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Amazon Web Services Inc. today detailed Project Rainer, a compute cluster powered by hundreds of thousands of its custom AWS Trainium2 chips. The company is using the system to support the artificial intelligence development efforts of Anthropic PBC. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. …
Microsoft faces £1B UK lawsuit over software licensing fees
Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. The class-action lawsuit is …
AWS expands cybersecurity portfolio with AWS Security Incident Response
Amazon Web Services Inc. is expanding its cybersecurity portfolio with a new service that will make it easier for customers to detect and remediate breach attempts. The offering, AWS Security Incident Response, made its debut on Sunday. It’s one of several platform …
AI data center builder Nebius raises $700M in funding
CoNebius NV, a publicly traded provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. The company received the capital through a private placement that saw investors buy about 33.3 million shares for $21 apiece. That represents …
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ‘retires’ amid foundry, growth challenges
Pat Gelsinger has stepped down from his role as Intel Corp.’s chief executive, the chipmaker announced today. Gelsinger left the CEO post and his board seat on Sunday. Sources told Bloomberg that the executive’s departure followed a meeting with Intel’s other directors. …
AWS details materials science collaboration with Orbital Materials
Amazon Web Services Inc. is launching a technical collaboration with Orbital Materials Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to discover new materials. The companies detailed the initiative today against the backdrop of the cloud giant’s AWS re:Invent conference. It’s described as …
AWS upgrades Amazon Connect with new generative AI features
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding more artificial intelligence features to its Amazon Connect service, which helps companies run their contact centers more efficiently. The update was detailed today ahead of the cloud giant’s AWS re:Invent 2024 event, which will kick off …
Report: Meta to spend $10B+ on 25,000-mile submarine internet cable
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to spend more than $10 billion on a submarine internet cable that will circle the globe, TechCrunch reported today. The project was first detailed last month by subsea networking expert Sunil Tagare. According to TechCrunch, multiple sources close …
Akhetonics nabs €6M to build a general-purpose optical processor
Startup Akhetonics GmbH has raised €6 million in funding for its optical chip technology, which can perform digital, analog and quantum computations in the same system. TechCrunch reported the investment today. The deal, which is described as a seed funding round, was …
Amazon reportedly develops new multimodal language model
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly developed a multimodal large language model that could debut as early as next week. The Information on Wednesday cited sources as saying that the algorithm is known as Olympus internally. Last November, Reuters reported that Amazon was spending …