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Synopsys announces full-stack AI-powered suite for advanced chip design
Semiconductor design software maker Synopsys Inc. today announced an expanded suite of artificial intelligence tools to aid in the design, verification and testing of advanced computer chips. With Synopsys.ai, engineers can now benefit from AI assistance at every stage of the chip design process, from system architecture to design and manufacturing, the company said. Synopsys ...
Oxbotica partners with Google Cloud to scale up its autonomous vehicle software
Oxbotica Ltd., the U.K.-based autonomous vehicle software developer, said today it’s working with Google Cloud to accelerate the deployment of its self-driving technology. In a statement, Oxbotica said it plans to use Google Cloud’s infrastructure, including its compute, storage and networking services, to power its software platform that’s aimed at industrial autonomous vehicle use cases. ...
Progress Software beats expectations but light guidance weighs on stock
Shares of Progress Software Corp. were trending down today after the company warned that its fiscal second-quarter profit may fall short of Wall Street’s expectations, following a solid earnings beat in the quarter just gone. The company reported a net profit for the first quarter of $23.7 million, up 16% from a year earlier. Earnings ...
Micron posts biggest-ever loss, but says generative AI will drive new demand for memory chips
Computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. delivered its largest quarterly loss on record today after announcing an inventory writedown of more than $1.4 billion, but its stock price stayed flat as executives stated their belief that the memory chip market has bottomed out. The company reported a net loss for the second quarter of $2.31 billion, ...
Collaborative machine learning startup FedML raises $6M to train, deploy and customize AI anywhere
Collaborative artificial intelligence startup FedML Inc. said today it has closed on a $6 million seed funding round that will help it bring together companies and developers to train, deploy and customize machine learning models anywhere, across thousands of edge- and cloud-hosted nodes. Today’s round was led by Camford Capital and saw participation from Plug ...
Cerebras releases seven large language models for generative AI, trained on its specialized hardware
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models for generative AI, making them available to the wider research community. The new LLMs are notable as they are the first to be trained using CS-2 systems in the Cerebras Andromeda AI supercluster, which are powered ...
Cisco to add multiple new AI capabilities to Webex collaboration platform
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s adding new artificial intelligence capabilities to its hybrid work and videoconferencing platform Webex. The new AI features cover both Webex’s collaboration tools and its contact center services. They’re aimed at creating the optimum view of any meeting while enhancing collaboration for remote workers and maximizing customer service experiences, Cisco ...
AWS brings real-time call analytics to Amazon Chime software development kit
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it’s enabling call analytics for the Amazon Chime software development kit, making it easier and more cost-effective to generate insights on real-time audio calls. Amazon Chime SDK call analytics enables developers to create transcriptions of real-time calls, perform voice tone analysis and search for specific speakers, the company ...
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of ‘Moore’s Law,’ dies at 94
Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, the man credited with creating “Moore’s Law,” which served as a measuring stick and spark for the entire semiconductor industry for decades, passed away Friday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94 years old. News of his passing was announced by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which ...
Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train
Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” despite being trained on far less data in less than three hours using a single machine. Databricks announced in a blog post today that it’s ...