WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is expanding its partnership with a professional drone-racing league that touts a tech-savvy fan base, which leaders believe will likely engage with and potentially enlist in the military.
The Drone Racing League’s 2023-2024 season will for the first time feature an Air Force-endorsed pilot and flight deck, capping seven years of growing collaboration. An…
WASHINGTON — Two large defense contractors are teaming up to work on an intelligence-collecting jet the U.S. Army considers vital to its future long-range spying and targeting abilities.
L3Harris Technologies and Leidos on July 25 said they would collaborate on a proposal…
Allvin nominated to be Air Force’s top officer
July 26, 2023
President Joe Biden has tapped Gen. David Allvin as his nominee to serve as the next Air Force chief of staff, the White House announced Wednesday.
That puts Allvin, who has served as Air Force vice chief of staff since November 2020, in line to lead the service in the midst…
When NASA’s Juno mission flies by Jupiter’s fiery moon Io on Sunday, July 30, the spacecraft will be making its closest approach yet, coming within 13,700 miles (22,000 kilometers) of it. Data collected by the Italian-built JIRAM (Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper) and other science instruments is expected to provide a wealth of information on the hundreds of erupting volcanoes pouring out molten…
Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI
July 26, 2023
Imagine you run a customer service desk at a company. You quickly notice that your employees spend a good chunk of their day answering the same questions from different customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to automate those responses and let AI answer them, freeing up your human…
Cyclops raises $6.4M in seed funding to launch AI-powered cybersecurity search platform
July 26, 2023
Cybersecurity startup Cyclops Security announced its public launch today, unveiling a new search platform aimed at helping security teams cut through the complexity of disparate data sources. The company also announced $6.4 million in seed funding from a group of prominent…
Protect AI, an AI and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has successfully raised $35 million in a series A funding round. Evolution Equity Partners led the round and saw participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures.
Founded by Ian Swanson, who previously led Amazon Web Services’…
From data chaos to data products: How enterprises can unlock the power of generative AI
July 26, 2023
Many large enterprises are eager to experiment with generative AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, hoping to gain a competitive edge in a range of fields from customer service to product design, marketing and entertainment.
But before they can unleash…
Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe, told VentureBeat on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter yesterday that while some industries “may not need to exist in the age of AI,” graphic designers will continue to flourish. His comments come following a report by Business…
Fermyon Technologies is expanding its serverless WebAssembly cloud platform today with the integration of a NoOps database to help developers more rapidly build applications.
WebAssembly is an increasingly popular and capable platform that can enable a developer to write code in any number of different programming languages, then have it run in an optimized runtime environment on-premises or in…
