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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IFS sees revenue grow 25 percent thanks to AI in industrial environments
IFS’s annual recurring revenue grew by 25 percent in the first half of 2026. IFS attributes this increase t...
1,178 AI employees call for a moratorium on the development of cutting-edge AI
More than 1,100 employees from the world’s largest AI companies are calling on the U.S. government to facil...
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Pega wants to make AI performance and cost predictable
At PegaWorld in Las Vegas, we sat down with Pegasystems CTO and head of marketing Don Schuerman. He made the ...
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How agentic AI is changing the software code review
Software is built, but before it “ships” to a point of live production, the software engineering team (al...
Claude Opus 5 approaches Fable for half the price
Following in the footsteps of Fable 5 and Sonnet 5, Anthropic is introducing Opus 5, an LLM that achieves vir...
DevRev brings voice AI to the computer agent platform
DevRev is adding Voice AI to the Customer Agent within its Computer platform. This gives voice agents the sam...
LibreOffice warns again about lock-in with Microsoft
The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, asserts that Microsoft’s Office file fo...
Support for SQL Server 2016 is ending, although it is still widely used
Microsoft has ended support for SQL Server 2016. Notably, the company acknowledges that this database version...
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A new Chinese AI model causes another stock market sell-off, but why?
Wall Street is slow to learn. When shares of various tech companies plummeted early last year, investors poin...
Kimi K3 intensifies competition between open and closed AI models
The Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has announced Kimi K3, a large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters...