IBM, Palantir Partner on AI Apps in the Cloud
IBM and data analytics software vendor Palantir Technologies Inc. will release a cloud data platform in March designed to deploy AI-based applications built around Watson. The service, dubbed Palantir ...Full Article
What Bezos Leaving as CEO Means for Amazon and AWS
As Jeff Bezos prepares to give up Amazon’s CEO seat to become the company’s executive chair in the third quarter of 2021, the big question now being asked is ...Full Article
AI Startup Granulate Gets $30M B Round Funding as it Gains Traction in Data Centers
Granulate Cloud Solutions, the AI-based optimization software startup, announced its second financing round in 10 months as adoption of its data center workload accelerator gains traction among enterprise customers ...Full Article
DataCore Expands Storage Options for Customers with Caringo Deal
Fueled by enterprise deployments of hyperconverged infrastructure, the software-defined storage market is booming. That trend has prompted DataCore Software to acquire object storage specialist Caringo Inc., enabling the buyer ...Full Article
Red Hat’s Disruption of CentOS Unleashes Storm of Dissent
Five weeks after angering much of the CentOS Linux developer community by unveiling controversial changes to the no-cost CentOS operating system, Red Hat has unveiled alternatives for affected users ...Full Article
Google’s AI Ethics Flap Widens
Google’s AI ethics mess continues to spread, with reports this week that the company is investigating a second AI ethicist for scanning company files in search of examples of ...Full Article
Edge AI Startup Kneron Attracts New Investors
Kneron Inc., the AI startup specializing in “on-device” edge inferencing applications, has raised additional funding in the form of investments by Taiwanese manufacturing powerhouses Foxconn and Winbond. San Diego-based ...Full Article
Red Hat Bolstering Its OpenShift Kubernetes Security with Acquisition of StackRox
Red Hat is bringing deeper security capabilities to its popular Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform through the acquisition of container and Kubernetes security vendor StackRox. The deal is ...Full Article
OpenAI Extends GPT-3 to Combine NLP with Images
A pair of neural networks unleashed by GPT-3 developer OpenAI use text in the form of image captions as a way of generating images, a predictive approach that developers ...Full Article
Proposed Expansion of Facial Recognition Use at U.S. Borders Slammed by ACLU
A proposed expansion in facial recognition technology use by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to screen foreign travelers coming in or out of the United States ...Full Article
