Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Salesforce reportedly lays off 700 employees following recruiting push
Salesforce Inc. is reportedly laying off 1% of its workforce, or about 700 staffers, a few months after launching a hiring effort intended to recruit thousands of new employees. The Wall Street Journal reported the job cuts today, citing a person familiar with the matter. The source also revealed that Salesforce currently has about 1,000 ...
FTC launches inquiry into tech giants’ investments in OpenAI and Anthropic
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today launched a competition inquiry that focuses on five of the largest players in the generative artificial intelligence market. The companies in question are Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI. Last January, Microsoft reportedly invested $10 billion in OpenAI for a 49% stake. Later ...
Google researchers develop new diffusion-based AI system for generating videos
Google LLC has revealed Lumiere, an artificial intelligence system for generating videos that the company says can outperform earlier models in the category. The Alphabet Inc. unit detailed the system in a research paper published on Tuesday. According to Google, Lumiere is capable of generating five-second videos with a resolution of 1024 by 1024 pixels. ...
Google Cloud and Hugging Face ink AI infrastructure partnership
Google LLC’s cloud unit today announced a new partnership with Hugging Face Inc., the operator of a popular platform for sharing open-source artificial intelligence models. The deal will see Google Cloud become a “preferred destination” for Hugging Face’s AI training and inference workloads. Additionally, the companies intend to integrate several of their respective services with ...
GPU-powered data processing startup Voltron Data acquires Claypot AI
Voltron Data Inc., a well-funded data management startup, today announced that it has acquired Claypot AI Inc. to enhance its product portfolio. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Claypot AI previously raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Quiet Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. “Together we’re going to be able to accelerate our real-time ...
Databricks backs $33M round for data quality monitoring startup Anomalo
Anomalo Inc., a startup helping enterprises ensure their business data is accurate, today announced that it has closed a $33 million funding round. The Series B investment was led by SignalFire with participation from Databricks Inc.’s venture capital arm. Returning Anomalo backers Norwest Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures and Foundation Capital chipped in as well. ...
Google for Education receives new AI and accessibility features
Google LLC is enhancing its Google for Education service with more than 30 new features, including several artificial intelligence and accessibility tools. The search giant detailed the update today at Bett 2024, a major education technology event taking place in London. During the conference, Google also introduced 15 new Chromebooks. Six of the laptops are ...
Apple reportedly switches to less ambitious development roadmap for its electric car
Apple Inc.’s long-rumored electric car will launch later than originally planned and with a more limited feature set, Bloomberg reported today. Reports that the company is working on an electric vehicle first emerged in 2015. That year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple had assigned hundreds of engineers to work on a project codenamed ...
Docker debuts Docker Cloud Build to speed up container application projects
Docker Inc. today introduced a new cloud service, Docker Build Cloud, that promises to speed up the development of containerized applications. The offering will complement the other tools that the company offers to streamline such software projects. One product, Docker Engine, eases the task of packaging an application’s code files and related components into a ...
Fast-growing cybersecurity startups Silverfort and Torq raise new funding
Silverfort Ltd. and Torq Technologies Ltd., two cybersecurity startups that logged triple-digit revenue growth last year, have raised fresh capital to continue their sales momentum. The companies announced their respective funding rounds today. Tel Aviv- and Boston-based Silverfort provides software that helps enterprises protect employee accounts from hacking attempts. New York-based Torq offers a platform ...