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The artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI Inc. today released an updated version of its text-to-image generation model DALL-E, with higher resolution and lower latency than the original system. DALL-E 2, like the original DALL-E, can produce pictures, such as the image above, from …
Google Cloud shares its blueprint for building a secure cloud data warehouse
Google Cloud has updated its collection of security blueprints with the addition of a Secure Data Warehouse Blueprint that customers are free to implement to safeguard their cloud data. Google’s security blueprints combine best practices with opinionated guidance to help customers build …
VPN provider Nord Security raises $100M to build internet privacy
Nord Security Ltd., a provider of internet privacy and security tools that’s best known for its virtual private network NordVPN, said today it has raised $100 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.6 billion. The round was led by Novator Ventures, …
Boeing heads for the cloud with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
The Boeing Co. announced today it has signed deals with all three major cloud computing providers — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC — to expand its cloud operations and reduce its reliance on on-premises systems. In a blog post, …
Google Cloud boosts big-data accessibility with new innovations at Data Summit
Google Cloud early Wednesday announced a number of new products and innovations aimed at making data-driven insights and digital transformation more accessible to companies of all sizes. The new products and services, unveiled at Google Cloud Data Summit, include BigLake and Spanner …
Startup Warp raises $23M to reinvent the venerable command-line terminal
Developer productivity startup Warp said today it has closed on $23 million in funding, including $6 million via a seed funding round and $17 million through a Series A round. The new funding was led by Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive of …
IBM unveils z16 mainframe for real-time fraud detection
IBM Corp. today unveiled the latest generation of its venerable Z Series mainframe family, powered by a new processor with built-in artificial intelligence for real-time fraud detection. The IBM z16 will be generally available in May, the company said. It’s the successor …
DocuSign debuts new contract lifecycle management tool for small, growing businesses
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 …