Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

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Altara Announces $7M to Deploy AI for Diagnosing Hardware Failures in Batteries and Semiconductors

San Francisco startup Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Jeff Dean, to build an AI platform that unifies fragmented technical data for hardware-intensive industries including batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices. Founded in 2025 by Eva Tuecke, a former Fermilab physicist and […]

May 8, 12:03 PM

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AI & Data Exchange 2026: Veeam’s Mark Bentkower on overcoming data uncertainty to reduce AI adoption risks

Poor data hygiene can derail AI initiatives before they begin, but Veeam principal technologist suggests ways to avoid data pitfalls.

May 7, 5:34 PM

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The Best Risk Mitigation Strategy in Data? A Single Source of Truth

Every data leader has a version of this story. A regulatory audit surfaces a metric that doesn’t match across systems. A board member catches conflicting revenue numbers in two reports presented back-to-back. An AI tool generates a recommendation based on data that hasn’t been governed since the analyst who built it left the company two […]

May 7, 11:14 AM

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HP and the art of AI and data for the enterprise

Ahead of the AI & Big Data Expo at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, May 18-19, we spoke to Jerome Gabryszewski, the company’s AI & Data Science Business Development Manager about AI, processing data for AI ingestion, and local versus cloud compute. The technology media is fond of quoting that data is ‘the new […] The post HP and the art of AI and data for the enterprise appeared first on AI News.

May 6, 3:14 PM

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Altara Raises $7M to Accelerate Scientific and Industrial Breakthroughs with Agentic AI

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2026 — Altara, an AI company building the scientific intelligence platform for R&D through manufacturing, today announced $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock. Neo, BoxGroup, […] The post Altara Raises $7M to Accelerate Scientific and Industrial Breakthroughs with Agentic AI appeared first on AIwire.

May 5, 8:10 PM

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Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high‑quality data needed to power reliable insights. This conversation from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference examines how AI factories unlock new levels of scale, sustainability, and governance—positioning data…

May 1, 3:31 PM

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How Does AI Accelerate IT Modernization?

Washington CIO Bill Kehoe details the way artificial intelligence can unlock many facets of modernization, enabling faster decommissioning of legacy systems and expedited business process re-engineering.

Apr 28, 8:24 PM

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AI won’t fix the Pentagon’s audit problem

Aubrey Vaughan, vice president of government strategy at Celonis, explains why DoD can’t just lather AI over top of legacy systems to improve financial audits.

Apr 28, 7:22 PM