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AMD acquires photonics startup Enosemi to develop co-packaged optics
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced that it has acquired Enosemi Inc., a low-profile startup focused on developing photonics chips. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AMD did, however, detail that the acquisition will support internal engineering initiatives focused on artificial intelligence hardware. Large-scale AI clusters comprise multiple server racks. Those racks, in ...
Google Cloud rolls out new BigLake and BigQuery features to ease analytics projects
Google LLC’s cloud unit today introduced new features for its BigLake and BigQuery services, which enable companies to run analyses on large datasets. Both updates focus on an open-source technology called Apache Iceberg, which suggests that Google is making the announcements to get out ahead of two rivals in data management. Snowflake Inc. is holding ...
Elon Musk’s xAI inks $300M AI deal with Telegram
Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. will pay messaging app developer Telegram $300 million in cash and equity to broaden the reach of its Grok chatbot. Telegram Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov announced the deal today in a post on X. Under the one-year agreement, the company will more extensively integrate Grok into its app. Telegram will ...
Report: Most of CISA’s senior leaders are leaving the agency
Most of the senior leaders at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, have left or will do by the end of the month. Cybersecurity Dive reported the development today, citing an internal agency memo sent last week. The departures mark at least the third round of workforce reductions at CISA since the ...
Check Point, Zscaler ink startup acquisitions in latest round of cybersecurity consolidation
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Zscaler Inc., two publicly traded cybersecurity providers, today both announced startup acquisitions designed to bolster their product portfolios. Check Point is buying vulnerability detection specialist Veriti Security Ltd. Zscaler, in turn, has inked a deal to purchase Red Canary Inc., a venture-backed provider of managed detection and response services. ...
Salesforce to acquire Informatica at $8B valuation
Confirming recent reports, Salesforce Inc. today announced plans to buy Informatica Inc. in an $8 billion deal. The acquisition price includes Salesforce’s existing stake in Informatica. The latter company’s investors are set to receive $25 per share. According to Salesforce, stockholders with 63% of the voting power in Informatica have committed to approving the deal. ...
Heatseeker AI raises $1.5M in funding for its market research platform
Startup Heatseeker AI has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to build more features for its namesake market research platform. The company, which is incorporated as Heatseeker Technologies Pty Ltd., announced the investment today. Capital F led the round with participation from Euphemia, Even Capital and East End Ventures. Heatseeker is led by Chief Executive ...
WiseTech to buy E2open in $2.1B logistics software acquisition
WiseTech Global Ltd is buying E2open Parent Holdings Inc., a fellow provider of supply chain management software, for $2.1 billion. The companies announced the transaction late Sunday. Austin-based E2open provides a cloud platform that helps more than 6,000 companies manage their supply chains. Its installed base includes Dell Technologies Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and other ...
Salesforce reportedly renews acquisition talks with Informatica
Salesforce Inc. is in talks to buy data management provider Informatica Inc., multiple publications reported today. Reports that an acquisition could happen first emerged last April. At the time, Reuters reported that Salesforce had offered about $10 billion for Informatica. The negotiations ended shortly thereafter after the companies failed to agree on the acquisition terms. ...
Oracle reported to buy 400,000 Nvidia chips for first Stargate data center
Oracle Corp. is buying $40 billion worth of Nvidia Corp. chips to build a data center for OpenAI, the Financial Times reported today. The deal is believed to involve about 400,000 GB200 Grace Blackwell processors. Each chip combines two of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell B200 graphics cards with a 72-core central processing unit. Oracle will use ...