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Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.6B in 2022 — – Dexcom invests $75 million in the seller of fitness rings — Companies will integrate their apps and cross-sell products — Smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst — – Rox, an early-stage startup, raised $50 million from investors — Company completed seed and Series A deals while in stealth
Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip — High-performance networking chip startup Enfabrica Corp. today announced a significant new cash injection, raising $115 million …
Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to make LLM switching easier, says 60,000 customers use Azure AI, and updates 365 Copilot to automate repetitive tasks (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to make LLM switching easier, says 60,000 customers use Azure AI, and updates 365 Copilot to automate repetitive tasks — The software maker also previewed new chips and Office AI features. … Azure AI Foundry will make it easier to switch between …
Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, including a Quick Machine Recovery feature (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, including a Quick Machine Recovery feature — Now, Microsoft has some answers in the form of a new Windows Resiliency Initiative that’s designed to improve Windows security and reliability.
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC companion for its Windows 365 cloud service that runs a small Windows-based OS, shipping in April 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC companion for its Windows 365 cloud service that runs a small Windows-based OS, shipping in April 2025 — Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 — Microsoft is creating an in-person hacking event, Zero Day Quest, which it says will be the largest of its kind.
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview — If Windows in mixed reality sounds like your idea of a good time, rejoice. Microsoft said on Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024 it’s bringing the …
Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip — Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security …
Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview (Danielle Abril/Washington Post)
Danielle Abril / Washington Post:
Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview — A new AI-powered interpreter is expected to simulate speakers’ voices in different languages during Microsoft Teams meetings.
