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		<title>OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/openstack-comes-to-the-linux-foundation/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which has steadfastly shepherded the project through its many ups and downs. Right now, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dapr&#8217;s microservices runtime now supports AI agents</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/daprs-microservices-runtime-now-supports-ai-agents/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 2019, Microsoft open sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks for supporting AI agents built-in from the outset. That&#8217;s because one of Dapr&#8217;s core features [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Backline automatically remediates security vulnerabilities</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/backline-automatically-remediates-security-vulnerabilities/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the company&#8217;s co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Savant Labs is an automation platform for business analysts</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/savant-labs-is-an-automation-platform-for-business-analysts/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Savant Labs launched its automation platform for data analysts in 2023. The company, which competes with the likes of Alteryx, on Thursday said it had raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Unlike some other low-code/no-code tools, Savant&#8217;s focus is squarely on business analysts. Analysts, its CEO and founder [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/29/finout-raises-40m-series-c-for-its-cloud-cost-management-service/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even just a few years ago, FinOps — a collection of best practices to manage the costs of cloud computing — wasn&#8217;t something that was top of mind for a lot of businesses. Since then, though, businesses have started tightening their purses. Today, FinOps is pretty much a standard discipline, and there are dozens of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jetify launches Testpilot, its AI QA engineer</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/jetify-launches-testpilot-its-ai-qa-engineer/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2954219</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Jetify, the company formerly known as Jetpack.io, is launching its first AI agent product Tuesday. Dubbed Testpilot, the company&#8217;s first AI agent is meant to make the majority of the routine test-creation process a matter of simply letting Jetify create a test plan, execute it, and report back, all while the agent directly interacts with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/jetbrains-launches-junie-a-new-ai-coding-agent-for-its-ides/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2952511</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a new AI coding agent. This agent, the company says, will be able to handle routine development tasks for when you want to create new applications — and understand the context [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/passbolt-raises-8m-for-its-open-source-password-manager-for-teams/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platform</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/postman-launches-an-ai-agent-builder-on-top-of-its-api-platform/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since it was founded in 2014, India-based Postman has made a name for itself as one of the most popular platforms for building and using APIs, with 500,000 organizations now using the service. Like with so many other SaaS services, though, its valuation today is reportedly down from its $5.6 billion high in 2021. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Doti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silos</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/doti-gives-enterprises-a-flexible-ai-powered-search-experience-to-unlock-their-data-silos/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2950644</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[As enterprises look at how they can best leverage AI to increase their employees&#8217; productivity, search is an obvious use case. In most companies, after all, data lives in multiple disconnected silos and the combination of large language models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and enterprise-grade integration services now makes it easier than ever to not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Delta Air Lines announces an AI-powered assistant in its mobile app and free onboard YouTube Premium and Music at CES 2025</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/delta-air-lines-announces-an-ai-powered-assistant-in-its-mobile-app-and-free-onboard-youtube-premium-and-music-at-ces-2025/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, Delta Air Lines&#8217; presence has become a staple of CES, with the airline regularly hosting splashy keynotes. This year, the company has rented out the Sphere to announce its latest slate of updates. These include (can you guess it?) an AI-powered assistant in its app, as well as an updated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>United Airlines accelerates its Starlink rollout, with first commercial flight planned for spring</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/united-airlines-accelerates-its-starlink-rollout-with-first-commercial-flight-planned-for-spring/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, United Airlines announced its deal with Starlink to offer in-flight internet access for its passengers. At the time, the airline said it would start testing the new service in early 2025 and then offer it on passenger flights later in the year. United has now accelerated this timeline a bit, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coralogix acquires AI observability platform Aporia</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/coralogix-acquires-ai-observability-platform-aporia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2936071</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Coralogix, the well-funded observability platform, on Monday announced that it has acquired Aporia, a startup that focuses on giving businesses tools to observe and secure their AI workloads, as well as set guardrails for them to avoid hallucinations or unintended disclosures. As part of this acquisition, Coralogix will launch a dedicated AI research center, Coralogix [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/github-launches-a-free-version-of-its-copilot/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2931849</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft&#8217;s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stigg makes it easy to change your SaaS pricing</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/stigg-makes-it-easy-to-change-your-saas-pricing/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=2929426</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Stigg (not The Stig, just Stigg) describes itself as &#8220;the first scalable monetization platform for the modern billing stack.&#8221; There&#8217;s a lot going on in that sentence, but what it comes down to is that the startup, which on Wednesday announced a $17.5 million Series A round, helps SaaS companies model pricing, create pricing pages, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on fighting misinformation, tech addiction, and small nuclear reactors</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-on-fighting-misinformation-tech-addiction-and-small-nuclear-reactors/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent this week. Another annual tradition now is that Vogels, who joined Amazon in 2004, publishes a series of predictions for the next year. It&#8217;d be easy to think that this year&#8217;s predictions are all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AWS pledges $100M in cloud credits to help education organizations build learning tools</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/aws-pledges-100m-in-cloud-credits-to-help-education-organizations-build-learning-tools/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AWS, Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing unit, today announced the Education Equity Initiative, which aims to provide &#8220;education organizations with technologies to build digital learning innovations for underrepresented communities.&#8221; AWS is committing $100 million in cloud credits to this effort over the next five years. Tom Berry, who leads the education work within AWS&#8217; Social Impact and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AWS brings prompt routing and caching to its Bedrock LLM service</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/aws-brings-prompt-routing-and-caching-to-its-bedrock-llm-service/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As businesses move from trying out generative AI in limited prototypes to putting them into production, they are becoming increasingly price conscious. Using large language models (LLMs) isn&#8217;t cheap, after all. One way to reduce cost is to go back to an old concept: caching. Another is to route simpler queries to smaller, more cost-efficient [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AWS makes its SageMaker HyperPod AI platform more efficient for training LLMs</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/aws-makes-its-sagemaker-hyperpod-ai-platform-more-efficient-for-training-llms/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At last year&#8217;s AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing unit launched SageMaker HyperPod, a platform for building foundation models. It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that at this year&#8217;s re:Invent, the company is announcing a number of updates to the platform, with a focus on making model training and fine-tuning on HyperPod more efficient and cost-effective for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/aws-brings-third-party-apps-to-its-sagemaker-ai-platform/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic Lardinois]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SageMaker has long been AWS&#8217; fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning and generative AI models. Over time, however, an ecosystem of applications has sprung up around AI and ML models for performing tasks like managing experiments, evaluating model quality, and security. Those always lived outside of SageMaker and had to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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