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OctoML reels in $15M to automate cross-platform AI optimization
OctoML Inc. today announced that it has closed $15 million in fresh funding, a mere six months after last raising capital, to continue work on its automated artificial intelligence optimization platform. Seattle-based OctoML was founded last year by a group of University of Washington computer scientists. The team, led by Chief Executive Officer Luis Ceze ...
IBM builds two AI-powered tools for coronavirus research
IBM Corp. today launched two artificial intelligence-powered services that it developed specifically to help advance the study of COVID-19 and potential treatments. The services were announced by IBM research head Dario Gil in a blog post. The first is a cloud-based molecular explorer that enables researchers to study COVID-19 therapeutic candidates, or molecules that have the potential to ...
To help global health authorities, Google harnesses users’ location data
Google LLC is harnessing the anonymized location data it collects about users for a new mapping tool that will enable public health officials battling the coronavirus to view movement trends across regions. The tool, COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, came online today. The search giant envisions authorities using it for tasks such as tracking whether people abide ...
Data governance unicorn Collibra now worth $2.3B following $112.5M round
Data governance startup Collibra Inc. today announced that it has closed a $112.5 million funding round led by ICONIQ Capital and Index Ventures at a $2.3 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG investment arm, which was the biggest backer of Collibra’s previous round, chipped in as well. It was joined by Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and Durable Capital ...
Intel hits speed milestone with latest batch of high-end laptop chips
Intel Corp. today unveiled six new 10th-generation processors for premium laptops, including an eight-core model that it claims offers the fastest clock speed in the category. The Core i9-10980HK, the star of the lineup, has eight cores capable of running a combined 16 threads at once. The chip can boost its base frequency of 2.4 gigahertz to as high ...
Zoom CEO ‘deeply sorry’ after privacy issues, promises improvements
Zoom Video Communications Inc. will freeze feature development for 90 days to focus on enhancing security and privacy for users, Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan announced in a blog post today. The move is a response to a string of privacy issues that were discovered in the popular video conferencing service recently. Yuan wrote that ...
Slack adds integration with Microsoft’s rival Teams service
Slack Technologies Inc. today released an app that allows customers to integrate its team chat service with Microsoft Corp.’s competing Microsoft Teams. Both platforms have been onboarding large numbers of new users in recent weeks as a result of the worldwide shift to remote work. Slack recently disclosed an increase of more than 9,000 customers ...
T-Mobile officially wraps up its $26.5B acquisition of Sprint
Sprint Corp. as of today is officially part of T-Mobile US Inc., two years after the carriers first announced plans to merge in a $26.5 billion deal. T-Mobile is beginning the new chapter of its corporate evolution under the direction of Chief Executive Officer Mike Sievert. Formerly the carrier’s chief operating officer, Sievert took over the ...
More privacy woes for Zoom after researchers find vulnerabilities in desktop apps
Researchers have found previously undisclosed security flaws in Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s Mac and Windows applications that could be exploited by hackers for cyberattacks. The vulnerabilities are likely to raise fresh concerns over the videoconferencing provider’s data protection practices, which are already the subject of scrutiny by the New York attorney general’s office. Patrick Wardle, the ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Edge Zones to target edge computing and 5G use cases
Microsoft Corp. today pulled back the curtains on Azure Edge Zones, a new edge computing platform aimed at latency-sensitive use cases such as robotics, mixed reality and real-time analytics. The company is taking on Amazon Web Services Inc., which introduced a competing solution called Wavelength late last year. An Azure Edge Zone is essentially a scaled-down Azure ...