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Boston Dynamics revamps its humanoid robot Atlas with electric motors
Boston Dynamics Inc., the robotics startup famed for its advanced humanoid and dog-like robots that went viral in years gone by for their acrobatic movements and dances, today announced it’s retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot and replacing it with a fully electric version instead. The company said the new, electric version of Atlas represents a significant ...
Google announces its second major round of layoffs this year
Google LLC said today it’s letting go a significant number of workers in what will be its second round of layoffs this year. The layoffs will mostly affect the company’s financial and real estate departments, a report in Business Insider said. According to a Google spokesperson who later confirmed the report, the cuts are part ...
SAS Institute debuts its first generative AI assistants, plus tools to help companies build their own
Data analytics company SAS Institute Inc. said today it’s enhancing its SAS Viya artificial intelligence platform with the introduction of new industry-specific generative AI assistants, a new synthetic data generator called SAS Data Maker, and a new developer platform called SAS Viya Workbench. The company debuted SAS Viya last year, explaining that it’s a kind ...
Intel unveils brain-inspired neuromorphic chip system for more energy-efficient AI workloads
Intel Corp. has achieved another key milestone on the road to developing neuromorphic processors modeled on the human brain that are designed to provide a more energy-efficient alternative to existing processing architectures. The chipmaker said today it has deployed the largest neuromorphic system ever made to Sandia National Laboratories, which is run by the U.S. ...
Kore.ai boosts enterprise generative AI development platform with new RAG and automation features
Kore.ai Inc., which offers an enterprise-grade development platform for generative artificial intelligence applications, today announced the latest update to its flagship Kore.ai Experience Optimization Platform. The startup said release V11.0 expands the platform’s capabilities with new features that can help to drive more intelligent, AI-powered business interactions in use cases such as customer service, agent ...
Linux Foundation, Intel and others promote open-source data stacks for enterprise generative AI
A Linux Foundation offshoot called the LF AI & Data Foundation is teaming up with a host of technology industry giants to launch a new initiative that aims to drive open-source innovation in data and artificial intelligence infrastructure. Announced today, the new initiative is called the Open Platform for Enterprise AI or OPEA, and it’s ...
AMD and Nvidia unveil new processors for AI PCs
Computer chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. are stepping up their game amid a growing frenzy for so-called AI personal computers, which are a new generation of PC that can run artificial intelligence workloads on device. In an announcement today, AMD unveiled a pair of new central processing units it said are optimized ...
MLCommons announces first benchmark for assessing AI safety
MLCommons, the nonprofit entity that creates and maintains the artificial intelligence industry’s most widely used benchmarks, today announced a new approach to measuring the safety of AI systems. The new MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark proof-of-concept focuses on measuring the safety of large language models that power chatbots such as ChatGPT. It does this by assessing ...
Google Cloud joins with biotech startups to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery and scientific research
Google Cloud today announced two new customers that will showcase the advantages of its cloud computing infrastructure for the biotech industry. The new partnerships were announced at the Bio-IT World conference this week, one of the major events on the biotech industry’s calendar. Google Cloud said it’s teaming up with an artificial intelligence startup called ...
Pegasystems offers every worker access to a personalized, generative AI-powered coach
Low-code automation software provider Pegasystems Inc. is enhancing its Pega Infinity portfolio of artificial intelligence tools with the launch of a generative AI-powered “employee mentor” it calls Pega GenAI Coach. Announced today as part of the update Pega Infinity 24.1. release, Pega GenAI Coach is designed to proactively advise workers on whatever task they’re performing, ...
