IT総合 Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem
On November 15, Peter Wang posted a message requesting ideas for a new incubator and fund to support experimental projec...
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IT総合 IT総合 Arizona’s getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI
The newest online-only school greenlighted by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools comes with a twist: the academ...
IT総合 Google joins $90M investment into Cassava to bolster Africa’s digital infrastructure
With cloud spend continuing to surge, tech companies are scrambling to meet demand for the necessary infrastructure, wit...
IT総合 Pineapple on pizza is delicious — and if you disagree, you can’t log in to WordPress.org
There are few matters in life that divide a room more than the prudence of putting pineapple on pizza. But if you’...
IT総合 EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk’s Starlink
The European Union is forging ahead with plans for a constellation of internet satellites to rival Elon Musk-owned Starl...
IT総合 Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline
Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of...
IT総合 Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans...
IT総合 Gigs, an ‘MVNO in a box,’ gets $73M to power mobile network services for any company
Gigs, a platform that makes it easier for any company to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), has raised $73...
IT総合 Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions
Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: the Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped...
IT総合 Anybotics raises $60M to bring more autonomous industrial robots to the U.S.
Anybotics has closed its Series B round at $110 million, some 18 months after announcing it had raised a $50 million Ser...
IT総合 MariaDB spinout SkySQL secures seed funding to ‘bring conversational AI to databases’
Anyone who’s followed the fortunes of MySQL and MariaDB these past 15 years will probably remember SkySQL, another...
IT総合 Aqemia raises $38M to find new drugs by meshing theoretical physics with GenAI
Aqemia, a French startup that’s meshing “quantum-inspired physics” with machine learning to find new d...
IT総合 Study claims AI could boost detection of breast cancer by 21%
A U.S. breast-screening program claims to demonstrate the potential benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) in ma...
IT総合 After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, th...
IT総合 Vodafone and Three’s $19B merger cleared by UK regulators — with conditions
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has greenlighted the longstanding planned merger between two of the country’s bigges...
IT総合 Linux Foundation report highlights the true state of open-source libraries in production apps
There are many metrics to track the prevalence of open-source components, such as GitHub stars and downloads, but they d...
IT総合 Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform
A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses...
IT総合 ThredUp fashion marketplace offloads its European business, Remix
Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp...
IT総合 The OpenWRT One router is designed with ‘software freedom and right to repair’ in mind
A new router designed in collaboration by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWRT Project is touted as the fi...
IT総合 Pat Gelsinger set to net more than $10M severance from Intel
Intel’s newly departed ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger could be walking away with more than $10 million in severance pay. As ...
IT総合 European AI infrastructure company Nebius nabs $700M from Nvidia, Accel, others
Nebius, the publicly-traded European AI infrastructure company formerly known as Yandex N.V., has raised $700 million in...
IT総合 Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike
As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the b...
IT総合 TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s
TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to the attention of 14 U.S. attorneys ...
IT総合 Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little st...
IT総合 In court filing, Drake alleges UMG and Spotify artificially inflated popularity of diss track ‘Not Like Us’
The longstanding feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar is heating up. Drake — via a business entity called Froze...
IT総合 Intel and Biden Administration finalize $7.86B deal to fund domestic chip manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Commerce today confirmed it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS a...
IT総合 Bluesky falling foul of EU rules by not reporting user numbers across the bloc
Bluesky, the social network that’s currently surging in popularity due to an exodus of users from rival X, is in b...
IT総合 Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition
Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian ...
IT総合 Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition
Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian ...
IT総合 Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition
Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian ...