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Stability AI Ltd. today appointed Prem Akkaraju chief executive officer and announced that it has raised funding from a group of prominent investors. The development comes three months after the startup’s founding CEO, Emad Mostaque, stepped down. His resignation was reportedly preceded …
EU files antitrust charges against Microsoft for bundling Teams with Microsoft 365
European Union officials have tentatively determined that Microsoft Corp. breached the bloc’s antitrust rules with its Microsoft Teams collaboration service. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, published its findings today. The development is not unexpected. Rumors that EU officials plan to bring …
Factory robotics startup Bright Machines reels in $126M
Bright Machines Inc., a robotics startup that helps manufacturers more efficiently make products such as servers and batteries, has secured $126 million in fresh funding. The Series C round was announced this morning. Bright Machines received the bulk of the capital, $106 …
OpenAI acquires developer collaboration startup Multi
OpenAI has acquired Multi Software Co., a startup with a videoconferencing platform for software development teams. Multi co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alexander Embiricos announced the deal in a blog post published today. Embiricos, who was previously a product manager at Dropbox …
DataStax upgrades its AI development tools with new productivity features
DataStax Inc. today introduced new versions of Langflow and RAGStack, two software tools designed to ease the development of artificial intelligence applications. Santa Clara, California-based DataStax is backed by more than $300 million in funding. Its flagship product is a cloud-based NoSQL …
EU tentatively finds that Apple breached DMA rules as officials launch fresh probe
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has reached the preliminary conclusion that Apple Inc. is in breach of the bloc’s DMA regulation. The Commission published its findings today. In conjunction, it announced the launch of a second DMA probe into …
Apple delays release of Apple Intelligence, two other new features in the EU
Apple Inc. today disclosed that Apple Intelligence, a recently introduced suite of artificial intelligence features, won’t become available in the European Union this year. The disclosure comes about two weeks after the iPhone maker announced the AI capabilities at its WWDC developer …
US Treasury sanctions 12 Kaspersky executives
The U.S. Treasury Department today announced sanctions against 12 executives at Kaspersky Lab Inc., a Russian antivirus maker. The sanctions are being rolled out by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. A day earlier, the Commerce Department banned …
Hacking group Qilin leaks data stolen from UK medical testing provider Synnovis
A ransomware gang has reportedly published 400 gigabytes of data stolen from Synnovis, a UK-based provider of medical testing services. The U.K.’s healthcare system, the National Health Service, said today that law enforcement agencies are working to verify the data. “The National …
AI coding assistant startup Poolside reportedly raising $400M
Poolside, a Paris-based startup that plans to launch a large language model for developers, is reportedly in talks to raise a nine-figure funding round. TechCrunch today cited sources as saying that the investment is expected to be worth over $400 million. According …