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Google says it will create a working, error-free quantum computer by 2029
Google LLC said today that it’s on course to build a fully working, commercial-grade quantum computer that can perform large-scale calculations without any errors by the end of the decade. The announcement came today at the virtual Google I/O developer conference today, where the company also unveiled its new Quantum AI Campus in Santa Barbara, ...
Google shows off advances in conversational AI, search and TPU chips
Google LLC today announced some major breakthroughs in its artificial intelligence capabilities, including a new, next-generation conversational language model that creates far more realistic and interesting dialogue than anything it has come up with so far. Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications was announced during its virtual I/O conference today, and displayed some huge leaps ...
Google launches Vertex AI platform to help companies adopt machine learning operations
Google LLC is helping companies embrace the idea of what’s known as machine learning operations with the launch of a new managed platform today that it says will accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence models. MLOps is to machine learning what DevOps is to application development. With MLOps, the idea is to add ...
Google to tap into more geothermal power and boost renewable energy use
Google LLC today revealed it’s making strong progress towards its goal of operating entirely on full-time carbon-free energy by 2030, becoming the first major corporation in the world to invest in what it calls “next-level geothermal energy.” It also announced that its “carbon-intelligent” computing platform can now shift flexible compute tasks among different data centers ...
External data provider Explorium raises $75M in new funding
Data discovery startup Explorium Ltd. revealed today that it has landed $75 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to more than $127 million. Insight Partners led the Series C round, which included participation from existing investors Zeev Ventures, Emerge, F2 Capital, 01 Advisors and Dynamic Loop Capital. Explorium offers ...
HPE bets on Europe’s Gaia-X cloud and data services initiative
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is betting on the success of a new European initiative that’s aimed at creating a unified ecosystem of cloud and data services protected by European data laws. The company said today that its new HPE Solution Framework for Gaia-X is designed for companies, service providers and other organizations that want to ...
Amazon targets more cloud workloads with new Application Migration Service
Amazon Web Services Inc. is asking customers to switch to its newly launched AWS Application Migration Service for “lift-and-shift” application migrations to its cloud platform. The service, which went live today, makes it possible for companies to move their apps to the AWS cloud without first needing to make any changes to them, their architecture ...
Twilio buys business SMS text startup Zipwhip for $850M
Cloud communications firm Twilio Inc. is looking to boost its messaging capabilities when it closes on the $850 million acquisition of a company called Zipwhip Inc. that was announced today. Seattle-based Zipwhip enables U.S. companies to send free SMS text messages to their customers from landline phones, VoIP services and toll-free numbers. Users simply enable ...
IBM’s updated Accessibility Checker makes it easier to scan whole websites or apps for problems
IBM Corp. today updated its open-source Accessibility Checker with a new tool that developers can use to scan entire websites and applications quickly for any accessibility issues they need to fix. Enterprises have a moral and sometimes even a legal obligation to ensure that their digital assets are accessible to all users, but ensuring that ...
Facebook has created a way for AI, like people, to forget unimportant details it learns
Facebook Inc. is helping artificial intelligence systems use their memory more effectively by teaching them to forget unimportant memories that they don’t need to know. Teaching AI models stuff is easy. AI models are simply fed labeled dataset As they process the data, they remember everything within it, it’s pretty simple stuff. But teaching them ...