<p>Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide the sort of consistent power that data centers crave.</p>

<p>On Tuesday, OpenAI released new tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI agents &#8212; automated systems that can independently accomplish tasks &#8212; using the company&#8217;s own AI models and frameworks. The tools are part of OpenAI&#8217;s new Responses API, which lets businesses develop custom AI agents that can perform web searches, scan through [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data, and assets — nearly as many more to help them manage all the alerts and extra work that those security apps generate. But what if you could build your own apps, customized to your own workloads, to simplify [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dustin Moskovitz is retiring from Asana, the software company he founded in 2008. Asana, a task management platform, announced his retirement as part of the company&#8217;s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, CNBC reported. Moskovitz informed the board he intends to move into a chair role when a new CEO starts. The company raised more than $450 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner didn&#8217;t mince words: He thinks that most companies looking to build foundation AI models should instead focus on building applications. Poolside is an AI-powered software development platform. Warner told the audience at the HumanX AI conference in Las Vegas on Monday that he thinks intelligence is the most important commodity in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A nifty new Gmail capability powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini AI has arrived for Google Workspace customers. Starting Monday, users can add events to a Google Calendar directly from an email. Gemini will automatically detect calendar-related content in an email and present an &#8220;Add to calendar&#8221; button. After clicking the button, the side panel in Gmail [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. On Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber-exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments. Terms of the deal are not being [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn&#8217;t done building. Patterson told [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the market got it wrong when it comes to DeepSeek&#8217;s technological advancements and its potential to negatively impact the chipmaker&#8217;s business. Instead, Huang called DeepSeek&#8217;s R1 open source reasoning model &#8220;incredibly exciting&#8221; while speaking with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks, in a pre-recorded interview that was released [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Developer tooling and containerization company Docker has a new CEO: Former Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) executive vice president Don Johnson (pictured above) landed in the hot seat starting Wednesday. Incumbent Scott Johnston will leave the company with immediate effect. During his eight-year spell at Oracle, Johnson was instrumental in transitioning the company from its legacy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and AWS launched cloud software marketplaces a decade ago, it opened up a new sales channel for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to get in front of potential enterprise customers. These marketplaces effectively enabled SaaS companies to bypass the traditional, lengthy sales cycles. But rarely is the seller-side experience a walk [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lucidity, an Indian startup allowing enterprises to automate expansion and shrinking of their cloud storage, has raised $21 million in a Series A round.</p>

<p>The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup out of Munich, Germany, called Avelios has ambitions to build a new kind of end-to-end operating system, leaning into more modern tooling using AI and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated in the same way, argues Brooke Hopkins, a former tech lead at Waymo. Coval, Hopkins&#8217; new startup, looks to do just that. &#8220;When I left Waymo, I realized a lot of these problems that we had at Waymo were [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. Coinciding with the announcement of Stargate, OpenAI&#8217;s massive new AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it &#8220;right of first refusal&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani swapped stories — and commiserated — over the pain points they were facing in their respective engineering jobs. Nilo told TechCrunch that a frequent topic of conversation was about frustrations over the reliability platforms they were using at work. When they noticed the reliability landscape starting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jon Morehouse launched PowerTools in 2019 to help companies ship static sites and serverless apps to their cloud accounts on providers like AWS and Azure. When a customer asked him if they could use PowerTools to deploy their software into one of their customer&#8217;s cloud accounts, Morehouse was skeptical. Morehouse told TechCrunch that after that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that&#8217;s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of TwelveLabs, believes. Granted, Lee&#8217;s a little biased. TwelveLabs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using TwelveLabs&#8217; models, users can search [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon Web Services&#8217; (AWS) biggest conference of the year has begun, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicked off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman marks the start of today&#8217;s programming, starting at [&hellip;]</p>