SoundHound AI recently announced its partnership with Perplexity, the conversational AI-powered answer engine. Together, they aim to integrate Perplexity’s online LLM capabilities into SoundHound Chat AI – a voice assistant that utilises numerous real-time domains and generative AI responses. This…
Wayve concludes investment round in driverless technology
Wayve, a provider of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) for self-driving vehicles, is delighted to announce the successful conclusion of a $1.05 billion Series C funding round. This investment round was spearheaded by SoftBank Group, with contributions from new investor NVIDIA…
Construction companies advised to embrace digital technologies
On 29 April, data released by recruitment company Randstad revealed a decline in the construction workforce, dropping from 2.6 million individuals in 2008 to 2.1 million in 2023. The industry anticipates the need to recruit up to half a million…
Spirent and Aviz collaborate to improve 5G networks
Spirent Communications and Aviz Networks, a provider of solutions for Open, Cloud, and AI-first networks, have announced a collaboration aimed at enhancing the Networking 3.0 Stack. This collaboration aims to offer customers more open, hardware vendor-agnostic methods for conducting intelligent…
Learning from Reliance Jio’s mmWave FWA rollout
By all accounts, India is a digital trailblazer. Buoyed by the falling cost and rising availability of smartphones – coupled with over half a billion internet subscribers – the nation has established itself as one of the world’s largest and…
AntennaWare to reveal smallest BodyWave antenna to date
Visitors to the AntennaWare stand at the upcoming Hardware Pioneers Max (London, May 28-29) will be amongst the first to experience the smallest BodyWave antenna the company has developed to date. Recently launched as part of an expansion of the…
IoT: Advancing modern healthcare
Efficiency. Productivity. Cost savings. These are just a few of the perks organisations can enjoy when leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT). Given how popular the technology has become among business owners lately, most of us are at least somewhat…
US to deploy digital twins to support semiconductor manufacturing
Semiconductor manufacturing recently received what the industry hopes to be a big boost, as the Biden administration recently announced it would put $285m towards supporting manufacturing using digital twin technology. The CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute marks the first Manufacturing USA…
Matter 1.3 launches, bringing new and optimised features
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is pleased to announce the most recent update to Matter, version 1.3 of the specification and SDK, now accessible for device manufacturers and platforms to integrate into their products. This latest release signifies a significant step…
Arrow Electronics introduces AI engineering services
Arrow Electronics is reinforcing its support for customers aiming to accelerate their embedded applications with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning through the introduction of Arrow Edge AI engineering services. These resources include engineering consultancy, technical training, design services, ready-to-use…
