Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies — – DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets — FBI probe into Hone Capital comes after it became the most prolific early investor is US tech start-ups
Google Cloud VP Gabe Monroy says he has seen 20%-30% productivity gains across the software development lifecycle at large companies using Gemini Code Assist (Vikas SN/Moneycontrol)
Vikas SN / Moneycontrol:
Google Cloud VP Gabe Monroy says he has seen 20%-30% productivity gains across the software development lifecycle at large companies using Gemini Code Assist — Google’s Gabe Monroy claims to have seen productivity gains of 20-30 percent across the software development lifecycle …
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is building “three” super apps: Uber, Uber Eats, and Uber Driver, a platform for couriers and drivers; Uber One has 19M members (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is building “three” super apps: Uber, Uber Eats, and Uber Driver, a platform for couriers and drivers; Uber One has 19M members — In the years since its founding in 2009, Uber instigated a revolution in transport, spread its disruptive business model …
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung’s SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung’s SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances …
The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn’t lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers (Rebecca Rainey/Bloomberg Law)
Rebecca Rainey / Bloomberg Law:
The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn’t lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers — Search by Topic — The US Labor Department rolled out a new website Tuesday to instruct employers and workers …
London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)
Tom Matsuda / Sifted:
London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M — Apron CEO Bogdan Uzbekov says the fintech is currently focused on growth over profitability — A former product lead at Revolut …
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors’ copyrighted works (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors’ copyrighted works — At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B — Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company’s faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company’s faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
