Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about its Omniverse, dubbed a "metaverse for engineers", discouraging miners from buying its GPUs, chip shortages, and more Techmeme · 18 hours ago
Tel Aviv-based Komodor, which helps businesses troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments faster, comes out of stealth and raises $21M Series A led by Accel Techmeme · 3 days ago
NextNav, a startup developing vertical geolocation tech that locates smartphones in multi-story buildings, will go public via SPAC merger at $1.2B valuation Techmeme · 3 days ago
Mythical Games raises $75M Series B led by WestCap Group for developing a platform for "playable NFTs" where player-owned game avatars can be bought and sold Techmeme · 4 days ago
Austin-based cyber risk analytics service Brinqa raises $110M growth round from Insight Partners Techmeme · 5 days ago
Verbit, which uses AI and thousands of freelancers to provide voice transcription and captioning services, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ post-money valuation Techmeme · 5 days ago
IBM and the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council announce a five-year $297.5M AI and quantum computing research initiative Techmeme · 1 week ago
Lansweeper, whose tools help IT staff identify and manage all the hardware, software, and users across corporate networks, raises $158M from Insight Partners Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Iterative.ai, which is building open source MLOps tools to help companies develop AI workflows, raises $20M Series A led by 468 Capital Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
SignalWire, which is developing open source enterprise communication tools, raises $30M Series B from Samsung Next and others Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Spiff, which offers a no-code tool that helps businesses automate sales commission payments, raises $46M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
San Francisco-based ElectroNeek, which offers companies robotic process automation software, raises $20M Series A led by Baring Vostok, at a $100M valuation Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Nvidia and NERSC lab unveil Perlmutter, which they say is the world's fastest supercomputer for AI workloads, built using 6,144 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Nvidia beats with record Q1 revenue of $5.66B, up 84% YoY, with Gaming revenue of $2.76B, up 106% YoY, and Data Center revenue of $2.05B, up 79% YoY Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Austin-based Virtuix, which is developing a VR treadmill for the home, raises $19M Series A-2 from 6,500+ investors Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Facebook says it partnered with Microsoft to launch the PyTorch Enterprise Support Program, helping companies use the open source ML library PyTorch Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Jam City, a Harry Potter mobile game publisher, files to go public via SPAC at a $1.2B valuation, buys Ludia, a Canadian mobile game publisher, for $175M Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Post-IDFA Alliance data: ad spending on Android is up ~21% after Apple's ATT changes, iOS spending drops ~3%; 63.5% to 83.2% of iOS users opt out of tracking Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Google unveils version 2.2 of its open source UI development kit Flutter, with a payment plugin for IAPs, says 200K apps in Play Store were built using Flutter Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Google details fourth-gen tensor processing unit, which demonstrates an average improvement of 2.7x over TPUv3 performance, boosts memory bandwidth, and more Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Big Time Studios, started by ex-CEO of Decentraland, comes out of stealth with $21M to let game studios offer NFTs in their games Techmeme · 1 month ago
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Techmeme · 1 month ago
Unity reports Q1 revenue of $234.8M, up 41% YoY, and raised full year guidance by $50M, but maintained that Apple's IDFA would reduce 2021 revenue by $30M Techmeme · 1 month ago
EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.35B, down from $1.39B YoY, and net income of $76M, down from $418M YoY, but says annual net bookings were up 15% YoY for FY 2021 Techmeme · 1 month ago
Continuous software integration/delivery service CircleCI raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation and has acquired Vamp, a cloud-native release orchestration service Techmeme · 1 month ago
Netherlands-based enterprise process automation company Redwood Software raises €315M from growth equity firm Turn River Capital Techmeme · 1 month ago
San Jose-based edge AI chipset developer Sima.ai raises $80M Series B led by Fidelity, bringing its total raised to date to $120M Techmeme · 1 month ago
Huntress, which offers an endpoint security service to IT resellers, raises $40M Series B led by JMI, bringing its total raised to $60M Techmeme · 1 month ago
Zynga to acquire Chartboost, a mobile programmatic ad service reaching 700M+ MAUs, for $250M in cash; Zynga says deal will help it grow as IDFA changes roll out Techmeme · 1 month ago
Report: 51% of orgs have experienced a data breach caused by a third party, with 74% saying it was the result of giving third parties too much privileged access Techmeme · 1 month ago
Activision Blizzard reports Q1 revenue of $2.28B, up 27% YoY; Activision had 150M+ MAUs, with Call of Duty MAUs growing 40% YoY Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft open sources Counterfit, an AI security risk assessment tool that comes preloaded with algorithms that can be used to evade and steal AI models Techmeme · 1 month ago
JupiterOne, which centralizes data from cloud services into a single hub to ease cybersecurity asset management, raises $30M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures Techmeme · 1 month ago
Cybersecurity compliance startup Vanta raises $50M Series A, says it has surpassed $10M in ARR and is doubling its customer base about every 6 months Techmeme · 1 month ago
Genies, which develops avatars for virtual identity and digital goods, raises $65M Series B led by Bond and plans a marketplace on Dapper Labs' Flow service Techmeme · 1 month ago
Sony says Discord will be integrated into PlayStation Network starting early 2022; Sony will invest an undisclosed amount in Discord as part of the partnership Techmeme · 1 month ago
Facebook details DINO self-supervised AI for object discovery and segmentation in images/videos, and PAWS, a new ML approach to classify poorly labelled images Techmeme · 1 month ago
OpenSpace, which helps construction companies track projects with AI-powered analytics and photo documentation, raises $55M Series C after raising ~$16M in 2020 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Microsoft's Q3: overall gaming revenue increased 50% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue up 232% YoY, and Xbox software and services up 34% YoY Techmeme · 2 months ago
Automox, which lets security teams automate and conduct cybersecurity actions through policies, raises $110M led by Insight Partners Techmeme · 2 months ago
Arm says its new Neoverse V1 and N2 server chip platforms for HPC, datacenters, and edge, have at least 40% better processing over the previous generation Techmeme · 2 months ago
Zoom officially launches Immersive View, which assembles up to 25 video conference participants in one scene, for all free and individual Pro Zoom accounts Techmeme · 2 months ago
Aisera, which helps companies automate operations across IT, sales, and customer service, raises $40M Series C, bringing its total raised to $90M Techmeme · 2 months ago
Cerebras Systems launches the Wafer Scale Engine 2 processor for supercomputing with 2.6T transistors and 850K AI-optimized cores, made with a 7nm process Techmeme · 2 months ago
Druva, which provides SaaS tools for data protection and management, raises $145M at a $2B+ post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $475M Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook, along with German research center Helmholtz Zentrum München, open-sources an AI model that it claims can predict the effects of new drug combinations Techmeme · 2 months ago
1Password acquires secrets management service SecretHub and launches Secrets Automation, a tool for companies to safeguard enterprise credentials Techmeme · 2 months ago
Nvidia unveils eight new RTX GPUs for laptops, desktops, and datacenter workstations, with over 2x performance improvements touted for many workflows Techmeme · 2 months ago