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Qualcomm Inc. has a new 5G modem chip for smartphones that’s the first in the industry to feature a more efficient five-nanometer architecture and promises up to double the connection speeds in some cases. Dubbed the X60, the modem was unveiled this …
As more enterprises adopt AI, AWS’ ML Solutions Lab passes 175 customers
Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided a rare glimpse into the growth of its artificial intelligence business by sharing some figures for the ML Solutions Lab, the in-house AI consultancy it set up in 2017. Michelle Lee, the vice president who leads …
Jeff Bezos launches $10B Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change
Amazon.com Inc. founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos today announced on social media that he’s setting up a $10 billion philanthropic fund to support climate action. The Bezos Earth Fund will be personally financed by Bezos (pictured), the world’s richest man with …
PullRequest acquires Moonlight to boost its AI bug hunting engine
PullRequest Inc., a code review startup backed by Google LLC and Y Combinator, today said it has acquired fellow startup Moonlight Work Inc. to advance its plans of making software development more automated using artificial intelligence. Austin, Texas-based PullRequest operates a “code …
Tesla prices secondary stock offering, set to raise as much as $2.3B
Tesla Inc. today disclosed the pricing for its planned secondary stock offering, telling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing that it will sell 2.65 million shares at $767 apiece. That would work out to a cash haul of about $2.03 …
Arista acquires multicloud software-defined network provider Big Switch Networks
Arista Networks Inc. has acquired Big Switch Networks Inc., an early player in the software-defined networking market that raised more than $120 million from investors such as Khosla Ventures. The terms of the deal, which Arista announced on Thursday afternoon, were not …
Google’s $2.6B Looker acquisition closes after winning UK approval
Google LLC’s acquisition of Looker Data Sciences Inc. has officially closed, a little over eight months after it announced it would acquire the data visualization provider for $2.6 billion. The search giant originally told investors it expected the deal to complete before …
Court pauses Microsoft’s JEDI Pentagon cloud contract work in response to Amazon suit
A Federal Court of Appeals judge today temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract that was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year. The Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative or JEDI contract had been expected to be awarded to Amazon Web Services …
Broadcom’s world first Wi-Fi 6E chip promises much faster wireless speeds for phones
As carriers rush to upgrade their infrastructure to 5G, another part of the mobile networking landscape is undergoing a major technological shift as well. An emerging standard for indoor mobile connections dubbed Wi-Fi 6E is promising to double internet speeds and halve …
Giant MWC mobile conference canceled over coronavirus fears after exhibitor exodus
MWC 2020, the mobile industry mega-conference formerly known as Mobile World Congress, has been scrapped because of the coronavirus outbreak. MWC is an annual event held in Barcelona that drew more than 100,000 participants last year and is traditionally attended by all …