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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 ...
Email services API startup Nylas raises $120M in Series C funding
Communications startup Nylas Inc. is gunning for the booming application programming interface economy after raising $120 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $175 million. Tiger Global Management led the Series C round, which saw participation from a host of other backers. Existing investors Citi Ventures, Slack Fund, ...
Adobe’s clouds post double-digit growth as it sails past earnings and revenue targets
Photoshop creator Adobe Inc. celebrated another strong financial performance today, posting second quarter earnings and revenue that topped expectations and showing strong growth in its three core cloud businesses. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.03 per share on revenue of $3.84 billion, up 23% from the year ago ...
Dish to use Dell’s hardware and software to build its cloud-native Open RAN-based 5G network
Dish Network Corp. has chosen Dell Technologies Inc. as its primary hardware and software partner as it gears up to roll out what it says will be the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S. In an announcement today, the two companies said they have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement in which Dell ...
Google debuts new Tau VMs based on AMD’s 3rd Gen EPYC chips for scale-out workloads
Google LLC announced a new family of cloud virtual machines today that it said are ideal for customers operating the most demanding, scale-out workloads. The new Tau VMs are based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s latest 3rd Gen EPYC processors and Google reckons they provide a greater price-performance than any of its rival’s offerings. Scale-out ...
Google announces more partner apps and services at the edge of its cloud
Google LLC has announced a big expansion of a key initiative introduced at the tail end of last year to bring various partner services and applications to the network edge on Google Cloud. The company revealed today that more than 20 of its independent service vendor partners have agreed to deliver new apps and services ...