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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Threads is rolling out a “Trending Now” feature to help you find timely topics that others are discussing. At this time, this feature is only available in the U.S. Since Threads was launched in July, the company has heard feedback that people want to be able to find timely topics so […]
SUNNYVALE — Euno, a data startup, has raised $6.25 million in seed funding and emerged from stealth to launch a dynamic governance solution for data teams at large and scale-up organizations. Euno’s “soft governance” approach empowers business analysts to innovate freely and leverage their expertise in structured query language (SQL) and business intelligence (BI) tools […]
BERKELEY — Profluent, an AI-first protein design company, has closed additional funding to bring the total raised to $44 million. The $35 million financing was led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investors Insight Partners and Air Street Capital along with a syndicate of angel investors from OpenAI, Salesforce, Octant Bio, and Google including Jeff […]
MILPITAS — KB Home has announced the grand opening of Lumen, its latest new-home community in Milpitas, CA. Prices start at $1.15 million. These new homes have popular interior features like modern kitchens overlooking great rooms, bedroom suites with walk-in closets, and ample storage space. The community’s two-, three- and four-story floor plans feature up […]
If you’re hungry this weekend and looking to have food from Panera Bread delivered, you are out of luck. Doordash has turned off orders from the chain due to technical problems since Saturday. Panera Bread stores are listed as temporarily closed on the Doordash app. Panera has been having technical issues with its website and […]
The Panera Bread chain has been hit by a massive tech outage that has knocked out the company’s computer systems affecting orders nationwide. Panera’s website and app have been down since Saturday morning and not able to accept orders. It’s unclear if the company has been hit by a cyber attack or if it is […]
SAN JOSE — Supermicro, Inc., a systems provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing its latest portfolio to accelerate the deployment of generative AI. The Supermicro SuperCluster solutions provide foundational building blocks for the present and the future of large language model (LLM) infrastructure. The three powerful Supermicro SuperCluster solutions are now available […]
PALO ALTO – A man armed with a knife robbed the 7-Eleven convenience store on Colorado Avenue early Friday morning. No one was injured, and the unknown suspect is at large. On Friday, March 22, 2024, at about 12:28 a.m., the Palo Alto 24-hour dispatch center received a call from the clerk at the 7-Eleven convenience […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Loyal, a biotech company pioneering longevity drugs for dogs, has successfully completed its Series B funding round, securing $45 million in investment. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. This brings total funding raised by Loyal to more than $125 million since its founding in 2019 and includes a $12 million […]
SAN JOSE —Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and NVIDIA announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs, extending the companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to deliver the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to […]
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, unveiled the company’s new Blackwell platform at its GTC conference in San Jose. The new processor allows organizations to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor. The Blackwell GPU architecture features six transformative technologies […]
PALO ALTO — Foundry, a new breed of public cloud for AI/ML workloads, has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding to orchestrate the world’s compute capacity, rendering it universally accessible and useful. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Redpoint, Microsoft Ventures (M12), Conviction, NEA, and […]