<p>Google on Tuesday announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code completion service. Code Assist launched in April as a rebrand of a&nbsp;similar service&nbsp;Google offered under its now-defunct Duet AI branding. Available through plug-ins for popular dev environments like VS Code and JetBrains, Code Assist is powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Databricks, the data analytics platform, has raised $10 billion in a funding round that values the company at $62 billion (up from $43 billion). Backers include Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, GIC, and Iconiq Growth. The round is one of the largest venture rounds in history, and will drive future mergers and acquisitions, stock [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jon Morehouse launched PowerTools in 2019 to help companies ship static sites and serverless apps to their cloud accounts on providers like AWS and Azure. When a customer asked him if they could use PowerTools to deploy their software into one of their customer&#8217;s cloud accounts, Morehouse was skeptical. Morehouse told TechCrunch that after that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There are few matters in life that divide a room more than the prudence of putting pineapple on pizza. But if you&#8217;re of the persuasion that tropical fruit has no place on a pie, you&#8217;ll have to swallow a bitter pill &#8212; if you want to access the WordPress.org developer portal and forum, at least. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry&#8217;s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant discount from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the startup in 2018. Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in BlackBerry&#8217;s fiscal Q4, BlackBerry will sell its Cylance assets to Arctic Wolf for $160 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows companies to patch up their security holes before something catastrophic happens. Prequel is looking to bring that same approach to software. The startup is building a database of software failure patterns or [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google has appointed Preeti Lobana to lead its India business, filling a key position that had been vacant since Sanjay Gupta&#8217;s promotion to Asia-Pacific president in July. Lobana, who was vice president of advertising technology at Google, takes over as the company pushes its AI products in India amid intensifying competition in the digital market. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community happy and ensuring that third parties don&#8217;t abuse the permissions afforded by the license. Many companies have launched with lofty open source ambitions, only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community happy and ensuring that third parties don&#8217;t abuse the permissions afforded by the license. Many companies have launched with lofty open source ambitions, only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Databricks is close to finalizing a $9.5 billion round at a $60 billion valuation, including a secondary sale for employees that could climb even higher before it closes, Reuters reports. Just 17 days ago, Reuters reported that the deal was at $8 billion and a $55 billion valuation. Thrive Capital is leading the deal with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Databricks is close to finalizing a $9.5 billion round at a $60 billion valuation, including a secondary sale for employees that could climb even higher before it closes, Reuters reports. Just 17 days ago, Reuters reported that the deal was at $8 billion and a $55 billion valuation. Thrive Capital is leading the deal with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The oil and gas company announced that it’s planning to build a massive power plant for data centers. </p>

<p>The oil and gas company announced that it’s planning to build a massive power plant for data centers. </p>

<p>Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $250 million in a Series A led by AMD. Per Bloomberg, the round values Liquid AI at over $2 billion. Liquid AI aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. Liquid [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $250 million in a Series A led by AMD. Per Bloomberg, the round values Liquid AI at over $2 billion. Liquid AI aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. Liquid [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s bringing its viral NotebookLM app to the enterprise via a new service for Google Cloud customers, Agentspace.</p>

<p>OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a &#8220;new telemetry service&#8221; gone awry. On Wednesday, OpenAI&#8217;s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT; its video generator, Sora; and its developer-facing API experienced major disruptions starting at around 3 p.m. Pacific. OpenAI acknowledged the problem soon after and began working on a fix. But [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The coalition, which is organized by Acadia, is seeking to invest $9 billion to build 5 gigawatts worth of renewable power.</p>

<p>The coalition, which is organized by Acadia, is seeking to invest $9 billion to build 5 gigawatts worth of renewable power.</p>

<p>Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen. The company is about to expand to Europe, where new accessibility regulations are about to take effect, and has raised $55 million to fuel the expansion. Evinced [&hellip;]</p>