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SAP bumps up its 2021 forecast as it forms new financial services business
Business software giant SAP SE announced its preliminary first-quarter financial results today, and in the process it raised its revenue outlook for fiscal 2021 thanks to strong cloud sales and an assumption that the COVID-19 pandemic will subside. The company also reported strong early interest in its new business transformation program RISE with SAP. The ...
Google makes its no-code AppSheet Automation service generally available
Google LLC said today that its no-code software development platform AppSheet Automation is now generally available, helping people with zero coding skills automate many of the mundane business tasks they perform on a daily basis. Google acquired AppSheet in January 2020, doing so in order to target a slice of the larger “low-code development market” ...
AI platform startup SambaNova Systems raises $676M in massive late-stage round
SambaNova Systems Inc. reckons it’s the best-funded artificial intelligence systems and service platform startup in the world after landing a massive $676 million late-stage round of funding. Today’s Series D round was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund 2, together with participation from new investors Temasek and GIC, plus existing backers including funds and accounts ...
Amazon proposes novel approach to quantum computing error correction
Researchers at the Amazon Web Services Inc.-led AWS Center for Quantum Computing have published what they say is their first architecture paper today, describing a theoretical blueprint for a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The paper proposes an entirely new and apparently workable approach to the problem of “quantum error correction,” which is a key challenge that ...
Nvidia shows off DRIVE Atlan, its next-generation system-on-chip for autonomous cars
Nvidia Corp. is driving ahead with its ambition to power the world’s autonomous vehicles, announcing what the next addition to its Nvidia DRIVE infrastructure portfolio will look like. Unveiled today at Nvidia’s virtual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia DRIVE Atlan (pictured) is said by the company to be a “data center on wheels” that helps to centralize ...
Nvidia debuts Grace, its first data center CPU for advanced AI workloads
Nvidia Corp. is targeting more demanding artificial intelligence workloads with the launch of its first-ever Arm-based central processing unit for the data center. Called “Grace,” the new CPU (pictured) launched today at the Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference virtual event is said to be the result of a combined 10,000 years of engineering work. It’s designed to enable ...
Nvidia announces Omniverse Enterprise suite for real-time, photorealistic graphics design
Nvidia Corp. has long touted the ability of its extremely powerful graphics processing units in advanced 3D product design, and now it’s making it possible for teams to collaborate on their projects in real time in a shared virtual space. The new Nvidia Omniverse Enterprise offering announced today at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference virtual event makes it ...
Amazon launches Lookout for Equipment, its predictive maintenance service for factory machines
Industrial machine operators might want to take a closer look at a new service from Amazon Web Services Inc. that uses machine learning to help them schedule maintenance work on their equipment. The Amazon Lookout for Equipment service was made generally available today, and works by amassing data from sensors installed on manufacturing equipment and ...
Workers at Amazon’s Alabama warehouse vote against joining union
Updated: Amazon.com Inc. appears to have won a historic union election vote at one of its biggest warehouse facilities. According to a Wall Street Journal count Friday morning, warehouse workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted not to unionize. With 72% of the 3,215 mail-in ballots, about half the nearly 6,000 eligible workers, about ...
Computer vision startup CrowdAI launches with $10M Series A funding
Startup CrowdAI Inc. announced the official launch of its artificial intelligence-based customized VisionAI platform today alongside a $6.25 million round of funding. Threshold Ventures led the Series A round, together with participation from Susa Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Jerry Yang at AME Cloud, and Y Combinator. The raise brings its total funding to date ...