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IBM Corp. is winding down its research and development group in China, multiple publications reported today. A source told Bloomberg that the move is set to affect fewer than 1,000 employees. The Wall Street Journal put the number at more than 1,000. …
Netherlands fines Uber €290M for breaching EU’s GDPR privacy regulation
The Netherlands’ privacy watchdog today issued a fine of €290 million, or about $324 million, to Uber Technologies Inc. over its data management practices. The decision relates to a regulatory framework called the EU-US Privacy Shield that was struck down by a …
Justice Department sues property management software provider RealPage
The U.S. Justice Department and eight state attorneys general today filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage Inc., a major provider of property management software. The complaint revolves around two main arguments. First, the Justice Department charges that RealPage’s software unlawfully decreases competition …
Redis debuts new data integration and AI features for its database
Redis Inc. today updated its namesake database with a set of new features designed to ease software development for customers. Some of the enhancements are rolling out for the core open-source version of the platform. Others will become available in the paid …
Report: Chinese organizations use public cloud to access restricted AI chips
Multiple organizations in China have sought to rent high-end graphics cards from U.S. cloud providers, Reuters reported late Thursday. The news agency learned of the procurement effort by reviewing publicly-available tender documents. Those are invitations that ask companies to submit bids for …
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS to improve compliance with EU’s DMA law
Apple Inc. today previewed an update for iOS and iPadOS that will improve the operating systems’ compliance with the European Union’s DMA law. The update is set to roll out at an unspecified date later this year. The DMA, or Digital Markets …
Divers recover body of Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch from superyacht wreckage
Divers have recovered the bodies of Mike Lynch and four of his guests from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, the Italian Coast Guard announced today. The vessel sank near the coast of Sicily early Monday morning amid an intense storm. Fifteen …
Opkey reels in $47M to automate ERP change testing with AI
Opkey, a startup that helps companies test the reliability of their enterprise resource planning software, has raised a $47 million investment to finance growth initiatives. PeakSpan Capital led the Series B round. Opkey, officially Smart Software Testing Solutions Inc., detailed in its funding …
AI payment processing startup Skyfire launches with $8.5M in funding
Skyfire Systems Inc., a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence models to make purchases, launched today with $8.5 million in initial funding. The investment included the participation of more than a dozen institutional backers. Among them was Ripple Labs Inc., a …
Nvidia, Microsoft release new small language models
Nvidia Corp. today released a lightweight language model, Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, that can outperform comparably sized neural networks across a range of tasks. The code for the model is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. Its debut comes a day after …