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Elon Musk has sued OpenAI for allegedly misleading him about the goals of its artificial intelligence development efforts. The lawsuit was filed today with the District Court for the Northern District of California. Musk’s attorneys name not only OpenAI but also Sam …
AWS details internal Mithra threat intelligence system
Amazon Web Service Inc. today detailed Mithra, an internal system it uses to detect malicious website domains. The cloud giant says that Mithra spots an average of 182,000 malicious domains per day. AWS uses the system to protect customers from malicious web …
Google rehires founders of consumer chatbot startup Character.AI
Character.AI Inc., a well-funded startup with a chatbot service for consumers, today announced that its founders will join Google LLC. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the search giant about two years after leaving their engineering roles to launch …
Justice Department reportedly investigating Nvidia’s Run:ai acquisition
The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly scrutinizing Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of startup Run:ai, which develops software for managing graphics card clusters. Politico reported the probe on Thursday afternoon, citing people familiar with the matter. The development comes two months after sources told …
Contextual AI nabs $80M for its ‘RAG 2.0’ platform
Contextual AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build retrieval-augmented generation artificial intelligence applications, has closed a $80 million Series A round to support its commercialization efforts. The company disclosed in its announcement of the raise on Thursday that Greycroft was the …
Apple asks court to dismiss Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit
Apple Inc. has requested the dismissal of a Justice Department lawsuit that alleges its business practices in the smartphone market breach antitrust rules. The iPhone maker filed its motion today with the federal court in Newark, New Jersey that is presiding over …
Mobileye shares drop on lowered full-year guidance
Mobileye Global Inc. today reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter, but lowered its full-year guidance on account of a slowdown in demand for its vehicle chips. Shares of the Intel Corp. unit tumbled more than 5% on the trimmed financial projections. …
EU regulators unconditionally approve HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks
The European Union has unconditionally approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. for $14 billion. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced the decision today. The move is not unexpected: Sources told Reuters on Monday that the …
Checkly nabs $20M for its synthetic application monitoring platform
Checkly Inc., a startup that helps developers monitor their applications for technical issues, has closed a $20 million funding round led by Balderton Capital. The company detailed in its announcement of the investment today that returning backers Accel, CRV and Paul H. …
Box and Slack expand partnership with new platform integrations
Box Inc. and Salesforce Inc.’s Slack unit today debuted a set of new integrations between their platforms to improve the user experience for joint customers. The main focus of the product update is Box AI, a chatbot that the file sharing provider …