AWS

Cypress Growth Capital Doubles Down on North Texas Tech With Two New Investments

by | Oct 9, 2024
The Dallas firm's latest bets: Airspace security and multi-vendor IT support. Cypress Growth Capital adds AirSight and Xcelocloud to its roster, boosting local innovation.
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Charisma’s Next Level: How UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth and AWS Are Using Gen AI and Gametech to Boost Social Coaching
by | Sep 24, 2024
Charisma, a social coaching program developed by the Center for BrainHealth, uses generative AI and gaming technology to create realistic virtual environments, helping individuals improve social skills with the guidance of a coach—and now it’s scaling up with AWS.
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AWS To Host a Gen AI ‘Digital Inclusion’ Hackathon in North Texas in September
by | Aug 14, 2024
"Breaking Barriers: A Generative AI Hackathon for Digital Inclusion" will take place September 20-23 at the AT&T Foundry in Plano. WIth over $15,000 in prizes, the event is sponsored by Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market, and Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the Claude AI chatbot.
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Mavenir Gets Up to $75M Investment From ‘Existing Investor’
by | May 30, 2024
After raising $850 million between 2021 and 2023—including a $500 million minority equity investment from Koch Strategic Platforms—Richardson-based Mavenir continues to drive toward its goal of "end-to-end 5G transformation."
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Irving’s Pieces Technologies Launches ‘Sculpted AI’ for Health Systems

Developed with the latest generative AI services from Amazon Web Services, Sculpted AI integrates with patient records to reduce repetitive manual reviews and admin tasks, while monitoring patients and flagging risks. Pieces says it's "tailor made" for health systems right down to the individual physician level.
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Innovate Faster: AWS Launches New Accelerator to Boost Generative AI Startups
by | Apr 10, 2023
Generative AI could revolutionize industries ranging from film and healthcare to tech and manufacturing. The AWS Generative AI Accelerator seeks to be a gamechanger for entrepreneurs already developing minimal viable products in this space, offering valuable resources like production assistance, customized mentoring, networking opportunities, and connections with potential investors. Deadline to apply is April 17.
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Fort Worth-Based American Airlines Orders Up to 20 Boom Supersonic Aircraft
Nearly 30 years after the last Concorde flight, American Airlines is betting on a supersonic future. The Fort Worth-based airline has ordered up to 20 Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft, with an option to order up to 40 more. But don't book your flight yet: Denver-based Boom doesn't expect to roll its first Overture off the production line until 2025, and the first passenger flights are slated for 2029.

When they do take flight, the Overtures are expected to fly up to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water, reaching destinations in as little as half the time of subsonic airliners.
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Dallas’ 900lbs Partners With Amazon for a Gamified Tutorial on Remote Working, Teaching, and Engaging
by | Jun 9, 2020
To show how Amazon Web Services' cloud computing offerings can increase productivity, 900lbs collaborated with the company to create a web-based educational application.
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Data center

Dallas is No. 3 Among Global Data Center Markets, C&W Study Says

by | Jan 21, 2020
Cushman & Wakefield evaluated 1,162 data centers across 38 global markets in its just-released Data Center Market Comparison.
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Linux Academy, Cloud Assessments Secures $6.8M Series A Funding
by | Oct 26, 2017
The funds will be used to continue expansion of Linux Academy’s content catalog, and grow its Cloud Assessments' platform with new training and hiring tools.
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