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Top AWS data center executive Chris Vonderhaar departs
Chris Vonderhaar, the executive who oversaw Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center network for the past four and a half years, has left the company. The news was first reported by GeekWire on Tuesday. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. confirmed the development later that day. The company didn’t provide additional details, such as who is set ...
Analytics startup Lytics partners with Google Cloud to build new AI features
Google LLC’s cloud unit today detailed that Lytics Inc., a venture-backed analytics startup, has used its platform to build three new artificial intelligence features for users. Portland-based Lytics provides a customer data platform, or CDP, of the same name. A CDP is an application that allows companies to aggregate customer data from multiple internal systems ...
GTM Buddy debuts generative AI sales enablement tool
GTM Buddy Inc., a startup that provides software for sales enablement teams, today announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool called Ask Buddy. The tool is based on OpenAI LLP’s large language models. According to GTM Buddy, it’s designed to help salespeople close more deals. GTM is generally short for “go to market.” Durham, North ...
Uber and Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 food delivery robots
Uber Technologies Inc. and startup Serve Robotics Inc. plan to deploy a fleet of up 2,000 delivery robots that will transport restaurant orders to consumers. The companies detailed the initiative today. The delivery robots will be supplied by San Francisco-based Serve Robotics, a former Uber unit that spun out into an independent startup two years ...
Tenstorrent and LG ink chiplet development partnership
Tenstorrent Inc., a semiconductor startup led by prominent engineer Jim Keller, is partnering with LG Electronics Inc. to develop a set of new chiplets. The companies announced the partnership today. They hope to use the chiplets that will be developed through the collaboration to build processors for data centers, smart TVs and vehicles. Toronto-based Tenstorrent ...
Nvidia’s market capitalization tops $1T for the first time
Nvidia Corp.’s market capitalization passed $1 trillion today following a more than yearlong rally in its stock price. The chipmaker officially reached the $1 trillion mark at the opening bell, when its shares started trading for $405.95 apiece. Nvidia’s stock briefly exceeded that price during trading before dipping lower. To keep its $1 billion valuation, ...
Arm’s latest mobile chip designs bring speed and efficiency improvements
Arm Ltd. is rolling out a series of new chip designs, including its highest-performance mobile processor to date, that will enable handset makers to design faster and more efficient smartphones. The designs made their debut today at the annual Computex conference in Taiwan. The event also saw Nvidia Corp. introduce a new addition to its ...
Never mind: Sam Altman says OpenAI has no plans to leave the EU
A day after suggesting OpenAI LP could leave the European Union, Chief Executive Sam Altman has stated the startup has “no plans” to do so. “We are excited to continue to operate here and of course have no plans to leave,” Altman wrote in a tweet today following a visit to the EU and the ...
BenchSci raises $70M to accelerate drug discovery with AI
Toronto-based artificial intelligence startup BenchSci has raised $95 million Canadian dollars, or $70 million, in funding to help scientists discover new drugs faster. BenchSci, officially Scinapsis Analytics Inc., announced the Series D round on Thursday. It detailed that Generation Investment Management was the lead investor. Returning backers iNovia Capital, TCV, Golden Ventures and F-Prime Capital ...
Google starts opening access to Search Generative Experience
Google LLC today started opening access to Search Generative Experience, or SGE, an experimental version of its search engine with generative artificial intelligence features. SGE is available through a software testing program called Search Labs. Users can sign up to participate by clicking the Labs button in Google’s mobile app and Chrome Beta, a version ...