Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Data management company Rubrik acquires Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M  —  Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking to bolt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia announces the Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024  —  – Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation  — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, a code generation LLM based on data from the open-source BigCode project, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces AI Workbench, letting users create, test, and tweak LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before utilizing cloud resources  —  Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Philippines races to defend its share of the nearly $300B global business process outsourcing market, battling a talent shortage, rising competition, and AI  —  – Only one out of 10 outsourcing job applicants gets hired  — Growth in jobs added during pandemic fell below global trend Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027  —  – Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden  — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Israel- and Delaware-based Chargeflow, which uses ML to help businesses deal with chargeback disputes, raised an $11M seed led by OpenView and a $3M pre-seed  —  Chargeflow, a startup using AI to fight chargeback fraud, today announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by the VC firm OpenView Venture Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: NYC-based Simon Data, which uses ML to help with analytics and marketing automation, raised a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Capital  —  Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out on iOS, Android, and Windows, and support for landscape mode on video calls  —  WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform — taking … Lees verder op Tech Meme