SAN JOSE – August 6, 2025 – Cybersecurity AI company Vectra AI today announced Vectra AI MCP Server, designed to bring natural language access to the Vectra AI Platform through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Currently available as early access to all customers, with more releases to come soon, this tool allows security teams to engage […]
D-Wave Introduces Quantum AI Developer Toolkit
August 5, 2025 by
PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 4, 2025 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced it has released a collection of offerings to help developers explore quantum artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation, including an open-source quantum AI toolkit and a demo. Available now for download, the quantum AI toolkit enables developers to integrate quantum computers […]
MLPerf Releases AI Storage v2.0 Benchmark Results
August 5, 2025 by
San Francisco, CA — MLCommons has announced results for its MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmark suite, designed to measure the performance of storage systems for machine learning workloads in an architecture-neutral, representative, and reproducible manner. According to MLCommons, the results show that storage systems performance ….
Blue J Announces $122M Series D for Gen AI Tax Research Platform
August 5, 2025 by
Toronto – August 4, 2025 – Blue J, a GenAI tax research platform, today announced it has raised $122 million in U.S. dollars in a Series D funding round led by Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Intrepid Growth Partners, and previous investors Ten Coves Capital and CPA.com. Coming seven months after Blue J’s Series C round, this investment signals a clear […]
SNIA Announces Storage.AI
August 4, 2025 by
Santa Clara, CA., August 4, 2025 – SNIA, a not-for-profit organization for technologies related to handling and optimizing data, today announced Storage.AI, an open standards project designed for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimize the performance, efficiency, and […]
News Bytes 20260804: Comparing US, EU, China AI Strategies, AI and Job Losses, Agentic AI at McKinsey, AI Startup Funding Stays Hot
August 4, 2025 by
A good August morning to you! The world (at least the world as we see it) continued to revolve around HPC-AI last week, here’s a quick (8:14) discussion of recent developments: Comparing AI strategies: US, EU, China; AI a top-five reason for job losses; agentic AI at McKinsey; AI startup funding boom continues
GFT: Wynxx Reduces Time to Launch Financial Institutions’ AI and Cloud Projects
August 1, 2025 by
NEW YORK — Digital transformation company GFT has announced its work to drive U.S. and Canadian financial institutions’ cloud and AI digital transformation projects with Wynxx, its new AI-powered software development product. As financial institutions modernize their legacy systems, including transitioning to the cloud and deploying new AI use cases across the organization, they are looking for […]
Google DeepMind Launches AlphaEarth Foundations Virtual Satellite
July 31, 2025 by
Google DeepMind has announced the AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model designed to function like a virtual satellite and to characterize the planet’s terrestrial land and coastal waters by integrating huge amounts of Earth observation data into a unified digital representation, or “embedding,” that computer systems can ….
AI Agent Finance Startup Ramp Raises $500M
July 31, 2025 by
AI financial operations staartup Ramp announced its Series E-2, raising $500 million at a $22.5 billion valuation. With this round, New York-based Ramp has raised $1.9 billion in total equity financing. The company said it began generating cash flow earlier this year. ICONIQ led the round, with continued support from existing investors including ….
RAVEL Expands Orchestrate AI Software and Launches AI Workload Solution for Supermicro
July 30, 2025 by
Seattle, July 30, 2025 — RAVEL, an IT and workload orchestration software company, today announced updates to its flagship offering, RAVEL Orchestrate AI, as well as the launch of solutions leveraging Supermicro Turnkey AI Workload Solution. The products are designed to simplify the adoption of scalable AI for organizations across industries, such as data centers, […]
