Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Superconducting quantum chip startup OQC raises $100M in fresh funding
OQC, a London-based startup developing superconducting quantum processors, today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding to support its research efforts. The Series B round was led by Tokyo-based venture capital firm SBI. It also drew contributions from several other backers including two investment firms associated with Oxford University and the University of ...
Salesforce and AWS expand partnership with raft of new product integrations
Salesforce Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are launching a new collaboration that will see them more closely link together over a dozen of their services. The initiative, which expands upon a long-running existing partnership, was detailed today at AWS re:Invent 2023. The main highlight of the announcement is that Salesforce will make many of its ...
AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops. A virtual desktop is a workstation hosted in a data center rather than the user’s office. Workers use such machines in much the same way as a standard personal computer, except they ...
Hackers steal 8.4M+ patients’ data from healthcare software company Welltok
Hackers have stolen the personal data of more than 8.4 million patients from Welltok Inc., a Denver-based company that provides software for healthcare organizations. Welltok first disclosed the breach in October without sharing the full details of the incident. On Wednesday, it revealed that the hackers had stolen information belonging to some 8,493,379 patients. The ...
UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects
The U.K. government will invest £500 million, or $626 million, to provide local researchers and organizations with access to compute capacity for artificial intelligence projects. U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the investment in a Wednesday speech before members of Parliament. During the speech, Hunt also detailed five new research initiatives that the government plans to ...
Broadcom restructures VMware into four divisions after closing $61B acquisition
Broadcom Inc. has reorganized VMware into four divisions that are each responsible for a different subset of the virtualization giant’s products. This reorganization led to significant VMware layoffs, with Broadcom cutting at least 2,800 jobs. The Register reported the move this morning, citing new information that was quietly added to Broadcom’s website. The chipmaker later confirmed the ...
Report: OpenAI board’s ouster of Sam Altman followed potential AGI breakthrough
The ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI last week was reportedly influenced by concerns about a potentially major artificial intelligence breakthrough achieved by the company. Reuters reported the twist late Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The sources said that some OpenAI researchers had expressed concerns the breakthrough “could threaten humanity.” It’s believed ...
Google expands Bard’s YouTube integration
Google LLC on Tuesday released a new version of Bard that provides the ability to interact with YouTube videos using natural language prompts. Originally introduced in March, Bard is the search giant’s answer to ChatGPT. Google has rolled out dozens of feature enhancements to the chatbot since its release. A few days before debuting the ...
Researchers find vulnerabilities in major laptop makers’ Windows Hello implementations
Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in several laptop makers’ implementations of Windows Hello, the biometric login feature built into Windows. The researchers, who work at cybersecurity company Blackwing Intelligence, detailed their findings in a Tuesday blog post. They uncovered the vulnerabilities as part of a project carried out on behalf of Microsoft Corp.’s offensive research and ...
Inflection AI debuts new flagship Inflection-2 LLM trained on 5,000 H100 chips
Inflection AI Inc. today debuted its new flagship large language model, Inflection-2, which it claims can outperform most major rivals with the exception of OpenAI’s GPT-4. Inflection AI was founded in March by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research group, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The company closed a $225 million ...