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Spot AI Debuts Video AI Agents, Transforming Camera Footage into a Proactive, Valuable Data Source

Spot AI, a leader in AI camera systems, is unveiling a remarkable innovation for AI application in the physical world—Video AI Agents, a platform transforming cameras from passive observers to proactive problem solvers. By infusing cameras with advanced AI technology, Video AI Agents enable cameras to identify, reason, and trigger responses to real-life incidents without requiring human intervention. This announcement is underpinned by Spot AI's recent equity funding round, having raised $31 million—bringing the company's total capital raised to $93 million. 

GitHub's Latest Releases Fuel Developer Choice and Control in the Age of AI

At its latest developer conference, GitHub unveiled a series of new innovations that emphasize developer choice, control, and ease of use for the AI era. Culminating in three key announcements—the now multi-model GitHub Copilot, the introduction of GitHub Spark, and additional updates across Copilot and GitHub Models—GitHub continues to innovate, motivated by its ambition to reach 1 billion developers. 

Coveo Joins the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, Supercharging its AI Product Reach

Coveo, a leading enterprise AI platform that brings AI search and generative AI (GenAI) to every point-of-experience, is joining the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, bringing AWS co-sell support to Coveo's range of AI search, recommendations, and generative experiences. AWS ISV Accelerate Program is a co-sell program designed to help AWS partners expand their proprietary reach by connecting ISVs with the AWS Sales organization.

GencoreAI by Securiti Makes Building Proprietary Data-Powered AI Safe and Easy

Securiti, the pioneer in data security, privacy, governance, and compliance, is debuting GencoreAI, a generative AI (GenAI) accelerator designed to make the process of building safe, enterprise-grade AI, copilots, and agents, easy. Enabling enterprises to take advantage of the GenAI surge without sacrificing compliance, GencoreAI delivers a holistic, first-of-its-kind solution for elevating conversational AI to the proprietary level, according to the vendor.

Zencoder Emerges from Stealth with Developer-Centric GenAI Platform

Zencoder, an AI startup focused on enhancing software development, is emerging from stealth mode and releasing a suite of new products that will enhance developers' use of generative AI.

SnapLogic Agent Creator Delivers Highly Integrated AI Agents to the Enterprise

SnapLogic, the leader in generative integration, is unveiling SnapLogic Agent Creator, a new solution that enables enterprise teams to design, deploy, and manage AI agents that integrate directly into any workflow or data pipeline. Aiming to make generative AI (GenAI) a true reality for any business, SnapLogic Agent Creator propels agentic AI past simple automation to existing as interconnected, data-fueled assets.

$18M in Funding Catapults CrewAI’s Multi-Agentic Platform to the Enterprise Level

CrewAI, the leading multi-agent platform, is announcing the results of an inception funding round—led by Boldstart Ventures with a Series A led by Insight Partners—having raised $18 million. Bringing substantial capital to CrewAI and expanding its market strategy, the core of the company's innovation—an open source, multi-agentic platform—now features an Enterprise edition, delivering CrewAI's technology to even larger enterprises.

Vultr Expands Platform to Better Power Scalable, Cost-Efficient Agentic AI

Vultr, the world's largest privately held cloud computing platform, is unveiling the expansion of its Vultr Serverless Inference platform, centering on providing the necessary infrastructure for supporting agentic AI. With more and more focus shifting on the utility of AI agents, Vultr's latest release aims to lower the barrier for successful implementation with agile, scalable, high-performance computing resources at the data center edge.

EyePop.ai Debuts Self-Service AI Platform to Help Businesses Create Proprietary Computer Vision Models

EyePop.ai is unveiling its self-service AI platform that aims to empower businesses to build custom computer vision models using their own data or by leveraging curated models from EyePop.ai's library.

Ridge Security Marks Major Leap Forward in Penetration Testing with RidgeBot 5.0

Ridge Security, a leader in AI-powered security validation, is releasing RidgeBot 5.0, a substantial upgrade to its automated penetration testing platform that introduces AI-driven Web API testing, expanded vulnerability management integrations, and an upgraded operating system.

$8.25M in Funding Supercharges ApertureData’s Multimodal Database Built for Next-Gen AI

ApertureData, the company solving the data management challenges for large scale, multimodal data, is announcing the close of its oversubscribed seed round, having raised $8.25 million for its purpose-built, multimodal AI database. Serving to bridge the gap between enterprises' diverse data assets and AI success, ApertureData delivers a unified solution for managing and accessing complex, multimodal datasets. 

Slingshot Brings Data and Business Users Closer with New AI-Driven Capabilities

Slingshot, the work management platform from software company Infragistics that brings data to the center of everything teams work on, is announcing a series of new AI-powered capabilities—which range from rapid comprehension features to new dashboards, analytics democratization, and more—that transform data into actionable insights, fast. Slingshot's latest release empowers every business to make informed decisions based on the entirety of a company's data sources across departments, platforms, and channels. 

U.S. Airforce Partners with Vectara to Use Its Retrieval Augmented Generation Platform

Vectara, Inc., an end-to-end platform for embedding generative AI features into applications, announced it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contract focused on integrating its Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform into GovCloud to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).

Cloudera AI Inference Powered by NVIDIA NIM Microservices Yields Compliant, Highly Performant GenAI

Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling Cloudera AI Inference powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Designed to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of AI models, Cloudera AI Inference is one of the industry's first AI inference services that provides embedded NIM microservice capability, according to the company. 

Sonar Introduces New Capabilities to Improve the Quality of AI-Generated Code

Sonar, a leading Clean Code solution provider, is introducing two new product capabilities designed to support better software development in two critical and distinct ways—Sonar AI Code Assurance and Sonar AI CodeFix improve the quality of code produced by generative AI and enhance Sonar's offering with AI to deliver a better developer experience.

MicroStrategy Battles GenAI’s ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ with Latest Accessibility-Centered Update

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is debuting the latest iteration of MicroStrategy ONE, the fully cloud-native AI/BI platform for solving some of the world's toughest data challenges. The newest version centers on the power of generative AI (GenAI) to make enterprise data and insights more readily available to all employees, including the less-technical frontline.

Kyndryl Launches Copilot for Microsoft 365 Services to Facilitate AI Success

Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing a set of services designed to facilitate the adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365 as well as maximize its business impact. Microsoft Gen AI for the workplace by Kyndryl serves to drive AI adoption and business success across the workplace while delivering a robust foundation of data capabilities.

Zenity Launches Security Framework Efforts for GenAI Systems, Copilots, and Agents 

Zenity, a leader in securing enterprise copilots and low-code development, is debuting a new security framework, the GenAI Attacks Matrix, focusing on attacks that target the users of various GenAI systems to examine how AI systems interact with and on behalf of their users, and vice versa. 

Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Eases Complex AI Agent Development

Moveworks, the leading generative AI copilot for employee support, is debuting Agentic Automation, an automation engine designed to revolutionize the way enterprises create AI agents.

Salesforce Acquires Zoomin to Unlock Data to Power AI Agents

With this, Salesforce's Agentforce will gain new levels of intelligence, enabling customers to build AI that provides real-time, data-informed responses and actions tailored to individual customer needs, according to the companies.