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With SuperPod, Nvidia makes supercomputing a bigger focus of its AI strategy
Nvidia Corp. opened its virtual GPU Technology Conference today by introducing a host of new artificial intelligence technologies, including an infrastructure offering that will allow customers to build a supercomputer optimized for deep learning in just a few weeks. The infrastructure offering made its debut alongside a miniature AI development device and a service called Maxine ...
AWS makes open-source CloudFormation Guard compliance tool generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. on Thursday announced the general availability of CloudFormation Guard, an open-source tool that helps companies ensure their cloud environments comply with cybersecurity policies and other internal rules. The tool joins the growing list of open-source technologies offered by AWS. Previously, the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary released Bottlerocket, an operating system for running ...
Uber’s freight unit picks up $500M investment at $3.3B valuation
Uber Technologies Inc.’s Uber Freight unit, one of the few bright spots in its most recent earnings report, has raised $500 million at a $3.3 billion valuation from an outside investor. The company announced the news this morning. The investor is Greenbriar Equity Group, a New York-based private equity firm that is taking a minority ...
GV-backed Pixie Labs exits stealth to ease Kubernetes application monitoring
Pixie Labs Inc. exited stealth mode today with $9.15 million in funding from Benchmark and GV, Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital arm, to change how developers monitor their applications. Application monitoring is an important part of enterprise software projects. Development teams need visibility into the inner workings of their software to ensure that it’s functioning as ...
Google’s latest Flutter release adds iOS 14 support, Android usability upgrades
Google LLC today rolled out a new stable release of its Flutter development tool that adds support for iOS 14, the latest version of Apple Inc.’s smartphone operating system, and includes several Android-focused upgrades as well. Flutter is a popular open-source framework for building user interfaces. More than 100,000 apps use it in the Android ...
Edge computing startup Macrometa raises $7M for its ‘global data network’
Macrometa Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based edge computing startup, today announced that it has closed a $7 million seed round led by DNX Ventures with participation from existing investors. Macrometa operates a cloud platform on which companies can build geographically distributed applications. A geographically distributed application can be, for example, a package tracking system that ...
GitHub launches automated code scanning feature for developers
GitHub enhanced its platform today with the launch of a capability called GitHub code scanning that can automatically find security issues in developers’ software projects. The addition will not only make GitHub’s feature set more competitive but potentially also improve the security of the open-source ecosystem as a whole. The Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform is home ...
Facebook links Instagram and Messenger with new cross-app messaging support
Facebook Inc. this morning announced plans to roll out an integration that will enable users to send messages from Instagram to Messenger and vice versa. The integration is part of a broader update that includes additional features such as self-deleting direct messages in Instagram. The enhancements advance a vision outlined by Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg ...
Anyscale’s open-source Ray framework for distributed AI projects hits 1.0 release
Startup Anyscale Inc. today introduced the first round-number release of its open-source Ray framework, which is used by engineers at Amazon.com Inc. and other tech giants to build artificial intelligence models. Anyscale exited stealth mode late last year with more than $20 million in initial funding. Co-founders Robert Nishihara (pictured, left) and Philipp Moritz (right) ...
Coralogix reels in $25M for its AI-infused log analytics platform
Less than a year after closing a $10 million funding round, log analytics startup Coralogix Inc. today said it has raised another $25 million from a group of investors led by Red Dot Capital and O.G. Tech Partners. San Francisco-based Coralogix provides a cloud service that organizations use to find issues in their information technology ...