Cognitive enterprise-grade secure group-messaging and collaboration platform Nuro has closed $2.6 million in funding. Erez Kreiner, former director of Israeli security in Europe and director of...

Cognitive computing company Digital Reasoning has raised $40 million in Series D funding. The funding was led by Lemhi Ventures and Nasdaq, joined by existing investors Goldman Sachs and HCA. Tony Miller, managing partner at Lemhi Ventures, will join Digital Reasoning’s board as a director, and Adena Friedman, president and COO at Nasdaq, as observer.

IBM has released the beta version of Watson Analytics. Based on the company's Watson supercomputing platform, Watson Analytics provides a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide...

IBM is partnering with universities to launch cognitive computing courses that give students access via the Watson developer cloud to Watson. Enrollment is open for fall 2014 cognitive computing courses at Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, the Ohio State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, and the University of Texas in Austin.

DBS Bank and IBM have signed an agreement in which DBS will deploy IBM's Watson cognitive computing. DBS intends to apply Watson to its wealth...