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Adobe applies its Sensei AI to email marketing with new tools
Consumers have more ways to interact with brands online than ever, but email continues to be the go-to medium for many. A recent survey from Adobe Systems Inc. saw half the respondents say they prefer to have offers sent to their inboxes. To help marketers use this channel more effectively, the company today introduced new capabilities designed to automate outreach ...
With 8M+ daily users, Slack raises new $427M funding round at $7.1B valuation
Team chat market leader Slack Technologies Inc. today reaffirmed its position at the head of the pack by announcing the completion of a $427 million funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic. The investment bumps the startup’s valuation to over $7.1 billion. That’s a major jump from the $5.1 billion valuation that ...
Dell EMC’s new PowerEdge MX platform makes data center infrastructure modular
Dell EMC today introduced the PowerEdge MX, an infrastructure platform first teased earlier this year that takes a modular approach to managing hardware resources. The system combines compute, storage and networking gear with management software in a single chassis. The concept is similar to so-called hyperconverged infrastructure appliances, except the hardware building blocks are decoupled from one another to ...
Cohesity launches Helios, an AI-infused service for managing secondary data
Cohesity Inc., the storage startup that raised a massive $250 million round led by SoftBank Corp.’s Vision Fund in June, is marking its first major product release since the investment. The company today unveiled an artificial intelligence-infused cloud service called Helios for managing deployments of its DataPlatform software. DataPlatform is designed for storing the “secondary ...
Nvidia’s new AI-optimized graphics chips promise sixfold speed boost for desktops
Before rising to data center prominence, Nvidia Corp. focused primarily on making graphics cards for the high-powered desktops favored by videogame enthusiasts, a market that remains an important revenue source for the chipmaker. At a gaming event in Germany today, Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang followed through on a veiled promise during Nvidia’s earnings report late last ...
Facebook teams up with NYU for new AI project to make MRI scans 10 times faster
In parallel with Alphabet Inc.’s high-profile work to apply artificial intelligence in healthcare, other tech giants are pursuing their own medical AI projects. One of the participants in this industry effort is Facebook Inc., which today announced a collaboration with the New York University School of Medicine to harness machine learning for radiology. The partnership’s ...
Google has built an AI to help keep its data centers cool and efficient
Keeping the servers in a data center cool requires a massive amount of power, especially when it comes to the large facilities operated by tech giants such as Google LLC. Now the company is trying to harness artificial intelligence to cut the electricity bill. Google today revealed that it has built a specialized AI to automatically manage ...
Google is reportedly developing a smart display to challenge Amazon’s Echo Show
A new report claims that Google LLC is preparing to launch a so-called smart display, a smart speaker with a screen, in time for the holiday season. The report appeared Friday in Nikkei, Asia’s leading financial publication. The outlet quoted a source in the Taiwanese electronics industry as saying that Google is looking to ship ...
Salesforce open-sources the tool it uses to build Einstein’s AI models
A day after Oracle Corp. released the code for an internally developed tool designed to ease artificial intelligence projects, Salesforce.com Inc. is joining the fray too. Salesforce today open-sourced TransmogrifAI, a homegrown piece of software for automating AI initiatives. The tool addresses a different aspect of the task than Oracle’s tool. Whereas the database giant’s ...
Arm teases upcoming chips and a new plan to take on Intel in the PC market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. isn’t the only player trying to loosen Intel Corp.’s grip on the multibillion-dollar personal computer processor market. Arm Holdings PLC, whose chip designs power the majority of the world’s handsets and connected devices, today previewed a set of upcoming products that take direct aim at PCs. The move marks the first ...
