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AI Chip Startup Graphcore Rings Up $200M in Funding
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, has attracted more investors as it rolls out its intelligent processing unit to enterprise datacenters and cloud services providers. The GPU rival reported ...Full Article
IBM Seeks Transparency into AI Decision Making
Among the stumbling blocks to AI adoption is lack of transparency, understanding, and therefore trust in how machines actually make decisions. How and why AI arrived at an answer ...Full Article
Oracle Takes Gloves Off in JEDI Lawsuit
Large government contract awards invariably draw protests from losing bidders hoping to gum up the works and perhaps gain a piece of the action on appeal. The Defense Department’s ...Full Article
Docker, Microsoft Partner on Container ‘Bundler’
Docker is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to include an “application bundle” specification for packaging and running cloud-native applications. The collaboration coincides with the application container specialist’s release of ...Full Article
Docker Rolls Windows Server Migration Tool
Microsoft announced last summer it is ending support for Windows Server 2008 in January 2019, with support for Windows SQL server expiring six months later. That has prompted the ...Full Article
Google Drops Bid, IBM Protests DoD Cloud Contract
The jockeying over a massive U.S. military cloud contract reached a fever pitch this week as one prominent contender dropped out while another filed a legal protest aimed at ...Full Article
Talend Links Big Data to Azure SQL Warehouse
Data integrators continue to roll out connections between huge data stores and public cloud data warehouses. The latest comes from Talend, which this week unveiled a data fabric “uploader” ...Full Article
MS-GitHub Deal: Open Source Moves Center Stage
Microsoft’s reassurances notwithstanding, the software giant’s acquisition of GitHub, the project collaboration platform, has raised concerns about the future direction of open-source software development. Skeptics are taking a wait-and-see ...Full Article
Microsoft ‘All In’ For Open Source with GitHub Deal
GitHub, the well-heeled and vibrant project collaboration platform for programmers, is being acquired by Microsoft as the software giant seeks to push deeper into enterprise software development. Microsoft said ...Full Article
Debate Intensifies on Algorithm Accountability
The accelerating deployment of AI is prompting closer scrutiny of the underlying algorithms many observers fear could embed bias or worse as into a growing number of everyday applications. ...Full Article
