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Tiger Global leads $30M round for AI reliability startup Robust Intelligence
Robust Intelligence Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $30 million in funding to enhance its namesake software platform, which promises to help companies find and fix issues in their neural networks faster. Tiger Global led the round. Sequoia, Harpoon Venture Capital and Engineering Capital participated as well. San Francisco-based Robust Intelligence is led by ...
Google Cloud and Kyndryl ink strategic cloud partnership
Google LLC’s cloud unit and Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former managed infrastructure services division of IBM Corp., have inked a partnership to support joint customers’ digital transformation projects. Announced today, the partnership places an emphasis on helping enterprises with use cases such as analytics and edge computing. Kyndryl is one of the newest companies on ...
Italy’s competition regulator fines Amazon $1.27B over business practices
The Italian Competition Authority today issued a fine of €1.128 billion, or about $1.27 billion, to Amazon.com Inc. after finding that some of the company’s business practices harmed rivals. The Italian Competition Authority, or AGCM, has also ordered Amazon to implement a number of business changes. The company pushed back against the regulator’s decision in ...
Meta’s AI unit details new machine learning system for detecting harmful content
The artificial intelligence unit of Meta Platforms Inc., previously Facebook Inc., today detailed a new machine learning system that will help the company combat harmful content across its social media platforms. The system is known as Few-Shot Learner, or FSL for short. The main advantage of FSL over earlier technologies, Meta says, is its ability ...
New $270M funding round values enterprise fintech startup Tipalti at $8.3B
Startup Tipalti Inc., which helps companies complete common accounting tasks faster, is now one of the world’s most valuable financial technology startups thanks to a newly closed $270 million funding round that values it at $8.3 billion. The funding round, announced today, was led by G Squared. Marshall Wace, Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global investment arm ...
Report: Some iOS apps continue collecting user-level signals for ad targeting
A number of iOS app developers, including Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc., reportedly continue to collect user-level signals from iPhones despite Apple Inc.’s recent introduction of features designed to boost privacy. The Financial Times reported the practice today. According to the publication, the fact that iOS developers can continue collecting user-level signals represents an ...
AWS outage causes disruptions across popular online services
Updated: An outage in one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center clusters is causing disruptions across a large number of popular online services, including financial apps, food delivery platforms and others. The outage is the result of a malfunction in some of the network devices that AWS uses to power its public cloud. Because AWS ...
Market research startup YipitData raises late-stage funding round worth up to $475M
Market research startup YipitData Inc. on Monday announced that it has secured a late-stage funding round set to be worth as much as $475 million. The impressive funding round has led to considerable speculation about YipitData’s valuation, with industry insiders suggesting that it reflects the company’s strong market position and promising growth trajectory. Carlyle Group ...
Permira to take email security provider Mimecast private in $5.8B deal
Private equity firm Permira is buying Nasdaq-traded cybersecurity company Mimecast Ltd. in an acquisition worth approximately $5.8 billion. The transaction was announced this morning but was reported some time ago: Word first emerged that Mimecast was exploring a sale in late October. Permira’s $5.8 billion offer, which amounts to $80 per Mimecast share, represents a ...
Delivery robot startup Serve Robotics raises $13M after spinning off from Uber
Serve Robotics Inc. has raised $13 million in seed funding from Uber Technologies Inc., 7-Eleven Inc. and other investors to grow its fleet of sidewalk delivery robots. The company announced the funding round this morning. In addition to growing its robot fleet, the startup plans to expand to more markets and accelerate product development activities. San ...