Stability AI seeks possible buyer due to dispute with shareholder
British AI specialist Stability AI is looking for a possible buyer. The search was reportedly triggered by an action by U.S. activist shareholder and venture capitalist firm Coatue Management.
Stability AI, known for its generative image tool Stable Diffusion, among others, has recently been sea... Read more
Microsoft tests new power-saving feature in Windows 11
Microsoft is testing a new power-saving feature in its Canary Channel for Insiders. The feature aims to extend battery life on laptops, but may also be useful for desktop users.
With the power saving feature now being tested in the Canary Channel for Windows Insiders, users should be able to ext... Read more
Adobe still trying to get Figma acquisition across the line with regulators
Adobe hopes to satisfy regulators in the EU and UK over its acquisition of Figma. For this, the creative software giant would like to overcome regulators' objections.
Adobe has been trying for some time to get permission from the European Commission to acquire Figma. However, the EC recently pre... Read more
Microsoft gets ears but no say in OpenAI’s board of directors
Sam Altman is officially back as CEO of OpenAI and immediately introduces the new board of directors. But there appears to be no serious place for Microsoft on it.
The largest investor in OpenAI could only let the crisis within the AI developer happen. Returning CEO Sam Altman says in his blog ... Read more
Nobody wants a subscription on Facebook or Instagram
Update, 10:22 am, 30/11/2023: A new complaint about Meta's subscription formulas increases criticism of the 'pay for privacy' formula. This is a shared complaint by the European Consumer Organization (BEUC) and eighteen of its members. It was submitted to the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network... Read more
New ASML CEO: Frenchman Christophe Fouquet to replace Peter Wennink
ASML has appointed Christophe Fouquet as its new CEO. He will start in April 2024, when current CEO Peter Wennink's term expires. France's Christophe Fouquet has been with the Dutch manufacturer of chip-making machines for 15 years.
According to the company's Supervisory Board, Christophe Fouque... Read more
HPE and Nvidia unveil “enterprise-class, full-stack” GenAI solution
HPE and Nvidia announced today at HPE Discover 2023 in Barcelona that they will jointly deliver an enterprise computing solution for generative AI. For the collaboration, both parties are integrating their software stack, allowing organizations to deploy AI at their own scale and for specific purpo... Read more
What can Amazon’s AI chatbot Q do?
Amazon is coming out with its own AI chatbot Q. The chatbot is available almost a year after everyone was introduced to the AI chatbot ChatGPT. There are a lot of competing chatbots in the market now, but so far none of them were the product of Amazon.
Amazon Q is Amazon's answer to the many AI ... Read more
Dutch Future Fund gets new capital injection from Invest-NL
The public Dutch (tech) investment fund Invest-NL and the EIF are investing €200 million in the so-called public-private Dutch Future Fund II. Through this fund, other investors can support start-ups and scale-ups in energy transition, deep tech, circular economy and agri-tech.
The Dutch gover... Read more
Cactus ransomware spread through BI platform Qlik Sense
The Cactus ransomware is actively spread via the cloud analytics and BI platform Qlik Sense. Arctic Wolf Labs' security specialists recently discovered this.
According to Arctic Wolf, this is the first time that vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense have been exploited to gain access to systems to sprea... Read more