Amazon acquires Fig, a startup building autocomplete for the command line

August 29, 2023
Amazon has acquired Fig, a Y Combinator (YC) alum that has been setting out to turbo-charge the command line terminal. In a blog post published yesterday, CEO and cofounder Brendan Falk said that Amazon was acquiring Fig’s technology, while its employees — including two cofounders — would be joining Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS. Terms of […]

Google launches BigQuery Studio, a new way to work with data

August 29, 2023
Companies increasingly see the value in mining their data for deeper insights. According to a NewVantage survey, 97.6% of major worldwide organizations are focusing investments into big data and AI. But challenges stand in the way of executing big data analytics. One recent poll found that 65% percent of organizations feel they have “too much” […]

ControlRooms.ai raises $10M for industrial manufacturing troubleshooting platform

August 29, 2023
Industrial manufacturers face, on average, about 800 hours of unplanned downtime every year, or more than 15 hours per week, according to a recent report. The cost of unexpected troubleshooting, estimated at $50 billion yearly, results in lower productivity and lost revenue. Most companies are still manually troubleshooting, but ControlRooms.ai. an Austin, Texas-based startup, wants to change […]

Duet AI, Google’s AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud

August 29, 2023
Duet AI, Google’s collection of generative AI features for text summarization, organizing data and more, is expanding to new products and services in Google Cloud. At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google announced that Duet AI — still in preview with general availability set for sometime later this year — can now assist with code […]

Google Colab gains an enterprise tier

August 29, 2023
Google Colaboratory (Colab for short), Google’s service designed to allow anyone to write and execute arbitrary Python code through a browser, including code to run AI apps, is gaining an enterprise tier. Called Colab Enterprise, the new offering combines Colab notebooks — the environment where developers write Python code — with what Google describes as […]

Google introduces GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes environments

August 29, 2023
Google launched Kubernetes back in 2014 as an open source project to help manage containers. Over time, as it has become a cloud native mainstay, the company has continued to support the open source project, while offering its own commercial version called GKE (short for Google Kubernetes Engine). Today, at Google Cloud Next, the company […]

Google upgrades Vertex AI to keep pace with the generative AI boom

August 29, 2023
Over half of CEOs globally are experimenting with AI to generate text, images and other forms of data, a recent joint survey by Fortune and Deloitte found. Meanwhile, a third of organizations are using generative AI “regularly” in at least one business function, a McKinsey report shows. Given the massive (and apparently growing) addressable market, […]