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Musk says AI could ‘kill us all’ as tech luminaries attend closed-door session at Congress
Elon Musk and other leaders of the technology industry joined U.S. senators at a closed-door session where they discussed the benefits and challenges of artificial intelligence, as well as the dangers it might pose to society. At the end of the gathering, Musk (pictured) spoke with reporters briefly and, in his typical candid or at ...
In this year’s biggest IPO, Arm stock closes up 25% as chip designer raises $4.87B
Updated with market reaction and executive interview: Newly public shares of British chip design firm Arm Holdings Ltd., which dominates the smartphone industry, jumped 10% in initial trading and then rocketed to close up nearly 25% Thursday. Arm had set a price of $51 per share Wednesday in the biggest initial public offering of the ...
Amazon launches generative AI tool for sellers to create product listing information
The online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. has taken another foray into generative artificial intelligence, launching a new tool that helps sellers to create listings for their products. The new tool was announced today at Accelerate 2023, Amazon’s annual seller conference, after being tested among an initial group of buyers last month. It’s designed to help ...
Port raises $18M to simplify DevOps processes for developer teams
Internal developer portal startup Port, officially known as GetPort.io Ltd., said today it has closed on an $18 million Series A funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $23 million. Today’s round was led by Team8 and saw participation from its lead seed round investor TLV Partners, plus angel investors that included JFrog Ltd. ...
In antitrust case, Google insists its dominance of internet search is lawful
Google LLC today insisted that it has not broken any laws to maintain its dominance of the internet search industry, saying that its search engine remains the world’s most popular thanks to its quality. In a summation of its longtime stance, the search giant argued that dissatisfied users have always been able to switch to ...
Nvidia and Xanadu power quantum computing simulations with GPUs
Nvidia Corp. is working with a Toronto-based startup called Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. to enable quantum computing simulations to be run on supercomputers for the first time. In a blog post published today, Nvidia said researchers are using the latest version of Xanadu’s PennyLane to simulate quantum machines on a supercomputer called “Perlmutter.” PennyLane is ...
Enfabrica raises $125M to scale up GPUs, memory, networks and storage for distributed AI workloads
Artificial intelligence networking infrastructure startup Enfabrica Corp. said today it has raised a bumper $125 million in new funding to build out its highly efficient server fabric chip technology. The startup reckons it can solve critical network, input/output and memory scaling problems that are increasingly problematic as AI models become more powerful and their demand ...
Edge AI chip startup Axelera debuts Metis AI Platform
Edge artificial intelligence chip startup Axelera AI B.V. today announced it’s now shipping its Metis AI Platform to customers in its early access program. Founded in 2021 and backed by more than $50 million in funding, Axelera AI is the developer of specialized computer chip hardware that’s optimized to run AI software at the network ...
Machine learning chipmaker SiMa.ai enables low-code AI model development at the edge
SiMa Technologies Inc., developer of a purpose-built machine learning system-on-a-chip for edge devices, today announced the availability of its free visual development environment that enables developers to get started easily building artificial intelligence models that live at the network edge. The startup offers a platform known as the SiMa.ai Palette, which provides a set of ...
ESG startup Optera raises $12M to help enterprises reduce carbon impact
Environmental, social and governance technology startup Optera, officially known as Point380 Inc. said today it has closed on a $12 million early-stage funding round to grow its enterprise-focused ESG and carbon management platform. The Series A round was led by Next Frontier Capital and saw the participation of Blackhorn Ventures, Mucker Capital, Overture, Engage, Massive, ...
