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Google DeepMind scientists, biochemist share Nobel Prize in chemistry
Google LLC scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry together with biochemistry professor David Baker. The trio received the award for their contributions to protein research. In an announcement today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences detailed Hassabis and Jumper jointly won half the Nobel Prize for their work ...
Justice Department could seek to break up Google following antitrust ruling
The U.S. Justice Department could ask a federal court to break up Google LLC, officials disclosed in a filing today. Reports that such a move is on the table have been swirling for weeks. In early August, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google maintains an illegal monopoly across the search ...
SAP upgrades its Joule AI assistant and developer tools with new automation features
SAP SE today debuted a new version of Joule, an artificial intelligence assistant that ships with many of its business applications. The company is also upgrading the developer tools that customers use to extend its software with custom features. Introduced last September, Joule can provide workers with pointers on how to use SAP applications. A ...
AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win Nobel Prize in physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to artificial intelligence pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Hopfield (pictured, left) is a professor emeritus of molecular biology at Princeton University. Hinton (right) is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto. They received the Nobel Prize for ...
Former Amazon executive Dave Clark raises $100M for new supply chain startup Auger
Dave Clark, the former head of Amazon.com Inc.’s consumer business, has raised $100 million in funding for a new supply chain software startup. Auger Inc., as the company is called, disclosed the massive seed investment today. It detailed that venture capital firm Oak HC/FT led the raise. Clark left Amazon in 2022 following a more ...
PagerDuty debuts new AI features for its incident response platform
PagerDuty Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence features that will help companies more quickly respond to server outages and other technical issues. NYSE-listed PagerDuty provides a popular incident response platform of the same name. The software can detect when something breaks in a company’s information technology environment, collect data about the incident and ...
Court orders Google to open the Play Store to rival app marketplaces
A federal court has ordered Google LLC to allow third-party app marketplaces on the Play Store. The change is one of more than a half dozen that the search giant will be required to implement. The court order was issued today in connection with a long-running legal dispute between Google and Epic Games Inc., a ...
Broadcom debuts new 50G PON chips for internet provider networks
Broadcom Inc. today debuted two chips for powering so-called PON infrastructure, which is used by internet providers to deliver connectivity to their subscribers. Both processors include artificial intelligence features that promise to ease maintenance tasks. A PON, or passive optical network, is a type of optical network that incorporates so-called passive beam splitters. Those are ...
Inflection AI partners with Intel on new LLM appliance
Inflection AI Inc., a well-funded artificial intelligence startup, is teaming up with Intel Corp. to launch an appliance for running large language models. The companies announced the collaboration today. The appliance is part of a new offering, Inflection for Enterprise, that also includes a cloud-based AI service. Inflection AI launched in 2022 and raised $1.3 ...
Qualcomm debuts AI-optimized A7 Elite chip for powering Wi-Fi systems
Qualcomm Inc. today debuted the Networking Pro A7 Elite, a new chip for powering routers and other network devices that provide Wi-Fi connectivity. The chip is based on a new version of the Wi-Fi standard that rolled out earlier this year. Wi-Fi 7, as the technology is called, provides up to four times as much ...