Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Expanding AI Infrastructure In Spain Via $2.1 Billion Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 20, 2024

Microsoft has announced it is expanding artificial intelligence AI and cloud infrastructure with an investment of $2.1 billion over the next couple of years.

insightsoftware Hits 5-Year Growth Rate Of 425%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 19, 2024

insightsoftware - one of the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO - announced it achieved a 5-year growth rate of 425 percent. In the last year, it brought several new critical solutions to market to eliminate manual tasks, address skilled labor shortages, and boost productivity for organizations.

LeoLabs: $29 MIllion Raised For Delivering AI-Based Insights For Space Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 19, 2024

LeoLabs - the company with the largest and most comprehensive commercial catalog of objects in low Earth orbit - announced it raised an additional $29 million in financing. This latest funding round enables LeoLabs to scale up its insight delivery by further investing in advanced end-user applications and partner integrations.

Carnegie Mellon University Warns Voters To Be Aware Of How GenAI Could Be Used For False Election Content

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) enables users to create realistic images, videos, audio, and text quickly and cheaply. These capabilities that can be useful in many contexts. However, during elections GenAI could be misused to manipulate and deceive voters at an unprecedented magnitude and scale. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created a new guide to educate voters about how the technology may be used by unethical parties, especially foreign adversaries, to manipulate and misinform American voters in ways they may not recognize.

Securin: Enabling Companies To Analyze All Vulnerabilities At Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2024

Securin is a company that is obsessed with helping leaders continuously improve their security posture. The company partners with its customers using tech-enabled services, including Attack Surface Management, Vulnerability Management, Pentesting and Vulnerability Intelligence. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Securin’s president and chief operating officer, Rahul Kannan, to learn more about the company.

Northeastern University And Open 6G OTIC Collaborating With AT&T And Verizon As Testing Facility For ACCoRD Framework

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2024

The Open6G Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University will partner with AT&T and Verizon as a neutral testing facility in the Acceleration of Compatibility and Commercialization for Open RAN Deployments Consortium (ACCoRD) framework. ACCoRD was selected to receive $42.3 million in funding from the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) through the Public Wireless Innovation Fund.

University Of Notre Dame Joins Consortium For Supporting Responsible AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2024

As part of a new consortium, the University of Notre Dame researchers will help establish the advanced measurement techniques required to identify the risks associated with current AI systems and to develop new systems that are safer and more trustworthy.

Founderful: $85 Million Closed For Fund II

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2024

Five years after its launch, venture capital firm Wingman Ventures has rebranded as Founderful and is announcing it has quickly raised $85 million for its new fund, aiming to reach a final close at $120 million in the coming months.

US Ignite Secures $6.97 Million Contract From ERDC To Continue SICD Program

By Annie Baker ● Feb 13, 2024

US Ignite announced a new contract for $6.97 million from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to continue the successful Smart Installation and Community Dashboard (SICD) program at Fort Moore, Georgia. And the contract follows the development and deployment of three key software applications in the SICD program, all of which were designed to help provide a common operating picture to leaders at the installation.

Inflection AI: $1.3 Billion Raised To Create More Personal Artificial Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2023

Inflection AI recently announced that the company has raised $1.3 billion in a new round of funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor NVIDIA. And the new funding round brings the total raised by the company to $1.525 billion.

Microsoft Expanding AI Infrastructure In Spain Via $2.1 Billion Investment

insightsoftware Hits 5-Year Growth Rate Of 425%

LeoLabs: $29 MIllion Raised For Delivering AI-Based Insights For Space Operations

Carnegie Mellon University Warns Voters To Be Aware Of How GenAI Could Be Used For False Election Content

Securin: Enabling Companies To Analyze All Vulnerabilities At Scale

Northeastern University And Open 6G OTIC Collaborating With AT&T And Verizon As Testing Facility For ACCoRD Framework

University Of Notre Dame Joins Consortium For Supporting Responsible AI

Founderful: $85 Million Closed For Fund II

US Ignite Secures $6.97 Million Contract From ERDC To Continue SICD Program

Inflection AI: $1.3 Billion Raised To Create More Personal Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Setting Up A New Center For Societal Impact Through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence

Analytics Company SAS Is Investing $1 Billion In Artificial Intelligence Resources

Stanford University Unveils Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

London-Based Conversational Artificial Intelligence Company PolyAI Raises $12 Million

Bristol-Based Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Graphcore Raises $200 Million

Financial Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Company Charlie Raises $9 Million

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Company Notable Health Raises $13.5 Million