Financial Times: Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth up to €1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring  —  Decision adds pressure on indebted French IT services company  —  Airbus has walked away from talks with Atos over a potential deal … 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

Jing Yang / The Information: Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows  —  jing@theinformation.com Profile and archive  —  As Chinese shopping site Temu faces mounting hostility toward Chinese companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans  —  After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has stepped up its lobbying to change the agency’s practices. Lees verder op Tech Meme