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Intel to build two chip fabs in Germany as part of expanded €30B+ investment
Intel Corp. today announced plans to build two cutting-edge chip fabs in Germany at a cost of more than €30 billion, or $32.75 billion. The plan extends an initiative Intel first detailed early last year. That original initiative would have also seen the company build two fabs in Germany, but with a lower initial investment ...
Avaya debuts new cloud capabilities at Engage 2023
Avaya LLC today introduced new capabilities for its suite of communications applications and revamped its professional services unit. The company made the announcements at its Avaya Engage 2023 conference, which is taking place this week in Orlando. Durham, North Carolina-based Avaya sells videoconferencing software for enterprises. It also provides other collaboration tools, as well as ...
Comet teams up with Snowflake to simplify AI development for enterprises
Comet ML Inc., a startup that provides tools for building artificial intelligence models, is partnering with Snowflake Inc. to ease the work of enterprise machine learning teams. The partnership was announced this morning. As part of the collaboration, Comet has developed an integration for Snowflake’s Snowpark tool. According to the startup, its new integration will simplify ...
Google advises employees not to enter internal information into AI chatbots
Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. has advised employees not to enter internal information into artificial intelligence chatbots. Reuters reported the policy this morning, citing four people familiar with the matter. Google later confirmed the report. The company is urging employees to avoid inputting sensitive data into conversational AI tools at a time when it’s working ...
Mandiant attributes Barracuda Networks malware campaign to China-linked hackers
Mandiant has determined that the recently discovered hacking campaign targeting Barracuda Networks Inc. customers was launched by China-linked hackers. Mandiant, a breach investigation company that was acquired by Google LLC earlier this year, released its findings today. The Google unit was hired by Barracuda to investigate the malware campaign. Campbell, California-based Barracuda is a major provider ...
Intel rebrands its PC processor lineup
Intel Corp. today announced plans to reorganize its personal computer processors under a simplified, two-tier branding structure. The move comes more than a decade after the last major rebrand of the product portfolio. It also follows a smaller naming change that Intel announced last September. The latter update saw the company fold two sets of ...
WhyLabs releases open-source LangKit toolkit for monitoring large language models
Startup WhyLabs Inc. today released LangKit, an open-source toolkit designed to help companies monitor their large language models for safety issues and other risks. Seattle-based WhyLabs is backed by $14 million in funding. Its investors include Madrona Venture Group, Bezos Expeditions and AI Fund, a venture capital firm led by artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng. ...
Primer raises $69M for its AI-powered analytics tools
Data analytics provider Primer Technologies Inc. today announced that it has closed a $69 million funding round led by Addition. U.S. Innovative Technology Fund also contributed to the Series D round, which brings the startup’s total outside financing to $237 million. Primer will use the capital to hire more employees and enhance its technology. San ...
EU suggests breaking up Google’s display ad business over antitrust concerns
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, has sent Google LLC a statement of objections over its practices in the display advertising market. The EU announced the move today. A statement of objections is a document that the bloc’s antitrust officials issue to a company after determining it may have run afoul of antitrust ...
Pure Storage debuts new flash storage arrays and cybersecurity features
Pure Storage Inc. is expanding its product portfolio with three new flash arrays and a set of software features designed to mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks. The company announced the offerings at its annual Pure//Accenture event in Las Vegas, which kicked off this morning. The first two additions to the hardware maker’s product portfolio ...