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Google rolls out new ‘smart chip’ features for Workspace
Google LLC today announced that it’s enhancing Google Workspace with a set of new features designed to save time for users. The features, which will roll out over the coming weeks, were first previewed at the company’s Cloud Next event last year. Many of the new capabilities take the form of so-called smart chips. Originally ...
Samsung previews satellite communications technology for smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed technology that will enable its future smartphones to access satellite internet services. Samsung previewed the technology today. The announcement comes not long after Apple Inc., the company’s top rival in the handset maker, introduced a satellite-powered emergency messaging service for iPhones. The service allows users to contact emergency services ...
Earthly bags $6.5M for its continuous integration and delivery platform
Earthly Technologies Inc., a startup helping software teams deploy code to production faster and with less work, today disclosed that it has raised $6.5 million in funding. The investment is described by the startup as a “seed plus” funding round. It was led by Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm affiliated with former Google LLC ...
ProsperOps raises $72M for its cloud cost optimization platform
ProsperOps Inc., a startup with a platform that helps companies reduce their public cloud expenses, today said it has secured a $72 million funding round to finance growth initiatives. The funding round, ProsperOps’ first since launching in 2018, was led by investment firm H.I.G. Growth Partners. A number of unnamed strategic investors participated as well. ...
Snowflake debuts Telecom Data Cloud for carriers
Snowflake Inc. today debuted the Telecom Data Cloud, an offering designed to help network operators more easily store and process business information. Telecom Data Cloud is the latest in a series of industry-specific offerings Snowflake has introduced in recent quarters. It earlier rolled out similar solutions for companies in the healthcare, financial services and manufacturing ...
Microsoft brings Bing’s AI chatbot to mobile devices and adds voice support
Microsoft Corp. is making the new artificial intelligence chatbot in Bing available on mobile devices and introducing support for voice commands. The software giant announced the move today alongside several other AI-focused product updates. The updates span Bing, Skype and the company’s Edge browser. At a product event earlier this month, Microsoft introduced an AI ...
Amazon closes its $3.9B acquisition of primary care provider One Medical
Amazon.com Inc. today completed its acquisition of 1Life Healthcare Inc., a primary healthcare provider that operates under the name One Medical and runs more than 125 clinics in the U.S. The acquisition, which was originally announced last July, values One Medical at $3.9 billion. That’s 78% higher than the value of the company’s stock the day ...
Hugging Face and AWS expand cloud partnership
Hugging Face Inc., the operator of a popular platform for hosting machine learning models, is partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. to streamline artificial intelligence development projects. The companies announced the partnership today. It expands upon an existing collaboration that Hugging Face and AWS launched in early 2021. “Generative AI has the potential to transform entire ...
Replicate raises $17.8M to ease AI application development
Replicate Inc., a startup making it easier for software teams to build artificial intelligence applications, today exited stealth mode and announced that it has secured $17.8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. It received the bulk of the funding, $12.5 million, through a Series A investment that included the participation ...
Quantum Motion raises $50.5M to build scalable quantum computers
London-based quantum computing startup Quantum Motion Ltd. has secured £42 million, or $50.5 million, in fresh funding. Quantum Motion announced the funding late Monday. According to the startup, the investment was led by industrial giant Robert Bosch AG. Automaker Porsche SE participated as well along with British Patient Capital and a half-dozen existing backers. “The ...