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Facebook’s Dynabench tool fools neural networks to advance AI research
Facebook Inc. today debuted Dynabench, a research tool it hopes will allow computer scientists develop more powerful natural-language processing models. To build cutting-edging neural networks that advance the state of the art, researchers need a way of comparing their models with those developed by peers. Accurate comparisons are a prerequisite to verifying that a new model is ...
Nuvia, led by Apple veterans, raises $240M to build better server processors
Nuvia Inc., a new chip startup with high-profile founders and investors, today said that it has picked up an additional $240 million in funding to support its effort to develop a “leading-edge” server processor. Nuvia exited stealth mode last year without a working product. Nevertheless, the launch attracted significant industry attention on account of the startup’s ...
Attentive nabs $230M round for its customer communications platform
Attentive Mobile Inc. today said that it has secured $230 million in funding to support the growth of its namesake cloud service, which enables businesses to communicate with customers via text messages. The startup closed the round at a $2.2 billion valuation. Lead investor Coatue was joined by more than a half-dozen other institutional backers, ...
In unusual move, Justice Department asks Congress to limit Section 230 protections for tech firms
The U.S. Justice Department today sent Congress draft legislation intended to limit the scope of Section 230, a legal shield that gives online platforms immunity against certain types of lawsuits. Section 230 is a statute in the Communications Decency Act that protects companies such as Facebook Inc. from being held legally liable for user content. ...
Arm’s new Neoverse server chips deliver up to 50% speed boost
Arm Ltd., the influential chip design firm Nvidia Corp. has proposed to acquire for $40 billion, on Tuesday detailed two chip designs for the server market that promise to deliver a big jump in performance. U.K.-based Arm’s semiconductor blueprints form the basis of the processors inside most of the world’s smartphones and countless other devices. Over recent ...
Google brings its Flutter interface framework to Windows
Google LLC today announced that its Flutter framework for building user interfaces now supports Windows, enabling developers to bring their Flutter-based applications to the more than 1 billion devices running Microsoft’s operating system. Flutter is an open-source framework created by Google that enables developers to craft interfaces for their applications more quickly. It saves time by ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Orbital to power satellite downlinks for space sector clients
Microsoft Corp. is building a global network of antennas co-located with its cloud data centers that will enable satellite operators to download data from orbit more easily. The antennas, or ground stations, will become available on-demand via a new service called Azure Orbital, which debuted today at Microsoft’s virtual Ignite event. The service puts it on ...
Google launches Tables to capture growing market for project tracking tools
Google LLC today announced the beta launch of Tables, an experimental project tracking service that could create more competition for category leaders such Asana, Airtable and Trello. The service is the brainchild of Area120, a unit inside the search giant responsible for testing new product ideas. Tables allows workers to organize all the tasks related to ...
PagerDuty buys Rundeck for $100M to boost its product and go-to-market strategy
PagerDuty Inc. today said that it will spend about $100 million to acquire Rundeck Inc., the maker of a popular software tool for troubleshooting technical issues in information technology systems. The deal, announced as PagerDuty holds its annual conference virtually today and tomorrow, is a big exit for San Francisco-based Rundeck. It had raised only $3 ...
Trump signals ByteDance must offload TikTok stake or deal won’t be approved
The effort to reach a deal that would salvage the U.S. operations of TikTok took another turn today after President Donald Trump signaled a deal would be approved only if TikTok parent’s company, ByteDance Ltd., offloaded its entire stake in the app. TikTok is a popular video sharing app with about 100 million users across ...