Tech Meme

Andrew Brust / The New Stack: Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, an LLM interface that lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new Lakehouse AI tools, and more  —  We review Databricks’ announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday’s Snowflake Summit reveals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Report: FTX’s exchange reboot may include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain customers; indications of interest in the restart are due this week  —  – FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Brust / The New Stack: Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform, and more  —  We review Databricks’ announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday’s Snowflake Summit reveals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, and as a browser extension  —  A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail — is officially launching its password manager to everyone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: New York-based Slang.ai, which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers, raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew  —  Slang.ai, an AI-powered phone answering product for the restaurant industry founded by two former Spotify data scientists … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Report: FTX’s talks with investors on reboot proposals, due this week, include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain existing customers  —  – FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress’ MOVEit  —  The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.  —  The dramatic fallout continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg: Chicago-based public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which has data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $70M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation  —  Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme