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Bloomberg: Sources: Paris-based Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising ~€450M at a ~$2B valuation; a16z could provide €200M and Nvidia and Salesforce €120M in debt  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Paris-based Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising ~€450M at a ~$2B valuation; a16z could provide €200M and Nvidia and Salesforce €120M in debt  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: NYC-based generative AI video startup Runway partners with Getty Images on an AI video model, shipping in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising  —  Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, after announcing the feature in September 2020  —  Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Paris-based Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising ~€450M at a ~$2B valuation; a16z could provide €200M and Nvidia and Salesforce €120M in debt  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held talks with Zoom; Zoom’s $14.7B takeover of Five9 fell apart in September 2021  —  – Call center software firm working to gauge buyer interest  — Five9 and Zoom have spoken about possibly resurrecting a deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology’s $2.18B win against Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading to a new trial over a second VLSI patent  —  A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out a $2.18 billion patent-infringement award won by patent owner VLSI Technology against Intel Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on November 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September, X saw 27M downloads, vs. Threads’ 41M  —  Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working.  According to a new analysis of app store trends … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Ofcom starts a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm a user’s age  —  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Rockstar releases the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional Miami, featuring a male and a female protagonist, and to be released in 2025  —  Crime-themed franchise is among the most successful in video-game history  —  Rockstar Games released the first trailer … Lees verder op Tech Meme