The enterprise AI challenge nobody solves with code generation alone

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Google’s Nest Thermostat has hit its best price of the year

Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. If you’re looking for a relatively affordable way to cut down on cooling costs, Google’s Nest Thermostat can help. It’s packed with smart controls and

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Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped

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Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff

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Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They

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Google’s Nest Thermostat has hit its best price of the year

Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model