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Enveda raises $55M to accelerate drug discovery with AI
Enveda Biosciences Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines, today announced that it has raised $55 million in funding to support its research. Microsoft Corp. was among the more than half dozen investors that participated in the round. According to TechCrunch, the technology giant will provide Enveda with not only capital but ...
Microsoft delays release of Windows 11’s Recall feature
Microsoft Corp. has pushed back the release date of Recall, an upcoming Windows 11 feature that will enable users to more quickly find files and applications they accessed in the past. The company announced the decision in a late Thursday update on the official Windows blog. The move comes after Recall drew criticism from some ...
Samsung details upcoming two-nanometer chip manufacturing process
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has previewed an upcoming chip manufacturing node, SF2, that will allow it to produce processors based on two-nanometer technology. Executives detailed the node on Wednesday afternoon at an event hosted by the company’s semiconductor business. Alongside SF2, Samsung revealed several other upcoming chip manufacturing processes that it plans to bring online ...
Researchers develop new LiveBench benchmark for measuring AI models’ response accuracy
A group of researchers has developed a new benchmark, dubbed LiveBench, to ease the task of evaluating large language models’ question-answering capabilities. The researchers released the benchmark on Wednesday under an open-source license. The project was sponsored by Abacus.AI Inc., a venture-backed artificial intelligence startup, and included the participation of Turing Award-winning computer scientist Yann ...
Restate raises $7M to make building fault-tolerant applications easier
Restate GmbH, a startup with technology that allows applications to automatically recover from technical issues, today announced that it has closed a $7 million investment. Redpoint Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Essence VC, firstminute.capital and multiple angel investors including the founders of Datadog Inc. and Confluent Inc. Enterprise applications can malfunction ...
Black Semiconductor secures €254.4M to develop graphene-based chip interconnects
Black Semiconductor GmbH, a startup that plans to make chip-to-chip interconnects from graphene, has secured €254.4 million in funding to support its research. The investment was disclosed today. Black Semiconductor, a spinout from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, said that the bulk of the capital was provided by Germany’s federal government and the state of ...
Databricks debuts new data pipeline and business intelligence tools
Databricks Inc. today introduced two new products, LakeFlow and AI/BI, that promise to ease several of the tasks involved in analyzing business information for useful patterns. LakeFlow is designed to simplify the process of building data pipelines. AI/BI, in turn, is a business intelligence platform with a built-in artificial intelligence chatbot. Databricks unveiled the offerings ...
Contact center automation startup Cognigy closes $100M funding round
Cognigy GmbH, the developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed to make contact centers more efficient, today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round. Eurazeo Growth led the Series C investment. It was joined by Insight Partners, DTCP, DN Capital and several other backers. The round follows several years in which Düsseldorf ...
Cyberhaven reels in $88M for its data security platform
Startup Cyberhaven Inc. has raised $88 million to widen the adoption of its namesake cybersecurity platform, which helps companies detect and block misuse of their business data. The round, a Series C investment, was announced this morning. Cyberhaven says that Adams Street Partners and Khosla Ventures were the lead investors. The round also drew contributions ...
Miniature computer maker Raspberry Pi raises £166M in London IPO
Shares of Raspberry Pi Holdings plc, a developer of miniature computers that power satellites and tomato bullhorns, jumped more than 37% in the company’s stock market debut today. The listing took place on the London Stock Exchange. Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi earlier raised £166 million, or $228 million, through an initial public offering. Investors bought 30.7% ...