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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 database called Astra DB that is available in two editions. There’s a standard ...
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. Both decisions relate to the company’s restrictions on so-called steering, or the ...
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 event. Apple Intelligence debuted alongside several other new features, including two remote device ...
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 Kaspersky from selling its antivirus software and other products in the U.S. The ...
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 Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre are working to verify the data ...
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 to the tipsters, Bain Capital Ventures and DST are holding discussions to co-led ...
Substrate reels in $8M to simplify AI application development
Substrate Labs Inc., the operator of a cloud platform for building artificial intelligence applications, today announced that it has secured $8 million in seed funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the raise. It was joined by South Park Commons, Craft Ventures and several angel investors. “New AI models offer enormous potential, but the tools developers have ...
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield raises $37M
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $37 million funding round led by Addition. Chevron Technology Ventures, Legal & General, Braavos Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises contributed as well. The Series B investment brings PQShield’s total outside funding to more than $57 million. “We’re already getting our technology into the ...
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever launches startup to develop ‘safe superintelligence’
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever today announced the launch of SSI, a new startup dedicated to building advanced artificial intelligence models. The development comes a few months after Sutskever left his role as OpenAI’s chief scientist. He earlier resigned from the ChatGPT developer’s board. Sutskever’s departure is believed to be connected to his role in the ...
Amazon to spend €10B on expanding its cloud and logistics operations in Germany
Amazon.com Inc. will spend €10 billion, or about $10.7 billion, to upgrade its data center infrastructure and logistics network in Germany. The company detailed the investment today. The announcement comes a few weeks after Amazon Web Services Inc. revealed plans to spend €7.8 in Germany on its AWS European Sovereign Cloud platform. The platform, which ...