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Vercel, creator of the Next.js React framework, raises $102M in fresh funding
Front-end application development platform startup Vercel Inc. announced today it has picked up $102 million in a new round of funding. Bedrock Capital and CRV led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Accel, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV, plus new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Capital. The ...
Longtime Intel exec Navin Shenoy leaves as chipmaker restructures data center business
Longtime Intel Corp. executive Navin Shenoy is leaving the company amid a restructuring of one of its most critical groups and the creation of two new business units. The changes were announced in a memo by new Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, who only joined the company in February. The CEO, a former longtime Intel ...
Oracle announces new Support Rewards program for customers that adopt its cloud services
Oracle Corp. is trying to persuade e customers to ditch their on-premises licensing agreements and move to its subscription-based cloud infrastructure instead with a promise to help alleviate their support services costs if they do. The new Oracle Support Rewards program announced today will provide rewards in the form of support services for all customers ...
Google updates its online learning tools so teachers can start planning early
Google LLC today announced dozens of new features in its Google for Education suite of tools that it says will help educators prepare for the coming school year. Google for Education is a customized package of Google tools, including Google Workspace, which bundles apps such as Gmail, Docs and Sheets, Google Meet for video calls and ...
Robocorp raises $21M to make process automation more accessible through open source
Robocorp Technologies Inc. is on a mission to bring robotic process automation to more enterprises after landing a $21 million early-stage round of funding. Canvas Ventures led the Series A round, with participation from Benchmark Capital, Slow Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Haystack Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Firstminute Capital and a host of angel investors. It follows a ...
Google’s Visual Inspection AI tool automates quality control in manufacturing
Google LLC is catering to the growing demand for industrial automation with the launch of its new Visual Inspection AI tool. As the name suggests, Visual Inspection AI (pictured) is an artificial intelligence service that relies on computer vision technology to automate quality control processes in manufacturing operations. It’s designed to be installed on machinery, ...
Nvidia’s LaunchPad delivers instant AI infrastructure in the cloud
Nvidia Corp. is catering to customers that need to rapidly scale up their artificial intelligence deployments by providing access to its AI infrastructure in the cloud and at the network edge. Announced today, the new Nvidia AI LaunchPad program provides customers with instant access to the entire spectrum of Nvidia’s AI computing resources, enabling them ...
PagerDuty brings more automation to its incident response platform
PagerDuty Inc. said today it’s beefing up its incident response platform with a new add-on product that helps responders diagnose and respond to problems with their applications in real time. The capability was announced during PagerDuty’s Summit21 event, together with a new, higher-tier subscription plan and more features around service mapping, change intelligence and root ...
With new Security Cloud, Splunk aims to automate threat detection, investigation and response
Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. is building on the launch of its Observability Cloud with a new, cloud-centric suite of security tools that its customers will be able to use to identify and investigate threats. Launching today, the Splunk Security Cloud is billed as a comprehensive security operations platform that combines advanced security analytics ...
AI researchers publish theory to explain how deep learning actually works
Artificial intelligence researchers from Facebook Inc., Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have teamed up to publish a new manuscript that they say offers a theoretical framework describing for the first time how deep neural networks actually work. In a blog post, Facebook AI research scientist Sho Yaida noted that DNNs are one ...