IT総合 European startup funding halved to $42B in 2023, says Atomico
The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events —...
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IT総合 IT総合 PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32M for AI to power engineering simulations
A lot of the buzz these days in artificial intelligence is around generative AI and how AI is being used to accelerate s...
IT総合 Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally
A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales...
IT総合 Adobe: Thanksgiving US online sales nudge up to $5.6B; Salesforce: $31.7B spent globally
Thanksgiving Thursday, when stores in the U.S. are closed and many are spending time off work, has become the de facto s...
IT総合 Emmett Shear, the ex-Twitch CEO tasked with stabilizing OpenAI, has some spicy social history
Emmett Shear, the interim CEO of OpenAI, may be out of a job by the end of the hour, day or week given how fast and unex...
IT総合 DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes
Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI...
IT総合 X says 325K posts and 375K accounts ‘actioned’ over Israel-Hamas war violations
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, has been facing waves of criticism over how it has, under owner Elon M...
IT総合 More consolidation in grocery delivery: Getir acquires FreshDirect to beef up in the US
Getir, the Turkish instant grocery delivery startup, has made an acquisition to expand its presence in the U.S. and to f...
IT総合 Confirmed: Palo Alto has acquired Talon Cyber Security, sources say for $625M
Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired T...
IT総合 At Bletchley, Rishi Sunak confirms AI Safety Institute but delays regulations for another day
A Frontier AI taskforce established by the U.K. back in June to prepare for the AI Safety Summit held this week is on co...
IT総合 Politicians commit to collaborate to tackle AI safety, US launches safety institute
The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together...
IT総合 Who’s going (and who’s not) to the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park?
Ahead of the AI Safety Summit starting tomorrow morning taking place outside of London in Bletchley Park, today, the U.K...
IT総合 Wirepas nabs $22M to expand a IoT business based on distributed, mesh technology
Wirepas, a startup out of Finland that is building out an Internet of Things business based on a novel approach — ...
IT総合 Confirmed: Palo Alto Networks buys Dig Security, sources say for $400M
We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specific...
IT総合 SkyCell raises $57M at a $600M valuation to build smart containers for pharmaceutical transport
The Covid-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how critical the development and distribution medicine can really be. Vaccines ...
IT総合 Existential risk? Regulatory capture? AI for one and all? A look at what’s going on with AI in the UK
The promise and pitfall of artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. Some say AI will save us: it’s alrea...
IT総合 OpenAI, Google and an “digital anthropologist”: the UN forms a high level board to explore AI governance
The halls of power are waking up to the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The big question will be how...
IT総合 Web Summit confirms Lisbon and Qatar events still on, ex-CEO Paddy Cosgrave has 80% ownership of business
Over the weekend, Paddy Cosgrave and Web Summit made the bombshell announcement that Cosgrave would step down from his p...
IT総合 Prove Identity nabs $40M at a “unicorn status” valuation to expand in mobile-based authentication tech
Prove Identity, the smartphone-based identity verification startup that originally made its name years ago as Payfone be...
IT総合 WebSummit derailed by founder’s public fight with those supporting Israel in Hamas conflict
WebSummit, the big tech conference brand that runs events in several cities and whose 70,000 person flagship event in Li...
IT総合 LinkedIn confirms it will cut a further 668 jobs, bringing the total to nearly 1,400 this year
Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it would roll out a raft of new AI-powered tools across the business. Today,...
IT総合 Xpanceo, a deep tech startup, raises $40M to focus on smart contact lenses
Smartphone sales have had their worst quarterly performance in over a decade, and fact that raises two big questions. Ha...
IT総合 Israel’s startup ecosystem: Down but not out
The world is still coming to terms with Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israelis last weekend – and everything else that has un...
IT総合 Telegram CEO says app will continue to host ‘war-related content’ after coming under fire for Hamas videos
As social platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok face off with regulators and the theater of public opinio...
IT総合 Lanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M
Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should com...
IT総合 EyeEm, the photo marketplace, changes hands as Freepik picks it up out of bankruptcy
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo marketplace that once was loftily thought of as a possible challenger to Instagram in Euro...
IT総合 Linda Yaccarino responds to EU: 700 Community Notes, 5K+ images shared on Israel-Hamas war, “thousands” of pieces of content removed
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, came under fire earlier this week in Europe, when European Commissione...
IT総合 UK regulator launches antitrust investigation into $19B Vodafone/Three mobile merger
When Vodafone and Hutchison-owned Three in the U.K. announced their plan to merge in a non-cash deal to create a $19B me...
IT総合 SumUp’s valuation falls as low as $4.1B, as Groupon and others sell off their stakes
Adyen lost $13 billion in market cap last month when investors scrambled to sell shares after the payments company misse...
IT総合 As its workers strike over burnout and low wages, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal to use an AI Copilot from Nabla
Yesterday, 75,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente embarked on a three-day strike to protest understaffing,...