Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft announces Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Mustafa Suleyman will be its CEO and Karén Simonyan its chief scientist  —  Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+  —  Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables other companies to offer their own financial services via APIs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has hired underwriters for a US IPO as soon as early 2025; source: Cato is looking to raise more than $500M  —  Israeli cybersecurity firm Cato Networks, which was valued at more than $3 billion in a private funding round last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole  —  – Reid Hoffman will be last remaining co-founder at the startup  — Inflection investors said to be on track to make money Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inflection: Inflection AI says co-founder Karén Simonyan will join Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, names Sean White as CEO, and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure  —  From day one at Inflection, we’ve been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft says Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are joining to form Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Suleyman will be CEO  —  Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+  —  Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables other companies to offer their own financial services via APIs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services  —  Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.  —  Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse  —  Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself. Lees verder op Tech Meme