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Amazon lays off hundreds from Alexa unit amid generative AI refocus
Amazon.com Inc. is letting go hundreds of employees from the business unit that develops its Alexa voice assistant. Daniel Rausch, the vice president of Amazon’s Alexa and Fire TV unit, disclosed the move today in an internal memo that was published by GeekWire. Rausch stated that the workforce reduction will see Amazon cut “several hundred” ...
Apple moves to make RCS messaging available on iPhones amid regulatory scrutiny
Apple Inc. will finally enable iPhone and Android users to exchange messages via the RCS communications protocol. A company spokesperson told 9to5Mac today that the feature is scheduled to roll out next year. According to Apple, the planned RCS support won’t be implemented in its iMessage messaging app. That suggests that feature will become available ...
FinOps Foundation debuts first major release of its FOCUS cloud billing standard
The FinOps Foundation today introduced the first round-number release of FOCUS, an open-source standard designed to help companies more easily track their cloud costs and forecast future spending. The FinOps Foundation is an industry consortium that was launched by the Linux Foundation three years ago. The group introduced FOCUS, or the FinOps Open Cost and ...
Databricks debuts AI-powered Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks Inc. is rolling out a new offering, the Data Intelligence Platform, that uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises process their information. The company debuted the platform on Wednesday. It’s based on Databricks’ flagship data lakehouse, which integrates the features of data lakes and data warehouse into a single product. Lakehouses offer the ability to ...
Onehouse open-sources its OneTable data tool with support from Google and Microsoft
Onehouse Inc. today open-sourced OneTable, a software tool designed to help companies more easily manage data stored in different formats. Menlo Park, California-based Onehouse is backed by $33 million in funding from Greylock Partners and other investors. It provides a data lakehouse platform that companies can use to power their analytics and artificial intelligence initiatives. ...
Google discovers high-severity vulnerability in latest Intel server processors
Google LLC researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel Corp. processors that could enable hackers to crash virtual machines and potentially steal data. The search giant disclosed the flaw, which is tracked as Reptar, in a blog post published this morning. Intel, whose engineers separately uncovered Reptar as part of an internal cybersecurity program, says ...
Stack Infrastructure raises $290M in debt financing to build more data centers
Stack Infrastructure Inc., a company that builds data centers for cloud providers and other organizations, has secured $290 million in fresh debt financing. The company raised the capital through a sale of securitized notes, or loans marketed to investors, that it announced today. The loans carry a 5.9% annual interest rate. The round is the ...
Google’s new GraphCast AI model can forecast the weather 10 days in advance
Google LLC today detailed a new artificial intelligence model, GraphCast, that it says can generate weather forecasts faster and more accurately than traditional algorithms. The neural network was developed by the company’s recently formed Google DeepMind research unit. DeepMind has made the source code for GraphCast available on GitHub. According to Google, multiple weather agencies ...
YouTube to require disclosures for realistic-looking AI-generated videos
Google LLC will require users to disclose if videos they upload to YouTube contain realistic-looking content generated with artificial intelligence tools. YouTube product management executives Jennifer Flannery O’Connor and Emily Moxley detailed the new policy in a blog post published today. The policy, which is set to roll out in the coming months, will apply ...
AMD-powered Frontier system wins first place in Top500 supercomputer ranking
The Top500 computing organization has once again named Frontier as the world’s fastest supercomputer. Frontier is a 9,472-server system installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Top500 named it as the world’s fastest high-performance computing system in the latest edition of its namesake supercomputer ranking, which was published Monday. The results were released against the backdrop ...