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Amazon doubles down on cloud gaming with AWS for Games
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today the availability of a new set of products and services aimed at videogame developers. The new offering, appropriately called AWS for Games, encompasses a suite of services and tools in six areas: cloud game development, game servers, game security, game analytics, live operations, and game artificial intelligence and machine ...
Google to let app developers, starting with Spotify, test their own in-app billing systems
Google LLC revealed today that it’s working with the music streaming app Spotify Inc. to test out third-party billing options for app developers. The announcement comes in the wake of massive pressure on Google and its rival Apple Inc. over the fees they collect on transactions in apps on their mobile platforms, Android and iOS. ...
Adobe beats expectations but weak outlook sends its stock down after-hours
Software company Adobe Inc. posted a fiscal first-quarter profit and revenue that topped expectations today, but its outlook for the next quarter was lower than expected, sending its stock down in after-hours trading. The company reported first-quarter earnings of $3.37 per share on sales of $4.26 billion, up 9% from a year ago. Its net ...
Nvidia unveils new platforms for advanced robotics & autonomous driving systems
Nvidia Corp. is boosting its robotics capabilities with the launch of its new Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin developer kit, a powerful, compact and energy-efficient artificial intelligence supercomputer designed to power autonomous machines and robots. Announced at the Nvidia GTC conference today, the Jetson AGX Orin is powered by a single Nvidia A100 graphics processing unit and multiple ...
Nvidia revamps its AI software platforms to advance speech, recommender systems and inference
Nvidia Corp. today announced a major upgrade to its Nvidia AI and Nvidia AI Enterprise platforms, with new features designed to advance workloads such as speech, recommendation systems, hyperscale inference and more. The upgrades were announced at Nvidia GTC 2022 alongside the launch of Nvidia’s new AI Accelerated program, which is aimed at guaranteeing the ...
Nvidia debuts next-generation H100 GPUs, its most powerful chips yet
Nvidia Corp. announced the next generation of its powerful graphics processing units at its 2022 GPU Technology Conference today. The new GPUs are based on the Nvidia Hopper architecture (pictured) and the company is promising an order of magnitude performance leap over its previous-generation Ampere chips, which debuted two years ago. The first GPU built ...
Anch.AI launches free Ethical Governance Platform to encourage adoption of responsible AI practices
Swedish startup anch.AI announced the availability of its Ethical Governance Platform today, bundling a number of useful tools for companies seeking responsible artificial intelligence governance. Anch.AI said its platform offers capabilities around screening, assessment, auditing, mitigation and reporting, essentially providing everything an organization needs to manage compliance and detect and remedy risks around AI-based discrimination, ...
Lightlytics raises $26M to help DevOps teams continuously model cloud-native infrastructure
DevOps startup Lightlytics Ltd. said today it’s looking to expand its go-to-market strategy after raising $26 million in a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by EIP with participation from Cervin Ventures and previous investors TLV Partners VC and Glilot Capital Partners VC, bringing Lightlytic’s total amount raised to $30 million. ...
Google’s revamped Contact Center AI Platform provides tighter integration with CRMs
Google Cloud said today it’s bundling its Contact Center AI suite of tools into a comprehensive, out-of-the-box offering that can be tightly integrated with the most popular customer relationship software platforms. By doing so, Google said, customers will benefit from cloud scalability and the ability to unify their sales, marketing and support teams around a ...
Snowflake targets healthcare firms with new industry vertical data cloud offering
Cloud-based big data company Snowflake Inc. today announced its latest industry vertical data-sharing platform, this time targeting the healthcare and life sciences sectors. The new offering integrates Snowflake’s core cloud data warehouse, analytics and business intelligence services with a live data marketplace and on-demand consulting. Snowflake said the Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud platform ...