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Passwordless security startup SecureW2 Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $80 million funding round from the software-focused venture capital firm Insight Partners LLC. The funds will be used by the startup to accelerate its market expansion and the development …
Nvidia and Foxconn to collaborate on AI data factories and smarter self-driving cars
Nvidia Corp. said today it’s expanding its ongoing collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence-powered electric vehicles and robotics platforms. As part of the collaboration, Foxconn plans to develop a new class …
Big-data startup dbt Labs rolls out data mesh architecture and enhances semantic layer
Big data platform startup dbt Labs Inc. said today it’s reinvigorating its flagship dbt Cloud offering with new enhancements and capabilities that it says will enable every employee to participate in data transformation. New innovations include dbt Explore, Cloud CLI and a revamped …
Arm unveils Total Design ecosystem for customized system-on-chip development
Arm Holdings Ltd. is building on the launch of its Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems earlier this year as today the British chip design firm announced a new ecosystem called Arm Total Design that will help companies building customized system-on-chip designs to access …
Refuel.ai debuts a large language model to label the data needed to train other LLMs
Data labeling startup Refuel.ai Inc. today announced the launch of its Refuel Cloud platform, which uses a large language model that’s purpose-built to label datasets and get them ready for artificial intelligence training. Refuel.ai, which raised $5.2 million in seed funding in …
Fast database ScyllaDB raises $43M as it throws down the gauntlet to rivals
Database upstart ScyllaDB Inc., said today it has closed on a $43 million round of funding as it looks to take on rivals such as MongoDB Inc. by providing an easier way for enterprises to scale their data workloads. Today’s round was …
Pantomath bags $14M in funding to expand its data observability platform
Data observability startup Pantomath Inc. said today it closed on a $14 million Series A round of funding in September. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Sierra Ventures and saw participation from Pantomath’s early backers Bowery Capital and Epic Ventures. All told, …
Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2024 highlight growing adoption of AI
The technology industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. today got out in front of predictions for next year with what it says are likely to be top 10 strategic technology trends to emerge in 2024 — and it’s no surprise that many of …
Qualcomm says it will lay off more than 1,200 staff in California
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. plans to eliminate 1,258 jobs, the latest in a string of cost-cutting measures it has implemented this year. These Qualcomm layoffs come as no surprise following similar trends across the tech industry. The company said in a filing …
Flexport confirms second round of layoffs, with 20% of its staff to go
Troubled logistics and supply chain software firm Flexport Inc. has confirmed it will lay off about 20% of its staff, in what is the second major round of job cuts it has embarked on this year. CNBC was the first to report …