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Uber’s new Neuropod interface abstracts multiframework AI development
Uber Technologies Inc.’s autonomous driving group today open-sourced Neuropod, a technology designed to reduce the amount of coding enterprise developers have to do to build and deploy artificial intelligence models. The problem Neuropod seeks to address is one Uber encountered internally. Enterprises with a sizable in-house AI development operation often use several AI development frameworks, such ...
Report: Uber’s push to acquire Grubhub challenged by rival offers
Uber Technologies Inc. is reportedly no longer the only company looking to buy Grubhub Inc., the largest food delivery provider in the U.S. CNBC, citing multiple sources, reported today that publicly traded Grubhub has received offers from at least two European food delivery providers. The tipsters identified the would-be acquirers as Germany’s Delivery Hero SE ...
AWS launches AMD-based C5a instances for compute-heavy workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. has launched a new family of cloud instances that run on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors and target computationally intensive workloads such as analytics applications. The instances, which became available under the C5a name Thursday, are the first from AWS to use AMD’s second-generation Epyc Rome processors. The chips are based ...
IBM launches new toolkit to put fully homomorphic encryption in developers’ hands
IBM Corp. on Thursday released a free toolkit meant to make it practical for developers to implement fully homomorphic encryption, an emerging cryptography scheme with the potential to be safer than current methods and more resistant to quantum computers. The toolkit is available on iOS and MacOS at launch. A few weeks from now, IBM plans to add ...
ZoomInfo sees shares soar after raising over $934M in 2020’s biggest tech IPO
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. this morning became the first software-as-a-service provider to go public in 2020 after debuting on the Nasdaq stock exchange at $40 per share, about 90% above its initial public offering price. The IPO pricing itself represented a significant increase over the company’s original target. ZoomInfo had set out to raise up to $500 million ...
Amazon reportedly could invest $2B in Indian carrier Bharti Airtel
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly holding early-stage talks with Bharti Airtel, India’s third-largest telecommunications provider, about buying a stake in the firm worth $2 billion or more. The details were published today by Reuters, which attributed the information to three people with knowledge of the discussions. A $2 billion deal value would give Amazon a roughly 5% ...
Reports: ZoomInfo looking to raise $934M+ in forthcoming IPO
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., a software-as-a-service company set to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange Thursday, is reportedly looking to raise the pricing of its initial public offering at the last minute to seize upon strong investor demand. Vancouver, Washington-based ZoomInfo provides a market intelligence platform that sales and marketing teams at business-to-business companies use to ...
Microsoft rolls out Chromium-based Edge browser to Windows 10 devices globally
Microsoft Corp. has started rolling out a Windows 10 update that will bring its Chromium-based Edge browser to most of the billion-plus devices running the operating system worldwide. The company quietly detailed the rollout in a support article posted to its website, The Verge reported today. The update will be automatically downloaded via Windows 10’s built-in ...
ServiceNow debuts new vertical products to advance ‘industry solutions’ strategy
ServiceNow Inc. today advanced its plans of establishing a bigger foothold in vertical markets by introducing new products for telecommunications providers and financial firms. The announcement, made at the company’s digital Knowledge 2020 event, was accompanied by the release of new details about its healthcare sector ambitions. Publicly traded ServiceNow sells a platform used by enterprises to manage ...
Google patches two critical Android vulnerabilities that facilitated remote attacks
Google LLC’s June update for its Android operating system contains fixes to a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could enable hackers to remotely deploy malicious code on a victim’s mobile device. Google releases monthly patches for Android to mitigate security issues periodically found in the platform. The June update, released Monday, fixes a total of 34 flaws. ...