Seasoned executive brings extensive experience building high-performing partner ecosystems and scaling revenue across SaaS and data-driven businesses. Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX), which harnesses the power of AI and conversational intelligence to drive revenue acceleration and operational excellence, today announced the appointment of Paul Gallagher as Vice President of Channel Sales. In this new role, Gallagher will…
Confident Security builds a provably private AI inference engine for LLM providers, hyperscalers, governments and beyond Confident Security, a new technology enabling provably private AI interactions, today announced its public launch with $4.2M in funding. The round was backed by Decibel, South Park Commons, Ex Ante, and Swyx. As AI systems increasingly handle sensitive data,…
CrowdStrike positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for third time in a row CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)1 for the sixth consecutive time. For the third time in a row,…
Mapxus Technology (Founder and CEO: Dr John Chan, hereinafter “Mapxus”) has entered into a technology partnership with Ricoh Company, Ltd. (President and CEO: Akira Oyama, hereinafter “Ricoh”) to transform the fields of indoor digital mapping and 360-degree panoramic applications. Through this collaboration, users will be able to efficiently create indoor navigation systems and virtual tours…
On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, transforming ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a unified AI agent capable of autonomously executing complex, multi‑step tasks—from web browsing to code execution—on a virtual computer environment. Bridging Previous Capabilities ChatGPT Agent builds on two earlier tools: Operator, enabled limited web interactions—clicking, scrolling, and form‑filling—with a Browser‑based agent. Deep Research, provided…
Vision-language models (VLMs) play a crucial role in today’s intelligent systems by enabling a detailed understanding of visual content. The complexity of multimodal intelligence tasks has grown, ranging from scientific problem-solving to the development of autonomous agents. Current demands on VLMs have far exceeded simple visual content perception, with increasing attention on advanced reasoning. While…
While VLMs are strong at understanding both text and images, they often rely solely on text when reasoning, limiting their ability to solve tasks that require visual thinking, such as spatial puzzles. People naturally visualize solutions rather than describing every detail, but VLMs struggle to do the same. Although some recent models can generate both…
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NVIDIA has just released Canary-Qwen-2.5B, a groundbreaking automatic speech recognition (ASR) and language model (LLM) hybrid, which now tops the Hugging Face OpenASR leaderboard with a record-setting Word Error Rate (WER) of 5.63%. Licensed under CC-BY, this model is both commercially permissive and open-source, pushing forward enterprise-ready speech AI without usage restrictions. This release marks…