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MLCommons releases new AILuminate benchmark for measuring AI model safety
MLCommons today released AILuminate, a new benchmark test for evaluating the safety of large language models. Launched in 2020, MLCommons is an industry consortium backed by several dozen tech firms. It primarily develops benchmarks for measuring the speed at which various systems, including handsets and server clusters, run artificial intelligence workloads. MLCommons also provides other ...
System Two Security raises $7M to automate detection engineering with AI
System Two Security Inc., a startup helping companies detect cyberattacks more efficiently, today announced that it has raised $7 million in funding. Costanoa Ventures led the round. It was joined by Runtime Ventures, The Hive, Webb Investment Network and several angel investors. System Two was launched last year by Chief Executive Officer Robert Fly and ...
Marvell tops quarterly expectations thanks to strong ASIC, interconnect demand
Marvell Technology Inc. today posted quarterly financial results and guidance that handily topped the consensus analyst estimate. Shares of the chipmaker rose more than 8% in after-hours trading. Marvell supplies semiconductors for data centers, carrier infrastructure and cars. It sells specialized processors optimized for tasks such as managing encryption keys. The company also sells other ...
AWS details Project Rainier AI compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of chips
Amazon Web Services Inc. today detailed Project Rainer, a compute cluster powered by hundreds of thousands of its custom AWS Trainium2 chips. The company is using the system to support the artificial intelligence development efforts of Anthropic PBC. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. has invested $8 billion in the OpenAI rival since last September. A few ...
Microsoft faces £1B UK lawsuit over software licensing fees
Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. The class-action lawsuit is seeking £1 billion, or about $1.25 billion, in damages from Microsoft on behalf ...
AWS expands cybersecurity portfolio with AWS Security Incident Response
Amazon Web Services Inc. is expanding its cybersecurity portfolio with a new service that will make it easier for customers to detect and remediate breach attempts. The offering, AWS Security Incident Response, made its debut on Sunday. It’s one of several platform additions the cloud giant introduced ahead of this week’s AWS re:Invent 2024 conference, ...
AI data center builder Nebius raises $700M in funding
CoNebius NV, a publicly traded provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. The company received the capital through a private placement that saw investors buy about 33.3 million shares for $21 apiece. That represents a 3% premium to Nebius’ volume-weighted average stock price. The round included contributions ...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ‘retires’ amid foundry, growth challenges
Pat Gelsinger has stepped down from his role as Intel Corp.’s chief executive, the chipmaker announced today. Gelsinger left the CEO post and his board seat on Sunday. Sources told Bloomberg that the executive’s departure followed a meeting with Intel’s other directors. The discussion, which focused on the company’s efforts to win back lost market ...
AWS details materials science collaboration with Orbital Materials
Amazon Web Services Inc. is launching a technical collaboration with Orbital Materials Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to discover new materials. The companies detailed the initiative today against the backdrop of the cloud giant’s AWS re:Invent conference. It’s described as a multiyear collaboration. The goal, the companies said, is to develop technologies and ...
AWS upgrades Amazon Connect with new generative AI features
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding more artificial intelligence features to its Amazon Connect service, which helps companies run their contact centers more efficiently. The update was detailed today ahead of the cloud giant’s AWS re:Invent 2024 event, which will kick off on Monday. Amazon Connect made its original debut in 2017. The service uses ...