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GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
Developer platform GitLab today announced a new AI-driven security feature that uses a large language model to explain potential vulnerabilities to developers, with plans to expand this to automatical
Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions
CorrActions, an Israeli startup that, among other things, built a driver monitoring system that can understand a driver’s cognitive state, today announced that it has raised a strategic investme
Atlassian brings an AI assistant to Jira and Confluence
Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Intelligence, the company’s AI-driven “virtual teammate” that leverages the company’s own models in conjunction with OpenAI
Adobe Lightroom adds AI-powered denoise and support for content credentials
Only a day after announcing that it’s bringing its Firefly generative AI tech to its video tools, Adobe today added a number of new features for its Lightroom photo editor. Unsurprisingly, many
Alaska Airlines does away with check-in kiosks
Alaska Airlines recently started a three-year, $2.5 billion project to improve the airport experience at its hubs and focus cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. As a part of t
Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly PaaS into open beta
Cosmonic, the company behind the open source wasmCloud project, today announced that its WebAssembly (Wasm) platform-as-a-service offering is now in public beta. In this open beta, Cosmonic is also in
Slim.AI helps developers optimize and secure their containers
Slim.AI, a startup specializing in software supply chain security that helps businesses optimize and secure their software containers, today announced the launch of its automated container hardening f
Adobe brings Firefly to its video tools
A month ago, Adobe announced Firefly, its entry into the generative AI game. Initially, Firefly’s focus was on generating commercially safe images, but the company is now pushing its technology
Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations, raises $4.7M
Ampersand, a startup that helps SaaS companies build user-facing integrations into their products, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. Base Cas
Google launches the first public beta of Android 14
Google’s Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days. Today, after two developer previews, the company launched the first of four planned public beta releases of An
Google’s free Assured Open Source Software service hits GA
About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend against supply chain security attacks by regularly scanning and analyz
Discover the SaaS Stage at Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back September 19–21, 2023 — and we’ve mixed up the format. This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions,
Google Cloud’s AlloyDB Omni lets you run its PostgreSQL-compatible database anywhere
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is Google Cloud’s fully managed cloud-based database service. And typically, that’s where the story ends with these born-in-the-cloud services. But Google Cloud is t
Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform
With Spera, businesses get a single end-to-end tool that allows them to manage all aspects of identity security
Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers
Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by connecting these dev
Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance
Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Given that it always felt like Microsoft hurried the service’s launch to respond to
Dylibso raises $6.6M to help developers take WebAssembly to production
WebAssembly (Wasm for short) is an open standard that enables browser-based applications to run with near-native performance. It has also expanded to support non-browser environments, which is what is
Adobe’s thoughts on the ethics of AI-generated images (and paying its contributors for them)
“We’re at a tipping point where AI is going to break trust in what you see and hear — and democracies can’t survive when people don’t agree on facts. You have to have
GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more
GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, t
Nvidia teams up with Quantum Machines to combine classical and quantum machines
Nvidia and Quantum Machines, the Israeli startup offering an orchestration platform to controlling and operating quantum processors, today announced the launch of Nvidia DGX Quantum, which combines Nv