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Alphabet’s unprofitable life sciences unit Verily announces big wave of job cuts
Alphabet Inc.’s healthcare business unit Verily Life Sciences has revealed in an internal memo that it will lay off more than 200 workers, thereby becoming the first company under the Google LLC parent’s wide umbrella to announce it’s cutting staff. According to the Wall Street Journal today, the job cuts will affect about 15% of ...
Armo’s Kubernetes security platform Kubescape becomes a CNCF sandbox project
Cybersecurity startup Armo Ltd. announced today that its open-source security software platform Kubescape has been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as its latest sandbox project. The company also announced the official launch of the Armo Platform, which is an enterprise-grade version of Kubescape with premium features not available in the open-source version. The ...
Metaplane raises $8.4M as it strives to build more trust in data
Data observability startup Metaplane, officially known as Quantifai Inc., said today in a blog post that it has closed on an $8.4 million seed funding round led by Khosla Venture. Other participants included Y Combinator and Flybridge Capital Partners, as did Vercel Inc. Chief Executive Guillermo Rauch and HubSpot Inc. CEO Dharmesh Shah. The startup ...
Autonomous vehicle software startup Oxbotica raises $140M
U.K.-based autonomous vehicle software creator Oxbotica Ltd. said today it has closed on a hefty $140 million round of funding, in readiness to deploy its Universal Autonomy platform in numerous commercial and industrial domains across the world. Today’s Series C round was led by new investors Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. Ltd. and Eneos Innovation ...
AI unicorn ScaleAI, valued at $7.3 billion, lays off 20% of its staff
San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup ScaleAI Inc. has become the latest tech firm to announce a wave of layoffs, saying today it let go of 20% of its staff this week. The announcement came in a blog post from founder and Chief Executive Alexandr Wang. He put the blame on macroeconomic challenges the company has ...
Nvidia debuts new DGX H100 systems powered by Intel’s 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable chips
Nvidia Corp. today announced a refreshed lineup of Nvidia Hopper accelerated computing systems powered by its own H100 Tensor Core graphics processing units, as well as by the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors that were launched by Intel Corp. today. In addition, dozens of Nvidia’s partners have announced their own server systems based on the new ...
Chronosphere, creator of a cloud-native observability system designed to scale, raises $115M
Cloud-native observability startup Chronosphere Inc. said today it has closed on a $115 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $343 million. The Series C round was led by new investors GV and Geodesic Capital, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion. Existing investors, including Addition, Founders Fund, General Atlantic, Greylock, ...
DataRobot makes life easier for data scientists with integrated AI model notebooks
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. today announced the availability of a new feature called DataRobot Notebooks, a fully integrated notebooks solution within the DataRobot AI platform. The aim is to make it easier for data scientists to create a notebook with one click and collaborate across code-based workflows. DataRobot is the creator of an artificial intelligence ...
Apple reportedly hoping to ditch Qualcomm and launch its own modem chips in 2024
Apple Inc. is looking to reduce its reliance on the chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., and to do that it has been working on developing its own modem chip for a number of years, according to a report today in Bloomberg. That work has progressed, and Apple could introduce its own chip in some devices by the end ...
Worlds Enterprises raises $21.2M to build digital twins in the industrial metaverse
Industrial metaverse startup Worlds Enterprises Inc. is hoping to onboard more enterprises into the world of digital twins after closing on a $21.2 million Series A1 round of funding today. The round was led by Moneta Ventures and saw the participation of Chevron Technology Ventures, Piva Capital, Perot Jain and Capital Factory, the company said ...