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Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has lifted the lid on what its next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure will look like, showcasing its newest training and inference accelerator and various other bits of futuristic hardware at its AI Infra @Scale event today. Meta’s head …
Lumeus.ai raises $6M to enable universal zero-trust security across clouds and on-premises data centers
Zero-trust networking startup Lumeus.ai, officially known as Okulis Inc., is launching today armed with $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Tola Capital and saw participation from pre-seed investors Emergent Ventures and First Rays Ventures. Lumeus.ai is the creator …
New Relic discussing possible $5B sale to private equity firms
Application observability company New Relic Inc. is reportedly holding talks with the private equity firms Francisco Partners Management LP and TPG Inc. about a possible $5 billion sale. The deal would mean that the publicly listed New Relic becomes a private entity …
Report: Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire AI search startup Neeva
Snowflake Inc., the cloud-based data warehouse provider, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire a search startup called Neeva Inc. that was founded by former Google LLC advertising executive Sridhar Ramaswamy. The report comes today from The Information, which cites people with …
Cisco beats expectations but its stock falls on sluggish demand
Cisco Systems Inc. delivered solid quarterly earnings and revenue beats today, but executives revealed that orders were down on an annual basis, sending its stock lower in extended trading. The company reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $3.2 billion, up 6% from a …
Sanctuary AI unveils a humanoid robot called Phoenix that’s ready to offer its ‘labor-as-a-service’
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., better known as Sanctuary AI, has unveiled an incredibly humanlike and supposedly very capable general purpose robot called Phoenix that’s being billed as the first robot worker prototype. Announced today, Phoenix is a humanoid robot that runs on …
Visual Layer raises $7M to clean up image datasets for AI training
Data quality startup Visual Layer Inc. announced today it has closed on a $7 million seed funding round led by Madrona Venture Group and Insight Partners and will use the money to build out its managed service for curating large-scale image sets used …
DeepBrain AI uses virtual humans and generative AI to automate job interviews
DeepBrain AI Ltd., a South Korean video synthesis startup that creates artificial intelligence-based virtual humans, today announced a new capability called AI Interview that can automate job applicant interviews for recruiters. The new offering combines DeepBrain AI’s generative AI video technology with …
At Sapphire 2023, SAP brings Business AI to its enterprise software suite
The software giant SAP SE is embedding new artificial intelligence capabilities across its entire portfolio of enterprise resource planning applications in yet another sign that AI is sweeping enterprise software and services firms along with the rest of the world. By combining …
Nvidia CEO outlines AI’s role in next-generation chip manufacturing
Nvidia Corp. founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence, enabled by the company’s most powerful hardware, is being used to accelerate computer chip manufacturing and create even more advanced microprocessors. Speaking to an audience of leaders in the semiconductor, technology …