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Supermicro Launches Three NVIDIA-Based Super Clusters

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 […]

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Man With Knife Robs Palo Alto 7-Eleven

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 […]

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AWS to Offer NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Platform

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 […]

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Jensen Huang is the World’s Smartest Man

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 […]

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Apple Sued by Justice Department, 16 State Attorney Generals

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, alongside the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ), and a bipartisan coalition of 16 states attorneys general, filed a lawsuit challenging Apple’s anticompetitive behavior related to iPhone smartphones. The lawsuit alleges Apple deliberately made it more difficult for third-party apps and products to operate with the iPhone, resulting in higher prices for consumers and harm to competition in […]

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Applied Intuition Valued at $6 Billion With $250 Million Series E

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Applied Intuition, Inc., a vehicle software supplier for automotive, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and other industries, has raised a $250 million Series E financing round at a $6 billion valuation. The round was led by Bilal Zuberi at Lux Capital (Series C lead investor), Elad Gil (Series D lead investor), and strategic investor Porsche Investments Management representing the successful sports car […]

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Realtor.com Adds Climate Risk Factor Scores

SANTA CLARA — In the United States, 40.4% of homes, valued at $19.7 trillion, are at severe or extreme risk when it comes to heat, wind and air quality. To help consumers make more informed home buying and selling decisions, Realtor.com announces the launch of three new climate risk factor scores on its website including Heat Factor, Wind Factor, and […]

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Lyten Producing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries At Greater Than 90% Yield

SAN JOSE — Lyten, a supermaterials application company and leader in lithium-sulfur battery technology, announced it is consistently surpassing 90 percent yield from its automated battery production line, confirming the manufacturability of its lithium-sulfur battery utilizing a sulfur cathode and lithium metal anode. The lithium-sulfur manufacturing performance has been achieved utilizing standard lithium-ion manufacturing equipment […]

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Reach Security Secures $20 Million Series A

SUNNYVALE — Reach Security, a company using advanced AI to reinvent security operations, has announced $20 million in funding. The Series A is led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from Artisanal Ventures and industry luminaries, including Mark McLaughlin, former CEO and President of Palo Alto Networks, and Denise Persson, CMO of Snowflake. Existing backers Webb Investment Network, Ridge Ventures, and […]

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Apple iPhone Overtakes Samsung in Fourth Quarter

Apple became the largest smartphone manufacturer on the strength of the new iPhone 15 lineup, overtaking Samsung. The latest data from research firm Omdia found that in the fourth quarter of 2023, the smartphone preliminary shipment total reached 328 million units. This marks an 8.6% increase compared to 4Q22, and highlights 4Q23 as the first […]

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Figure Valued at $2.65 Billion With $675 Million Round

SUNNYVALE — Figure, an AI robotics company developing general purpose humanoid robots, has raised $675 million in Series B funding with investments from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. The new round values Figure at $2.65 billion. In conjunction with this […]

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Google Engineer Charged With Sending AI Secrets to China

A federal grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, charging him with four counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary information related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to the indictment, returned on March 5 and unsealed earlier this week, Ding, 38, […]