Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a new cloud service for U.S. intelligence agencies that allows them to run computing jobs that need to classified as “secret.” The launch of AWS Secret Region by Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit follows earlier efforts in government, including the formation of its GovCloud for public-sector customers six years ...

Heating up a market for chips used in machine learning, Google LLC today cut prices for accessing the power of Nvidia Corp. graphics processing unit chips over its cloud service by up to 36 percent. More specifically, Google said it will now charge 45 cents an hour to use Nvidia’s older K80 GPUs attached to ...

Much as it might seem as if the cloud computing market is all wrapped up by the likes of Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, OVH Group is betting there’s still plenty of room for new rivals. Today the French hosting and cloud services provider expanded its entry into the U.S. cloud market ...

Already riding high on the strength of its graphics chips, Nvidia Corp. today said its newest and most powerful graphics processing unit is now available through every major provider of both high-performance computers and cloud computing services. Although the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker had previously revealed various companies’ plans to use its Tesla V100 ...

Nvidia Corp. continued to tear up the chip industry, easily beating expectations for its third fiscal quarter thanks to its booming business supplying chips for artificial intelligence applications. The maker of graphics chips for gaming and artificial intelligence today reported a profit of $838 million, or $1.33 a share, up 55 percent from a year ...

With millions of mobile apps in the Google Play and Apple Inc. app stores, it would seem that creating them is a snap. But one part of the app creation process is anything but quick and easy: compilation, which is the process of turning translating code into language machines can read. As a result, software ...

Google LLC and Salesforce.com Inc. today announced a surprise partnership that makes the search giant’s cloud one of the customer relationship management company’s preferred cloud computing providers. In particular, Salesforce will use the Google Cloud Platform to expand its international operations, at least initially. Google will also standardize its own operations on Salesforce’s software. And ...

Customer relationship management giant Salesforce.com Inc. made a big splash at last year’s Dreamforce conference, introducing its artificial-intelligence platform Einstein as a way to bring the benefits of AI to the business masses. This year, it’s looking to inject those AI smarts into all its services to make them more personalized and easy to use. ...

In what would be the biggest-ever acquisition in the technology industry, Broadcom Ltd. today offered about $105 billion to buy mobile chip giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The offer of $70 a share in cash and stock for Qualcomm would be about a 28 percent premium over its market capitalization Friday, when Bloomberg reported talks of an unsolicited ...

The big wait for Apple’s new flagship smartphone that goes on sale Friday didn’t hurt its closely watched earnings results after all. In fact, the world’s most valuable company easily smashed forecasts for its fiscal fourth quarter thanks to demand for its signature iPhones. That’s despite the fact that iPhone sales were held back both by manufacturing problems that delayed ...