Smart, a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed $95 million in Series E funding. It plans to use the capital to expand its international footprint and make acquisitions, it said. Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays,
Georgia Stewart, in 2017 a final-year student at Cambridge University, campaigned to have the endowment sell off its fossil fuel stocks. That didn’t get far. “When I was there they divested from tar sands,” she says dismissively. Anyway, she goes on, “divestment is not necessarily the best outcome. You just end up with shareholders who
Bidnamic, a Leeds-based Google Shopping ecommerce marketing platform, has launched a US office. The company’s Austin office will be the new base for its American operations to service and support its customer base in the country. There are also plans for a raft of new hires and to expand the R&D for its AI-powered cloud
When it comes to how fast artificial intelligence (AI) models can continue to grow, the sky is not the limit; system design is. As researchers continue to push boundaries with conversational AI, computer vision, recommender systems, and other workloads, AI models advancing toward hundreds of trillions of parameters may soon be commonplace. Without significant architectural
