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Qualcomm Inc. has followed up the unveiling of its new flagship smartphone processor by pulling back the curtains on the XR2, a chip for augmented and virtual reality headsets hailed as the first of its kind in the world to support 5G. The …
NFL teams up with AWS to simulate and predict player injuries using AI
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today the National Football League will use its cloud platform to model contributing factors to player injuries and explore ways of reducing health risks using machine learning. The partnership, announced at AWS’ annual re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, …
AWS launches ML Embark program to help enterprises adopt machine learning
For enterprises, the path to adopting artificial intelligence involves more than just development tools and algorithms. A company looking to deploy AI must first and foremost train its engineers in using the technology, a task that Amazon Web Services Inc. hopes to …
Report: FTC antitrust officials are investigating Amazon’s AWS cloud business
Officials with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission are reportedly investigating whether Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services Inc., has violated antitrust laws. Bloomberg broke the news Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources who weren’t authorized to talk with the press about …
Qualcomm unleashes new generation of 5G-enabled Snapdragon chips
After giving the industry a sneak peak at its product roadmap on Tuesday, Qualcomm Inc. today officially unveiled the Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 756G, the chips that will power next year’s 5G-enabled Android devices. The Snapdragon 865 is the company’s …
Kustomer picks up $60M at $500M+ valuation for its customer service CRM
Marking its third funding round of the year, Kustomer Inc. today announced that it has picked up $60 million in additional capital from Coatue, Tiger Global Management and Battery Ventures. New York-based Kustomer has built a customer service platform that allows companies …
BP shifts 900 workloads to AWS as Novartis, FINRA spin up new cloud data projects
BP plc will shift 900 core workloads to Amazon Web Services Inc. as part of an agreement revealed today, while Novartis AG and FINRA are spinning up massive new data projects on the provider’s public cloud. The three deals were all announced …
AI takes center stage: AWS debuts SageMaker Studio, CodeGuru, Kendra and more
Kicking re:Invent into high gear, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled a massive array of artificial intelligence solutions spanning more than a half-dozen product categories, from code debugging to cybersecurity and contact center automation. And that’s on top of a formidable lineup …
AWS wins multiyear cloud and machine learning deal with Fox
Media giant Fox Corp. will use Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, as well as managed offerings such as the provider’s SageMaker machine learning platform, to support broadcast operations. AWS announced the deal at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today alongside …
AWS brings Nvidia T4 GPUs to Outposts for AI inference and rendering
Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its AWS Outposts platform with the addition of G4 instances powered by Nvidia Corp.’s T4 graphics processing unit. Outposts enables organizations to deploy AWS infrastructure in their own data centers and have the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary …