<p>If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look interesting typically can see hundreds or thousands of applications in a matter of hours — data that LinkedIn, a social network for the world of work, proudly exposes in its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles several, but not all, of the company&#8217;s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365. The new plan, Copilot Chat &#8212; not to be confused with Microsoft&#8217;s Copilot Business Chat or GitHub Copilot Chat &#8212; is underpinned by OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-4o AI model and lets users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look interesting typically can see hundreds or thousands of applications in a matter of hours — data that LinkedIn, a social network for the world of work, proudly exposes in its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles several, but not all, of the company&#8217;s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365. The new plan, Copilot Chat &#8212; not to be confused with Microsoft&#8217;s Copilot Business Chat or GitHub Copilot Chat &#8212; is underpinned by OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-4o AI model and lets users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy. Synthesia, a London startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says it’s a big hit with enterprises, with some 60,000 of them &#8212; 1 million users &#8212; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy. Synthesia, a London startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says it’s a big hit with enterprises, with some 60,000 of them &#8212; 1 million users &#8212; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel says that it plans to spin off its corporate venture arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone fund, with Intel as an &#8220;anchor investor.&#8221; In a press release on Tuesday, Intel said that the move will &#8220;[enable] greater autonomy&#8221; and &#8220;the flexibility to attract external capital.&#8221; Intel expects Intel Capital to begin operating independently in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden is not done leaving his mark on the AI industry. President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that will allow private sector AI companies to lease federal sites owned by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy in order to build AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden is not done leaving his mark on the AI industry. President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that will allow private sector AI companies to lease federal sites owned by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy in order to build AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple has joined a consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in AI data centers. The consortium, the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium&#8217;s board, along [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple has joined a consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in AI data centers. The consortium, the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium&#8217;s board, along [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have said that &#8220;very useful quantum computers&#8221; are probably still 20 years away, but his company is also hedging its bets beyond classical chips with investments and partnerships in that very space. Now one of the companies that Nvidia partners with in quantum development is announcing funding. SEEQC, a quantum [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani swapped stories — and commiserated — over the pain points they were facing in their respective engineering jobs. Nilo told TechCrunch that a frequent topic of conversation was about frustrations over the reliability platforms they were using at work. When they noticed the reliability landscape starting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani swapped stories — and commiserated — over the pain points they were facing in their respective engineering jobs. Nilo told TechCrunch that a frequent topic of conversation was about frustrations over the reliability platforms they were using at work. When they noticed the reliability landscape starting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an announcement Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing division, said it plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next 15 years as a part of a &#8220;long-term commitment&#8221; in the region. A portion of that investment is a new server region launching today, AWS Mexico (Central) Region, that will allow [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an announcement Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing division, said it plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next 15 years as a part of a &#8220;long-term commitment&#8221; in the region. A portion of that investment is a new server region launching today, AWS Mexico (Central) Region, that will allow [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft has created a new engineering organization aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure and software development within the company. According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, previously VP and global head of engineering at Meta, will lead the new division. He&#8217;ll report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and oversee groups, including the company&#8217;s AI platform and developer teams. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Clearwater Analytics, a company developing accounting, compliance, and risk reporting tools for asset managers, said on Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire investment management platform Enfusion for $1.5 billion. Clearwater, which says it has obtained an $800 million loan to fund the transaction, along with a $200 million revolving line of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Clearwater Analytics, a company developing accounting, compliance, and risk reporting tools for asset managers, said on Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire investment management platform Enfusion for $1.5 billion. Clearwater, which says it has obtained an $800 million loan to fund the transaction, along with a $200 million revolving line of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Open source makes the technology world go &#8217;round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications. The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and transparency. However, there&#8217;s a perennial struggle between the open source and proprietary realms, leading [&hellip;]</p>