Tech Giants Unite to Save Metaverse from Being the Wild West
The metaverse is seen as a borderless 3D world, and an alternate universe in which our digital avatars can live, work and play. Now major tech companies are joining ...Full Article
Google Suspends Senior Engineer After He Claims LaMDA Is Sentient
Google has placed a senior software engineer on leave for violating its confidentiality policies after he publicly claimed its LaMDA conversational AI system is sentient. Blake Lemoine was part ...Full Article
Nvidia Aims to Make AI a No-brainer with New Toolkit
Nvidia believes it has the antidote to the headaches of putting AI to work without the need to hire data scientists. The TAO starter kit -- which stands for ...Full Article
HPE Launches ML Development System, Swarm Learning Solution
In a one-two punch of new AI announcements, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced its new Machine Learning Development System (MLDS) and Swarm Learning solutions. Both are aimed at ...Full Article
Pfizer Discusses Use of Supercomputing and AI for Covid Drug Development
Over 16 months ago, Pfizer achieved a historic scientific moonshot — the unprecedentedly swift development and authorization of a novel vaccine for a novel virus using methods that hitherto ...Full Article
Run:ai Seeks to Grow AI Virtualization with $75M Round
Run:ai, a provider of an AI virtualization layer that helps optimize GPU instances, yesterday announced a Series C round worth $75 million. The funding figures to help the fast-growing ...Full Article
AIOps Platform Selector Raises $28M Series A
Selector, an AIOps, analytics and observability platform provider, has announced it raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Selector will ...Full Article
Aporia Tackles AI Trust with $25M Series A Round
Aporia, an observability platform for machine learning, has announced a $25 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $30 million. With the ever-expanding use of AI ...Full Article
DeepMind’s AI Algorithm Brings Science One Step Closer to Fusion
Harnessing the power of the stars – which are fueled by clean, stable, high-output nuclear fusion energy – is a lofty goal for meeting our world’s ever-increasing energy needs. Fusion ...Full Article
IBM, AWS Partner to Help Energy Companies Solve Global Data Silo Challenges
Large global energy companies have a seriously challenging technology problem – due to varying compliance and data residency regulations around the world, they have business data that must be ...Full Article