A look at LoanSnap’s troubles and which neobanks are having a moment
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Read MoreDatabricks acquires Tabular to build a common data lakehouse standard
Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue, he and Tabular’s other two co-founders, Daniel Weeks and Jason Reid, will be joining Databricks in some capacity. There, they’ll work to unify Tabular’s and Databrick’s customer bases
Read MoreElon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk ordered thousands of Nvidia-made AI chips destined for Tesla to be diverted to his social media company X, according to emails from the chipmaker obtained by CNBC. The move has the potential to delay Tesla’s acquisition of $500 million worth of
Read MoreEmpowering Next-Gen Innovators: Yaskawa SA
As South Africa celebrates Youth Month- June, it’s the perfect opportunity to spotlight the remarkable contributions of young minds in the technology and engineering sectors. Yaskawa South Africa, says, young technicians are not just driving innovation but also embodying the company’s strong commitment to youth development. Youth’s comprehensive development Yaskawa
Read MoreRaspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit
The Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. The company just released the AI Kit, a $70 extension kit with a neural network inference accelerator that can be used for local inferencing. For this
Read MoreInnovative Partnership to Drive Change in Cloud ERP Services
An extended strategic collaboration between SAP SE and Amazon Web Services aims to transform current cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) services. By leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI), the alliance aims to enable businesses and create new opportunities and efficiencies. “AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP
Read MoreStacklet sees demand grow as companies take cloud cost control more seriously
When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But in the ensuing years, as they experienced economic headwinds, first from the pandemic, and then rising interest rates, it became
Read MoreFivetran launches a managed data lake service
Fivetran's Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreHow a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention
Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to do personalized searches for online shopping. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreGetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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