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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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Dallas-Based KaarTech Names President of North America, VP Position
by | Nov 24, 2023

Dallas-based KaarTech, a global SAP and digital transformation consulting company, has named Prabhakar Prasad president of North America and Rajesh Raj vice president and head of enterprise business....

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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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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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Addison Tech Firm Securonix Raises Nearly $12M in New Funding
by | Feb 7, 2020
The new funds bring the total funding for the Addison-based cybersecurity and threat detection technology provider to more than $40M.
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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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