Meir Orbach / CTech: Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents — The deal comes less than three weeks after the software giant paid $1.9 billion for Own, another Israel-founded company. — Salesforce — Zoomin — Acquisition Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emma Roth / The Verge: Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game’s producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around … Lees verder op Tech Meme
David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices of Carahsoft, a government IT vendor, as part of a probe into a company with which Carahsoft has done business — The FBI confirmed the raid but declined to provide further details. — The FBI raided the Reston, Virginia headquarters of IT … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors — The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology, as he joins the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion AI model. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Meir Orbach / CTech: Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in an acquisition valued at $450M — The deal comes less than three weeks after the software giant paid $1.9 billion for Own, another Israel-founded company. — Salesforce Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brady Dale / Axios: Caroline Ellison, a star witness in the prosecution of FTX founder and former boyfriend SBF, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the FTX scandal — – “I’ve seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … – She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried’s arrest … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Carly Page / TechCrunch: The world’s second largest money transfer company, MoneyGram, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users — U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Ujet, which uses AI to help businesses with customer support, raised $76M led by Sapphire Ventures, valuing the company at $500M, and promotes its COO to co-CEO — Customer service startup UJET Inc. has raised $76 million from investors and named a new co-chief executive officer. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft debuts Correction in preview as part of the Azure AI Content Safety API; the service tries to find and revise AI-generated text that’s factually wrong — AI is a notorious liar, and Microsoft now says it has a fix for that. Understandably, that’s going to raise some eyebrows, but there’s reason to be skeptical. Lees verder op Tech Meme