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Hosting its third annual Intel Innovation event today, Intel Corp. took the opportunity to announce an array of new silicon platforms that it says will support artificial intelligence in every location, making it accessible across client devices, the edge and the cloud. …
Red Hat rebrands OpenStack Platform for building and managing private clouds
Red Hat Inc. said today it’s rebranding the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which will now be known as Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. The rebrand follows a years-long effort by the company, owned by IBM Corp., to integrate Red Hat OpenStack …
Oracle taps generative AI to improve customer services and boost marketing and sales
Oracle Corp. is jumping on the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of dozens of new capabilities designed to help organizations boost productivity in areas such as customer service, marketing and sales. The new generative AI capabilities in the Oracle Fusion …
Tabular, the vendor-neutral data store based on Apache Iceberg, raises $26M in funding
Startup Tabular Technologies Inc., creator of an independent data platform based on the open-source Apache Iceberg data lake software, said today it has closed on a $26 million round of funding. Today’s round was led by Altimeter Capital, and saw participation from …
Enterprise-focused generative AI startup Writer raises $100M
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. has closed on a surprisingly large $100 million early-stage round of funding that values it at $500 million, Bloomberg reported. Today’s Series B round was led by Iconiq Growth and saw participation from others, such as …
Anyscale launches Endpoints, a more cost-effective platform for fine-tuning generative AI models
Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, is launching a new service called Anyscale Endpoints that it says will help developers integrate fast, cost-effective and scalable large language models into their applications. The service was announced today at the …
Oracle debuts better workforce management and financial planning tools for healthcare providers
Database software giant Oracle Corp. said today it’s pushing even further into the healthcare industry, adding new workforce management capabilities to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management offering. The new tools will enable healthcare providers to adapt to the dynamic labor …
AI helps Adobe beats expectations and boosts its operating margins, but its stock falls anyway
Shares of the creativity software provider Adobe Inc. were trading slightly lower today, even though the company topped Wall Street’s targets and delivered a revenue outlook in line with estimates. Adobe reported net income of $1.4 billion for its fiscal third quarter, rising from …
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, …
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 …