Phoebe Liu / Forbes: Zip, which offers procurement management software, raised a $100M Series C led by Y Combinator at a $1.5B post-money valuation, taking its total raised to $181M  —  Zip, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses manage spending, announced a fresh round of capital today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Docs: EU regulators begin an informal probe into Azure, asking rivals and customers if Microsoft leveraged market power and partnership info to squeeze rivals  —  Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Bogage / Washington Post: Sources: the IRS has quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January  —  The prototype program developed by the federal government could be available for a small group of taxpayers by January Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: Source: OpenAI is preparing to publicly debut its first open-source LLM, amid a proliferation of open-source alternatives, including variants of Meta’s LLaMA  —  In February, Meta Platforms set off an explosion of artificial intelligence development when it gave academics access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Report: in Q1, users of US pay TV services fell 7% YoY to 75.5M, with household penetration at 58.5%, the lowest level since 1992; only YouTube TV grew in Q1  —  As streaming video continues its ascendancy, cable, satellite and internet TV providers in the U.S. turned in their worst subscriber losses … Lees verder op Tech Meme