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TV-Software: Gericht stiftet Verwirrung um Open Source
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.
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Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/28/adaptive6-…

Adaptive6 scores $28M in early funding to find and fix cloud cost inefficiencies - SiliconANGLE
Adaptive6 scores $28M in early funding to find and fix cloud cost inefficiencies - SiliconANGLE

The Television Academy merges the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Talk Series into a single category for 2026 Emmys as submissions decline (Casey Loving/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/awards/telev…

Television Academy Merges Scripted Variety and Talk Series Categories for 2026 Emmys
As submissions for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Talk Series continue to dwindle, the Television Academy has merged the two Emmy categories.

»Vernetzte Fernseher vor Gericht — Open Source Code muss nicht installierbar sein:
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.«
Nur weil was Kostenlos ist, heißt es noch lange nicht, dass mensch es ohne Erwähnung der Open-Source Lizenz- & Code-Hinweis in seine Projekte integrieren darf.
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Vernetzte Fernseher vor Gericht: Open Source Code muss nicht installierbar sein
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/stepfun-series-b-round-470495/

Tencent-backed China LLM unicorn StepFun bags $720m in Series B+ round
StepFund expects to deploy its LLMs into over one million vehicles this year.

Sicherheit zuerst: Schwarz-Rot will Transparenzpflichten bei Kritis einschränken
CDU/CSU und SPD fordern Vorrang für Sabotageschutz vor Info-Rechten. Ein Antrag zum Kritis-Dachgesetz sieht auch schnellere Warnwege und mehr Kontrollen vor.

Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html

Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
Google just announced it is looking into ways to allow websites to specifically opt out of Google using its content in the Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. This comes b

Nvidia veröffentlicht drei Open-Source-KI-Modelle für die Wettervorhersage
Nvidia hat drei neue KI-Modelle für Wettervorhersagen angekündigt. Sie sollen schneller und energieeffizienter sein als herkömmliche Supercomputer.

The Allen Institute for AI launches SERA, open-source coding agents including 32B- and 8B-parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/27/ai2-launches-family-open-sou…

Ai2 launches family of open-source AI developer agents that adapt to any codebase - SiliconANGLE
Ai2 launches family of open-source AI developer agents that adapt to any codebase - SiliconANGLE

Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60 countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/slice-ra

Slice Raises $25M Series A Led By Insight Partners For AI-Powered Global Equity Compliance
Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Fenwick and Cooley LLP and existing backers TLV Partners, R-Squared Ventures, and Jibe Ventures. The round brings Slice’s total