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Mendix introduces chatbots and embedded AI models with latest platform release
Mendix today previewed a new version of its low-code development platform that will make it easier for companies to build artificial intelligence applications. The new version, called Mendix 10, also adds two AI chatbots designed to ease developers’ work. The company plans to share more details about the update at an event next Tuesday. Mendix’s ...
Integral releases open-source AI tool for evaluating code reliability
Integral, a venture-backed data management startup, today debuted an open-source tool that can analyze software teams’ code and automatically highlight areas for improvement. The tool is known as Robin AI. It uses artificial intelligence to scan code files for potential issues. Integral, officially Promeed Inc., launched in 2022 and earlier this year raised a funding ...
FTC sues Amazon over Prime sign-up and cancellation interfaces
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today sued Amazon.com Inc. over the subscription management interfaces of its Prime service. Introduced in 2005, Prime provides access to free shipping, discounts and other benefits for a monthly fee. The service reached 100 million users in 2018. According to Amazon, it passed 200 million users about three years later. The ...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son suggests company plans to gear up AI investments
SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has indicated that the company, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications providers, plans to ramp up its investments in artificial intelligence. Son, who founded SoftBank in 1981, detailed the company’s plans during its annual shareholder meeting today. He reportedly told investors that “we would like to be [in] the ...
Google introduces AI-powered money laundering detection service
Google LLC’s cloud unit today debuted a new service that uses artificial intelligence to help financial institutions detect money laundering. The service is known as Anti Money Laundering AI, or AML AI for short. Banks historically used so-called rules-based detection systems to spot illicit financial activity. In such systems, users manually define what type of ...
Shopify brings its Shop Pay checkout service to external e-commerce websites
Shopify Inc. today announced plans to make its Shop Pay service available for online stores not hosted on its namesake cloud platform. Shopify’s platform is used by retailers to build and manage e-commerce websites. It helped process $49.6 billion worth of online purchases last quarter, a 15% increase from the same time a year earlier. ...
Rose Rocket raises $38M for its transportation management system
Transportation software startup Rose Rocket Inc. today announced that it has closed a $38 million funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. The round, a Series B investment, also included the participation of Y Combinator and several other institutional backers. It follows a $25 million raise that Rose Rocket announced in October 2021. According to ...
Observe.ai debuts large language model optimized for contact center tasks
Observe.ai, a venture-backed developer of contact center software, today introduced a large language model optimized to streamline customer service tasks. The startup refers to the model as the Contact Center LLM. It powers a new set of automation features that Observe.ai is rolling out in conjunction under the name Generative AI Suite. Observe.ai, officially Z21 ...
Cloudflare launches Observatory to simplify website performance evaluations
Cloudflare Inc. today introduced a new tool for its content delivery network that will enable companies to measure their websites’ loading speed more easily. The tool, called Observatory, is available at no charge. It replaces an earlier feature dubbed Speed Tab that was released in 2019 and offered similar features. The reason for the upgrade, ...
Broadcom debuts new Wi-Fi 7 chips for routers and handsets
Broadcom Inc. today debuted three new Wi-Fi 7 chips that can be used to equip routers and handsets with wireless networking capabilities. Wi-Fi 7 is the latest version of the eponymous wireless networking technology. It can provide up to 46 gigabits per second of bandwidth, twice the maximum amount that was supported before. The technology ...