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Nvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agents

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Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an AI agent from generating harmful or biased outputs. Another works to […]

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Tech services firm WWT acquires Canadian IT provider Softchoice in all-cash deal

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One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024. On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis, announced it has agreed to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in a deal that values the latter at C$1.8 billion (~$1.25 billion). The deal, which is all-cash, was unanimously approved by Softchoice’s board,

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From AI agents to enterprise budgets, 20 VCs share their predictions on enterprise tech in 2025

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While AI is lauded by some as the biggest technological breakthrough since the industrial revolution, enterprises — arguably the tech’s biggest potential customer base — have been slow to adopt AI. While some investors predicted that 2024 would be the year we’d start to see more AI adoption by enterprises, that didn’t play out as

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UK antitrust watchdog launches review of IBM’s HashiCorp takeover

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The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM’s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16. The regulator set a provisional February 25 deadline to decide whether to

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Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI products

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Cloud software giant Salesforce looks to hire thousands of new sales people to sell its AI tools to customers. The company plans to hire 2,000 new sales representatives, according to CNBC, which cited remarks from CEO Marc Benioff at a company event Tuesday. This doubles the hiring plans that Benioff told Bloomberg last month. Benioff

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Numia’s software brings offline and online customer interaction data into one place

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In the U.S. it’s common for companies that have both physical branches and online services to use customer relationship management (CRM) software that tracks all of their interactions with customers in one place. In LatAm that isn’t the case, though, as many enterprises and banks keep the data from physical locations siloed from its digital

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The four startups from YC’s Fall batch that enterprises should pay attention to

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Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week. The 95 startups in this latest batch looked quite similar to recent YC cohorts in the sense that it includes many AI startups. If I did my math right, 87% of the startups in this batch are

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Tuskira unifies and optimizes disparate cybersecurity tools

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Cyberattacks are on the rise, and the victims are high-profile. According to a KPMG survey, close to half of companies with $1 billion or more in annual revenue recently suffered a security breach. Surprisingly, an overabundance of security tools may be contributing to the problem. In a separate poll, 43% of businesses said their teams

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Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale

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Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed at bolstering the company’s cap table before an eventual IPO. The Insight Partners-backed company said on Tuesday it had raised $2 billion in a secondary share sale that valued it at $15

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