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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 ...
EU’s top court rules against Meta in data privacy case
The European Union’s top court today ruled against Meta Platforms Inc. in a case that focused on the way the company processes user data. The decision could also have implications for other players in the social media market. The lawsuit in which the Court of Justice of the European Union, or CJEU, issued the ruling ...
OpenAI releases new ChatGPT tool for editing text and code
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT with a new interface section, called canvas, that promises to make the chatbot more useful for writing and coding tasks. The company debuted the feature today. It marks OpenAI’s first product update since the announcement of its record-setting $6.6 billion funding round earlier this week. The deal included the participation of ...
Google brings ads to its AI Overviews, Lens search tools
Google LLC will enable brands to display ads in AI Overviews, the natural language explainers that its search engine generates in response to some queries. The change is part of a broader product update that the Alphabet Inc. company detailed this morning. Google is refreshing not only AI Overviews but also Lens, an intelligence tool ...
Snowflake, Databricks back $20M round for AI data management startup Voyage AI
Voyage AI Inc., a startup with software for organizing the data processed by artificial intelligence models, today announced that it has raised $20 million in funding. CRV led the Series A investment. It was joined by Snowflake Inc., Databricks Inc., Wing VC, Conviction, Pear VC, Tectonic Capital, Mayfield Fund and Fusion Fund. Voyage AI’s total ...
OpenAI closes record $6.6B funding round at $157B valuation, plus $4B line of credit
Updated: Confirming recent reports, OpenAI today announced that it has raised $6.6 billion from investors to support its artificial intelligence research. The raise, the largest venture capital funding round on record, values the ChatGPT developer at $157 billion. That’s nearly double what it was worth following a tender offer earlier this year. Thrive Capital led ...
AWS, Nvidia and others back new AI-enabled cancer research initiative
Five major tech companies have committed more than $40 million to CAIA, a new research initiative dedicated to improving cancer care. CAIA launched today during a Seattle event hosted by Madrona Venture Group. CAIA stands for Cancer AI Alliance, a nod to the fact that the participants will use artificial intelligence to support their clinical ...