Tom Warren / The Verge: A live blog of Microsoft’s Surface and AI event, where the company is expected to detail its vision for Surface, Windows, Bing, and more  —  Microsoft is ready to talk more about its AI plans at a “special event” in New York City today.  We’re expecting to hear about three new Surface devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nathan Edwards / The Verge: Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching across all of its apps and services, including Office 365, from September 26  —  Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th.  The new “AI companion,” just called Copilot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk for $157 per share in cash, up 31% on Splunk’s September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B  —  Cisco will pay $157 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement Thursday.  That represents a 31% premium to Splunk’s previous closing price on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to customers, less than a year after saying it would end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans on June 30  —  Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023  —  Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta updates Facebook’s “identity system”, including a new logo to confidently express the platform’s “core blue color”, and refines Facebook’s emoji Reactions  —  Meta is updating Facebook’s “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo.  —  Just kidding! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Stewart / Insider: Sources: Panos Panay’s abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products, and discussed reorganizing his hardware unit  —  – Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.  — Panay is expected … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Source: Google has extensively discussed dropping Broadcom for AI chips as early as 2027 to design its own TPUs, aiming to save billions of dollars annually  —  Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Layer 2 blockchain Optimism sells 116M tokens worth $157M to seven buyers in a “private” sale, after airdropping 19.4M tokens to 31K+ users earlier this week  —  The token sale was described as a “planned event.”  —  The foundation behind layer2 blockchain Optimism … Lees verder op Tech Meme