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NIST and Google team up on open-source computer chips for researchers and startups
The U.S. government announced today that it’s working with Google LLC to develop and manufacture cutting-edge silicon wafers that will be made available to academic researchers, with an eye to reducing costs associated with the development of semiconductor devices. As part of the deal, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Edgeless Systems debuts open-source, runtime-encrypted Kubernetes distribution
Cloud privacy startup Edgeless Systems GmbH has announced what it claims is the industry’s first “Confidential Kubernetes” distribution, called Constellation. Launched today as an open-source release, Constellation is based on the idea of confidential computing and allows companies to keep their Kubernetes clusters verifiably shielded from the cloud infrastructure they run on using end-to-end encryption. ...
Oracle opens its newest cloud infrastructure region in Spain
Oracle Corp. has opened the doors to its first-ever Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region in Spain to meet the rapidly growing demands that country has for enterprise cloud services, the database giant said today. Located in Spain’s capital Madrid, the new region becomes Oracle’s 40th globally, and its seventh in the European Union, adding to existing ...
Madrona raises $690M for two funds to accelerate early-stage AI and machine learning firms
Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced today it has raised a bumper $690 million for two oversubscribed funds that will be used to back promising technology startups in the Pacific Northwest region, Silicon Valley and beyond. The $430 million Madrona Fund 9 and the $260 million Acceleration Fund 3 saw 100% of existing ...
IBM debuts new generation of energy-friendly LinuxONE servers
IBM Corp. today announced a major refresh of its LinuxONE server hardware with a big focus on sustainability, saying it can slash data center energy consumption by up to 75% on multiple workloads. The LinuxONE server line is an advanced enterprise Linux platform. It’s designed to run Linux-based workloads in corporate data centers, with advanced ...
LinkedIn’s open-source Feathr feature store for machine learning joins the LF AI & Data Foundation
Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is donating another project to the open-source community. It said today that it’s handing over control of the Feathr feature store for machine learning projects to the Linux Foundation’s AI & Data Foundation. Feathr is a tool that was developed by LinkedIn and first put into production back in ...
Meta’s deep learning framework PyTorch to be led by the newly formed PyTorch Foundation
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. announced today that it’s handing over control of the popular PyTorch artificial intelligence platform it created to the Linux Foundation’s newly formed PyTorch Foundation. PyTorch is a deep learning framework that’s used to power hundreds of AI projects, specifically machine learning applications. Created and open-sourced by Facebook back in 2016, one ...
Explainable AI startup Diveplane raises $25M to help companies better understand machine learning algorithms
Explainable artificial intelligence startup Diveplane Corp. is hoping to make an impact by putting the “humanity” back into AI after closing on a new $25 million round of funding today. The Series A round was led by Shield Capital and included participation from Calibrate Ventures, L3Harris Technologies and Sigma Defense. Diveplane is an emerging player ...
API management software provider Gravitee.io raises $30M in funding
Gravitee Topco Ltd., the creator of a popular application programming interface management service, is feeling richer today after closing on a $30 million funding round. The round was led by Riverside Acceleration Capital and saw participation from Kreos Capital, plus existing investors AlbionVC and Oxx, bringing the U.K.-based company’s total amount raised to date to ...
DocuSign’s stock soars on strong earnings results
Shares of the electronic signature software firm DocuSign Inc. jumped more than 17% in extended trading today after the company delivered a solid earnings beat and raised its full-year subscription revenue guidance. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 44 cents per share. Revenue for the period rose 22% from ...