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Apple hits back at Spotify’s accusations of anticompetitive behavior
Apple Inc. has hit back at Spotify Technology AB’s claims that its App Store rules are anticompetitive, escalating a war of words potentially on track to draw regulatory scrutiny. Spotify submitted an antitrust complaint to the European Commission earlier this week over what it argues is unfair treatment by the iPhone maker toward outside app developers. The filing ...
Facebook opens up its internal AI training hardware and custom-built chips
Few organizations use artificial intelligence on the scale that Facebook Inc. does. The social network’s deep learning models perform 200 trillion predictions each day, a level of output made possible by purpose-built hardware designed from the ground up to run neural networks. At the Open Compute Summit today in San Jose, California, Facebook open-sourced three ...
Microsoft open-sources technology behind Azure’s powerful data compression
International Data Corp. estimates that the total volume of digital information in the world will balloon from 33 zettabytes, or trillion gigabytes, today to 175 zettabytes in 2025. This rapid growth is being felt particularly strongly by cloud providers such as Microsoft Corp., which host not just their own information but also that of countless ...
Microsoft targets videogame industry with new cloud development toolkit
Microsoft Corp. is looking to capture a bigger slice of the $138 billion videogame industry with its Azure cloud platform. The company today unveiled Game Stack, a suite of development tools specifically geared toward that market. The bundle combines services from Azure with other Microsoft products, including a heavily upgraded version of the PlayFab platform that ...
Determined AI launches with $11M funding to simplify deep learning projects
Determined AI Inc., a new startup set on easing artificial intelligence development, today exited stealth mode with $11 million in fresh funding. The round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s GV investment arm. A half-dozen other backers participated as well, including storied venture capital firm CRV, SV Angel and Amplify Partners. Determined AI has built a ...
Spotify files antitrust complaint against Apple, alleging unfair App Store policies
Spotify Technology SA wants regulators to investigate the rules that Apple Inc. sets for outside apps on the App Store. The music streaming provider, whose service competes with Apple Music, today filed an antitrust complaint against the iPhone maker in Europe over what it describes as unfair business practices. Spotify is accusing the company of ...
Google debuts miniaturized, real-time speech recognition AI on Pixel phones
Google LLC has developed a miniaturized neural network that is small and efficient enough to perform speech recognition, a normally hardware-intensive task, directly on mobile devices. The technology debuted today on the company’s Pixel smartphones. Google has rolled it out to its Gboard virtual keyboard app as part of an update that will make the built-in ...
Uber settles two long-running driver lawsuits for $20M
Uber Technologies Inc. has settled a pair of lawsuits challenging its driver classification policy, clearing a potential point of concern ahead of its upcoming initial public offering. The agreement, which was filed late Monday and hit the news cycle this morning, concludes six years of litigation. The lawsuits sought to change Uber’s policy of classifying drivers working ...
Cloudflare raises fresh $150M round, likely delaying rumored IPO
After a four-year break from fundraising, Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has secured $150 million in fresh capital to boost its growth efforts. The round was led by Franklin Resources Inc., a California investment firm with about $750 billion in assets under management. It joins an impressive roster of existing investors that includes Alphabet ...
Intel launches new technology standard to link CPUs with accelerator chips
Intel Corp. today introduced a new interconnect technology aimed at enabling servers to make better use of graphics cards, field-programmable gate arrays and other accelerator chips optimized for specific workloads. The Compute Express Link, or CXL, is envisioned as an industry standard that will work with products from multiple hardware makers. To that end, Intel ...
