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Quantum software startup Zapata Computing reels in $38M round
Zapata Computing Inc., a Harvard spinoff working to make it easier to write software for quantum computers, today disclosed that it has closed a $38 million funding round to support research and go-to-market activities. Comcast Ventures, Pitango and Prelude Ventures led the round. They were joined by more than a half-dozen others, including the venture capital ...
Facebook says upgraded AI models spot nearly 95% of hate speech it removes
Facebook Inc. removed 22.1 million pieces of hate speech content on its namesake social network in the third quarter, 94.7% of which was detected automatically by artificial intelligence models. The company shared the figures in the latest edition of its Community Standards Enforcement Report that was published today. On the occasion, it also detailed several ...
OpsRamp adds automation features to save time for IT teams
OpsRamp Inc. is rolling out a new release of its infrastructure monitoring platform that will reduce the number of person-hours required to find and fix technical issues. The update, OpsRamp Fall 2020 Release, was introduced this morning. OpsRamp Inc. is a venture-backed startup competing in a part of the enterprise software market known as AIOps. ...
IBM acquires application observability startup Instana
IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire Instana Inc., a Chicago-based application monitoring startup that has raised more than $50 million from investors including Accel and Meritech Capital Partners. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Instana’s namesake platform helps organizations track the health of their workloads to identify technical issues that may interfere ...
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian outlines ‘open cloud’ vision
Google LLC wants to give enterprises flexibility to deploy workloads across multiple infrastructure-as-a-service platforms, and easily migrate between them when needed, as part of an “open cloud” strategy detailed today by Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian. The search giant has been working on this strategy for a few quarters. This year, it introduced BigQuery ...
AWS launches AWS Network Firewall to block cloud threats
Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of AWS Network Firewall, a managed firewall service designed to protect customers’ cloud environments from malicious traffic. All firewalls are based on the same basic principle: They act as a filter that prevents malicious network traffic from reaching a company’s ...
Snowflake rolls out Snowpark for developing data workflows
Snowflake Inc. today introduced an array of new capabilities for its cloud data warehouse, including a developer tool called Snowpark that will enable companies to deploy custom data wrangling workflows on the platform. Snowflake went public in a blockbuster September listing that raised close to $4 billion. The company said in the regulatory filing for ...
Cato Networks raises $131M to converge networking with cybersecurity
Cato Networks Inc. today said that it has closed a $131 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks competes in a market Gartner Inc. refers to as the secure access service edge or SASE segment. SASE platforms provide networking features that enterprises can use ...
Microsoft developing ‘Pluton’ security chip for Windows
Microsoft Corp. wants to equip Windows computers with a specialized security chip to be built directly into the main processor. Pluton, as the company calls the chip, will provide protection against threats such as the infamous Meltdown and Spectre exploits. The technology was detailed today in a blog post by David Weston, Microsoft’s director of enterprise and ...
AMD reveals ‘world’s fastest’ supercomputer graphics card
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today pulled back the curtains on the MI100, a graphics processing unit for supercomputers touted as the fastest chip in its class with more than 10 teraflops of peak performance. Supercomputers are typically used to run scientific workloads such as weather prediction models and physics simulations. Once, they were built mainly ...