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Hammerspace, which sells data orchestration systems to Blue Origin, NSF, Royal Caribbean Group, and others, raised $56.7M led by Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 18-07-2023

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

The Biden administration adds European spyware companies Intellexa and Cytrox to its entity list, blocking them from US tech, as hacking tool concerns grow (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal) 18-07-2023

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

Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 pricing to cost $30 per user for business accounts, and unveils Bing Chat Enterprise with increased privacy (Will Shanklin/Engadget) 18-07-2023

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

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 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg) 18-07-2023

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

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 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) 18-07-2023

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

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 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 18-07-2023

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 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 (Meta) 18-07-2023

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