Updated: Newly public Pivotal Software Inc. today reported strong results in its first quarter peeking out of the nest of majority owner Dell Technologies Inc. The company, which makes software for building cloud computing applications, reported a net loss in its fiscal 2019 first quarter of $32.5 million, or 31 cents a share, down from ...

Google Inc. has decided not to renew a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to use artificial intelligence technology to improve the targeting of drone strikes. The news came out of a morning meeting today with employees, where Google Cloud Chief Executive Diane Greene (pictured) announced the decision not to renew the contract, known ...

Hoping to maintain the high ground in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, Nvidia Corp. late Tuesday debuted a new computing architecture that it claims will unify both fast-growing areas of the industry. The announcement of the HGX-2 cloud-server platform (pictured), made by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang at its GPU Technology Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, is aimed ...

Cloud content management firm Box Inc. early today debuted the ability for its customers to store the same data in multiple “zones” around the world while users can collaborate on the files across those zones. The capability builds on Box’s 2016 introduction of Zones, which enabled customers to store their data in one of now ...

Extraterrestrial commerce is coming, the era of data oligarchs is ending, and software could do away with fake news and videos. Those are some of the hottest trends coming in technology in the next five years, according to five venture capitalists on a panel Tuesday night in Silicon Valley. They made the predictions at the ...

Cisco Systems Inc. may finally be turning the corner, but not fast enough for its investors. The networking giant today reported its fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 4 percent from a year ago, to $12.5 billion, the second consecutive quarter of growth for a company that has been trying to transform its business for the cloud computing ...

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. had a lot to live up to today when it reported its first-quarter earnings, after its stock hit another in a string of recent all-time highs. Bottom line: It didn’t. But the results still easily beat expectations, if not as much as some of those investors may have hoped. Thanks to ...

If there was any remaining doubt that Google Inc. is doubling down on its bid to spread the benefits of artificial intelligence into every nook and cranny of business and everyday life, the company quashed them flat today. In its signature announcement at its annual Google I/O conference for software developers near its Silicon Valley ...

Mesosphere Inc., the San Francisco-based company that aims to be something of a cloud-era Microsoft Windows for large companies’ hybrid data center and cloud operations, today said it has raised a $125 million late-stage funding round. The new Series D round brings total financing to more than $250 million. New investors T. Rowe Price Associates ...

A new version of the machine learning technology that Facebook Inc. uses to do some 6 billion language translations a day will soon be available more widely. The social network giant, and engineering powerhouse, today introduced PyTorch 1.0, which is the newest version of its open-source artificial intelligence software framework. The introduction, the technical centerpiece ...