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DarwinAI launches from stealth to automate artificial intelligence development
Artificial intelligence projects usually rely on existing code. Engineers sift through the AI models available from sources such as academic publications, pick the one deemed most suitable and then customize it to their requirements. Canada’s DarwinAI Inc. wants to reduce the amount of work involved in the last two steps. The startup today launched from stealth with ...
Google debuts Cloud Inference API for large-scale time series analytics
Google LLC today unveiled Cloud Inference API, a new managed analytics service capable of carrying out hundreds of thousands of queries per second. The offering is designed for processing time series data, information made up of numerous individual measurements arranged chronologically in the order they’re generated. This method of collating data lends itself to fields ...
Apple reportedly taps LG to curb Samsung’s role in new iPhone production
Apple Inc. has reportedly tapped LG Display Co. to produce some of the displays for its latest iPhones in a bid to become less reliant on rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The information appeared today in South Korean business journal The Investor, which cited anonymous sources. The news follows multiple other reports that indicated Apple may partner with ...
Scale and nuTonomy open-source massive AI dataset for self-driving cars
Scale Labs Inc. and Aptiv PLC’s nuTonomy group, two influential players in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, today open-sourced a massive research dataset designed to aid self-driving car initiatives. Autonomous vehicles rely on artificial intelligence models to make navigation decisions. Those AI models, in turn, must be trained with large amounts of sample information to achieve the necessary ...
Uber looks to boost self-driving car initiative with new $150M Toronto investment
Uber Technologies Inc. has allocated $150 million to growing its engineering operations in Toronto as part of a newly announced expansion that will boost its self-driving car initiative and other key projects. The plan was made public today in conjunction with a visit to the city by Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi. According to the ...
Report: Adobe may acquire Marketo in deal potentially worth over $1.8B
In an interview with SiliconANGLE last year, Marketo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Lucas predicted that the marketing technology industry would see significant consolidation through 2019. It now looks Lucas and his company may find themselves at the center of this consolidation. Reuters reported today that Adobe Systems Inc. is in talks to acquire Marketo. ...
Salesforce targets business users with two new low-code development tools
Salesforce.com Inc. is bolstering its lineup of software development services with two new tools that enable nontechnical business users to build custom applications. Introduced today, the offerings facilitate what’s known as low-code development. It’s an emerging approach that involves using ready-made, reusable components to reduce drastically programming requirements in certain software projects. Some tools in the category ...
Hybrid cloud startup Datrium lands $60M round led by Samsung
Datrium Inc., a well-funded contender in the hybrid cloud infrastructure market, today announced that it has secured a new $60 million round led Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The investment brings the startup’s total raised to a hefty $170 million. In addition to Samsung, it included contributions from Icon Ventures, NEA and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Icon ...
In major new release, Rubrik gives its Datos IO platform the container treatment
Data protection unicorn Rubrik Inc. today introduced a major new release of Datos IO, the backup platform that it acquired just six months ago to move into the lucrative NoSQL database market. Enterprises have in recent years significantly expanded their use of NoSQL databases to accommodate the rapid growth of unstructured information. Many of those ...
With new sensors, Google’s Street View cars will measure air pollution worldwide
The distinctive, high-tech cars that Google LLC uses to collect data for Street View will soon take much more than just photographs. The technology giant today announced plans to equip the vehicles with air quality sensors as part of a new initiative to provide better insight into pollution levels worldwide. Google is sourcing the sensors ...