Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Rockstar releases the first trailer of Grand Theft Auto VI, set in Miami, and says the game will be released in 2025  —  Crime-themed franchise is among the most successful in video-game history  —  Rockstar Games released the first trailer for the newest version of Grand Theft Auto on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology’s $2.18B award won from Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading to a new trial for one of VLSI’s patents  —  A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out a $2.18 billion patent-infringement award won by patent owner VLSI Technology against Intel Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held discussions with Zoom; Five9 scrapped a $14.7B takeover by Zoom in Sept. 2021  —  – Call center software firm working to gauge buyer interest  — Five9 and Zoom have spoken about possibly resurrecting a deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on Nov. 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September, X saw 27M new downloads, vs. Threads’ 41M  —  Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working.  According to a new analysis of app store trends … Lees verder op Tech Meme