Robotic Vision Startup Akasha Imaging Aims to Improve Industrial Manufacturing With AI
With $10.75 million in Series A funding arriving earlier this month, AI robotic vision startup Akasha Imaging is now bulking up its team to ready itself to deliver its ...Full Article
Don’t Be Too Quick Trusting That 2020 Data in Your 2021 IT Planning
As companies approach their 2021 business planning after the current tumultuous, pandemic-decimated year, it might be a wise idea to use plenty of care when using 2020 business data ...Full Article
AI: Fact versus Fiction
AI adoption inside U.S. companies is soaring, with a recent PwC study concluding that 86 percent of 1,032 IT respondents believe that AI will be a mainstream technology for ...Full Article
DeepMind, Google’s AI Unit, Reports Big Loss
DeepMind requires deep pockets. Reports surfaced this week that the London-based AI lab acquired in 2014 by Google parent Alphabet for about $600 million lost a staggering $649 million ...Full Article
Nvidia Moves Its Software Closer to Cloud Customers Through an AWS Storefront
Nvidia is making it easier for AWS cloud customers to find and integrate Nvidia software applications into their AI and deep learning projects through an all-new, all-in-one “storefront” in ...Full Article
DARPA Expands Access to Chip IP
The Pentagon’s premiere R&D agency is expanding an initiative designed to provide technology startups with broader access to semiconductor and other intellectual property in hopes of stimulating innovation. The ...Full Article
Improving Chaos Engineering in the Cloud with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
AWS re:Invent 2020—For a long time, it has been serious challenge for IT teams to adequately stress-test cloud applications to find and fix their weaknesses, especially at scale. But ...Full Article
Nvidia Probes Accelerators, Photons, GPU Scaling
Nvidia spotlighted an AI inference accelerator, emerging optical interconnects and a new programming framework designed to scale GPU performance during this week’s GTC China virtual event. In a keynote, ...Full Article
Grafana, Prometheus Previews Launched by AWS as Managed Services
Grafana Labs, developer of a popular open source tool for visualizing logs and metrics, joins a growing list of Amazon Web Services partners, allowing AWS customer to run Grafana’s dashboards ...Full Article
AI in Fintech, Technology and Academia Is Focus of Nascent U.S. Tech Council
Finding ways to bring AI more deeply into the business worlds of fintech, technology and academia is the mission of the new National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). Bolstered ...Full Article
