Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

$400M in Additional Series C Funding Raised by Automotive AI Chip Vendor Horizon Robotics

January 11th, 2021 (0)

Horizon Robotics, a Chinese automotive AI chip startup that is developing specialized, complex chips for use in autonomous vehicles, has raised another $400 million in its latest Series C round of funding. That’s on top of $150 million in ...

Red Hat Bolstering Its OpenShift Kubernetes Security with Acquisition of StackRox

January 11th, 2021 (0)

Red Hat is bringing deeper security capabilities to its popular Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform through the acquisition of container and Kubernetes security vendor StackRox. The deal is the latest part of Red Hat’s road map to deliver ...

Open Source Luminary Tapped By Incoming Biden-Harris White House for Tech Post

January 7th, 2021 (0)

Open source software leader David Recordon, who built Facebook’s first open source programs team and has long been involved in a wide range of open source community projects, has been named as the director of technology for the incoming ...

AI to Transform Healthcare of the Future in the Shadow of COVID-19

January 6th, 2021 (0)

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the growing emergence and use of AI in healthcare is one of the most important trends that is helping already-overburdened doctors, nurses, hospitals and healthcare systems as they treat patients for a wide range ...

VMware and Nutanix Battle It Out Over New Executive Hiring

January 4th, 2021 (0)

When hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix announced the hiring of Rajiv Ramaswami as its new CEO on Dec. 9, the company had found a successor to company co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, who earlier in 2020 unveiled his own plans ...

Robotic Vision Startup Akasha Imaging Aims to Improve Industrial Manufacturing With AI

December 23rd, 2020 (0)

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 nascent AI vision technology to industrial manufacturers by mid-2021. Founded ...

AI: Fact versus Fiction

December 21st, 2020 (0)

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 their companies in 2021. The problem, though, is that under ...

Nvidia Moves Its Software Closer to Cloud Customers Through an AWS Storefront

December 18th, 2020 (0)

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 the AWS Marketplace. The storefront, which initially contains 21 applications ...

Improving Chaos Engineering in the Cloud with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

December 16th, 2020 (0)

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 at this year’s AWS re:Invent 2020 conference, vice president and ...

AI in Fintech, Technology and Academia Is Focus of Nascent U.S. Tech Council