September 2023

Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to customers customize their AI

September 12, 2023
Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Einstein Copilot Studio, a tool that lets customers customize the Salesforce base Einstein GPT and Einstein Copilot offerings. Einstein Copilot Studio consists of three elements: prompt builder, skills builder and model builder, according to Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI. “The first piece is […]

SQream calls in $45M to expand its GPU-based big data analytics platform

September 12, 2023
Back in 2010, Israeli data analytics startup SQream made a bet on the potential of GPUs as a cornerstone of enabling the processing and querying of big data sets, an area that it believed would only grow as data sets became larger and larger. That bet has very much paid off — not just because […]

Liveblog: Watch Apple unveil the iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9 and more

September 12, 2023
The thrills, the chills and whatever “wonderlust” [sic] is. As you read this, we’re forming an orderly queue at One Apple Park, getting ready to watch the company unveil the iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9. Need a quick crash course on what we’re expecting form today’s main event? We’ve got you covered over […]

Enfabrica, which builds networking hardware to drive AI workloads, raises $125M

September 12, 2023
Enfabrica, a company building networking chips designed to handle AI and machine learning workloads, today announced that it raised $125 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at “five times” its Series A post-money valuation, according to co-founder and CEO Rochan Sankar. Led by Atreides Management with participation from Sutter Hill […]

Lyft’s newest feature could convince more women to drive for the ride-hailing app

September 12, 2023
Lyft rolled out a new feature Tuesday in five U.S. cities including Chicago and San Francisco that lets women and nonbinary drivers set a preference for picking up only women riders. The preference feature, called Women+ Connect, could help Lyft attract more women drivers to the app, which today stands at about 23%. The move […]

The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators

September 12, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: Our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2023 How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology? One way is to focus on the technology itself,…