Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hammerspace, which sells data orchestration systems to Blue Origin, NSF, Royal Caribbean Group, and others, raised $56.7M led by Aramco’s Prosperity7 Ventures  —  Data may be “the new oil,” but only when it can be extracted and put to use.  Today, a five year-old startup called Hammerspace … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: The Biden administration adds European spyware companies Intellexa and Cytrox to its entity list, blocking them from US tech, as hacking tool concerns grow  —  Biden administration bans Cytrox and Intellexa from receiving U.S. technology amid rising concern over hacking tools Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Shanklin / Engadget: Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 pricing to cost $30 per user for business accounts, and unveils Bing Chat Enterprise with increased privacy  —  A version of Bing Chat with corporate-level privacy is also rolling out in preview.  —  At the Microsoft Inspire partner event today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: Futureverse, a combination of 11 different startups from sectors including blockchain, AI, the metaverse, and gaming, raised a $54M Series A led by 10T Holdings  —  The startup formed out of a merger of 11 different companies.  —  An unusual company straddling a range of industries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI partners with the American Journalism Project to access content to train its AI model in exchange for $5M in funding and $5M in developer credits  —  OpenAI isn’t done making waves in the media industry — far from it.  —  The Sam Altman-led private company behind ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft announces Vector Search, which uses ML to get the context of unstructured data like images and text, to make search faster, in preview through Azure  —  At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft announced a number of new AI features headed to Azure, perhaps the most notable of which is Vector Search. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta: Meta says LLaMA 2, its new open-source LLM with 2x the context length, is available for free for research and commercial use, and expands Microsoft partnership  —  Takeaways  — Today, we’re introducing the availability of Llama 2, the next generation of our open source large language model. Lees verder op Tech Meme