<p>Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that&nbsp;take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.&nbsp; At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is making openly available a family of world models that can predict and generate &#8220;physics-aware&#8221; videos. Nvidia is calling this family Cosmos [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Qualcomm is making a move for the mid-range PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X, the latest chip in its Snapdragon X Series of PC processors. The company claims that the chip, built on a 4nm fabrication process, delivers up to &#8220;multi-day&#8221; battery life [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Qualcomm is making a move for the mid-range PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X, the latest chip in its Snapdragon X Series of PC processors. The company claims that the chip, built on a 4nm fabrication process, delivers up to &#8220;multi-day&#8221; battery life [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fresh off of its worst year since going public in 1971, Intel is announcing new chips at CES 2025 that it hopes will turn its fortunes around. The product announcement is Intel&#8217;s largest since the company&#8217;s board of directors forced out CEO Pat Gelsinger. That&#8217;s not the only reason stakes are high. Intel&#8217;s 13th- and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024. On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis, announced it has agreed to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in a deal that values the latter at $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.25 billion). The deal, which is all-cash, was unanimously approved by Softchoice&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While AI is lauded by some as the biggest technological breakthrough since the industrial revolution, enterprises — arguably the tech&#8217;s biggest potential customer base — have been slow to adopt AI. While some investors predicted that 2024 would be the year we&#8217;d start to see more AI adoption by enterprises, that didn&#8217;t play out as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the U.K.&#8217;s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM&#8217;s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16. The regulator set a provisional February 25 deadline to decide whether [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It has been a busy year in the private equity realm, with countless big-money acquisitions unfolding. The take-private space specifically has seen some sizable transactions, with private equity firms spearheading more than a dozen billion-dollar deals for public tech companies. London-headquartered Permira was a key protagonist, joining Blackstone to acquire European online classifieds group Adevinta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Updated December 25, 12:21 p.m. Pacific: Added details of xAI&#8217;s valuation and Kingdom Holdings&#8217; contribution. xAI, Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, has raised $6 billion in a Series C financing round. The company announced this week that Andreessen Horowitz , Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Nvidia, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Coralogix, the well-funded observability platform, on Monday announced that it has acquired Aporia, a startup that focuses on giving businesses tools to observe and secure their AI workloads, as well as set guardrails for them to avoid hallucinations or unintended disclosures. As part of this acquisition, Coralogix will launch a dedicated AI research center, Coralogix [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI creates a dilemma for companies: Don&#8217;t implement it yet, and you might miss out on productivity gains and other potential benefits, but do it wrong, and you might expose your business and clients to unmitigated risks. This is where a new wave of &#8220;security for AI&#8221; startups comes in, with the premise that these [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI creates a dilemma for companies: Don&#8217;t implement it yet, and you might miss out on productivity gains and other potential benefits, but do it wrong, and you might expose your business and clients to unmitigated risks. This is where a new wave of &#8220;security for AI&#8221; startups comes in, with the premise that these [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Logistics is the name of the game during the holiday season: Companies that can seal the deal and get people and things to the places they need to be, on time, rake it in this time of year.&nbsp; But behind that demand lies a huge amount of inefficiency and fragmentation. Are logistics businesses ready for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Logistics is the name of the game during the holiday season: Companies that can seal the deal and get people and things to the places they need to be, on time, rake it in this time of year.&nbsp; But behind that demand lies a huge amount of inefficiency and fragmentation. Are logistics businesses ready for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Accounting firms are struggling to adopt high-tech solutions. That&#8217;s according to a survey earlier this year from Rightsworks, which found that, while 88% of firms believe tech has had a positive impact on their efficiency, 60% are suffering from disconnected systems, inconsistent processes, and a lack of standardized workflows. Startups like Aiwyn are trying to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon which specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources, the companies announced on Wednesday. CEO Aravind Srinivasan says this will allow Perplexity to search through your files and work messages in Notion, Google Docs, Slack, and other enterprise applications sometime in early 2025. Carbon specializes in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft bought more than twice as many Nvidia Hopper chips this year than any of its biggest rivals. The tech giant bought 485,000 Nvidia Hopper chips across 2024 according to reporting from the Financial Times, which cited data from tech consultancy Omdia. To compare, Meta bought 224,000 of the same flagship Nvidia chip this year. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft&#8217;s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cloud software giant Salesforce is looking to hire thousands of new salespeople to sell its AI tools to customers. The company plans to hire 2,000 new sales representatives, according to CNBC, which cited remarks from CEO Marc Benioff at a company event Tuesday. This doubles the hiring plans that Benioff shared with Bloomberg last month. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With cloud spend continuing to surge, tech companies are scrambling to meet demand for the necessary infrastructure, with the growing need for AI compute only adding fuel to the fire. By way of example, Microsoft and BlackRock have created a $30 billion fund to support new data centers and energy infrastructure for the burgeoning AI [&hellip;]</p>