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Lakera and Deasie raise funding to make AI large language models more reliable
Lakera AI AG and Deasie Inc., two startups tackling reliability issues in large language models, today both announced that they’ve raised funding to drive adoption of their respective products. Zurich-based Lakera secured a $10 million investment from a consortium led by Swiss venture capital firm Redalpine. The company announced the round, which it closed several ...
Google debuts new sustainability tools for consumers and municipalities
Google LLC is rolling out new sustainability features designed to help consumers and municipalities reduce their carbon footprints. Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., detailed the features during a Tuesday product event in Brussels. He also announced that the company is expanding the availability of Flood Hub, its artificial intelligence-powered ...
Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient
Google LLC today introduced a new version of Cloud Spanner, one of its managed database services, that will enable customers to process their information faster and more cost-efficiently. The company will roll out the update over the coming months. Google originally developed Cloud Spanner for internal use more than a decade ago. In 2017, the ...
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group targeting Confluence deployments
Microsoft Corp. has determined that a China-linked hacking group is targeting deployments of Atlassian Corp. Plc’s Confluence collaboration software. Microsoft detailed the hacking campaign in a late Tuesday post on X, the social network previously known as Twitter. Atlassian confirmed the findings in a security advisory on its website. The hacking campaign is exploiting a ...
Container networking engine Cilium graduates from CNCF incubation
Cilium, an open-source technology used to manage software containers’ network traffic, today graduated from the CNCF’s incubation program. The CNCF, or Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is a Linux Foundation affiliate that manages dozens of open-source projects. Its portfolio includes foundational technologies such as Kubernetes and the Prometheus observability platform. The CNCF incubation program from which ...
Arctic Wolf acquires venture-backed cybersecurity provider Revelstoke
Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired Revelstoke Security Inc., a cybersecurity startup backed by $38 million in funding. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arctic Wolf is a major provider of managed cybersecurity services that has raised more than $600 million in equity and debt financing from investors. The ...
TabbyML raises $3.2M for its open-source AI coding assistant
TabbyML Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence productivity tool for developers, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding from Yunqi Partners and ZooCap. TechCrunch reported the investment today. Meng Zhang and Lucy Gao, the startup’s two co-founders, told the publication that the newly raised capital will be used for product development. TabbyML offers an ...
AMD acquires open-source AI software developer Nod.ai
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced that it has acquired Nod.ai, a startup that develops open-source software for speeding up artificial intelligence models, for undisclosed financial terms. Nod.ai, officially Nod Inc., is the developer of an open-source AI tool called SHARK. It’s a so-called runtime system designed to increase the inference speed of neural networks. ...
CommScope debuts AI-powered Wi-Fi 7 access point for enterprises
CommScope Holding Company Inc. today introduced a new wireless access point, the R770, that can be used to provide Wi-Fi coverage at locations such as hotels and factories. Nasdaq-listed CommScope is a major provider of networking equipment that generated more than $9.2 billion in revenue last year. Within the hardware supply chain, it largely operates ...
Standard Power details plan for data centers powered by miniaturized nuclear reactors
Standard Power, a New York-based provider of colocation and data center construction services, plans to use miniaturized nuclear reactors to power some of its facilities. The company detailed the plan on Friday. It intends to source the reactors from NuScale Power Corp., a publicly traded nuclear energy company. NuScale is not the only company developing ...