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Google expands its cloud platform’s analytics and security capabilities
Google LLC’s cloud business today announced the general availability of several features that will help customers more easily analyze their data and protect it from cyberattacks. Most of the features will be available as part of existing services in Google Cloud. Google is updating BigQuery, its managed data warehouse, with a capability called Analytics Hub ...
Immunefi raises $24M for its Web3 bug bounty platform
Web3 cybersecurity startup Immunefi today announced that it has closed a $24 million funding round. The Series A round was led by Framework Ventures with participation from more than a half-dozen other investors, including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Next venture capital arm. Immunefi has raised a total of $29.5 million since launching in 2020. Singapore-based ...
DeepMind advances AI safety with new Sparrow chatbot
Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind unit today debuted Sparrow, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot described as a milestone in the industry effort to develop safer machine learning systems. According to DeepMind, Sparrow can produce plausible answers to user questions more frequently than earlier neural networks. Furthermore, the chatbot includes features that significantly reduce the risk of biased and ...
Microsoft to debut new Surface devices on Oct. 12
Microsoft Corp. will hold a product event next month where executives are expected to introduce two new additions to the company’s Surface line of Windows devices. Microsoft distributed press invitations to the event today. It will take place on Oct. 12, the same day the company’s annual Ignite conference is scheduled to begin. Microsoft often ...
Lenovo expands data center portfolio with dozens of new systems
Lenovo Group Ltd. today debuted dozens of new servers, storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure appliances, as well as a cloud-based hardware management service. The products are rolling as part of what the company describes as the largest-ever update to its data center infrastructure portfolio. Beijing-based Lenovo is the world’s top maker of personal computers. According ...
Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes receives $100M in new funding
Malwarebytes Inc., a major provider of cybersecurity software for the consumer and enterprise markets, today announced that it has received a $100 million investment from Vector Capital. The investment is expected to close by year’s end pending customary closing conditions. Malwarebytes has raised $180 million in outside funding since launching. San Francisco-based Malwarebytes develops a popular ...
Jitx raises $12M for its programmatic circuit board design platform
Circuit board design startup Jitx Inc. today launched from stealth mode and disclosed that it has secured a $12 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The Series A round also included the participation of Y Combinator, Funders Club and Liquid 2. Berkeley, California-based Jitx has developed a software platform that electrical engineers can use ...
FTC launches investigation into Amazon’s proposed $1.7B iRobot acquisition
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed acquisition of iRobot Corp. for $1.7 billion. The investigation was disclosed by iRobot in a regulatory filing that became public today. Nasdaq-listed iRobot develops the popular Roomba line of robot vacuums. It also sells robot mops under the Braava brand, as well ...
Nvidia debuts new AI tools for biomolecular research and text processing
Nvidia Corp. today debuted a set of new products that will enable companies to more easily build advanced natural language processing models. The first product, BioNeMo, is a framework for developing natural language processing models that can assist scientists with biology and chemistry research. Alongside the framework, Nvidia today also debuted two cloud-based artificial intelligence ...
Open Web Collective launches venture capital arm to back Web3 startups
Open Web Collective, a venture capital firm focused on backing blockchain startups, has launched a new division called OWC Ventures. The launch of the division was reported today by TechCrunch. Open Web Collective makes investments in early-stage blockchain companies and also operates a startup accelerator program. The firm launched as a spinout from the NEAR ...