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Startup Symbio Robotics Gets $30M Funding to Extend Factory Automation Using AI
The modern factory floor is increasingly automated, but manufacturers are looking for ways to make industrial robots more flexible. Symbio Robotics, a Bay Area startup, is aiming to solve ...Full Article
How AutoML is Democratizing Data Science — And What That Means For Data Scientists
“Data scientist” has been one of the most in-demand job titles of the past decade. But in another 10 years, that role will look very different, thanks to technologies ...Full Article
IBM Reportedly Looking to Sell its Unprofitable Watson Health Business
IBM’s Watson Health business brings in $1 billion a year in revenue, but because the unit still isn’t profitable, Big Blue is reportedly looking to sell it to focus ...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
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
With Long-Delayed JEDI Contract Stalled By Legal Fight, DoD May Go Multi-Cloud
The Pentagon is signaling it may embrace a multi-cloud strategy long favored by commercial users seeking to avoid vendor lock-in. With its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award ...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
NASA’s Latest Mars Rover, Perseverance, Will Get Help from AI on the Red Planet
As NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, prepares to land on the Martian surface Feb. 18 (Thursday) after a seven-month flight to the red planet, the use of AI will ...Full Article
Sunlight’s AI Hypervisor Gains Nvidia GPU Support to Boost Edge Deployments
Sunlight, the U.K.-based specialist in virtualizing data-intensive applications, announced Nvidia GPU support for its “lightweight” hypervisor designed to boost the performance of edge AI deployments. GPU support for its ...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
