Nvidia Corp. and Baidu Inc. today announced they’re teaming up to bring the processing power of Nvidia’s latest graphics chips to artificial-intelligence services in the Chinese Internet giant’s services, in particular self-driving cars. The two companies said at Baidu’s annual Create conference in Beijing that the two companies are looking to AI to a number ...

Less than a year after debuting a way to measure how well various processor chips can train computers to learn using neural network models, Baidu Inc. today updated the benchmark tool to gauge how well the chips actually run those models for jobs such as speech and image recognition. Deep Bench, which the Chinese Internet giant released ...

In a move driven by its enterprise business operation, Google Inc. said today it will stop scanning messages in its free Gmail service to target ads later this year. In one of the more controversial aspects of its services, the search giant has scanned Gmail messages to derive data for better targeting of ads. Although ...

Even in the dawning cloud computing era, where so much data is ostensibly easy to access, sharing critical business data among companies is still surprisingly hard. That’s the problem Snowflake Computing Inc. aims to solve with what it calls a “data sharehouse.” The San Mateo, California-based startup today announced its neatly named new offering as ...

Oracle Corp.’s move to embrace cloud computing gained more ground today as it closed out its fiscal year with another better-than-expected earnings report driven by cloud revenues. The database and business software giant reported a profit of 89 cents a share before certain costs such as stock compensation, up from 81 cents a share ago, on ...

Hoping to recharge its declining networking business, Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a new edition of its foundation network switching equipment along with a new subscription plan for its services, both aimed at making it more intuitive for its customers to manage data on their corporate networks. The new Catalyst 9000 series (below) is the ...

Investment in artificial intelligence startups is on a tear as venture capitalists and corporate investors scramble to stake out a leadership position in what could be the driving trend in technology for decades to come. The financial interest in AI, machine learning and related technologies is hardly new. CB Insights has tracked some $18.4 billion ...

In another sign that cybersecurity remains a hot investment area, cloud security startup Illumio Inc. today announced it has raised $125 million in a new round of funding led by a customer, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The Series D funding round comes just two years after a $100 million Series C round, bringing the total ...

Two years after it first aimed to go public and nine months after it filed confidentially for an initial public offering, computer storage provider Tintri Inc. is finally going to sell shares to public. The Mountain View, California-based company issued a public filing Thursday to raise $100 million in the IPO. But that’s likely a ...

Nvidia Corp. has signed up four of the world’s largest makers of computers to adopt its graphics chip-powered server design for artificial intelligence work in the most demanding “hyperscale” data centers, the company announced Tuesday. The so-called original design manufacturers, or ODMs, are the four major Taiwanese makers of computers and other electronic products: Hon ...