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Database maker MariaDB receives $37M takeover proposal
MariaDB plc, a company that commercializes the open-source relational database of the same name, has received takeover interest from K1 Investment Management. The software maker disclosed the development today. MariaDB has received a so-called unsolicited nonbinding indicative proposal from K1 that it says may not necessarily lead to an acquisition offer. According to the company, ...
GlobalFoundries wins $1.5B in CHIPS Act funding to expand its fab network
GlobalFoundries Inc. has received $1.5 billion in U.S. government funding to build a new fab and upgrade two existing chip manufacturing facilities. The company announced the grant today. The funds will be provided through the CHIPS and Science Act, which allocates $52.7 billion worth of subsidies to the semiconductor sector. Intel Corp., which plans to ...
FBI warns Chinese hackers’ malware prepositioning efforts at a ‘fever pitch’
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray put the spotlight on the threat posed by Chinese state-backed hackers during a security summit held over the weekend. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, Wray said that such hacking groups’ malware prepositioning operations against critical infrastructure have reached a “fever pitch.” Prepositioning is a term ...
Anthropic to roll out new features for combating election misinformation
Anthropic PBC, one of OpenAI’s best-funded rivals in the large language model market, today previewed new capabilities designed to combat election misinformation. The company also detailed a number of other initiatives it’s pursuing to prevent the misuse of its services in political contexts. Separately, Anthropic today joined more than a dozen other tech firms in ...
Google releases first Android 15 preview with new cryptographic, chip management features
Google LLC today released the first preview version of Android 15, the next major iteration of its mobile operating system. The preview is intended only for use by developers. Software teams can use it to familiarize themselves with Android 15 ahead of its release, as well as map out the ways their apps may have ...
Amazon researchers develop cutting-edge Base TTS text-to-speech model
Amazon.com Inc. researchers have developed a new text-to-speech model, Base TTS, that can pronounce words more naturally than earlier neural networks. TechCrunch reported the project late Wednesday. The researchers detailed the architecture of Base TTS in an academic paper published on Monday. Besides generating more natural-sounding audio than its predecessors, the model is also the ...
GPU cloud operator Together reportedly seeking $100M+ in new funding
Together Computer Inc., one of several startups operating cloud platforms geared toward artificial intelligence workloads, is expected to raise a fresh round of funding. The Information late Wednesday cited sources as saying that the company is seeking more than $100 million. Salesforce Inc.’s venture capital arm, which has emerged as a major generative AI investor ...
Human rights court rules against backdoored end-to-end encryption
The European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, has made a landmark ruling on data encryption that could affect the European Union’s online safety efforts. The court issued the decision on Tuesday but it got wide attention only today. It was made in connection with a 2019 complaint brought by a Russia-based user of Telegram, ...
Artie nabs $3.3M in seed funding for its real-time data replication platform
Artie Technologies Inc., a new startup helping companies more quickly move data between their internal systems, today disclosed that it has raised a $3.3 million seed investment. Exponent Founders Capital led the round. It was joined by General Catalyst, Y Combinator and a large group of angel investors. A typical enterprise’s records are scattered across ...
Microsoft, OpenAI release new research on state-backed hackers’ use of AI models
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI have revealed that several state-backed hacking groups are using artificial intelligence large language models to support their cyberattack campaigns. The companies released their findings in two blog posts published this morning. In conjunction, Microsoft and OpenAI detailed a set of principles that inform their efforts to tackle the use of artificial ...