Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Cloudera acquires AI tooling startup Verta
Cloudera Inc. today announced that it has acquired Verta Inc., a venture-backed developer of tools for building artificial intelligence applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition comes about three years after Cloudera, a major provider of data management and analysis software, was itself bought by two private equity firms for $5.3 ...
Microsoft details $3.2B plan to expand its data center capacity in Sweden
Microsoft Corp. will spend 33.7 billion Swedish crowns, or $3.2 billion, to expand its data center capacity in Sweden. The company will make the investment over two years as part of an initiative detailed this morning. The move comes three years after the company inaugurated its first Azure region, or data center cluster, in Sweden. The ...
AMD debuts ‘world’s fastest’ consumer desktop processor and AI-optimized server chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today detailed the Ryzen 9 9950X, a central processing unit for consumer-grade desktops that the company touts as the fastest chip in its category. The processor debuted early today at the Computex hardware event taking place in Taiwan. Alongside the Ryzen 9 9950X, AMD debuted two laptop chips optimized for artificial intelligence ...
HPE’s Aruba unit debuts platform for building private 5G networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba unit today debuted a new hardware and software bundle, HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, that companies can use to build their own 5G networks. Organizations rely on Wi-Fi routers to provide wireless connectivity at their offices. Larger corporate locations such as factories, in turn, increasingly use on-site 5G networks ...
OpenAI relaunches robotics unit four years after shutting it down
OpenAI has formed a team to train artificial intelligence models for robots. The ChatGPT developer confirmed Forbes’ Thursday report in a statement. The news comes about four years after OpenAI disbanded a team that researched ways of using AI to teach robots new tasks. Forbes reported that several former members of the team still work ...
Google details AI Overviews changes designed to tackle inaccurate content
Google LLC has updated its recently launched AI Overviews feature to reduce the likelihood that it will display inaccurate information in search results. Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, detailed the changes in a Thursday blog post. The update follows a series of highly publicized user reports about nonsensical results in AI Overviews. Introduced ...
Law enforcement task force shuts down six malware droppers
An international law enforcement task force has disrupted the infrastructure behind six malware droppers, malicious programs that play a key role in hacking campaigns. Europol, which led the task force, announced the development today. The effort included hundreds of law enforcement officials from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. Europol described ...
Intel, Google and other tech giants team up to develop UALink AI chip interconnect
Eight of the tech industry’s largest players are teaming up to launch the UALink Promoter Group, a new artificial intelligence hardware initiative detailed today. The project focuses on developing an industry-standard method of linking together AI chips such as graphics processing units. The goal, the initiative’s backers detailed, is to ease the task of assembling ...
Redpanda acquires Benthos to enhance its data streaming platform
Redpanda Data Inc. has acquired Benthos, the developer of an open-source platform that helps organizations move information between their applications. The companies announced the deal this morning. Financial terms were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Redpanda is backed by more than $160 million in funding from Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and other investors. It provides a ...
Mistral AI open-sources new Codestral large language model for developers
Artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today debuted Codestral, a large language model optimized for software development tasks. The launch comes amid reports that the company is in the process of raising a sizable new funding round. Earlier this month, sources told Wall Street Journal that Mistral is seeking $600 million from investors at a $6 ...