Startup Symbio Robotics Gets $30M Funding to Extend Factory Automation Using AI
The modern factory floor is increasingly automated, but manufacturers are looking for ways to make industrial robots more flexible. Symbio Robotics, a Bay Area startup, is aiming to solve ...Full Article
As Insurtech Sector Embraces AI, Startup Zelros Attracts Another $11M in Funding
Among the financial sectors embracing AI technology is the insurance industry, which is looking for more personal and efficient ways to promote its products and services while streamlining underwriting ...Full Article
FundGuard, AI Vendor for Fintech, Gets $12M in Additional Series A Funding
Financial platforms that often serve as harbingers for enterprise technology adoption are rapidly embracing AI-based components to help manage a wide range of investments in the fintech sector. Venture ...Full Article
Peak AI Gets $21M Series B Funding Round, Expands Access to AI ‘Decision Intelligence’
AI deployments are steadily migrating to retail applications as commercial brands seek to get a better handle on supply chains along with marketing and sales. Increased demand for embedded ...Full Article
In Midst of Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage, DoD, Globalfoundries Expand Ties
The U.S. Defense Department and Globalfoundries are expanding their semiconductor manufacturing partnership by certifying the foundry’s most advanced fab complies with U.S. export controls intended to secure the chip ...Full Article
ENIAC at 75: Celebrating the World’s First Supercomputer
With little fanfare, today’s computer revolution was arguably born and announced through a small, innocuous, two-column story at the bottom of the front page of The New York Times ...Full Article
Pressure Mounts to Respond to Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage
Amid pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, chip makers are urging the Biden administration to include funding and tax incentives aimed at boosting semiconductor manufacturing and research in its economic recovery ...Full Article
Microsoft, HPE Bringing AI, Edge, Cloud to Earth Orbit in Preparation for Mars Missions
The International Space Station will soon get a delivery of powerful AI, edge and cloud computing tools from HPE and Microsoft Azure to expand technology experiments aimed at preparing ...Full Article
AI Software Tool Helping Quantum Computers to ‘Self-Tune’ for Improved Performance
With the overriding goal of reducing hardware errors and instability caused by environment noise, quantum computing software startup Q-CTRL has unveiled an AI-based toolset billed as enabling quantum computers ...Full Article
AI Tool Emerges to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccines that Battle New Virus Mutations
A growing list of global COVID-19 variants is prompting disease researchers to employ AI models trained using bioinformatics data to speed up vaccine development in the critical search to ...Full Article