Alphabet’s Waymo raised $2.5 billion to develop autonomous vehicles
Waymo announced that it raised $2.5 billion from its parent company, Alphabet, and a dozen outside investors. It disclosed that the money is going to be used in its efforts to deploy autonomous vehicles for use on public roads.
The funding round brings the total amount of capital invested into W...
Dataiku brings its machine learning platform to the cloud
Dataiku announced a managed cloud version of its artificial intelligence development platform. The value proposition for this is that it will reduce the amount of work users have to do when building custom machine learning models.
The New-York based company is backed by nearly a quarter of a bil...
Nvidia buys DeepMap, further bolsters autonomous driving stack
Nvidia has signed off on a deal to acquire a well-funded startup dealing in mapping technology for autonomous vehicles. The startup, DeepMap, has technology that can help vehicles navigate roads more reliably.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed when the announcement was made on Thursday bu...
Cisco DNA Center update leverages AI to improve network operations
The new software integrates Cisco's ThousandEyes agent to improve network-intelligence monitoring and security.
This week Cisco released several updates to its DNA Center. The updates aim to improve performance, speed zero trust adoption, and increase the scale and security of corporate networks...
Salesforce boosts its vertical-specific clouds with AI
An AI-powered "relationship Insights" feature aims to lure customers in three key sectors.
Salesforce is turbocharging its industry-specific cloud platform offerings with new enhancements targeting companies in the financial services, healthcare and consumer goods sectors. This week the company ...
IBM releases tool to teach AI models some intellectual humility
IBM wants to increase the reliability of artificial intelligence models by giving them the ability to express themselves when they are unsure about something. The problem IBM is trying to solve here is all about how AI systems are sometimes too confident, which can be bad for the results sometimes....
EU’s decision to allow AI-powered facial recognition will not end well, critics warn
The European Union is facing criticism aimed at its introduction of new AI rules that allow for facial recognition to be used by authorities in a limited manner. Opponents of these rules say that the capitulations could be the segue needed to bring in a new age of biometric surveillance, which can ...
NVIDIA announces major expansion of its enterprise AI certifications
Program Grows to Include more than 50 NVIDIA-Certified Systems for Enterprise Data Centers.
This week, NVIDIA announced dozens of new servers certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, greatly expanding their NVIDIA-Certified Systems program. That program now includes more than 50 systems f...
Gartner predicts big role for graph technology in AI space
Gartner thinks that graph technology, which is emerging from the database market, could be the thing that finally helps us figure out all of the AI we have applied to understand the world we are creating.
The IT analysis firm said that graph processing is no longer relegated to the last position...
Google’s new Vertex AI platform helps companies adopt ML faster
The new managed platform aims to accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI.
This week Google Cloud announced the general availability of Vertex AI, a managed machine learning (ML) platform. Google says the new platform allows companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial ...
Barracuda adds AI-powered automation to its security platform
Adding AI means the Barracuda web security platform can more quickly adjust and respond to changing requirements.
Barracuda Networks this week announced a new version of its software product for securing websites and web applications. They call it Cloud Application Protection 2.0, and claim that...
Researchers fool computer vision with unexpected adjacent object
Researchers have found an interesting way to confuse computer vision algorithms. When a completely unrelated object is placed next to the intended one, computers no longer seem to understand what they are seeing. By applying this knowledge, self-driving cars, for example, can be fooled.
These fi...