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AI-powered text generation startup Rohirrim nabs $15M in fresh funding
Startup Rohirrim Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million to expand the adoption of its artificial intelligence-powered text generation platform. Rohirrim received the investment, a Series A round, from Insight Partners and returning backer General Purpose Venture Capital. The cash infusion comes less than a year after the company’s launch from stealth mode. ...
Broadcom to let go 1,800+ VMware employees amid push for increased profitability
Broadcom Inc. is letting go more than 1,800 VMware employees amid an effort to boost the virtualization giant’s earnings significantly. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the job cuts on Thursday, citing regulatory filings. Some 1,267 of the employees who will be let go work at VMware’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California. An additional 600 affected ...
Google reportedly asks UK’s CMA to take antitrust action against Microsoft
Google LLC has reportedly asked U.K. antitrust officials to take action against Microsoft Corp. over the way the company licenses its software to public cloud users. Reuters reported the move today. Google is said to have made the request in a letter sent to the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority. The news ...
Apple to become largest customer of new $2B chip packaging facility in Arizona
Apple Inc. today announced that it will become the first and largest customer of a $2 billion chip packaging facility Amkor Technology Inc. is building in Arizona. The facility will process chips that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make for Apple at a nearby fab complex. Last December, TSMC estimated that the complex will ...
Kognitos reels in $20M for its natural language task automation platform
Task automation startup Kognitos Inc. today announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Existing backers Clear Ventures, Engineering Capital and Wipro Ventures chipped in as well. The new investment brings Kognitos’ total outside funding to $30 million. Many enterprises use RPA, or robotic process automation, tools ...
AWS releases new cloud application monitoring features
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new application management tool, myApplications, that will help customers find ways of operating their cloud workloads more cost-efficiently. The tool also lends itself to other use cases. According to AWS, administrators can leverage myApplications to track workloads’ hardware usage and scan them for potential cybersecurity weak points. Additionally, ...
Amazon Bedrock receives new AI evaluation tool and more foundation models
Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out a new tool that will enable developers to compare the foundation models in its Amazon Bedrock Service more easily. The tool was announced today at AWS re:Invent 2023. It’s rolling out to Bedrock alongside three new foundation models: Anthropic PBC’s Claude 2.1, the open-source Llama 2 model from ...
New Amazon SageMaker HyperPod can train AI models across thousands of chips
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a new offering that enables developers to train foundation models across thousands of chips. The offering, which made its debut at AWS re:Invent 2023, could create more competition for Google LLC’s TPU Pods. Those are clusters of up to 4,096 artificial intelligence chips that are available ...
Okta shares drop on new breach details despite strong earnings
Shares of Okta Inc. dropped 2.3% today after the company posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings but investors didn’t like the revelation today that a previously disclosed breach had affected more users than originally believed. San Francisco-based Okta provides two cloud platforms that organizations can use to process login requests to their applications. One platform focuses mainly ...
VMware Cloud on AWS receives new bare-metal instance option
VMware Inc. today debuted an enhanced version of its VMware Cloud on AWS platform that adds support for one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s newest bare-metal instances. The update was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in Las Vegas. It will become available in VMware’s fiscal fourth quarter, which runs from November to late ...