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Semiconductor startup Flex Logix Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its InferX X1 artificial intelligence chip, which it says can provide up to 10 times more performance than Nvidia Corp. silicon in some scenarios. Flex Logix was formed in 2014 and …
Juniper Networks to buy virtual router maker 128 Technology for $450M
Juniper Networks Inc. today announced that it has inked a $450 million deal to acquire 128 Technology Inc., a Burlington, Massachusetts-based maker of a software platform for powering enterprise networks. The transaction is expected to wrap up in Juniper’s fiscal fourth quarter, …
The Citizen Browser Project launches to shed light on social media disinformation
A new initiative dubbed The Citizen Browser Project aims to use a custom-designed browser to illuminate how disinformation spreads on social media. The initiative, the Nieman Journalism Lab reported today, is being launched by The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how technology …
AWS and Carrier team up to combat food waste with analytics
Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about a technical collaboration with Carrier Global Corp. aimed at harnessing the cloud giant’s analytics services and data from connected devices to reduce food waste. Florida-based Carrier is one of the world’s top makers of air …
Google Search gets hum-to-search and AI query upgrades
Google LLC has announced a set of artificial intelligence upgrades to its search engine that will enable users to find more types of information, as well as increase the accuracy of returned results. Company executives detailed the enhancements at the company’s Search …
Balto closes $10M in funding to optimize contact center operations with AI
Balto Inc., a startup competing in the crowded contact center analytics market, today announced that it has closed a $10 million investment led by Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures was joined in the Series A round by several other institutional backers, including Jump Capital, OCA Ventures …
ServiceNow and IBM team up for Watson-powered automatic troubleshooting
ServiceNow Inc. today announced a collaboration with IBM Corp. to provide automatic problem detection features powered by IBM’s Watson AIOps product. Publicly traded ServiceNow’s Now Platform provides a centralized hub from which information technology teams can manage their companies’ infrastructure and applications. …
Cribl sets out to fix IT observability lock-in with $35M from Sequoia and CRV
San Francisco startup Cribl Inc. today said that it has raised a $35 million round led by Sequoia Capital to give companies more flexibility in what infrastructure monitoring tools they use. Technology environments generate large amounts of machine data that’s useful for …
Streamlit launches cloud service to help developers share open-source AI apps
Streamlit Inc., an artificial intelligence startup backed by Google LLC’s Gradient Ventures, today launched a service called Streamlit Sharing that’s designed to make it easier for developers to share their machine learning applications with users. Building a machine learning application requires more …
Accurics picks up $20M for its ‘remediation as code’ cloud automation approach
Startup Accurics Inc. has picked up $20 million in funding for its namesake automation platform, which aims to make the popular “infrastructure as code” approach to managing enterprise cloud environments more reliable and secure. The financing was announced today. Pleasanton, California-based Accurics …