
Dell-backed edge AI firm FogHorn gets $25m fund, signs Stanley B&D, Honeywell
California-based industrial AI developer Foghorn has closed $25 million in a series C round of funding, led by LS Corp, part of $25 billion South Korean industrial conglomerate LS Group. …

Intel sinks $2bn on Israeli deep learning firm to boost cloud and edge AI portfolio
Intel has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for data centres, for around $2 billion. The purchase will spur Intel’s efforts to bring increasingly advanced …

Intel AI firm signs LTE roaming deal with Orange to map streets, help drivers
Intel-owned vehicle tech firm Mobileye has signed a global 3G and 4G roaming deal with France-based operator Orange for its new camera-based advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) for connected vehicles …

Port of Rotterdam to use smart container to collect key data globally
The port of Rotterdam, one of the largest ports in Europe, has kicked off a project in which a smart container will be traveling around the world in a two-year …

Intel strikes intelligence automobile deal with China’s Great Motor Company
Intel signed a strategic cooperation deal with Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM) to boost the development of automobile intelligence, both firms said in a release. The …

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices
AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. …

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …

Analyst Angle: Taking retail and IoT into a data-driven future
The industry announcement of the Open Retail Initiative (ORI), (see this blog as well), spearheaded by Intel and Dell, couldn’t have come at a better time. Pithy statements like “Data …

Intel’s AI technology helps protect endangered animals in African reserves
TrailGuard AI cameras use Intel’s technology to protect wild animals from poachers Intel’s technology is powering non-profit Resolve’s new TrailGuard AI camera to detect poachers entering Africa’s wildlife …

San Diego and Current deploy 1,000 more street-light nodes, new smart city apps
The City of San Diego has extended its smart street lighting network with another 1,000 sensor nodes, and new applications for parking, traffic and public safety. San Diego has worked …