Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash. The New York-based startup, which provides a
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Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?
Meta, on an open source tear, wants to spread its influence in the ongoing battle for AI mindshare. This morning,
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Vercel makes it easier to ship better code at scale
Vercel today announced two new features for developers that aim to help them ship higher-quality code at scale. The first
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Twilio lays off another 5% of employees following activist pressure
Just a few hours after Spotify announced a large round of layoffs, Twilio is also announcing hundreds of job cuts.
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AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge. But adoption challenges remain. According to a recent
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Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs
Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was
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Dataminr, the $4B big data startup, is laying off 20% of staff today, or 150 people, as it preps to double down on AI
It’s a tough day for Dataminr, the New York-based big data unicorn last valued at $4.1 billion. TechCrunch has learned
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AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, promises 10x write speed improvement
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3
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Kognitos raises $20M to help businesses automate back-office processes
Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and women’s health
By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition
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