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Neurala launches its Brain Builder to speed up neural network data preparation
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. wants to help developers create deep learning applications faster by speeding up the process of feeding data to neural networks to train them. The company is launching a beta of its new Neurala Brain Builder program, which is a software-as-a-service platform that can tag data used in training models more ...
In a sweeping deal, Dell becomes a public company again
Updated Monday: Enterprise information technology giant Dell Technologies Inc. Monday announced it will become a publicly traded company again following a deal to buy out investors in a stock created to track the performance of its subsidiary VMware Inc. The deal, which follows months of deliberation by Dell’s board of directors over its strategic options, ...
Formula 1 races to take advantage of Amazon’s cloud and AI
Amazon Web Services Inc. is strengthening its pole position in the public cloud market, adding Formula One Group as its latest marquee customer. The public cloud infrastructure provider said Formula 1 is moving the majority of its information technology systems to the AWS cloud in order to take advantage of its machine learning and data ...
VMware updates Pivotal Container Service with latest Kubernetes release
VMware Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sister Pivotal Software Inc. are updating their jointly developed Pivotal Container Service with features aimed at addressing developer productivity, high availability, management and operations, and networking and security. The service, dubbed PKS, helps organizations easily create software containers that bundle applications together in a way that enables them to be ...
Apple and Samsung’s seven-year design patent battle finally ends as they settle out of court
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have been slugging it out in the courts over alleged patent infractions for the best part of this decade, but that battle has finally come to its conclusion with Reuters reporting the two companies have settled the matter in private. The technology giants agreed on their long-awaited truce ...
Microsoft’s M12 VC fund backs DevOps startup Codefresh in $8M round
Israeli startup Codefresh Inc. is hoping to shake up the DevOps landscape after closing on an $8 million round of funding led by Microsoft Corp.’s new venture capital arm, M12. The Series B round, which also saw previous investors Hillsven Capital, Viola Ventures and the CEIF fund participate, brings Codefresh’s total funding to $15.1 million. ...
Google flags bigger open-source ambitions as it steps up commitment to the Linux Foundation
Google LLC has been a member of the Linux Foundation for quite some time, but only at the lower level, holding a silver membership since it first signed up. That changed today as the internet revealed that it’s upping its membership status to the highest-tier Platinum level, giving it much greater influence in the future direction of ...
Databricks makes it easier to build AI apps using the R programming language
Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is teaming up with RStudio Inc. in order to help developers write code for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications more easily using the R programming language. The partnership entails integrating Databricks’ popular Unified Analytics Platform with the RStudio Server, which is a development environment for programmers working with R. ...
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
DevOps automation firm Puppet Inc.’s recent frenzy of activity is showing no signs of slowing down. The company, which automates the delivery and optimization of modern software applications, today said it has closed on a $42 million round of funding led by Cisco Investments, with participation from EDB Investments Pte. Ltd., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...
After $50M funding, big-data firm Celonis is Europe’s latest unicorn
German big-data company Celonis GmbH today said it has raised a hefty $50 million, bringing its valuation to a cool $1 billion. The company plans to use the proceeds from the Series B round to bolster its recent entry into the U.S. market, which already accounts for around half of its business. Celonis’ product is used ...