Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

Elon Musk’s xAI debuts new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini language models

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. has debuted two new language models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, that it claims can perform some tasks with similar accuracy to OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The models rolled out to X on Tuesday. Later this month, they will also become …

Federal appeals court rules that geofence warrants are unconstitutional

POLICY By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants, which allow police to collect data on individuals’ whereabouts, violate the Fourth Amendment. TechCrunch reported the decision today. Geofence warrants enable law enforcement officials to identify who was …

RISC-V chip startup Akeana launches with $100M+ in funding

INFRA By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Akeana USA Inc., a startup that develops chips based on the RISC-V processor architecture, launched today with more than $100 million in initial funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and Fidelity. The funding will put …

Elon Musk’s X conversation with Donald Trump marred by technical failures

POLICY By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Elon Musk’s interview with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump kicked off more than 40 minutes late on Monday after X, which hosted the conversation, experienced technical issues. Musk had planned to start the broadcast at 8 p.m. EDT. Instead of launching at …

Ragie launches with $5.5M in funding to ease RAG application development

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Ragie Corp., a new startup that helps developers build retrieval-augmented generation applications, launched today with $5.5 million in seed funding. Craft Ventures, Saga VC, Chapter One and Valor provided the capital. Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is a machine learning technique that makes …

Waymo to start testing fully autonomous vehicles on San Francisco freeways

EMERGING TECH By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Waymo LLC will start testing its autonomous vehicles on San Francisco freeways later this week without a human driver aboard. The move, which TechCrunch reported today, marks the latest milestone in the Alphabet Inc. unit’s efforts to build a large-scale autonomous ride-hailing …

UK antitrust watchdog launches inquiry into Synopsys’ $35B Ansys acquisition

INFRA By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, is looking into Synopsys Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Ansys Inc. for $35 billion. The antitrust regulator announced its inquiry today. To determine whether Ansys’ sale may hurt market competition in the U.K., the CMA …

Cisco could reportedly let go 4,000+ workers in new round of job cuts

INFRA By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. is gearing up for a new round of layoffs that could hit more than 4,000 workers, Reuters reported today. The report comes six months after the networking giant let go a similar number of employees in a restructuring initiative. The …

Intel postpones key chip event amid cost-cutting effort

INFRA By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has postponed a product event where executives usually introduce new chips on account of a cost-cutting initiative it launched earlier this month. The company announced the decision late Thursday. The two-day Intel Innovation conference was originally set to kick off …

Microsoft uncovers Iranian cyber activities designed to influence US elections

SECURITY By MARIA DEUTSCHER2 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. researchers have uncovered several Iranian cyber operations designed to influence the U.S. elections. The company detailed its findings in a report published today. The research was carried out by its MTAC, or Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, unit. MTAC focuses on …

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Maria Deutscher

Latest from Maria Deutscher

Elon Musk’s xAI debuts new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini language models

Federal appeals court rules that geofence warrants are unconstitutional

RISC-V chip startup Akeana launches with $100M+ in funding

Ragie launches with $5.5M in funding to ease RAG application development

Waymo to start testing fully autonomous vehicles on San Francisco freeways

UK antitrust watchdog launches inquiry into Synopsys’ $35B Ansys acquisition

Cisco could reportedly let go 4,000+ workers in new round of job cuts

Intel postpones key chip event amid cost-cutting effort

Microsoft uncovers Iranian cyber activities designed to influence US elections

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