50 billion yuan (about 6 billion euros) in investments will give DeepSeek a valuation of approximately 50 billion euros. This is the first funding round for the Chinese AI lab, which surprised the world early last year with its capable DeepSeek-R1 model. The largest investors out … | Continue reading
Only seven percent of organizations are truly ready for AI. This is according to Veeam’s new Data and AI Trust Gap report, presented at VeeamON London. Of the 600 senior executives surveyed, 88 percent are already using or testing AI agents, while 95 percent indicate that data is … | Continue reading
Veeam is introducing three new AI agents for privacy and compliance automation on the DataAI Command Platform. They are built on Securiti AI technology, which Veeam acquired late last year. Regulations such as GDPR, the EU AI Act, ePrivacy, and DORA impose obligations that apply … | Continue reading
Anthropic is expanding its security initiative, Project Glasswing. Following an initial group of approximately 50 participants, another 150 organizations will now gain access to Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model specifically designed to detect software vulnerabilities. The new p … | Continue reading
Microsoft unveiled a series of new AI technologies during its Build developer conference. The company is introducing not only several proprietary AI models but also a new platform designed to better align AI agents with organizations’ data, processes, and workflows. This is repor … | Continue reading
The Trump administration wants advanced AI models to be assessed by federal agencies before they are rolled out. The new approach is intended to better protect the United States against potential cyber threats that could arise from increasingly powerful AI systems. To this end, T … | Continue reading
Microsoft says it has taken a major step forward in developing quantum technology. On Tuesday, the company unveiled Majorana 2, a new-generation quantum chip whose qubits, according to Microsoft, are a thousand times more reliable than those of the previous version. At the same t … | Continue reading
AWS adds durability to ElastiCache for Valkey. The new feature enables the service to be used for workloads that cannot tolerate data loss. Two write modes offer flexibility: zero data loss with synchronous writes or microsecond latency with a limited risk of loss via asynchronou … | Continue reading
At least a hundred Dutch hotels have fallen victim to a large-scale data breach. As a result, hackers have gained access to reservation data for thousands of guests. Hospitality group Hospecs has confirmed this to the NOS and others. Guests with an active booking are at risk of r … | Continue reading
Cisco is sometimes accused (also by us) of being able to come up with and tell a great story, before actually being able to execute on it. Today, the company is introducing Cisco Cloud Control to put this image behind it once and for all. On the one hand, this is a logical conseq … | Continue reading
Workday has added three new capabilities to Workday Build, the developer platform for HR and finance AI. With Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and Agent Passport, developers can build AI agents more quickly that operate securely within the Workday infrastructure. Workday has a … | Continue reading
Snowflake announces a series of updates for CoWork (formerly Snowflake Intelligence). The personal AI agent for knowledge workers is gaining new features, including Cortex Sense, Deep Research, and User Memory. In addition, Snowflake is introducing Cortex Training for fine-tuning … | Continue reading
Snowflake’s AI assistant, Cortex Code, was often referred to as CoCo, but has now officially been given that name. In addition, several enhancements have been introduced to enable autonomous development work and expand the assistant’s reach. A new Automations feature enables the … | Continue reading
The memory crunch is raising prices for hyperscalers, enterprises and consumers. SK Hynix is benefitting enormously from it, just like the other two major memory manufacturers Micron and Samsung. However, unlike those two rivals, SK Hynix plans to double its memory-chip wafer pro … | Continue reading
Alphabet aims to raise a total of $80 billion through a combination of stock offerings to finance further investments in AI infrastructure and computing power. In addition, Berkshire Hathaway is investing $10 billion in the company through a private placement. This brings the tot … | Continue reading
Harness has announced two new products designed to help organizations gain better insight into the costs and benefits of AI usage. The solutions address a growing problem within IT departments: AI is being deployed more frequently, but it is often unclear what those investments a … | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered malicious code in dozens of npm packages published under Red Hat’s name. According to researchers, the compromised packages were part of a supply chain attack in which malware was distributed via a compromised GitHub account belonging to an em … | Continue reading
Intel has launched the Xeon 6+ server processor series. These are the first data center CPUs built on the Intel 18A process. The six-chip lineup tops out at 288 cores. Notably, the announcement is paired with a preview of the Crescent Island GPU with 480 gigabytes of VRAM, a new … | Continue reading
The first IPO of an AI model developer is imminent. Anthropic, the company behind the increasingly successful Claude, has filed a confidential registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “Confidential” means that the document itself cannot be vi … | Continue reading
Fivetran and dbt Labs have officially completed their merger. The merger, originally announced in October 2025 with combined revenue of $600 million, builds an open data infrastructure layer for AI agents. George Fraser remains CEO, and Tristan Handy becomes President. Together, … | Continue reading
JetBrains has released Mellum2 as open source, a 12B-parameter model built for software engineering environments. With a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, only 2.5 billion parameters are active per token, reducing inference time by more than half compared to similar models. The mo … | Continue reading
Anthropic is granting ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, access to Mythos through Project Glasswing. Mythos can detect and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. ENISA thus becomes a member of a select group of organizations authorized to use the model exclus … | Continue reading
Today’s AI tools are a boon for many businesses, boosting efficiency, productivity, and profitability. But they also bring many new threats, which are often too much for traditional security systems. Some AI threats, such as phishing and ransomware attacks, are already familiar a … | Continue reading
Europe is investing billions in sovereignty. But most systems run on Intel or AMD processors with a built-in Management Engine. What virtually no one realizes: RISAA legislation requires hardware manufacturers like Intel and AMD to grant access to U.S. intelligence agencies. Even … | Continue reading
