to help businesses turn investment in artificial intelligence into broader adoption and fluency among rank and file. According to a 2025 report from McKinsey & Co., although 88% of companies surveyed said that they had adopted AI across their o
Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Lookout AI Visibility & Governance, a new mobile-native solution designed to provide organizations with the visibility needed to discover, govern and secure artificial intelligence adoption across their mobile ecosystem. The new offeri
Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce Operations, an artificial intelligence system designed to extend specialized AI agents into the back office to automate manual work. Workflow automation tools have existed for a long time — not because office workers are lazy, but because it’s more efficient
Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the ability to switch languages mid-call. The extended m
Information technology management software provider Auvik Networks Inc. today announced the launch of Auvik Aurora: artificial intelligence-powered IT agents that are designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot and optimize their networks. The company says the new agent offeri
Organizations are shifting away from broad digital transformation efforts and instead targeting high-impact bottlenecks where AI and automation can deliver immediate results. These targeted changes are turning slow manual processes into faster, more efficient AI-driven workflow automation and freein
Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform that aims to help people build data-driven companies without hiring a data team, has raised $3.7 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the new dual-purpose effort. Read More
For most data engineering teams, managing pipeline reliability often means waiting for an alert, manually tracing failures across distributed jobs and clusters, and fixing problems after they've already hit the business. Agentic AI needs the data to be there, clean and on time. A pipeline that fails
Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, today announced the general availability of Nexus, a new platform designed to connect enterprise file data to Microsoft 365 Copilot while preserving existing security controls and permissions. The launch addresses what the company said is a longstand
Today, Japan’s unique fusion of obsessive individual creativity and precision engineering underpins both its global cultural dominance and technological strength, guest author Yuki Shirato points out, creating a rare opportunity the world is only beginning to recognize.
More than half of seed dollars last year went into deals of $10 million or above. At the same time, deal counts for seed-stage startups have fallen since the 2021-2022 peak, as has funding going into rounds below $10 million, Crunchbase data shows.
Cyber investigations platform provider Command Zero Inc. today released a set of application programming interface endpoints and a Model Context Protocol server for its autonomous security operations center platform that allows customers to drive threat hunts, investigations and remediation programm
Aviatrix Inc. today announced the launch of a new platform designed to contain artificial intelligence agents and enforce security controls and communications across AI workloads without changing AI agents or code. The company said the launch comes in response to an increasing number of supply chain
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. more than doubled its total profit as it saw strong growth across all four of its major business segments in the first quarter. The company today reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.05 per share, surpassing Wall Street’s for
