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
Xilinx Brings ‘Unique’ Composability and Flexibility to its New Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
FPGA vendor Xilinx has debuted its latest SmartNIC model, the Alveo SN1000, with integrated “composability” features that allow enterprise users to add their own custom networking functions to supplement ...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
IBM, Red Hat Integration Continues as IBM Mainstreams Power Systems in Pivot to Cloud
As it continues to pivot to the cloud, IBM has unveiled a new Power-based private cloud rack product line that is also porting Red Hat OpenShift capabilities to its ...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
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
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
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
