Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Cerebras Systems has unveiled its new Wafer Scale Engine 2 processor with a record-setting 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 AI-optimized cores. It’s built for supercomputing tasks, and it’s the second time since 2019 that Los Altos, California-based […]
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DevOps automation platform Octopus Deploy nabs $172.5M
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Octopus Deploy, a Brisbane, Australia-based company developing a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced that it closed a $172.5 million round. The funding, led by Insight Partners for a minority stake in the company, […]
Cloud strength pushes IBM to sales growth after a year of declines
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — International Business Machines returned to sales growth in the first quarter after a year of declines and beat Wall Street targets on Monday, boosted by its bets in the high-margin cloud computing business. Shares […]
Health care API adoption is slowed by security concerns and skills gap
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. APIs may be the cornerstone of a digital transformation strategy, but the health care industry has not really benefited from widespread API adoption because of concerns over interoperability, patient data exchange, and infrastructure challenges, according to […]
Zoom boosts its app ecosystem with $100M venture fund
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Zoom has announced a new $100 million venture fund designed to “stimulate growth” of its burgeoning ecosystem of third-party app integrations. The announcement comes after a whirlwind 12 months for the video-communications platform company. Zoom has […]
Is Boston Dynamics becoming a boring robotics company?
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to “Uptown Funk.” Now, it has revealed its latest gadget: a robot that looks […]
Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big deal
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Microsoft’s recent shopping spree reached a new climax this week with the announcement of its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance, a company that provides speech recognition and conversational AI services. Nuance is best known for its […]
Paxafe, which offers visibility into B2B supply chains, raises $2.25M
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Paxafe, a platform using AI and machine learning to classify and contextualize supply chain data, today announced it has raised $2.25 million. The startup says it will leverage the funds to support the rollout of its […]
AI Weekly: Data analytics keeps attracting investment through the pandemic
Organizations are investing more in data analytics during the pandemic, a paper from West Monroe shows. A recent survey by KPMG agrees; the polling of C-suite executives found that data and analytics platforms are the most common new technology to be adopted, with 21% of respondents reporting the piloting of […]
Harness coordinates DevOps and cloud spending across multiple platforms
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Harness.io, a software delivery platform with cloud cost management capabilities, yesterday launched a variety of integrations that expand its services across Amazon GovCloud, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The new integrations make it easier for engineers […]