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Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. announced today it has acquired Bright Computing Inc., which makes software that’s used to manage high-performance computing systems. Given Nvidia’s presence in the HPC market, with its graphics processing units widely used by enterprises to perform compute-heavy …
Meta AI builds speech recognition platform that uses visual cues to filter out background noise
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is trying to tackle one of the biggest problems in artificial intelligence-based speech recognition: background noise. Modern AI speech recognition systems don’t always work that well in situations where there’s lots of noise, or if multiple …
Big-data analytics firm Alteryx buys rival Trifacta in $400M deal
Big-data analytics company Alteryx Inc. revealed today that it’s buying the cloud-based “data wrangling” technology specialist Trifacta Inc. for $400 million in cash. The acquisition is aimed at helping Alteryx accelerate its own journey to the cloud and bring it access to …
Amazon launches Sidewalk Bridge Pro devices to expand IoT connectivity to factories, farms and forests
Amazon.com Inc. today expanded its long-range, low-powered “internet of things” network service Amazon Sidewalk to provide greater connectivity to factories, farms and other nonresidential areas. Amazon Sidewalk was launched in 2019, pitched as a way to keep Amazon devices such as the …
AWS simplifies cloud data auditing with AWS CloudTrail Lake
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its newest service, AWS CloudTrail Lake, is now generally available. CloudTrail Lake is a managed audit and security lake for cloud customers that can be used to aggregate, immutably store and query activity logs for …
French data regulator to hit Google and Meta with big fines for privacy violations
Google LLC and Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. are bracing themselves for another big fine after France’s data watchdog found them guilty of violating European Union privacy rules. According to Politico, the Commission Nationale de L’informatique et des Libertés or CNIL …
Sensory debuts new voice and vision AI services in the cloud
Artificial intelligence processing firm Sensory Inc. today announced the launch in beta test mode of its new SensoryCloud.ai service, providing a full “AI as a service” platform for companies that want to process voice and vision AI in the cloud. Sensory said …
Ivanti links smart devices to bring automation to supply chain operations
Ivanti Software Inc.’s supply chain business unit, Ivanti Wavelink, said today it’s extending its Ivanti Neurons platform to help companies automate and optimize their supply chain operations to drive more efficiency. With the new Ivanti Neurons for Industrial Internet of Things platform, …
Enterprise AI startup Fractal Analytics raises $360M
Artificial intelligence and enterprise analytics software firm Fractal Analytics Inc. today said it has raised $360 million via an investment from the equity capital firm TPG Capital Asia. The raise involved a combination of primary investment and secondary share purchase from funds advised …