Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Applied Intuition, which sells tools for developing autonomous vehicles, plans to acquire autonomous trucking software company Embark in a ~$71M all-cash deal  —  Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: 3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal plan to merge in an all-stock deal valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in combined revenue in 2025  —  Stratasys Ltd. agreed to acquire Desktop Metal Inc. in an all-stock deal that will create a leading 3D printer company valued at about $1.8 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA says Meta offered to limit its use of other businesses’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace, which the regulator thinks address its competition concerns  —  UK’s competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta Platforms Inc had offered to limit the use … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to leave the region if it can’t comply with the EU’s upcoming AI Act  —  OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave … Lees verder op Tech Meme