IT総合 UK seeks collaboration for security research lab to counter Russia and ‘new AI arms race’
The U.K. is seeking collaboration for a new AI security research lab that’s designed to counter Russia and other h...
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IT総合 IT総合 UK seeks collaboration for security research lab to counter Russia and ‘new AI arms race’
The U.K. is seeking collaboration for a new AI security research lab that’s designed to counter Russia and other h...
IT総合 The curious case of Nebius, the publicly traded AI infrastructure ‘startup’
On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud i...
IT総合 EU closes antitrust probe into Apple’s e-book and audiobook rules after complaint withdrawn
The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces...
IT総合 New UK crypto regulations will include stablecoins and staking services
The U.K. is set to create an all-encompassing regulatory framework to govern the crypto sector in early 2025. Speaking o...
IT総合 UK crashes out of global top 50 supercomputer ranking
The U.K. no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50, according to new data from the Top500 project, which ranks the 500...
IT総合 GitHub launches $1.25M open source fund with a focus on security
The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporation...
IT総合 Workbrew makes open-source package manager Homebrew enterprise-friendly
Workbrew emerges from stealth with the mission of mitigating the risks of "shadow IT" practices around Homebrew package ...
IT総合 Google.org commits $20M to researchers using AI for scientific breakthroughs
Google is committing $20 million in cash and $2 million in cloud credits to a new funding initiative designed to help sc...
IT総合 Juna.ai wants to use AI agents to make factories more energy-efficient
Juna.ai wants to help factories become more efficient by automating complex industrial processes using AI agents.
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IT総合 ‘AI granny’ scambaiter wastes telephone fraudsters’ time with boring chat
Telephone scams are nothing new, but with the advent of AI, it has become harder than ever for people to know whether th...
IT総合 Klarna kickstarts U.S. IPO plans with confidential SEC filing
The Swedish BNPL startup has confidentially filed a draft registration statement with the U.S. SEC.
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IT総合 LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the...
IT総合 Meta taps US, UK universities to test VR in education, creates digital twin ‘metaversities’ in Europe
As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew...
IT総合 Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs
A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corpora...
IT総合 Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025
The move to enable the MFA security feature comes hot on the heels of major data breaches at cloud giants, like Snowflak...
IT総合 Affirm launches in the UK, as ‘buy now, pay later’ market faces regulatory overhaul
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Affirm is launching in the U.K., its first market outside North America. Its long-antici...
IT総合 GenAI suffers from data overload, so companies should focus on smaller, specific goals
“There is no AI without data, there is no AI without unstructured data, and there is no AI without unstructured da...
IT総合 Amazon brings its Rufus AI shopping assistant to more international markets
Amazon is extending the availability of its AI-enabled shopping assistant, Rufus, to more markets in Europe and the Amer...
IT総合 Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management
It might not be the sexiest of subjects, but facilities management is central to any business that has a physical premis...
IT総合 Google-backed Open Cloud Coalition launches to lobby European lawmakers
Europe has a new lobbying body, one with a self-stated mission to “improve competition, transparency, and resilien...
IT総合 How Advex creates synthetic data to improve machine vision for manufacturers
Data is pretty much everything when it comes to training AI systems, but accessing enough data to produce quality produc...
IT総合 Microsoft accuses Google of ‘shadow campaign’ to influence cloud regulation in Europe
The European cloud wars are heating up. Microsoft has accused its old foe Google of waging a clandestine war against the...
IT総合 General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally
U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investm...
IT総合 Vinted hits $5.4B valuation amid wave of secondary share sales in Europe
Lithuania’s Vinted has secured a new valuation of €5 billion (around $5.4 billion at current exchange rates), afte...
IT総合 DuckDuckGo will be making more early-stage investments in privacy-focused startups
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus...
IT総合 DataCrunch wants to be Europe’s first AI cloud hyperscaler — powered by renewable energy
A fledgling startup is setting out to become one of Europe’s first “AI compute” hyperscalers, with ren...
IT総合 Joseph Jacks bets on open source startups, a ‘paradox of philanthropy and capitalism’
Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least...
IT総合 Nebius to resume Nasdaq trading after severing ties with Russia and Yandex
Nebius, the company formerly known as Yandex that’s now focused on cloud infrastructure for AI uses (aka “AI...
IT総合 The 14 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech
A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector.
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