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Facebook starts testing News tab in mobile app with content from 200 outlets
Starting today, a few hundred thousand Facebook Inc. users in the U.S. will see a new tab at the bottom of the social network’s mobile app that features articles curated from major media outlets. Facebook News, as the feature is aptly called, is the company’s latest foray into news aggregation. It follows past attempts such ...
Google adds more developer features to its serverless AI services
Google LLC today released a set of enhancements for its AI Platform that will give customers more flexibility in how they manage their artificial intelligence projects. AI Platform is a relatively new addition to the company’s enterprise portfolio. Introduced in April, the offering bundles a number of the AI services available on Google Cloud into ...
Google deploys new NLP models, Cloud TPUs to make its search engine smarter
Google LLC is augmenting its search engine with natural-language processing features that it said represent the most significant update of the past five years. The company detailed the changes in a blog post published this morning. Google is adding new NLP models to its search engine that use a technique called Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, ...
Intel expands 10-nanometer chip lineup with power-efficient Tremont processors
Two months after debuting its first batch of 10-nanometer chips, Intel Corp. today expanded the selection with the introduction of the Tremont central processing unit series. Tremont is aimed at low-power systems that prioritize efficiency over performance. Intel sees hardware partners including chips from the series in mobile devices, “internet of things” gadgets and certain ...
Eyeing 2020 profitability, UiPath trims 11% of workforce
UiPath Inc., the robotic process automation provider valued at $7 billion, has made a round of layoffs affecting 300 to 400 employees just months after raising $568 million from investors. The cuts amount to about 11% of the startup’s workforce. Daniel Dines, UiPath’s chief executive officer, wrote in a blog post today that the layoffs ...
Glitch-fueled earnings miss sends Twitter’s stock plummeting 19%
Twitter Inc.’s stock dropped more than 19% today after the company posted weaker-than-expected profit and revenue for the third quarter that fell short of what Wall Street was expecting. Revenue in the three months ended Sept. 30 ticked up 8.6% year-over-year, to $823.7 million, but analysts were looking for $874 million. Twitter’s adjusted earnings of ...
OctoML bags $3.9M to optimize AI models for a multiplatform world
OctoML Inc., a fresh-faced machine learning startup recently spun off from the University of Washington, today announced that it has raised $3.9 million in funding to tackle the complexity of deploying artificial intelligence software. Setting up an AI model on a hardware system is much different than the typical application install. To maximize an algorithm’s performance and ...
Google reaches quantum computing milestone with 53-qubit Sycamore chip
Google LLC today published a scientific paper in which it said that a 53-qubit, superconducting chip running at one of its research labs has demonstrated so-called quantum supremacy for the first time. Quantum supremacy describes the expected ability of quantum computers to perform complex calculations too difficult for even the most sophisticated classical machines. Google ...
Arm launches new neural and graphics processors to bring AI to more devices
Arm Ltd. today pulled back the curtains on its latest batch of chip designs, which includes two neural processing units optimized to run machine learning models and a graphics processing unit aimed at midrange phones. NPUs have become a staple feature of premium handsets in recent years. There’s one in the A13 Bionic system-on-chip that ...
38 more attorneys general join multistate antitrust probe of Facebook
Facebook Inc.’s stock fell more than 4% today after New York State Attorney Letitia James, who is leading an antitrust probe into the company, revealed that 38 more attorneys general will take part in the investigation. The group joins the eight states that originally backed the probe when it launched last month. The coalition also includes the attorney generals ...