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Glitch-fueled earnings miss sends Twitter’s stock plummeting 19%
Twitter Inc.’s stock dropped more than 19% today after the company posted weaker-than-expected profit and revenue for the third quarter that fell short of what Wall Street was expecting. Revenue in the three months ended Sept. 30 ticked up 8.6% year-over-year, to $823.7 million, but analysts were looking for $874 million. Twitter’s adjusted earnings of ...
OctoML bags $3.9M to optimize AI models for a multiplatform world
OctoML Inc., a fresh-faced machine learning startup recently spun off from the University of Washington, today announced that it has raised $3.9 million in funding to tackle the complexity of deploying artificial intelligence software. Setting up an AI model on a hardware system is much different than the typical application install. To maximize an algorithm’s performance and ...
Google reaches quantum computing milestone with 53-qubit Sycamore chip
Google LLC today published a scientific paper in which it said that a 53-qubit, superconducting chip running at one of its research labs has demonstrated so-called quantum supremacy for the first time. Quantum supremacy describes the expected ability of quantum computers to perform complex calculations too difficult for even the most sophisticated classical machines. Google ...
Arm launches new neural and graphics processors to bring AI to more devices
Arm Ltd. today pulled back the curtains on its latest batch of chip designs, which includes two neural processing units optimized to run machine learning models and a graphics processing unit aimed at midrange phones. NPUs have become a staple feature of premium handsets in recent years. There’s one in the A13 Bionic system-on-chip that ...
38 more attorneys general join multistate antitrust probe of Facebook
Facebook Inc.’s stock fell more than 4% today after New York State Attorney Letitia James, who is leading an antitrust probe into the company, revealed that 38 more attorneys general will take part in the investigation. The group joins the eight states that originally backed the probe when it launched last month. The coalition also includes the attorney generals ...
AWS throws its weight behind Facebook’s Deepfake Detection Challenge
Amazon Web Services Inc. is joining a Facebook Inc.-led industry initiative to combat “deepfakes” with artificial intelligence. Deepfakes are the umbrella term for videos in which a person’s face and sometimes voice are superimposed on another individual. The phenomenon is fueled partially by the increasing accessibility of AI software, which can manipulate footage with far greater ...
Taking aim at Hadoop, Teradata brings its Vantage analytics platform to Google Cloud
Teradata Corp. today announced a partnership with Google LLC to bring its flagship Vantage analytics toolkit to the search giant’s cloud platform. Vantage is a software suite designed to serve as a kind of Swiss army knife for business intelligence teams, providing all the core features they need to do their work. It enables workers ...
Virtual private network provider NordVPN discloses 2018 breach
NordVPN, a major virtual private network provider with 12 million users worldwide, today disclosed that it suffered a security breach last year. VPN applications such as NordVPN aim to enhance users’ privacy by routing their web traffic through encrypted connections that are for all intents and purposes isolated from the rest of the network. The ...
Microsoft buys data migration startup Mover to boost Office 365 adoption
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired Edmonton, Canada-based data migration startup Mover.io Inc. to make Office 365 easier to adopt for businesses. Seven-year-old Mover provides a cloud service that automates the task of transferring files among applications. Administrators can orchestrate migrations through a browser-based interface that offers ready-made data connectors. Mover can transfer ...
Commercetools raises $145M to power large enterprises’ online sales
Commercetools GmbH, a German startup providing e-commerce tools to enterprises, today disclosed that it has nabbed a $145 million investment from Insight Partners. The post-money valuation wasn’t revealed in the official announcement. But a source described as close to the deal told TechCrunch that Commercetools is now worth around $300 million. The investment opens a new ...