Cloud Exchange 2026: NEA’s Jim Tunnessen on deploying new IT at speed
The National Endowment for the Arts used an artificial intelligence coding agent to develop a replacement in a week for its legacy grants system.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Golden Analytics, the AI-native analytics platform built to make everyone extraordinary with data, has announced a $14 million seed extension led by Insight Partners, bringing total seed funding to $21 million. The round follows significant early demand for the Bellevue-based company since its April launch from stealth, backed by NEA and Madrona, […]
Read full articleThe National Endowment for the Arts used an artificial intelligence coding agent to develop a replacement in a week for its legacy grants system.
As AI shifts from output-generating large language models (LLMs) to armies of agents taking actions on their own, there is a growing threat that failures could affect system reliability. Temporal, a Bellevue, WA firm founded in 2019, hopes to solve that problem by stabilizing AI and long-running computing processes through “durable execution,” a technology that reliably resurrects failed computing processes on other hosts. If a machine crashes in the middle of agentic AI transactions, the company resurrects the function on a different host so it can continue exactly where it left off. Temporal says its durable execution process comes with a 100% durability guarantee. The company was solving these kinds of distributed-systems problems long before the generative AI (genAI) rush, and today it powers infrastructure from Coinbase to Airbnb to OpenAI. For IT decision-makers, Temporal’s offerings promise to bring reliability to AI operations — especially in regulated industries. Co-founder Sa
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard. This tension between […]
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard. This tension between […]
The city is moving an AI-enabled smart assistant interface from pilot to implementation after it successfully assisted in permitting. Officials are also expanding training and digital equity efforts.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — GovWell, the AI operating system for modern government, has announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Work-Bench and Bienville Capital. The round also includes investment from three GovTech industry leaders: David Reeves (former President and CRO of […]
Firestorm Labs, the San Diego defense startup behind a containerized drone manufacturing platform, has raised $82 million in Series B funding led by Washington Harbour Partners, with participation from Lockheed Martin, In-Q-Tel, Booz Allen Ventures, and NEA, bringing total funding to $153 million. The company’s xCell platform fits inside a standard shipping container and can […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Cloudsmith, the universal artifact management platform trusted by some of the world’s leading enterprises, announced a $72M Series C financing led by TCV and with participation from Insight Partners, along with investments from other existing investors. The additional funding positions Cloudsmith for massive growth to power the era of AI-driven software development. […]