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Google poll: Companies implementing fewer sustainability programs, but interest is strong
Fewer corporate sustainability programs are moving into the implementation stage than a year ago but interest among executives continues to be strong, according to a new Google LLC survey. The 2023 Google Cloud Sustainability Survey polled 1,476 senior executives in 16 countries. The study, which the search giant published today, was carried out on its ...
Regulators in US and China request public comment on AI rules
Two regulatory agencies, one in the U.S. and the other in China, today asked members of the public to submit feedback about future artificial intelligence rules. The parallel developments come as tech firms in both countries rush to incorporate advanced AI models into their products. At the same time, those models are drawing scrutiny in ...
Market intelligence startup AlphaSense reels in $100M at $1.8B valuation
AlphaSense Inc., the developer of a market intelligence platform popular among investors and large enterprises, has secured $100 million in fresh funding. Announced today, the round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG startup fund. Goldman Sachs and Viking Global Investors participated as well. The funding extends a $225 million Series D investment that AlphaSense first ...
Recorded Future launches GPT-powered cybersecurity analytics tool
Recorded Future Inc. today launched a cybersecurity tool that uses an artificial intelligence model from OpenAI LP to detect threats. Boston-based Recorded Future provides a software platform that helps companies track hacker activities. A bank, for example, can use the platform to detect new malware campaigns targeting the financial sector. Recorded Future says that its technology ...
Google debuts new API for detecting open-source security vulnerabilities
Google LLC is releasing an application programming interface that will enable developers to scan the open-source code they use for vulnerabilities and other issues. The deps.dev API, as it’s called, debuted today. It extends an open-source cybersecurity project called deps.dev that Google launched in 2021. Developers often incorporate packages from the open-source ecosystem into their ...
IDC: Worldwide PC shipments fell 29% in the first quarter as Apple’s Mac sales plunge 40%
Worldwide demand for personal computers dropped 29% year-over-year in the first quarter, according to new International Data Corp. research. In a preliminary market report released Sunday, IDC estimates that consumers and organizations bought 56.9 million PCs last quarter. That’s down from 80.2 million units the same time a year earlier. IDC recorded a similar sales ...
Google builds WebGPU into Chrome to speed up rendering and AI tasks
Google LLC is equipping Chrome with an implementation of WebGPU, a new technology that allows browsers to render graphics and run machine learning models faster. The company announced the update on Thursday. Google’s WebGPU implementation is available with Chrome 113, an upcoming release of the browser currently undergoing beta testing. The WebGPU integration will initially ...
Samsung discloses 96% profit slump in preliminary quarterly results
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. early today released preliminary financial results for the first quarter, disclosing that its operating profit likely dropped by 96% to a 14-year low. It’s believed that the drop is partly the result of losses in the company’s semiconductor unit. To improve its bottom line, Samsung intends to scale back production of ...
Staytuned reels in $34M for its e-commerce application suite
Staytuned Digital Inc., a startup that provides store management software for online retailers, has secured $34 million in equity and debt financing. The company announced the financing round today. The round includes $9 million in equity funding that was raised from TenOneTen, Rembrandt VC and more than a half-dozen other investors. It also received a $25 ...
AMD debuts new data center accelerator optimized for video processing
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted a new data center accelerator, the Alveo MA35D, that will help companies such as streaming providers process video more efficiently. The MA35D is the successor to an earlier product called the Alveo U30. It can process four times as many 1080p video streams at once, for a total of ...