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Tech consulting firm Accenture announces 19,000 layoffs
Technology consultancy giant Accenture Plc. said today it is planning to cut 19,000 jobs, or about 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months. It will be the largest round of dismissals so far in a consultancy sector that is struggling against strong economic headwinds. Accenture said in a filing it will incur employee ...
Chip designer Arm plans to increase profits by refining its business model
Smartphone chip designer Arm Ltd. is looking to change the way it charges for customers to use its intellectual property, as it seeks to increase its revenue and profitability ahead of an initial public offering that’s set to take place later this year. The U.K.-based firm, which sells blueprints for the semiconductors that power more ...
Aryaka brings SD-WAN and SASE networks to smaller businesses
Secure access service edge provider Aryaka Networks Inc. said today it’s targeting small and medium-sized enterprises with enhanced software-defined networking and SASE solutions. Aryaka is building a globally distributed and cloud-based network infrastructure that’s oriented toward transporting enterprise data quickly across long distances. It claims it can simplify the management of long-distance connections within an ...
Microsoft expands Cloud Partner Program to create new opportunities for partner firms
Microsoft Corp. today announced some changes to its Cloud Partner Program, giving its partners new options to differentiate themselves and their products and services within its marketplace. The Cloud Partner Program was launched in October 2022 when it was framed as an evolution of the old Microsoft Partner Network. Today, it continues to evolve, with ...
CodiumAI debuts TestGPT, an AI-powered tool that tests code for errors
Software code quality startup CodiumAI Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with the beta test launch of its generative artificial intelligence-powered code integrity tool, having closed on an $11 million seed funding round. Today’s round was co-led by Vine Ventures and TLV Partners and saw participation from angel investors including some unnamed executives from OpenAI ...
Google Cloud rolls out advanced network DDoS attack protection with Cloud Armor
Google Cloud is expanding the capabilities of its Cloud Armor networking defense service to protect customers in gaming, telecommunications and other industries that run workloads behind external network load balancers or virtual machines with public IP addresses or use protocol forwarding. Until now, these customers lacked a Google Cloud-native defensive capability to protect those workloads, ...
AnswerRocket debuts Max, a GPT-4 powered AI chatbot for data insights
The artificial intelligence-powered data analytics platform AnswerRocket is jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon today. The company, officially known as AG Labs LLC, has launched a new conversational AI assistant it calls Max that’s designed to make it easier for business users to explore and analyze their data for insights. AnswerRocket is the creator of an AI-powered ...
Google Cloud targets multiplayer game developers with GKE Autopilot
Google Cloud said today that game developers can now enjoy a fully automated experience in running global multiplayer game servers on Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot. GKE is a cloud-based management and orchestration service for software containers, which are used to host the components of modern, agile applications, including video games. It offers a platform for ...
Nvidia unleashes its next-generation GPUs, DPUs and AI accelerators
Nvidia Corp. announced a new generation of hardware at GTC 2023 today that’s designed for artificial intelligence inference tasks to power the most advanced generative AI models being built today. AI inference, the running of trained AI models, has emerged as one of the hottest areas in enterprise technology, with models such as OpenAI LP’s ...
Nvidia unveils DGX Cloud platform and AI foundation models for generative AI training
Nvidia Corp. wants to tell the world it’s at the forefront of the generative artificial intelligence movement at a time when the hype over models such as ChatGPT reaches fever pitch. In particular, Nvidia is especially focused on making sure that anyone can access the infrastructure and software needed to train generative AI models. At its GTC ...