All articles by Greg Noone
Greg Noone
Greg Noone is a feature writer for Tech Monitor. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian and Outside.
Samsung snaps up Oxford Semantic Technologies
The UK university spinout’s acquisition, said Samsung, will allow the firm to augment its knowledge graph capabilities.
Labour unveils AI, cybersecurity goals in King’s Speech
The UK’s new Labour government pledged to regulate foundation model developers and strengthen cybersecurity disclosure rules for businesses.
ASML posts strong earnings thanks to China sales, AI boom
The second-quarter earnings beat market expectations as ASML benefits from continued corporate interest in all things AI.
Microsoft’s Inflection AI licensing deal to be scrutinised in formal CMA probe
The CMA’s expanded probe into Inflection AI comes after Microsoft hired several prominent members of the AI startup as part of a $650m licensing deal.
Kaspersky Labs ceases operating in the US
Kaspersky’s decision comes after a ban on US sales of the cybersecurity firm’s products by the Biden administration.
Alphabet in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23bn
The deal to buy Wiz would be the biggest-ever acquisition by Google’s parent company and would burnish the latter’s cloud security credentials.
Graphcore acquired by Softbank
The purchase of the UK chip design firm is the latest attempt by Softbank to burnish its AI credentials.
AT&T breach sees an estimated 109 million customers’ call logs leaked
Despite the sheer volume of records stolen, AT&T maintains that no personally identifiable information belonging to its customers was stolen.
Microsoft settles antitrust complaint with CISPE for €20m
The settlement will also see Microsoft reset its software pricing for CISPE members, refund them for lost revenues and evade an EU antitrust investigation triggered by the original complaint.
Microsoft abandons observer seat on OpenAI board
The decision comes as Microsoft faces increasing regulatory scrutiny into its relationship with OpenAI in the US and UK