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Blockchain.com raises $110M in funding led by Kingsway Capital
Blockchain.com, a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service, announced Tuesday that it secured $110 million in late-stage funding led by Kingsway Capital as crypto markets and investments continue to remain low after challenges The Series E strategic financing round was joined by numerous investors, including Baillie Gifford, Lakestar, LSVP, GV, Access Industries, Moore Capital, Prudence, Freeman Capital, Pledge ...
Microsoft debuts new AI tools for Windows developers and IT professionals
Microsoft Corp. today continued to advance its commitment to artificial intelligence in its Windows 11 operating system with an announcement during its Ignite 2023 conference unveiling updates to the developer experience and new features for its cloud-based Windows 365 service. With the latest Windows 11 update on Sept. 26, Microsoft released a raft of developer ...
Nvidia announces generative AI foundry on Azure and new foundational models
Pushing the envelope for generative artificial intelligence model training and deployment workflows, Nvidia Corp. today said that it’s bringing an AI foundry to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud that will allow any customer to roll their own chatbot, predictive or image-generating AI. The company announced the offering during Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 conference today, calling it a generative AI factory provided by ...
AI-powered Microsoft Copilot expands with new features and customization
Microsoft Corp. announced updates today at its Ignite 2023 conference to its AI-powered Copilot experience that runs everywhere users are, including the web, their personal computers and within their productivity apps to help them in their work and life. “Everyone will have their own Copilot,” Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said this morning in his Ignite keynote. ...
Fnality raises $95M to tokenize money for major banks led by Goldman and BNP Paribas
London-based financial technology firm Fnality International Ltd., which builds blockchain systems that tokenize major currencies for central banks, said today that it has raised $95 million (£77.7m) in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas. The Series B funding round also attracted participation from DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura and WisdomTree. Existing investors from the company’s ...
Nvidia announces new HGX H200 computing platform, with advanced memory to handle AI workloads
Nvidia Corp. today announced the introduction of the HGX H200 computing platform, a new powerful system that features the upcoming H200 Tensor Core graphics processing unit based on its Hopper architecture, with advanced memory to handle the massive amounts of data needed for artificial intelligence and supercomputing workloads. The company announced the new platform (pictured) ...
Justin Sun’s Poloniex exchange hit for over $100M in exploit
More than $100 million in digital assets were taken from a wallet belonging to the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex in what security firms said was a massive hack earlier this morning. Millions of crypto assets were transferred from an account labeled “Poloniex 4,” as seen on the Etherescan blockchain explorer. Losses were initially estimated at about $60 million ...
Humane unveils an AI-powered wearable smart pin that could replace your phone
Humane today unveiled its long-awaited artificial intelligence-powered wearable, the $699 Ai Pin, which the company says will revolutionize the way that people interact with their devices. The Pin is a square device that clips magnetically to clothing or other surfaces so that it stays in place, but the innovation behind the magnetic clip is that it ...
DataRobot releases major updates to its enterprise-grade AI platform
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. is keeping up with the surge of interest in generative AI by announcing multiple updates to its enterprise-grade end-to-end AI solution today that will help companies better understand their AI models. As part of DataRobot’s announcements today, the company added a console for AI observability and monitoring for both generative and predictive ...
Digital twin firm Duality AI launches cloud-based platform for testing robots
Duality AI, the developer of a suite of tools that allow for simulating the real world so artificial intelligence and robots can navigate it using “digital twins,” announced today that it’s expanding its capabilities into the cloud, making it possible to access simulations through web browsers. Duality develops a product known as Falcon, which is ...