<p>Public semiconductor company Arm will start making its own chips this year after landing a high-profile enterprise customer. Arm, which is majorly owned by SoftBank, will start making its own chips now that Meta has signed on as a customer, according to the Financial Times. The chip is expected to be a CPU for servers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When EJ Cho started his first company in 2018, he was exposed to what it takes to market a product. He was surprised to find a market filled with different single-use tools. &#8220;It was a very frustrating experience,&#8221; Cho told TechCrunch. &#8220;I had to learn and juggle all these different tools. It felt like a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Seagate, the data storage company, has announced its intent to acquire Intevac, a hard drive equipment producer, in an all-cash deal worth $119 million. Seagate said on Thursday that it&#8217;ll pay $4 per share in a tender offer for Intevac, which is publicly traded. Seagate will initially purchase a minimum of &#8220;at least one share [&hellip;]</p>

<p>EnCharge AI, a semiconductor startup developing analog memory chips for AI applications, has raised more than $100 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global to spur its next stage of growth.&nbsp; The funding is significant partly because interest in AI is at an all-time high, but the high price of building and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new study argues that data centers could be ideal demand-response participants because they have the potential to be flexible.</p>

<p>Identity security company CyberArk has acquired identity governance and administration (IGA) platform Zilla Security in a deal worth up to $175 million. The transaction consists of a $165 million cash portion and an additional $10 million &#8220;earn-out&#8221; which is payable upon meeting certain milestones &#8212; it can be seen as an incentive for the founders [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Developer tooling and containerization company Docker has a new CEO: Former Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) executive vice president Don Johnson (pictured above) landed in the hot seat starting Wednesday. Incumbent Scott Johnston will leave the company with immediate effect. During his eight-year spell at Oracle, Johnson was instrumental in transitioning the company from its legacy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Drata, a security compliance automation platform&nbsp;that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR, has acquired software security review startup SafeBase for $250 million. SafeBase co-founders Al Yang (CEO) and Adar Arnon (CTO) will retain their roles, and SafeBase will continue to offer a stand-alone product while bringing its core solutions to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and AWS launched cloud software marketplaces a decade ago, it opened up a new sales channel for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to get in front of potential enterprise customers. These marketplaces effectively enabled SaaS companies to bypass the traditional, lengthy sales cycles. But rarely is the seller-side experience a walk [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: In the world of cloud services, where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials.  A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More and more legal professionals are embracing AI, surveys show. Per a recent poll from legal tech company Clio, 79% of firms used some form of AI for casework last year, up from just 19% in 2023. Despite some skepticism of the tech, in-house counsel has shown an interest, as well, with one survey suggesting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brands are constantly trying to streamline how they source packaging materials and ingredient suppliers for their products in order to quickly meet consumer demand. However, even today this process can involve some laborious wandering around trade shows. Keychain is an AI-powered platform that aims to quickly connect the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry with manufacturing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lucidity, an Indian startup allowing enterprises to automate expansion and shrinking of their cloud storage, has raised $21 million in a Series A round.</p>

<p>If you’re working for a small company and want to build a client portal or an internal tool, it can be difficult to find the budget and resources to allocate a developer to that small project. That’s why more than 600,000 people, including project managers, HR employees, and marketing people, have been trying Softr’s no-code [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the chief product officer for AI customer service startup Talkdesk, Charanya &#8220;CK&#8221; Kannan said that enterprises often say they want to automate different workflows but that it&#8217;s really hard to implement AI. Enterprises are dealing with clunky, legacy software that often doesn&#8217;t have APIs, creating a daunting task their IT departments weren&#8217;t prioritizing. &#8220;Every [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Quantum computing, long relegated to the realm of the theoretical, feels like it is back on the agenda as a potentially viable alternative to the expensive race for even more computing power.&nbsp; On the heels of some notable advancements in quantum chips and error correction (two key hurdles for quantum computing), a startup out of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HR giant Workday is launching a new way for enterprises to keep track of all of their AI agents in one place. It&#8217;s also launching a few more AI agents of its own, for good measure. Silicon Valley-based Workday announced on Tuesday the release of Workday Agent System of Record, which is meant to help [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unimaginable disasters like the fires in Los Angeles cause hundreds of billions of dollars in destruction, and put a huge focus on the role the insurance industry plays in the process of rebuilding. Those events also lead to major financial losses at the insurance companies themselves, and longer term, all of this will put a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When companies take shortcuts to build their software stack, prioritizing speed and quick fixes over quality and long-term scalability, they can end up with what&#8217;s known as &#8220;technical debt.&#8221; Essentially, if a codebase is not constructed properly, as it grows, it will become more complex, cost more to maintain, and become ever harder to add [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bird, formerly MessageBird, has cut 120 jobs — roughly one-third of its workforce — as the startup plans to realign its global operations.</p>