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Google Cloud inks AI partnership with developer tooling startup Replit
Google LLC’s cloud business today announced a partnership with Replit Inc., the creator of a popular coding platform used by more than 20 million developers. The partnership will see Replit use Google’s large language models to help developers write software faster. Additionally, the companies plan to build a number of product integrations. Software teams use ...
Amazon opens developer access to its Sidewalk wireless network
Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will enable developers to use its Sidewalk wireless network, which allows connected devices such as smart home appliances to access the internet. Many consumers have devices from Amazon’s Echo smart speaker series in their homes. Since 2019, Echo customers can choose to make a small portion of their home networks’ ...
Google introduces new education features for Chrome and Workspace
Google LLC today introduced a set of new education features for Chrome and Workspace that will help students learn more efficiently. The company also debuted enhancements for its ChromeOS operating system. The operating system, which offers a similar interface as Google’s popular browser, is used in the education sector to power student laptops. As part ...
Networking startup Graphiant raises $62M in new funding
Networking startup Graphiant Inc. today announced that it has closed a $62 million funding round led by Two Bear Capital. The Series B round, which also included the participation of Sequoia Capital and other institutional backers, comes six months after Graphiant’s launch from stealth mode. The startup has raised a total of $96 million to ...
CFTC sues cryptocurrency exchange Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today sued Binance and its founding Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao, as well as former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim. The CFTC is the agency responsible for regulating the derivatives market. Its newly filed lawsuit, which is structured as a civil complaint, charges Binance, Zhao and Lim with “numerous ...
After strong earnings, Elliott won’t nominate new directors to Salesforce’s board
Elliott Investment Management LP is scrapping its plan to nominate new directors to Salesforce Inc.’s board, the activist investor announced today. The development comes a few weeks after Salesforce posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings. Elliott first signaled it may change its stance the day the earnings report was released. At the time, the firm stated that ...
First Citizens Bank to buy Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
First Citizens Bank, a major financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets under management, has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley Bridge Bank. The transaction was announced this morning. Silicon Valley Bridge Bank is the entity to which regulators moved the assets of Silicon Valley Bank following the latter company’s collapse this month. After ...
UK narrows antitrust probe into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator will narrow the focus of its probe into Microsoft Corp.’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, disclosed the development today. Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard early last year. If approved, the deal would establish the technology giant as ...
OpenAI debuts new plugin feature for ChatGPT
OpenAI LP today introduced a plugin feature for ChatGPT that will enable developers to extend the chatbot with new capabilities. The feature will initially become available to a “small set” of users, according to a company blog post. OpenAI plans to make the technology available to not only developers but also customers of ChatGPT Plus. ...
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro
Police in Montenegro have apprehended Do Kwon, the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs Pte Ltd. Montenegro’s interior ministry announced the arrest today in a statement obtained by Bloomberg. According to the statement, Kwon was arrested at an airport in the capital of Podgorica while attempting to board a flight ...