U.S., China Surge AI Venture Investment
Surprise! Venture capital funding in AI is heating up – sorry, continuing to heat up – hitting a record high in 2018, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics ...Full Article
Mellanox Partners with Storage Startups
As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. ...Full Article
Eying Hybrid Cloud Lead, IBM Closes Red Hat Deal
Going all-in on its bet that enterprises are poised to move mission- critical workloads across hybrid clouds, IBM finally announced the closing of its blockbuster deal to acquire open ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: July 2019 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each ...Full Article
Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within ...Full Article
Help Coming for Beleaguered Programmers
As data scientists and software developers sort through the plethora of tools and APIs ranging from Python to Apache Spark, automation schemes are emerging to help programmers navigate those ...Full Article
How to Overcome the AI Trust Gap: A Strategy for Business Leaders
AI is like the world, you can’t get around it – you’ve got to take it on. Numerous studies point to higher profits and productivity at companies that adopt ...Full Article
IoT Is Coming to Your Pets
People will do anything for their pets – this is something businesses bank on. Pets are family, after all, and in the U.S. alone there are 85 million families ...Full Article
Accenture Looks to Mix, Match Quantum, Digital Computing
When and where to leverage emerging quantum computing technology for enterprise applications is the framework embodied in a recent U.S. patent awarded to Accenture. U.S. Patent No. 10,275,721 announced ...Full Article
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based ...Full Article
