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LinkSquares Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to help companies more easily manage contracts, has raised $100 million in funding at a $800 million valuation. LinkSquares announced the funding round this morning. G Squared was the lead investor, and G2 Venture Partners …
AMD acquires data center chip startup Pensando for $1.9B
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced plans to acquire data center chip startup Pensando Systems Inc. for about $1.9 billion. AMD expects to complete the acquisition by the end of the quarter. After the deal closes, Pensando will become part of AMD’s …
Elon Musk becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder after buying 9.2% stake, joins board
Updated: Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is now Twitter Inc.’s largest shareholder, according to a regulatory filing published on Monday. A 13G filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed that Musk (pictured) purchased 73,486,938 shares of …
Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center vote to unionize
Workers at Amazon.com Inc.’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island have voted to form a union, the New York Times reported today. The facility is Amazon’s sole fulfillment center in New York City. With more than 8,300 workers, it’s reportedly also the …
Two teenagers charged in connection with Lapsus$ cyberattacks
Two U.K. teenagers have been charged in connection with an investigation into the Lapsus$ hacking group, the BBC reported today. The teenagers, aged 16 and 17, reportedly face multiple charges. Both face three counts of unauthorized access to a computer with intent to …
Antimatter raises $12M to ease cybersecurity for software-as-a-service providers
Cybersecurity startup Antimatter today launched from stealth mode and announced that it has closed a $12 million early-stage funding round led by NEA. More than a half-dozen other investors participated in the Series A round as well. They included General Catalyst and …
Microsoft acquires process mining startup Minit
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired Minit j.s.a., a startup focused on helping organizations make their business operations more efficient. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Slovakia-based Minit previously raised more than $10 million in funding from investors …
Intel acquires infrastructure optimization startup Granulate for a reported $650M
Intel Corp. is acquiring Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies speed up their applications and reduce infrastructure costs. Intel announced the deal this morning. It didn’t disclose financial terms, but TechCrunch cited multiple sources as …
Waymo to test fully autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Phoenix
Waymo LLC plans to test a ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Phoenix that will use autonomous vehicles capable of operating without a safety driver behind the wheel. The Alphabet Inc. unit announced the move today. In San Francisco, Waymo already operates a …
Intel debuts its first Arc graphics cards for the laptop market
Intel Corp. today introduced the Arc A-Series, a new line of standalone graphics processing units for laptops. Intel has long provided integrated GPUs as part of its ubiquitous central processing units. However, the company historically didn’t make available standalone GPUs, which aren’t …