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Trump suspends TikTok ban, signs tech-focused executive orders
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that suspends the U.S. government’s ban of TikTok for 75 days. The directive was included in a batch of technology-focused executive orders that Trump signed late Monday. Another renamed the United States Digital Service, a government office that helps maintain federal websites, and granted it new responsibilities. ...
CubeFS storage platform graduates from CNCF incubation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced that CubeFS, an open-source storage platform, has graduated from its incubation program. The milestone follows several years of development. Open-source projects exit the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program after they reach a level of reliability that makes them suitable for production use. According to the group, CubeFS ...
DeepSeek open-sources its R1 reasoning model series
DeepSeek today released a new large language model family, the R1 series, that’s optimized for reasoning tasks. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer has made the algorithms’ source-code available on Hugging Face. The LLM lineup is headlined by two algorithms called R1 and R1-Zero. According to DeepSeek, the former model outperforms OpenAI’s o1 across several reasoning ...
Cybersecurity startup Tenex launches with an AI-powered cloud MDR service
Cybersecurity startup Tenex.AI Inc. launched today with a managed detection and response service powered by artificial intelligence. The company is backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital and a group of angel investors. Tenex is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Eric Foster. He was previously the president of ...
Instabase raises $100M for its AI-powered unstructured data platform
Data management startup Instabase Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding to support its product development efforts. The Qatar Investment Authority led the Series D round. Returning investors Greylock Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures participated as well. Bloomberg reported that the investment values Instabase at $1.24 billion, below the ...
Nexos.ai reels in $8M to simplify enterprise AI projects
Nexos.ai, a new startup that helps enterprises run large language models in production, launched today with $8 million from investors. Index Ventures led the funding round. It was joined by Creandum, Dig Ventures and the chief executives of several major tech firms. The list includes Datadog Inc., Wix.com Ltd., financial technology company Klarna Bank AB ...
Supreme Court unanimously upholds law banning TikTok
The Supreme Court today upheld a law that will require TikTok to shut down in the U.S. on Jan. 19 unless it’s sold by parent company ByteDance Ltd. The court’s ruling was unanimous. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch wrote concurring opinions, judicial opinions that back a ruling but not the underlying reasoning. The decision ...
HR software startup Borderless AI raises $5M, launches HRGPT search engine
Borderless AI Ventures Inc., a Toronto-based developer of human resources software, today announced that it has raised $5 million in fresh funding. The capital was provided as an extension to a $27 million seed round the company closed last year. The latest raise included the participation of Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, co-founders of large ...
Lenovo acquires data center storage provider Infinidat
Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced that it’s acquiring Infinidat Ltd., a venture-backed provider of data center storage systems. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Infinidat previously raised more than $350 million in funding from TPG, Goldman Sachs and other investors. The company achieved profitability in 2022. Infinidat offers two storage array families known as ...
Blue Origin flies its New Glenn rocket to orbit with satellite deployment system aboard
Blue Origin Enterprises LP, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company, today conducted the first successful flight of its New Glenn rocket. The heavy-lift vehicle includes a reusable booster designed for up to 25 launches. Blue Origin will use future New Glenn rockets to deploy satellites for Amazon.com Inc. and other private sector customers, as well as help ...