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Nvidia Corp. today showed off yet another example of its artificial intelligence prowess, unveiling a neural rendering model that can create a 3D environment from a handful of 2D photos in just seconds. The Instant NeRF model revealed today uses a technique …
SoftBank preps Arm IPO, seeking a $60B valuation
Having seen Arm Ltd.’s proposed sale to Nvidia Corp. collapse last month amid regulatory concerns, its parent company SoftBank Group Corp. is eyeing a $60 billion valuation as it prepares to take the chip designer public, reports say. A report in Bloomberg …
Digits raises $65M to bring live financial reporting to smaller businesses
Real-time accounting software startup Digits Finance Inc. said today it has raised $65 million in a Series C round of funding led by Softbank, with participation from Harry Stebbing’s 20VC Growth, GV and Benchmark. The round brings Digit’s total amount raised to …
Apple buys UK open banking tech startup Credit Kudos
Apple Inc. has reportedly acquired the U.K. open banking firm Credit Kudos Ltd., a company that helps banks do credit scoring, for around $150 million. Credit Kudos sells software that helps banks to make smarter decisions on whom to lend money to. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …