Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data platform that aims to create a unified compute infrastructure and a single data lake for analytics workloads  —  Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Product Studio to let merchants quickly edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US merchants in “the next few months”  —  Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft plans to add Copilot to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and more, roll out Bing to Windows 11 taskbar and Skype, announces Bing plugins, and more  —  You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott as the company adds OpenAI-powered Copilots to everything from Office to Edge to the Windows Terminal  —  Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything.  Will it change the way we use computers? … Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, offering a music creation and fan engagement service with 60M+ registered users, raised $25M Series B1 valuing it at $425M  —  Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, the parent company of social music creation platform BandLab, has raised $25 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber and Waymo announce a “multi-year” partnership to “make the Waymo Driver available to more people” via Uber, starting in Phoenix with a “set number” of cars  —  Waymo’s robotaxis will be available to hail for rides and food delivery on Uber’s app … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, raised a $450M Series C led by Spark Capital, with Google, Salesforce, and Zoom participating  —  Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: US prosecutors have gathered over 6M pages of documents ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, an unusually large amount that underscores his legal difficulties  —  Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US  —  Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Amazon announces the 11-inch Fire Max 11, offering a sleeker design, slim bezels, MediaTek SoC, support for a new keyboard with trackpad and a stylus, from $230  —  For years, Amazon’s Fire tablet lineup has consisted of smaller seven-inch, medium eight-inch, and larger 10-inch screen options … Lees verder op Tech Meme