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Report: Applied Materials under investigation for sending chipmaking gear to China in breach of export rules
Shares of the semiconductor manufacturing technology provider Applied Materials Inc. traded lower after-hours today in the wake of a report that it’s being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for violating export restrictions by shipping products to a leading Chinese chipmaker. The report from Reuters emerged shortly after the company released its fourth-quarter earnings results today, ...
Meta announces new breakthroughs in AI image editing and video generation with Emu
Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation. The Facebook and Instagram parent has developed new tools that enable more control over the image editing process via text instructions, and a new method for text-to-video generation. The new tools are based on Meta’s Expressive ...
ServiceNow expands Now Assist family of generative AI agents
The information technology workflow management giant ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s expanding its family of Now Assist generative artificial intelligence agents. The new Now Assist in Virtual Agent, flow generation and Now Assist for Field Service Management offerings are available to all customers via the ServiceNow Store. They’re said to reduce the time workers spend ...
Salesforce moves to reinvent customer service experiences with generative AI
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s adding yet another artificial intelligence capability to its arsenal with the launch of a new application called Service Intelligence within its Service Cloud, its flagship customer relationship management platform for customer service and support. The new offering is powered by Salesforce’s hyperscale data engine, Data Cloud. The company said it ...
Synopsys turns to generative AI to aid in semiconductor design
Synopsys Inc. said today it’s bringing the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence to the computer chip design software industry. The new Synopsis.ai Copilot is already being used in early access by customers. It runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure OpenAI Service and it provides generative AI support via natural language to chip design teams, the company ...
Cisco offers light guidance as new product orders slow, sending its stock lower
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. fell more than 11% in extended trading today as the company warned it will likely miss analysts’ expectations in its fiscal second quarter by a wide margin. The company expects this to have a knock-on effect, and its forecast for the current fiscal year also came in low. The disappointing ...
Martian debuts novel AI model mapping technology for apps to leverage multiple LLMs at once
Martian Learning Inc. today debuted a new artificial intelligence model mapping technology that it says can achieve better performance at lower costs than any single large language model. The startup said it has also raised $9 million in a seed funding round led by NEA, Prosus Ventures, Carya Venture Partners and General Catalyst. The company ...
Microsoft turbocharges AI development with Fabric, Azure AI Studio and database updates
Microsoft Corp. is raising its game for artificial intelligence developers with a host of updates to its Azure cloud computing platform. At its annual Ignite 2023 conference, the company explained that the success of any AI initiative is limited by the data that’s available to it, so one of the main focuses is on the ...
First dedicated AI accelerators and in-house Arm processors unveiled for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. is looking to fuel the artificial intelligence and cloud computing ambitions of its customers with the launch of new, dedicated silicon for AI and other workloads. The new chips announced today at Ignite 2023 include Microsoft’s first custom AI accelerator available on Azure, called Azure Maia, which is designed to support workloads such ...
Microsoft brings generative AI copilots to sales and service teams
Microsoft Corp. is building on the launch of its Copilot for Dynamics 365 artificial intelligence tool with the launch of dedicated, generative AI-powered assistants for services and sales teams. Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023 today, Microsoft Copilot for Service offers AI-powered assistance that’s tailored to the needs of employees at the frontline of customer experiences, ...
