<p>Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday. The move marks Qualcomm&#8217;s continued expansion into the AI tooling sector. VinAI, which was founded by former DeepMind research scientist Hung Bui, develops a range of generative AI technologies, including [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel&#8217;s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan wasted no time laying out his plans for the semiconductor giant. Speaking at the Intel Vision conference this week, Tan told attendees that the company will spin off assets that aren&#8217;t core to its mission, Bloomberg reported. Tan didn&#8217;t specify what was classified as core and noncore to the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices &#8212; specifically providing a platform to orchestrate the messy business of building and operating integrations and updates across disparate services and apps in the cloud. But the AI boom has come at the company fast. Now, Temporal has raised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New and expanded data centers are expected to double the sector’s power demand by 2029 as tech companies rush to capitalize on AI.</p>

<p>When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the firm has been operating as Intel&#8217;s venture investment arm since 1991. In many ways this decision marks the end of an era for what&#8217;s considered by some to be the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HoneyBook, a startup last valued in late 2021 at $2.4 billion, told TechCrunch that it hit $140 million in annualized recurring revenue (ARR). This makes HoneyBook one of the few startups with peak-VC-era valuations to report their financials after the market cooled.&nbsp; Many startups that raised in 2021 and have not raised since then remain [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A fledgling open source startup that&#8217;s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay. WunderGraph, as the company is called, today said it has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding to &#8220;scale its open source GraphQL federation.&#8221; Investors include eBay&#8217;s VC [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia is looking to get into the server rental market. The semiconductor giant is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire Lepton AI, a company that rents out servers that are powered by Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips, according to The Information. Citing unnamed sources, the outlet says the deal deal is worth several hundred million dollars. Nvidia [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprise browser startup Island just raised a sizable funding round &#8212; one that bumps up its valuation significantly, and less than one year after its last fundraise. Dallas-based Island raised $250 million in a Series E round led by Coatue that valued the company at $4.85 billion, the startup announced today. This brings the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. Emerging from stealth today with $4 million in funding, ConfigHub is the handiwork of CEO Alexis Richardson, founder of cloud-native container management platform Weaveworks; CTO Brian Grant, former Google software engineer and original lead architect [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters &#8212; which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn&#8217;t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Open source data movement company Airbyte is launching additional connectors to help enterprises better utilize their data in the age of AI without compromising data sovereignty. The San Francisco-based startup announced on Thursday that it&#8217;s releasing a host of new capabilities designed to enable customers to securely move corporate data without tapping SaaS applications. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The company recently signed a deal with energy provider AES for three solar projects across the Midwest.</p>

<p>Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company&#8217;s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. &#8220;I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,&#8221; Aggarwal said in his post. &#8220;We built what might be the world’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and OpenAI among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible financing and credit, the company announced on Wednesday. It&#8217;s chump change for Dataminr, which closed a $475 million round at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021. But the company has seen its fair [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Aletiq raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the funding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury, and more. When you think [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Factorial, the Barcelona-based “unicorn” startup that provides an all-in-one HR platform in the cloud for small and medium businesses, has picked up a non-dilutive (no equity) $120 million from General Catalyst — money it says it&#8217;ll invest in one specific area: “go-to-market”, or GTM, the umbrella term used for the wider expenses associated with sales [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tuesday&#8217;s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop.  The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look [&hellip;]</p>

<p>GTC, Nvidia&#8217;s biggest conference of the year, returns this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can&#8217;t make it in person, don&#8217;t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we&#8217;ve made it easy for you to follow along. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company&#8217;s parent company Alphabet is buying Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal has now been confirmed. A source described the transaction as a $33 billion deal previously. That includes the $1 billion that Google is paying out [&hellip;]</p>