HPE leaps onto the generative AI bandwagon with GreenLake for LLMs
In what Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) president and chief executive officer (CEO) Antonio Neri said is “one of the boldest bets in the history of our company,” today at HPE Discover, the company announced HPE GreenLake for Large Language Models (LLMs), which brings the company into the realm of artificial
Read moreAvaya beefs up exec team, launches Azure-hosted cloud offering
A new and invigorated Avaya Holding Corp. is taking shape, as witnessed by the announcement Friday of three new executives joining the company and the launch of the Avaya Enterprise Cloud yesterday at the company’s partner and user conference, Avaya Engage, in Orlando. Joining the organization are Amy O’Keefe, who
Read moreTexas says state-funded EV chargers must include Tesla plugs
Texas will require electric vehicle charging companies to include Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) and the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in order to qualify for a state program to electrify highways through federal funds, Reuters reports. “The decision by Ford, GM, and now Rivian to adopt NACS changed
Read moreCruise rolls out Android app for robotaxi service
Android phone users finally have access to Cruise’s robotaxi service, which is predominately in San Francisco as well as in Austin and Phoenix. The self-driving unit under GM said Tuesday that it has developed an Android app to support its robotaxi service. The company tweeted that it has started onboarding Android
Read moreBuilding a map of the U.S. healthcare system with Web Sun from Komodo Health
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Web Sun, the co-founder and president of Komodo Health, a startup that uses data to create a comprehensive map of the U.S. healthcare system. Web talked about what drove him
Read moreApple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionality
Apple announced Tuesday that it updated the search tab of its Podcasts app by launching nine subcategories to make it easier for users to discover new shows across different topics, including “Mental Health,” “Relationships,” “Self-Improvement,” “Personal Journals,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Documentary,” “Books,” “Parenting” and “Language Learning.” The new subcategories rolled out today
Read moreTwitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games
Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs,
Read moreSEC director says ‘nothing has changed’ for enforcement even as the crypto industry rumbles
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to scrutinize the crypto industry, the agency’s director of enforcement, Gurbir Grewal, says the regulator is not concerned with labels or technology, but whether securities are being sold in a format that adheres to existing laws. During an interview at an event
Read moreSt. John’s company deploys technology to fight illegal migration in the UK
PAL Aerospace, St. John’s, NL-based aerospace and defence company, announced yesterday that it is deploying its PAL Aerospace Dash 8 aircraft to the UK Home Office’s Small Boats Operation Command to support the country’s ongoing fight against illegal migration and small boat crossings of the English Channel. The aircraft will
Read moreA whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.
The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in a 2018 lawsuit
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