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DocuSign Inc. is targeting smaller and growing businesses with its latest offering announced today, CLM Essentials. CLM Essentials is a contract lifecycle management tool that’s designed to reduce the complexity of creating, managing, securely storing and executing contracts for smaller businesses. DocuSign …
Backend API development platform Appwrite raises $27M in Series A round
So-called backend-as-a-service platform provider Appwrite.io Ltd. said today it has closed on a $27 million Series A round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. Existing investors from its seed funding round, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ibex Investors and …
Microsoft announces preview of its first Arm-based Azure virtual machines
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s making its first-ever batch of Azure virtual machines powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Arm-based Altra server chips available in preview. The company said the new VMs, which are essentially computers in software, include the general-purpose Dpsv5 and …
Microsoft deploys and tests AI models in space aboard the ISS
Microsoft Corp. today revealed how it has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop and test artificial intelligence models in orbit aboard the International Space Station. One of the first models they developed …
Apple reportedly seeks alternative flash memory chip suppliers
Apple Inc. is reportedly mulling the idea of buying NAND flash memory chips from China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. amid fears of increased supply chain disruption. A report Wednesday from Bloomberg said Apple has been testing flash memory chips built by the Chinese …
Meta advances textless natural language processing to generate more expressive AI speech
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team said today it has made big progress as it strives to create more realistic AI-generated speech systems. Its latest advances in what it calls “textless natural language processing” mean it’s now able to model expressive …
Google jazzes up Meet and Spaces collaboration tools with more engaging features
Google LLC said today it’s expanding its support for hybrid workforces with a host of new capabilities added to Google Meet, Spaces and Voice. In a blog post, Google Meet and Voice Director of Product Management Dave Citron and Gmail and Google …
Docker hits double unicorn status after raising $105M in Series C funding round
Docker Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $105 million round of funding that values it at $2.1 billion — a sign that the provider of cloud-native software development tools and services is leveraging its longtime open-source bet to court more …
Despite earnings beat, UiPath’s stock tanks on lower guidance
Shares in the business automation firm UiPath Inc. tanked by almost 19% in after-hours trading today after the company issued a lower revenue outlook for the next quarter and fiscal year. The disappointing guidance failed to make up for the robotic process …
Meta open-sources AI models to generate biographies for notable women on Wikipedia
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit said today it has developed an AI model that can research and write drafts of Wikipedia-style biographical entries, in order to address a noticeable imbalance on the world’s most popular encyclopedia. In a blog post, …