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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Red Hat tames the open-source AI chaos
The AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly i...
Atlassian surprises with strong quarterly results; stock rises sharply
Atlassian has positively surprised investors with a quarter that clearly outperformed expectations. Its cloud...
Google departures spell trouble for Gemini
Jeff Dean, with Google since 1999, will now leave the company. Several top researchers also departing Google ...
Alibaba launches its most powerful Qwen model
Alibaba has unveiled its most powerful AI model to date. Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters. This places...
Oracle brings Gemini models to Fusion Apps and NetSuite
Oracle and Google Cloud have widened their partnership. Gemini models are heading to Oracle's enterprise appl...
Atlassian gives employees “AI wallets” to curb tokenmaxxing
Earlier this year, Atlassian cut 1,600 jobs to free up funds for more AI investments. It turns out that a bud...
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Why it’s time to end developer ‘blind trust’ in software code
Software supply chain security company NetRise wants to eradicate what it calls “blind trust in software”...
Meta aims to expand enterprise AI into a new multi-billion-dollar market
Meta sees much more potential in enterprise AI than just chatbots for customer service. During the presentati...
Mythos knocks HAWK out of the race for a post-quantum standard
Anthropic’s AI model Mythos has uncovered a fundamental weakness in HAWK, a candidate algorithm for post-qu...
Azure growth accelerates; demand for AI capacity exceeds supply
Microsoft has reported a stronger-than-expected final quarter of its fiscal year. Azure, in particular, grew ...