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Neurala’s new neural network reduces AI training times from hours to seconds
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. is claiming a major breakthrough with its deep learning platform, saying it has reduced the time it takes to train a deep neural network from 15 hours to just 20 seconds. Neurala claims to differentiate itself from other AI software makers because its platform learns by mimicking the human brain, ...
ServiceNow gets its own chatbot to handle basic customer and employee requests
Less than a week after agreeing to acquire the natural language processing artificial intelligence startup Parlo, ServiceNow Inc. is adding conversational chatbot technology to its Now Platform. ServiceNow said the base technology for its new “Virtual Agent” (pictured below) was built by itself. It says its chatbot is designed to manage employee and customer requests ...
David vs. Goliath: Startup Cycle wants to take on Kubernetes in container orchestration
A startup called Cycle.io is teaming up with bare-metal server infrastructure provider Packet Host Inc. to take on Kubernetes with a rival container orchestration platform. Upending Kubernetes might seem like a pretty ambitious goal for an unknown startup such as Cycle. After all, Kubernetes has already grown into a monster, by far and away the ...
Twilio tops earnings estimates as existing customers spend more
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. gave its investors reason to be cheerful with a strong first-quarter earnings report that outperformed Wall Street’s expectations. The company posted a first-quarter loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per share on revenue of $129.1 million, up 49 percent from the same period a year ...
Report: Qualcomm considers exiting the market for data center server chips
Semiconductor firm Qualcomm Inc., the largest supplier of processor chips for smartphones, is ready to give up on its plans to muscle in on the server chip business that’s currently dominated by its rival Intel Corp. Bloomberg cited a “person familiar with the company’s plans” as saying that Qualcomm will either shut down its server ...
Google’s Duplex AI wows audience at I/O (and worries others) with humanlike phone conversations
Google Inc.’s popular Assistant for mobile devices will soon be able to make phone calls on behalf of its users to perform tasks such as scheduling appointments at the hairdresser or booking a table at a restaurant. The new capability has been made possible thanks to an artificial intelligence-based technology called Google Duplex, which dazzled ...
NetApp brings its data storage services to Google’s cloud
Data services company NetApp Inc. is bringing its network-attached storage service to Google’s cloud, the latest step in an ongoing shift away from its old on-premises business model. The company also announced what it calls the “world’s fastest enterprise all-flash array.” It’s a new cloud-connected hardware offering that NetApp says is designed to power artificial ...
Google’s long-awaited Android Things IoT operating system goes live
On the eve of its annual I/O developer conference, Google Inc. Monday announced the general release of its long-awaited Android Things operating system for “internet of things” devices. With the first stable release of the platform, IoT developers can now leverage Google’s machine learning capabilities, its Android partner ecosystem and the Google Assistant voice assistant. Google ...
Nokia buys SpaceTime Insight to strengthen its industrial IoT business
Finnish technology firm Nokia Oyj is doubling down on the “internet of things” as it continues to wash its hands of its consumer-focused businesses. The company today announced it has completed the acquisition of 10-year-old IoT company SpaceTime Insight Inc. for an undisclosed fee. The move comes less than a week after Nokia sold its Nokia ...
The 1 percent solution: Gartner says blockchain is way overhyped
Blockchain technology has been the subject of incessant hype over the past few years, but it barely even begun to make its mark on the enterprise, according to a new survey from Gartner Inc. The research firm found that blockchain has been fully deployed by just 1 percent of chief information officers so far. That was ...