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Google has built an AI to help keep its data centers cool and efficient
Keeping the servers in a data center cool requires a massive amount of power, especially when it comes to the large facilities operated by tech giants such as Google LLC. Now the company is trying to harness artificial intelligence to cut the electricity bill. Google today revealed that it has built a specialized AI to automatically manage ...
Google is reportedly developing a smart display to challenge Amazon’s Echo Show
A new report claims that Google LLC is preparing to launch a so-called smart display, a smart speaker with a screen, in time for the holiday season. The report appeared Friday in Nikkei, Asia’s leading financial publication. The outlet quoted a source in the Taiwanese electronics industry as saying that Google is looking to ship ...
Salesforce open-sources the tool it uses to build Einstein’s AI models
A day after Oracle Corp. released the code for an internally developed tool designed to ease artificial intelligence projects, Salesforce.com Inc. is joining the fray too. Salesforce today open-sourced TransmogrifAI, a homegrown piece of software for automating AI initiatives. The tool addresses a different aspect of the task than Oracle’s tool. Whereas the database giant’s ...
Arm teases upcoming chips and a new plan to take on Intel in the PC market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. isn’t the only player trying to loosen Intel Corp.’s grip on the multibillion-dollar personal computer processor market. Arm Holdings PLC, whose chip designs power the majority of the world’s handsets and connected devices, today previewed a set of upcoming products that take direct aim at PCs. The move marks the first ...
Oracle releases GraphPipe, an open-source tool for deploying AI models
Major tech firms regularly open-source internal software projects, but it’s not often that Oracle Corp.’s name comes up in this context. Today marked one of those occasions. The database giant this morning released GraphPipe, a tool for easing the deployment of machine learning models. Development on the project was led by Oracle cloud architect Vish Abrams, ...
Amazon and Microsoft launch public preview of their Alexa-Cortana integration
A year after joining forces to integrate their voice assistants, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today rolled out the capability into public preview. The integration is available in public preview to all U.S. customers with supported devices. Accessing Cortana via Alexa requires a smart speaker from Amazon’s Echo series, while the reverse is possible on Windows 10 ...
Y Combinator taps ex-Baidu COO to lead new push into China
Prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator late Tuesday revealed plans to set up a Chinese arm in a move that marks its first major expansion outside the United States. The initiative will be led by Qi Lu, a veteran technologist with a computer science doctorate and more than 40 patents to his name who previously served as the ...
Sonatype launches DepShield to spot vulnerable open-source code in applications
Enterprises rely extensively on open-source software in their application projects, but the time saved by using ready-made components comes at a cost. Incorporating outside code into the mix can potentially introduce new security vulnerabilities. Sonatype Inc., a software security startup backed by more than $70 million from investors such as Accel, is tackling the issue. Today it launched a free ...
EBay opens up its AI image recognition and translation features to developers
EBay Inc. today introduced two new application programming interfaces that will enable developers to add some of the online marketplace’s artificial intelligence features to their own services. The most extensive of the pair is the Image Search API. As the name suggests, the interface gives developers access to the visual search tools that eBay has implemented in ...
Alphabet’s DeepMind develops an AI that diagnoses eye disease with 94% accuracy
DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s U.K.-based artificial intelligence group, has developed a system that it claims can diagnose more than 50 different eye diseases with an accuracy of 94 percent. The group detailed the project in a study published by scientific journal Nature Medicine today. The system is the fruit of a more than two-year collaboration between DeepMind ...