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Dozens of tech firms urge EU to become more technologically independent
Nearly 100 organizations in the European Union have signed an open letter that urges the bloc to become more technologically independent. The group published the document today. The signatories include aerospace company Airbus SE, cloud provider OVH Groupe SA and chipmaker SiPearl. The firms backing the initiative were joined by multiple tech industry associations. The ...
Cisco debuts new AI-powered customer service features for Webex
Cisco Systems Inc. is upgrading Webex with new artificial intelligence features designed to make customer service teams more productive. The company debuted the update today at the Enterprise Connect communications conference. Some of the enhancements will roll out this month, while the rest are set to become available later in 2025. Webex is a communications ...
Financial technology provider Klarna files for IPO at reported $15B+ valuation
Klarna Group plc, a major player in the so-called buy now, pay later market, today filed paperwork for an initial public offering. Sources told Bloomberg that the Stockholm-based company is seeking to raise at least $1 billion. It’s believed Klarna hopes to achieve a market capitalization of more than $15 billion in the offering. That’s ...
Google submits AI policy suggestions to the White House
Google LLC has submitted a set of suggestions for how the U.S. government can support the domestic artificial intelligence ecosystem. The search giant outlined its recommendations in a 12-page paper published on Thursday. The same day, OpenAI submitted a similar policy document to the White House. The two companies drafted the recommendations in response to ...
Report: Binance has held talks with Trump family about selling Binance US stake
Binance has held discussions about selling a stake in its U.S. arm to members of the Trump family, the Wall Street Journal reported today. It’s believed the company has also considered seeking a pardon for its co-founder Changpeng Zhao. In 2023, the executive pleaded guilty to violating U.S. anti-money laundering rules. Zhao wrote on X ...
Business intelligence startup Omni closes $69M funding round
Business intelligence provider Omni Analytics Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $69 million funding round led by ICONIQ Growth. Snowflake Ventures and Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund participated as well along with several other institutional investors. The Series B round follows a year in which Omni’s sales grew eightfold. According to TechCrunch, the company ...
Blackwall reels in €45M for its AI-powered reverse proxy
Blackwall, a startup that helps website hosting providers protect customers from cyberattacks, has secured €45 million in funding. The Estonia-based software maker announced the Series B investment today. Dawn Capital led the round with participation from MMC Ventures, which led Blackwall’s previous €12 million raise last March. Blackwall sells a reverse proxy called GateKeeper that protects ...
Ditto raises $82M in funding for its edge database
Ditto, the developer of a database optimized for use in edge environments, today announced that it has closed an $82 million funding round. Top Tier Capital Partners and Acrew Capital led the Series B investment. They were joined by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, True Ventures, Amity Ventures, Fundrise, Friends & Family Capital, Advance Venture Partners ...
Google debuts two new AI models for powering robots
Google LLC today introduced two new artificial intelligence models, Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, that are optimized to power autonomous machines. The algorithms are based on the company’s Gemini 2.0 series of large language models. Introduced in December, the LLMs can process not only text but also multimodal data as video. This latter capability enables ...
Report: TSMC could launch joint venture with partners to run Intel’s fabs
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. could form a joint venture with several chipmakers to operate Intel Corp.’s fabs, Reuters reported today. The company is said to have pitched the idea to Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. Under the plan, the chipmakers would take stakes in a joint venture tasked with ...
