Releases & Updates

Salesforce makes first quantum investment, backing Q-CTRL

Global quantum software provider Q-CTRL has announced Series B-1 funding of $27.4m, with participation from Salesforce Ventures

Emerging Technology & Innovation

Manufacturing

Tech leaders call on UK government to deliver semiconductor strategy

In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, tech leaders have asked the government to prepare and publish the UK’s semiconductor strategy as a matter of urgency

Cybersecurity

61,000 open source projects, vulnerable to 15-year-old flaw, now patched

Following discovery of a 15-year-old vulnerability affecting open source projects through Python, Trellix has managed to patch over 61,000 of the ventures affected

Releases & Updates

Google to make 12,000 employees redundant

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced in a company memo that around 12,000 employees in the US will be made redundant, as big tech continues to take cost-cutting measures

AI & Machine Learning

Microsoft announces general availability of Azure OpenAI Service

Emerging Technology & Innovation

Oxford Ionics secures £30m in funding towards UK quantum innovation

Oxford University-based start-up Oxford Ionics has secured £30m from investors including Arm founder Herman Hauser, to boost further quantum innovation in the UK