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Aurora ranks as world’s fastest AI supercomputer in latest TOP500 benchmark
The U.S. Energy Department’s Aurora supercomputer has achieved the highest score yet in a closely-watched artificial intelligence performance test. The speed evaluation was carried out by the TOP500 supercomputing organization, which published its findings today. The group also tested Aurora’s performance across other workloads besides AI applications. It determined that the system is the second-fastest ...
Squarespace to be taken private by Permira in $6.9B acquisition
Private equity firm Permira is acquiring Squarespace Inc., a major provider of website development and hosting tools, in an all-cash transaction worth $6.9 billion. The companies announced the deal today. Squarespace investors are set to receive $44 per share, a 15% premium over the Friday closing price. Squarespace launched in 2003 and raised its first ...
Geomagnetic storm disrupts tractor navigation systems across numerous US farms
A severe geomagnetic storm that hit the Earth over the weekend disrupted the work of many farmers in the U.S. A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by particles from the Sun. The weekend’s event was caused by a series of phenomena known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs for short. ...
CoreWeave to open two UK data centers as part of £1B investment
CoreWeave Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, today announced plans to open two data centers in the U.K. The facilities will be built as part of an investment worth £1 billion, or about $1.25 billion. The initiative is also set to see CoreWeave open a new office in London ...
DEEPX raises $80.5M in fresh funding to mass-produce its AI chips
DEEPX Co. Ltd., a South Korean developer of artificial intelligence chips, has raised $80.5 million in funding to support its commercialization efforts. Seoul-based private equity firm SkyLake Equity Partners led the Series C investment, which was announced on Thursday. BNW Investments, AJU IB and returning backer TimeFolio Asset Management chipped in as well. DEEPX detailed ...
Report: Apple deploying servers with custom chips to power upcoming iOS update
Apple Inc. is reportedly equipping its data centers with internally designed chips, including a processor originally developed for Macs, to support the rollout of an upcoming iOS update. Bloomberg detailed the initiative today, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip rollout is said to be part of a project known internally as Apple Chips ...
Dell discloses breach affecting customer purchase database
A hacker has breached a database that Dell Technologies Inc. uses to store information about customer purchases. BleepingComputer and TechCrunch reported the cyberattack today, citing a notification that the hardware giant sent to affect customers on Wednesday. The alert was preceded by an April 28 post on a hacker forum that solicited bids for a dataset ...
Mistral AI reportedly seeking to raise $600M at $6B valuation
Mistral AI is holding talks to raise about $600 million from investors at a $6 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The news comes less than a month after sources told The Information that the artificial intelligence model company is seeking new funding at a $5 billion valuation. The disparity between the two ...
Google DeepMind debuts AlphaFold 3 model for predicting the structure of biomolecules
Google DeepMind, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit, today detailed a new version of its AlphaFold neural network for biologists. One of the factors that influence the behavior of a biomolecule such a protein is its physical shape. Historically, mapping out molecules’ shape required years of highly complicated research. Google’s AlphaFold family of artificial intelligence ...
Boomi upgrades its integration platform as a service with new AI agents, acquisitions
Boomi LP has acquired software assets from two companies, APIIDA GmbH and Cloud Software Group Inc., to enhance its flagship integration-platform-as-a-service product. The iPaaS provider announced the deals today at its Boomi World 2024 conference in Denver. Alongside the features gained through the two acquisitions, Boomi detailed several new platform capabilities that it developed in-house. ...