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US to add Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Tech and dozens of others to trade blacklist
The United States government is preparing to sanction 36 Chinese more companies by adding them to its so-called Entity List, a move that will severely limit their access to U.S. made technology and components. The plans, first reported by Bloomberg late Tuesday, cite a person familiar with the matter as saying that U.S. President Joe Biden’s ...
Tableau Software 2022.4 release adds external actions, allowing users to act on their data immediately
Salesforce Inc.’s popular data visualization platform Tableau Software has launched another major update aimed at boosting productivity for users and saving them time and money. Announced today, Tableau 2022.4 is a new release of the visual analytics platform that’s designed to help business workers see their data in a range of graphics and charts, so they can ...
Google Cloud’s PostgreSQL-compatible database AlloyDB now generally available
Following a seven-month preview, Google Cloud’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL service is finally being made generally available to all customers, the company said today. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that’s aimed at companies looking to modernize their most demanding database workloads, the company explained. Announced in May, it’s built atop the ...
LexCheck, creator of AI-powered contract review software, raises $17M
Artificial intelligence-powered contract acceleration and intelligence startup LexCheck Inc. said today it’s ready to grow its platform after closing on a $17 million early-stage funding round. Mayfield Fund led the Series A round, though LexCheck didn’t name any other participants. The company said it will use the funds from today’s round to accelerate the delivery of ...
Meta shares Hasher-Matcher-Actioner tool for detecting and deleting terrorist content online
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, today said it’s open-sourcing a new piece of software that will allow other internet firms to prevent the spread of terrorist-related material, including violent and extremist images and videos, across the web. The software is known as the Hasher-Matcher-Actioner tool. It will be shared with other social ...
Box Shield adds ‘Ethical Walls’ feature to prevent conflicts of interest
Cloud storage company Box Inc. said today it’s enhancing its Box Shield security tools with new capabilities that include an “Ethical Walls” feature that creates an information barrier to prevent conflicts of interest and the improper use of confidential data. In addition, the security suite is getting an advanced malware scanning capability to reduce the ...
Meta AI’s updated data2vec algorithm enables faster, more efficient self-learning for vision, speech and text AI
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today announced an updated version of its powerful data2vec algorithm that enables extremely efficient self-supervised learning for vision, speech and text-based AI models. The original data2vec was launched in January to overcome the limitations of self-supervised learning, which is a technique where machines can learn without relying on ...
AI-powered consumer insights platform Zappi raises $170M
The artificial intelligence-powered and big-data-focused consumer insights platform ZappiStore Ltd. today said it has closed on a bumper $170 million round of funding led by Sumeru Equity Partners and other co-investors. Zappi, as the company likes to be known, is the creator of a novel ad testing platform that provides creators with centralized access to ...
Snyk closes on $196.5M late-stage funding round but its value drops
Cybersecurity startup Snyk Ltd. announced today that it has closed on a $196.5 million late-stage round of funding led by the Qatar Investment Authority. New investors Evolution Equity Partners, G Squared and Irving Investors also participated in the Series G round, along with existing backers boldstart ventures, Sands Capital and Tiger Global. The deal values ...
Oracle’s stock posts small gain as cloud powers strong revenue growth
Shares of database giant Oracle Corp. ticked up slightly in after-hours trading today after it reported fiscal first quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations, but its earnings forecast for the coming quarter came in lighter than expected. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.21 cents per share, coming in ...