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HPE’s Aruba unit debuts platform for building private 5G networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba unit today debuted a new hardware and software bundle, HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, that companies can use to build their own 5G networks. Organizations rely on Wi-Fi routers to provide wireless connectivity at their offices. Larger corporate locations such as factories, in turn, increasingly use on-site 5G networks ...
OpenAI relaunches robotics unit four years after shutting it down
OpenAI has formed a team to train artificial intelligence models for robots. The ChatGPT developer confirmed Forbes’ Thursday report in a statement. The news comes about four years after OpenAI disbanded a team that researched ways of using AI to teach robots new tasks. Forbes reported that several former members of the team still work ...
Google details AI Overviews changes designed to tackle inaccurate content
Google LLC has updated its recently launched AI Overviews feature to reduce the likelihood that it will display inaccurate information in search results. Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, detailed the changes in a Thursday blog post. The update follows a series of highly publicized user reports about nonsensical results in AI Overviews. Introduced ...
Law enforcement task force shuts down six malware droppers
An international law enforcement task force has disrupted the infrastructure behind six malware droppers, malicious programs that play a key role in hacking campaigns. Europol, which led the task force, announced the development today. The effort included hundreds of law enforcement officials from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. Europol described ...
Intel, Google and other tech giants team up to develop UALink AI chip interconnect
Eight of the tech industry’s largest players are teaming up to launch the UALink Promoter Group, a new artificial intelligence hardware initiative detailed today. The project focuses on developing an industry-standard method of linking together AI chips such as graphics processing units. The goal, the initiative’s backers detailed, is to ease the task of assembling ...
Redpanda acquires Benthos to enhance its data streaming platform
Redpanda Data Inc. has acquired Benthos, the developer of an open-source platform that helps organizations move information between their applications. The companies announced the deal this morning. Financial terms were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Redpanda is backed by more than $160 million in funding from Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and other investors. It provides a ...
Mistral AI open-sources new Codestral large language model for developers
Artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today debuted Codestral, a large language model optimized for software development tasks. The launch comes amid reports that the company is in the process of raising a sizable new funding round. Earlier this month, sources told Wall Street Journal that Mistral is seeking $600 million from investors at a $6 ...
Frore Systems nabs $90M for its solid-state chip cooling technology
Startup Frore Systems Inc. has raised $90 million to commercialize its AirJet devices, which cool chips by moving air over them at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. The company announced the funding round, a Series C investment, today. It said that Fidelity Management & Research was the lead investor. The round also drew contributions ...
Arm debuts new flagship mobile CPU and GPU designs
Arm Holdings plc today debuted a new top-end core design, the Cortex-X925, that can be used to build central processing units for handsets and personal computers. The design is rolling out alongside a graphics processing unit blueprint called the Immortalis-G925. According to Arm, it speeds up rendering by reducing the need to perform a type ...
Data privacy startup Zendata launches with $2M in funding
Zendata Inc., a new startup that provides data privacy software for enterprises, launched this morning with $2 million in seed funding. The capital was provided by PayPal Ventures, First-hand Alliance, Geek Ventures and Altari Ventures. Zendata also disclosed that it has been accepted into an eight-week accelerator program run by Race Capital, an early Databricks Inc. ...