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Energy-efficient artificial intelligence supercomputing chip startup Ceremorphic Inc. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $50 million in a Series A round of funding. The company is developing what it says will be a “complete silicon system” aimed at delivering the required …
Amazon’s new fashion store will use AI to suggest new styles to shoppers
Amazon.com Inc. today announced it’s getting into the fashion retail industry with its first Amazon Style store, which is a new physical store concept infused with technology ranging from QR codes to artificial intelligence, touchscreens and virtual queues. The first Amazon Style …
Meta AI creates algorithm that can learn from speech, text and vision
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with what they say is the world’s first high-performance, self-supervised algorithm that can train AI in multiple modalities, be it speech, vision or text. The algorithm is called data2vec. Meta said in a …
Coalesce exits stealth on a mission to automate data transformation
Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. emerged from stealth mode today, bidding to solve what it says is the chief bottleneck in the data analytics supply chain. The company has just announced the launch of its Coalesce Data Transformation platform along with a …
Virtru raises $60M to bring data protection standard used by the NSA to enterprises
Data protection startup Virtru Corp. is hoping to establish its Trusted Data Format standard in the enterprise after closing on a $60 million round of funding today. The Series C round was co-led by existing investor Iconiq Growth and new backer Foundry …
Atom Computing raises $60M to commercialize the world’s most stable quantum computer
Investors keep throwing money at the quantum computing market, and this time around it’s Atom Computing Inc.‘s turn. The company said today it has closed on a $60 million Series B round of funding as it readies to build out its quantum machine …
IoT connectivity startup EMnify raises $57M in new funding
Berlin-based “internet of things” connectivity firm EMnify GmbH is in expansion mode after closing on a $57 million round of funding today. London-based growth investor One Peak was the sole participant in the Series B round, which brings EMnify’s total amount raised …
Cisco boosts accessibility on Webex with expanded closed-caption support, smart audio features and more
Cisco Systems Inc. today added more accessibility features to its video call and collaboration platform Webex. One of the platform’s most important features is its automated closed captions, which rely on artificial intelligence-powered natural language processing to accurately transcribe spoken English words …
Nvidia AI Enterprise adds production support for virtualized workloads on software containers
Nvidia Corp. is updating its AI Enterprise software platform, adding production support for containerized artificial intelligence workloads on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. Today’s update means enterprises can use Nvidia AI Enterprise 1.1 to run accelerated AI workloads on vSphere in both Kubernetes …
Gartner says tech spending to grow 5% to $4.5 trillion in 2022
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. today issued a forecast that global information technology spending will jump 5.1% this year to a new record high of $4.5 trillion. That growth will exceed pre-pandemic levels and, perhaps not surprisingly, Gartner sees a lot of it coming from …