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.
Timeline
Windows 11 market share grows rapidly with the end of Windows 10 approaching
The end of regular support for Windows 10 is fast approaching, with only six months to go. Although Microsoft...
Elon Musk folds X into xAI at $33 billion valuation
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is taking over the social media platform X, also owned by Musk, through a share sw...
Perplexity denies it’s in financial trouble, no IPO in sight
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas indicates on Reddit that his company is not in financial trouble, but is not ...
Google now provides free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro
Update (31 March): Google has announced that Gemini 2.5 Pro is now also free to use. Last week, only paying A...
OpenAI adds Anthropic’s MCP for improved LLM functionality
OpenAI is adding support for MCP, an open-source technology that uses large language models (LLMs) to perform...
Nvidia about to acquire cloud startup Lepton AI
Nvidia is busy acquiring the young cloud startup Lepton AI. This would be the second acquisition in a short t...
Microsoft gives IT administrators more insights in Windows 11 roadmap
Microsoft has launched a new Windows roadmap website that makes it easier for IT professionals and users to k...
Top story
Stack Overflow draws line to Microsoft Graph
Developer community platform Stack Overflow has announced the availability of a new connector for Microsoft G...
Google will help developers make the Play Store more secure
In recent years, Google's Android development team has implemented improvements that make the Google Play Sto...
Claude 3.7 Sonnet now available within Databricks
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available within Databricks on AWS, Azure and GCP. This makes it possible ...