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DNSFilter nabs $30M to fight DNS threats with AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. DNSFilter, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of DNS content filtering and threat protection solutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million series A funding round led by investment firm Insight Partners. CEO Ken Carnesi said that the proceeds, which bring DNSFilter’s total raised to $36 million, will put…
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Employees want more AI to boost productivity, study finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Eighty-one percent of employees believe AI improves their overall performance at work. As a result, more than two-thirds (68%) are calling on their employers to deploy more AI-based technologies to help them execute tasks. That’s the top-level finding from a study published today by 3GEM on behalf of SnapLogic, which…
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Untether AI nabs $125M for AI acceleration chips

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Untether AI, a startup developing custom-built chips for AI inferencing workloads, today announced it has raised $125 million from Tracker Capital Management and Intel Capital. The round, which was oversubscribed and included participation from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Radical Ventures, will be used to…
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Nvidia releases TensorRT 8 for faster AI inference

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nvidia today announced the release of TensorRT 8, the latest version of its software development kit (SDK) designed for AI and machine learning inference. Built for deploying AI models that can…
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AI adoption and analytics are rising, survey finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The need for enterprise digital transformation during the pandemic has bolstered investments in AI. Last year, AI startups raised a collective $73.4 billion in Q4 2020, a $15 billion…
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Edge AI’s benefits bring ‘much higher’ security risks, says McAfee data scientist

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Edge AI is becoming increasingly important with the internet of things (IoT) boom, but the security challenges make it more difficult for companies to adopt edge computing. As the size of the IoT ecosystem has grown, so have the risks. Edge AI has an advantage over cloud-based AI, McAfee chief data scientist Celeste…
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