Rumors had been swirling for quite some time, but during Computex, the moment finally arrived. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage to drop a bombshell, or let’s just say a bomb. Nvidia is officially entering the Windows PC market. They’re doing so with the brand-new RTX Spark. … | Continue reading
Microsoft has discovered a new supply chain attack in which an attacker published fourteen malicious npm packages within a few hours. The packages masqueraded as tools for OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and other widely used development environments, but were actually designed to ste … | Continue reading
SoftBank Group plans to make significant investments in AI infrastructure in France over the coming years. The Japanese technology conglomerate announced plans to spend up to 75 billion euros on building 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity. This makes the project one of the la … | Continue reading
Invisix, an ASML spinout, has raised 20 million euros to inspect chips at a level of detail previously unattainable. The Eindhoven-based startup uses “soft” X-rays to measure 3D structures in chips that have become invisible to optical tools. With this, it aims to solve a pressin … | Continue reading
Later this year, Microsoft will implement a significant change to how users can reset their passwords within Entra ID. Starting in September 2026, the platform will only accept explicitly registered authentication methods for self-service password recovery. The change was announc … | Continue reading
Alongside its proposed AI PCs for consumers, Nvidia shared its multifaceted AI plans for enterprise. The company reports that its flagship platform Vera Rubin is ramping into full production, superceding Blackwell. In addition, DGX Station ‘deskside’ PCs will power developers wor … | Continue reading
The use of AI in the enterprise is still in its infancy. There are several reasons for this. One of them is that most of the underlying AI infrastructure that is built and deployed now isn’t built for the enterprise, but for AI labs and training facilities. VAST Data claims it ca … | Continue reading
OpenSearch has emerged as a formidable open source alternative to proprietary search platforms, doubling its downloads to 1.4 billion since transitioning to Linux Foundation governance almost two years ago. In a conversation at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, Bianca Lewis, executive … | Continue reading
The CTO of the Open Source Security Foundation has a clear message: a major AI-driven cyberattack on open source infrastructure is coming. Christopher Robinson, known as CROB, made that prediction at the start of 2026. Speaking at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, he stood by it, even … | Continue reading
IBM Cloud introduces the IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile, a new tool that helps companies demonstrate their digital sovereignty. The solution is part of IBM’s Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection and offers continuous monitoring of cloud workloads. Organizations … | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new network architecture for data centers that replaces the traditional fat-tree approach. The technology, called Random Network Graph (RNG), is already in use at several AWS data centers in Europe. AWS estimates that the architecture could yiel … | Continue reading
Mistral aims to evolve from a provider of AI models into a broader technology partner for businesses and governments. During its AI NOW Summit, the French company announced new products for industrial applications, investments in European AI data centers, and a revamped AI assist … | Continue reading
During an outage of GitHub Actions, GitHub users received erroneous notifications that their accounts had been suspended. The outage, which lasted over three hours on May 26, shut down a large portion of the platform’s CI/CD functionality and caused confusion among developers who … | Continue reading
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. Run-rate revenue has already crossed $47 billion. The funding will support compute expansi … | Continue reading
Canonical and Google Cloud have announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Cloud TPU Virtual Machines. The images are offered by default when setting up TPU VMs and are intended to make it easier to run AI workloads on Google’s proprietary AI accelerators. With thi … | Continue reading
An “extremely disappointed” Kyndryl has been blocked by the Dutch government in its pursuit of taking over Dutch IT provider Solvinity. A “politicization” of the process surrounding the acquisition is said to have thrown a wrench in the works. DigiD, the digital identification sy … | Continue reading
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an incremental upgrade to Opus 4.7. The new model is more ‘honest’ in its self-assessments and roughly four times less likely to let coding errors pass unremarked. It launches at the same price as its predecessor, alongside new features inc … | Continue reading
CoreWeave is launching an integrated platform that combines training and inference for AI agents. With Serverless RL, production inference, observability via W&B Weave, and autonomous improvement via W&B Skills, agents are designed to continuously learn from real-world experience … | Continue reading
IBM and Red Hat announce Project Lightwell: a $5 billion investment to secure open source software with AI. The initiative consists of a trusted clearinghouse combined with a global team of more than 20,000 engineers, supplemented by AI capabilities to detect and remediate vulner … | Continue reading
The number of processed tokens and agents in production is growing exponentially. Corporate infrastructure must be built to support this, or else the opportunities offered by data and AI will remain underutilized. According to Huawei, a five-layer AI stack is required to deploy a … | Continue reading
Microsoft is expanding its Defender for Endpoint security platform with a feature that can automatically disconnect infected systems from the corporate network. The new capability is designed to prevent attackers from moving further through an organization after an initial breach … | Continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced a new open-source project designed to enable AI agents to communicate with and discover one another in a standardized manner. The project, called DNS-AID, uses the internet’s existing Domain Name System (DNS) as the basis for a decentralized age … | Continue reading
The “SaaSpocalypse” does not appear to be reflected in the figures from the SaaS companies that were supposed to fall victim to it. Nevertheless, investors are reacting very differently to the results of Snowflake, Salesforce, Zscaler, Nutanix, and others. On April 9, Snowflake h … | Continue reading
CrowdStrike, in collaboration with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has dismantled an international botnet that specifically targeted software developers and open-source software chains. The network, which operated under the name Glassworm, used compromised software extens … | Continue reading