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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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Google Cloud boosts its storage capabilities for data-heavy cloud workloads
Google Cloud today announced a raft of new cloud storage services and products that it says are designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s global businesses. Announced today at Google’s Spotlight on Storage digital event, the new services are designed to handle …
Solo.io introduces a simpler service mesh architecture with Istio Ambient Mesh
Cloud-native application networking player Solo.io Inc. said today it has worked closely with Google LLC to evolve the open-source Istio service mesh. This next evolution is called Istio Ambient Mesh, which is billed as a next-generation architecture that provides greater flexibility, security …
Canonical adds new data processing and model tracking features to Charmed Kubeflow MLOps platform
Canonical Ltd. has announced a key update to Charmed Kubeflow, an end-to-end machine learning operations platform that provides complex model training capabilities. Announced today, Charmed Kubeflow 1.6 is the latest version of Canonical’s enterprise-grade version of Kubeflow, which is an open-source MLOps …