<p>Arguments about what is and isn&#8217;t &#8220;open source&#8221; are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as &#8220;open source&#8221; by the OSI&#8217;s formal &#8220;definition,&#8221; then that software is open source. But waters muddy when you get into the nuts and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.</p>

<p>AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power them have a ton of useful applications, but for all their promise, they&#8217;re not very reliable. No one knows when this problem will be solved, so it makes sense that we&#8217;re seeing startups finding an opportunity in helping enterprises make sure the LLM-powered apps they&#8217;re paying [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sprinklr has cut 15% of its workforce — around 500 employees — due to business performance not meeting expectations.</p>

<p>GitHub has announced a slew of updates for Copilot, while also giving a glimpse into a more agentic future for its AI-powered pair programmer. Among the notable updates includes a feature called Vision for Copilot, which allows users to attach a screenshot, photo, or diagram to a chat, with Copilot generating the interface, code, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global supply chains. More recently, the &#8220;TikTok-ification&#8221; of retail has companies like Shein and Temu creating new products constantly as consumer demands change at the same rapid pace. Pendulum aims to help companies better plan for supply and demand in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TrueFoundry, a startup offering enterprises a platform to deploy compound AI systems at scale, as raised $19 million in a Series A round led by Intel Capital.</p>

<p>When you think about platforms in the construction industry, chances are the concrete slabs designed to support steel beams and tall pillars will come first to your mind. Munich-based startup Comstruct wants to design a different kind of platform for the construction industry — a software platform. At its core, Comstruct is a procurement platform for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup out of Munich, Germany, called Avelios has ambitions to build a new kind of end-to-end operating system, leaning into more modern tooling using AI and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Modern product engineering requires the production of highly accurate digital simulations, allowing engineers to create prototypes and understand the real-world performance of materials. Currently, legacy software platforms from companies like IBM and Dassault are generally deployed, but now startups are joining the arena, powered by generative AI. One such is Trace.Space, coming out of Riga, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot speaks of the opportunity in the space for those who are stepping up and targeting &#8220;the job site.&#8221; One of the players in that space, XOi&nbsp; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprise HR platform Workday is the latest tech company to announce layoffs in recent weeks. The Silicon Valley-based company laid off 1,750 employees on Wednesday, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. That total represents approximately 8.5% of head count. Unlike many other tech companies, including Meta and Microsoft, Workday has not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AMD says that it plans to launch its next major data center GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI350 series, sooner than originally announced. During the company&#8217;s Q4 2024 earnings call Tuesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su said AMD plans to sample the MI350 with &#8220;lead customers&#8221; this quarter and &#8220;accelerate&#8221; production shipments to &#8220;mid-year.&#8221; &#8220;So, we had [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cybersecurity company SailPoint is hoping to sell $1 billion worth of stock in its upcoming IPO and offer another signal that IPOs will become hot again.</p>

<p>Amazon’s power bill has been soaring lately as it adds data centers to deal with rising demand for AI and cloud services.</p>

<p>U.S. access and identity management giant Okta laid off 180 employees on Tuesday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch &#8212; just over one year after it let go of 400 workers. The company separately conducted a workforce reduction in February of 2023 that affected 300 employees. While Okta did not share how many employees it has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amid China&#8217;s retaliation to recently announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China&#8217;s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI&#8217;s American backyard, OpenAI is expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior &#8212; a gateway to doing more business in these markets in the future on its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Adam Candeub, a known critic of Big Tech, looks poised to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Candeub will be general counsel of the FCC, reports Semafor, which cites direct confirmation from FCC chairman Brendan Carr. TechCrunch has reached out to the FCC for more information. Candeub has long been a vocal critic of Section [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc&#8217;s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose &#8220;unacceptable risk&#8221; or harm. February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU&#8217;s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The [&hellip;]</p>