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Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat takes on new role overseeing its investments and new initiatives
Alphabet Inc. finance chief Ruth Porat is taking on a new role at the company, overseeing its investment strategy and various initiatives in its Other Bets portfolio, such as Nest, Verily, Waymo and X. Today’s announcement came as Google LLC’s parent company delivered its second-quarter earnings report, beating expectations thanks to encouraging growth in its cloud ...
Strong cloud growth driven by AI workloads boosts Alphabet’s stock
Shares of Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. gained more than 5% in extended trading today as the company delivered more than $8 billion in cloud revenue for the first time. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.44 per share, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $1.34 per share. ...
Microsoft’s stock falls as demand for cloud services cools
Shares of Microsoft Corp. fell more than 3% in the after-hours trading session today after the Windows software maker and cloud computing giant offered softer-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. Microsoft did at least beat expectations in the quarter just gone. The company reported net income of $20.1 billion for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter, up ...
Nvidia’s DGX Cloud platform now available, offering instant access to generative AI infrastructure
Nvidia Corp. today announced broad availability of the next-generation of its DGX supercomputing platform, Nvidia DGX Cloud, giving companies access to thousands of graphics processing units on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its own cloud-based servers. Announced at Nvidia’s GTX conference in March, DGX Cloud is a cloud-hosted artificial intelligence supercomputing service that provides immediate access ...
Dynatrace combines predictive and causal insights with generative AI to redefine observability
Observability and cybersecurity firm Dynatrace Inc. is revamping its artificial intelligence-powered causation engine, Davis AI, converging fact-based causal AI that delivers predictive insights with generative AI to create what it says is the industry’s first-ever “hypermodal AI” engine. Announced today, the enhanced Dynatrace Davis AI engine is expected to boost productivity for business, development, security and ...
Salesforce’s latest AI updates enable sellers to integrate purchase experiences everywhere
Salesforce Inc. is rolling out yet more artificial intelligence features, this time for its Commerce Cloud platform. The new capabilities are designed to help companies integrate purchase experiences into every customer touchpoint, the company said. Commerce Cloud is a cloud-based e-commerce platform for businesses with mobile-first strategies. It’s designed to provide customers and stores with a ...
Netskope’s SkopeAI innovations enhance data loss prevention for unstructured data
Cloud security and networking startup Netskope Inc. is beefing up its suite of artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity tools to protect against data loss through the growing adoption of generative AI technologies. The new features announced in SkopeAI today are meant to overcome the limitations of traditional cybersecurity tools and provide enhanced data loss prevention, Netskope said. ...
Cerebras Systems debuts powerful Condor Galaxy supercomputer to rival Nvidia in AI training
Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. has partnered with the Abu Dhabi-based technology firm Group 42 Holding Ltd. on what it says is the world’s largest AI training supercomputer, offering enterprises an alternative to systems made by Nvidia Corp. The company announced today that phase one of its new system, called Condor Galaxy 1, ...
ChatGPT can now remember how users want it to behave
ChatGPT users are getting a nice new update that will remove the need for them to create the same instruction prompts every time they begin a new interaction with it. OpenAI LP said in a blog post today that the “custom instructions” feature is available to subscribers of the ChatGPT Plus service in beta. It’s ...
GitHub’s generative AI-powered Copilot Chat is now available in limited beta
Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub said today it’s making one of the main features of its enhanced copilot tool available to developers in limited beta test mode. Github Copilot Chat is described as the “centerpiece feature” of Github Copilot X, an enhanced version of the popular Copilot coding assistant that debuted in mid-2021. Copilot X was announced in ...