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Report: Google lobbies furiously to influence impact of Europe’s coming Digital Markets Act
Google LLC is reportedly stepping up its lobbying efforts in the European Union as it makes a “last-ditch effort” to limit the impact of the proposed Digital Markets Act that’s expected to become law later this year. Google, along with other big tech firms such as Apple Inc., was invited to participate in talks with ...
AWS debuts flexible instances for high-performance computing workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. Monday announced the availability of a new series of high-performance computing workloads on its cloud that provide what it claims is far superior price performance. The “purpose-built” Hpc6a instances, powered by 3rd Gen EPYC central processing units developed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., make it possible to process HPC workloads with up ...
VMware eases app modernization with official launch of Tanzu Application Platform
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. is embracing the developer shift to building on the Kubernetes software container orchestrator with the launch of its Tanzu Application Platform into general availability today. The Tanzu Application Platform was first announced in beta test mode in September. It’s an application modernization toolkit that packages various components developers can use ...
European startups Pasqal and Qu&Co join forces to create quantum advantage faster
European quantum computing startups Pasqal SE and Qu&Co BV said today they’re merging in a move they say will accelerate their progress on achieving business advantage with the emerging technology. The new entity, which will be known as Pasqal and based in Paris, said it has ambitions to deliver a 1,000-qubit quantum computer by 2023, ...
AI Clearing debuts AI Surveyor to speed up solar farm construction
Artificial intelligence-powered construction monitoring firm AI Clearing Inc. believes solar power is will play a much more prominent role in the U.S. energy grid over the next decade, and its newest AI-based offering is designed to make that happen. The company today announced the launch of its new AI Surveyor platform, which is designed to ...
Intel hires David Zinsner from Micron as its new CFO
Intel Corp. said Monday it has appointed David Zinsner, the financial head of Micron Technology Inc., as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president. Zinsner, who is 53 years old, will start the job on Jan. 17, the chipmaker said in a statement. He replaces former CFO George Davis, who had announced his ...
Nvidia buys high-performance computing cluster management software provider Bright Computing
Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. announced today it has acquired Bright Computing Inc., which makes software that’s used to manage high-performance computing systems. Given Nvidia’s presence in the HPC market, with its graphics processing units widely used by enterprises to perform compute-heavy tasks such as artificial intelligence, Bright looks to be a natural fit. Founded ...
Meta AI builds speech recognition platform that uses visual cues to filter out background noise
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is trying to tackle one of the biggest problems in artificial intelligence-based speech recognition: background noise. Modern AI speech recognition systems don’t always work that well in situations where there’s lots of noise, or if multiple people are speaking at the same time. They generally use sophisticated noise-suppression techniques ...
Big-data analytics firm Alteryx buys rival Trifacta in $400M deal
Big-data analytics company Alteryx Inc. revealed today that it’s buying the cloud-based “data wrangling” technology specialist Trifacta Inc. for $400 million in cash. The acquisition is aimed at helping Alteryx accelerate its own journey to the cloud and bring it access to more enterprise buyers. Alteryx sells so-called extract, transform and load or ETL tools that ...
Amazon launches Sidewalk Bridge Pro devices to expand IoT connectivity to factories, farms and forests
Amazon.com Inc. today expanded its long-range, low-powered “internet of things” network service Amazon Sidewalk to provide greater connectivity to factories, farms and other nonresidential areas. Amazon Sidewalk was launched in 2019, pitched as a way to keep Amazon devices such as the Ring or Echo smart speaker connected even when the home network goes down. ...
