Mistral raises 3 billion, Samsung leads round
In a Series D funding round, Mistral has raised 3 billion euros. The company is now valued at 21 billion euro...
Applications
Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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Microsoft is discontinuing the Exchange connector in Excel
Microsoft will phase out the existing Exchange connector for Power Query in Excel. Starting in April 2027, us...
Dutch SAP specialist McCoy acquired by Accenture
Accenture is acquiring the Dutch SAP consulting firm McCoy. The company, with over 380 experts, will be integ...
Anthropic lets companies store AI data in their own cloud
Anthropic aims to give business customers more control over how data generated from the use of its AI models ...
Windows Task Manager now monitors AI workloads
Microsoft is expanding Task Manager in Windows to provide insight into AI workloads. On newer devices, the Pr...
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Bluedot co-founder: Does your company need a ‘second brain’?
Agentic intelligence and all manner of autonomous tooling are (of course) on the rise and now finding a way i...
Copilot reveals how it got hacked
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Copilot that allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information, incl...
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Google Cloud AI: from pilot to production at scale
At Google Cloud AI Live in Amsterdam, we spoke with Joost Smit, Google Cloud's country lead for the Benelux r...
IBM expands collaboration with OpenAI
IBM and OpenAI will work more closely together to deploy AI technology within existing business processes and...
Investor Silver Lake wants to acquire Workday
Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday. The deal would be one of the largest software acquisitions ever. ...
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LTX turns on open world model for video & real-time physical AI
LTX is an AI enterprise company that builds open model software for professional AI video creation and produc...