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Salvador raises $6M to help industrial organizations recover from cyberattacks in just 30 seconds
Cyberattack recovery startup Salvador Technologies Ltd. said today it has secured $6 million in funding to help it achieve its goal of protecting industrial organizations and their most critical information technology infrastructure. Today’s round was led by Pico Venture Partners and saw participation from existing investors Pitango VC and Sarona Partners. The Israeli startup says ...
Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests laser-based space communications tech
Kuiper Systems LLC, the satellite network constellation subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., has achieved a big milestone after successfully testing its laser-based communications technology in space with two prototype Project Kuiper satellites. Project Kuiper is the name of Amazon’s initiative to challenge SpaceX Corp.’s Starlink service, and aims to provide broadband internet access from satellites to ...
Google’s DeepMind creates generative AI model with fact checker to crack unsolvable math problem
Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit claims to have cracked an unsolvable math problem using a large language model-based chatbot equipped with a fact-checker to filter out useless outputs. By using a filter, DeepMind researchers say the LLM can generate millions of responses, but only submit the ones that can be verified as accurate. ...
Intel debuts AI-accelerated Core Ultra and 5th Gen Xeon chips to enable AI to run in any location
Intel Corp. is doubling down on its efforts to power artificial intelligence in any location with the launch of its new Intel Core Ultra family of mobile processors, which are the first to be built on its most advanced, Intel 4 manufacturing process. They debuted today alongside the latest generation of its traditional central processing ...
MariaDB spins out SkySQL as an independent, database-as-a-service company
Database company MariaDB Plc announced today that it’s spinning out SkySQL Inc., a cloud database subsidiary that has acquired the full rights to its SkySQL database-as-a-service product. Following today’s move, SkySQL will become the exclusive provider of the SkySQL DBaaS offering, which is a cloud-hosted and production-grade version of the MariaDB database. SkySQL said that by ...
Adobe’s stock falls on soft guidance and news of FTC investigation
Shares of Adobe Inc. traded almost 5% lower after-hours today after the company provided soft revenue guidance for its February quarter and fiscal 2024 year. The disappointing forecast came as Adobe said separately it may face significant costs or penalties relating to a Federal Trade Commission probe into its disclosure and subscription cancellation policies. For its ...
Lightning AI, creator of PyTorch Lightning framework, debuts platform for building and deploying AI apps
Lightning AI Inc., the company behind the popular artificial intelligence development framework PyTorch Lightning, is evolving its offerings with the launch of Lightning AI Studios with a goal to simplify the way enterprises can build and deploy AI-infused applications. Announced today, the new offering delivers a more comprehensive, intuitive and fully integrated experience that enables ...
Broadcom accelerates VMware transformation by killing off perpetual software licenses
Broadcom Inc. is accelerating a plan to strong-arm VMware customers into signing up for subscriptions by killing off older, on-premises perpetual licenses to use the popular virtualization software. New customers will no longer be able to purchase a perpetual license, while existing customers will be prevented from acquiring support and software updates. In an blog post published ...
Microsoft debuts 2.7B-parameter Phi-2 model that outperforms many larger language models
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model called Phi-2, and it demonstrates the remarkable ability to match or even exceed the performance of much larger and more established models of up to 25-times its size. Announced in a blog post today, Microsoft said Phi-2 is a 2.7 billion-parameter language model that demonstrates “state-of ...
Docker buys AtomicJar, the startup behind the popular open-source Testcontainers project
Container development software provider Docker Inc. said today it’s expanding its testing capabilities with the acquisition of a well-funded startup called AtomicJar Inc. Neither company disclosed any price, but it seems likely Docker handed over a significant amount considering that AtomicJar had raised $25 million in a Series A funding round in January, bringing its ...