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After scrutiny, Google tightens privacy controls around Assistant voice recordings
Google LLC today previewed a series of upcoming privacy changes to Google Assistant aimed at alleviating recent concerns about how the service processes user data. The search giant employs contractors to listen to a portion of consumers’ conversations with the voice assistant and flag audio issues, such as misinterpreted commands. The program entered the spotlight in ...
AWS launches GPU-powered G4 instances for machine learning, graphics rendering
Amazon Web Services Inc. is making its platform more attractive for companies adopting artificial intelligence. The cloud giant today announced the general availability of the G4 instance family, which consists of six virtual machines optimized for machine learning workloads. They succeed the G3 series that AWS introduced back in 2017. The performance difference is considerable: ...
Google commits $3.3B over two years to build more European data centers
Google LLC will spend 3 billion euros, or $3.3 billion, over the next two years to expand its European infrastructure footprint with new data centers. The investment was announced this morning by Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai. In the blog post outlining the initiative, the CEO provided details on only one planned development: a ...
Wing drones to start delivering packages in Virginia as part of upcoming pilot
Alphabet Inc.’s Wing Aviation LLC subsidiary is bringing its delivery drones to Christiansburg, Virginia. The 22,000-person town in Montgomery County will become the site of a pilot program meant to test the viability of autonomous air transport. In the blog post announcing the project today, Wing said the first drones are set to take flight ...
Tailwind for enterprise tech: Datadog, Ping Identity surge after IPOs
Enterprise technology providers Datadog Inc. and Ping Identity Holding Corp. debuted on the stock market today after raising a combined $836 million in their initial public offerings Wednesday evening. Datadog, which sells a cloud service that helps companies monitor the health of their applications, raked in $648 million. The total haul could rise to as much ...
Salesforce invests $300M in WordPress poster child Automattic
Automattic Inc., the company whose name has become synonymous with the WordPress content management system, is now worth $3 billion after a $300 million funding round announced this morning. The investment is the first for Automattic since 2014 and was led entirely by Salesforce Inc.’s venture capital arm. Including previous rounds, the company’s total raised stands ...
Salesforce bolsters data capabilities with Einstein Search, Sustainability Cloud
Just days after its last product release, Salesforce.com Inc. today introduced Einstein Search and Sustainability Cloud, two solutions that are both aimed at enabling companies to better manage internal data but focus on vastly different goals. Einstein Search will allow organizations to make customer records more easily accessible for employees. The tool is the successor ...
Facebook unleashes 3 new Portal devices, including long-rumored TV gadget
Facebook Inc. today expanded its hardware lineup with the introduction of three new Portal video calling devices that bring new communications features as well as better privacy. The star of the trio is the long-rumored Portal TV (pictured). It’s essentially a sophisticated webcam that users can connect to a television via the HDMI port to turn ...
In latest quantum milestone, IBM unveils its first 53-qubit computer
Qubit by qubit, researchers are inching closer to making large-scale quantum computing a reality. IBM Corp. today revealed that it has developed a quantum computer with more than twice the processing components as its previous largest machines. The new system packs 53 qubits compared with the earlier models’ 20 and features a number of major ...
DataRobot’s investors bet another $206M on its automated AI platform
In the crowded field of startups working to ease artificial intelligence development, DataRobot Inc. stands out. The company is one of the oldest players, founded in 2012, and it’s now among the best-funded as well as thanks to a new $206 million investment announced this morning. Sapphire Ventures led the round. It was joined by Intel ...