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EU’s Digital Services Act will force big tech firms to police the internet
Big tech firms such as Google LLC, Twitter Inc. and Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will be required to do more to tackle illegal content or face being slapped with multibillion-euro fines under new European Union rules agreed to Saturday. The Digital Services Act is a wide-ranging regulatory act that aims to make the ...
Kraft Heinz to work with Microsoft on digital twins and supply chain efficiencies
Food manufacturing firm Kraft Heinz Co. said today it is partnering with Microsoft Corp. with an eye to improving its supply chain visibility and day-to-day operations. Under the alliance, Kraft Heinz will adopt various cloud, artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies to advance its digital transformation strategy. The companies have signed a multiyear deal that will ...
Andreessen Horowitz creates crypto research lab to solve problems around Web3
The renowned venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is stepping up its already considerable bet on the blockchain business with the creation of its own dedicated crypto research team. In a blog post today, a16z partners Ali Yahya and Chris Dixon said a16z crypto research is a new kind of “multidisciplinary lab” that will work closely with its ...
Qualtrics tops revenue estimates and its stock rises
Qualtrics International Inc.‘s stock rose more than 4% in extended trading today after the company posted strong fiscal first-quarter revenue that topped expectations, adding strong guidance for the next quarter as well. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $292.3 million, or 51 cents a share, and a loss before certain costs ...
Amazon launches AWS IoT TwinMaker to bring digital twins into the mainstream
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of a new service that enables companies to create digital twins of physical assets such as buildings, factories, products and production line equipment. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, companies can create digital twins and update them regularly with real-world data to mimic the systems they represent. They ...
Speechmatics adds entity formatting to improve its speech recognition software
U.K.-based startup Speechmatics said today it’s taking a big step in advancing speech recognition with the addition of “entity formatting” to its Autonomous Speech Recognition software. The startup, officially named Cantab Research Ltd., says it’s tackling one of the major challenges in machine learning today, which involves interpreting spoken numbers, currencies, percentages, addresses, dates and time ...
StreamNative launches cloud-native Kafka service built on Apache Pulsar
Cloud-native messaging and streaming platform provider StreamNative Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to migrate from the Apache Kafka event streaming platform to Apache Pulsar with the launch of StreamNative Cloud for Kafka in beta test mode today. StreamNative Cloud for Kafka is a streaming data platform that supports the Kafka protocol, though it runs ...
Amazon releases ‘MASSIVE’ database to scale up natural language understanding
Amazon.com Inc. today announced the release of a massive new dataset, appropriately called “MASSIVE,” which it says can be used to build virtual assistants that support some of the world’s most obscure languages. Alongside the database Amazon has also released open-source modeling code to help developers build more capable virtual assistants. The MASSIVE database is ...
Spanish startup Nuclia gets $5.4M to advance unstructured data search
Artificial intelligence-powered search startup Nuclia said today it has raised $5.4 million in a seed funding round led by Crane Venture Partners and Ealai. The round will enable the company to build upon the launch of its open-source and cloud-native database NucliaDB. Officially called Bosutech S.L., Nuclia also announced the public availability of its application programming ...
Amazon launches first AWS Impact Accelerator for Black founders
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s committing $30 million over the next three years to back early-stage startups led by Blacks, Latinos, women founders and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community. The commitment is part of the company’s new series of AWS Impact Accelerators. AWS will provide funding ...