Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s a lot of churn,” Rao, NeuBird’s CEO, told The Tech Spot. “It doesn’t help that the modern IT stack just keeps getting more and more complex. Humans alone cannot possibly keep up with this kind of change.” To deal with that increased complexity, NeuBird built…
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In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. in recent weeks were coming from a foreign entity, nor were they U.S. military drones. The comments come a day after a U.S. Congressional hearing focused on the increasing drone activity, where several Capital Hill lawmakers expressed frustration with the lack of information and response to the drone incursions. The FBI told lawmakers during Tuesday’s hearing that it’s working with state and local authorities to investigate the situation and…
Green ammonia startup Amogy has raised $11.2 million of a targeted $90 million round, an SEC filing reveals. The new round’s target is significantly smaller than its last round — a $139 million Series B-1 that was announced in March 2023 — highlighting the challenges that middle-stage climate startups face today when trying to attract investment. Amogy did not immediately reply to questions about the funding round. The company is focused on various transportation markets, including maritime shipping, long-haul trucking, and agriculture. Earlier this year, Amogy tested its ammonia-to-power technology in a retrofitted tugboat, and it previously tested it in…
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads on Wednesday were all experiencing issues to varying degrees as a result of a global outage affecting Meta’s apps. The cause of the outage is not yet known, but Meta has acknowledged a “technical issue” in a post on X. The company at 1:48 p.m. ET wrote, “We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.” Instagram posted a similar message on X, along with the hashtag #instagramdown for visibility. WhatsApp…
Alongside the release of a host of new AI features, Apple is also updating the Voice Memos app in iOS 18.2. On Wednesday, the iPhone maker announced that iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max users will be able to layer a vocal track on top of an existing instrumental recording in the Voice Memos app, without needing to use headphones. Instead, users will be able to record their instruments using the iPhone’s speaker while simultaneously recording their vocals with microphones on the 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. The update was first announced at Apple’s event back in September, offering…
Longtime readers of the newsletter might’ve noticed that we skipped a week last week. That wasn’t our intent, and we do apologize. The reason was we’ve reached an inflection point in the AI news cycle. We’re a small team, and we’re stretched thin. It’s becoming next to impossible to cover every announcement, controversy, academic paper, trend, open model release, lawsuit, and so on. Take this month, for example. OpenAI is in the midst of what’s effectively a 12-day press engagement. Google is gearing up to launch major new AI products, as is Elon Musk’s company, xAI. And that’s only the…
Following years of talk around Apple’s lack of innovation when it comes to Siri, Apple promised the launch of a smarter version of its digital assistant. Siri is getting new features and updates with iOS 18 thanks to the addition of Apple Intelligence, the company’s generative AI offering, and an integration with ChatGPT. It’s worth noting that some of Siri’s upcoming notable updates, such as onscreen awareness, aren’t yet available and will launch at some point in the future. Here’s a look at what the introduction of Apple Intelligence allows you to do with the revamped digital assistant. ChatGPT integration…
If you’re looking for laptop deals, Best Buy is an excellent source of huge discounts. Check out this offer for the HP 17.3-inch laptop: an incredibly low price of $350, for savings of $280 on its original price of $630. That’s a steal any way you look at it, but you’re going to have to hurry if you want to take advantage of this bargain because it’s only available today. There are just a few hours remaining before the laptop’s price returns to normal, so if you don’t want to miss out, you’re going to have to make your purchase…
Future MacBook Pro models may trade in Apple’s now signature notch design for a hole-punch camera motif. A component road map from research firm Omdia details that Apple has plans to make changes to the display of its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models that will be released in 2026. MacRumors noted that it is still unknown whether Apple would bring its Dynamic Island feature, which is popular on the iPhone line, to the MacBook Pro series. The feature allows the notification tab to expand and show necessary icons when a user needs them; otherwise, only the camera module is…
OpenAI has been promising to release its next-gen video generator model, Sora, since February. On Monday, the company finally dropped a working version of it as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event. This is a critical part of our AGI roadmap,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during the company’s live stream. According to the OpenAI team, Sora will be made available to Plus and Pro subscribers in the U.S. and around the world starting Monday afternoon. YouTuber Marques Brownlee reportedly got early access to the video generator and released a brief review on his channel on Monday morning.…
