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Database unicorn startup Redis acquired open-source data storage engine startup Speedb for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will help Redis further enhance its open-source database by increasing the speed of real-time data processing and lowering the latency in user experience. Later this year, Redis will integrate Speedb's storage engine into its open-source database platform. Keep reading:

Microsoft is paying Inflection AI $650M, of which $620M is for non-exclusive licensing fees for using its technology, sources told The Information. The tech giant paid an additional $30M to avoid any poaching lawsuit from Inflection after hiring its two co-founders, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, and most of its 70-person team earlier this week. Read more:

The United Nations General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution supporting safe, trustworthy, and human-centric AI. The U.S. first proposed the nonbinding rules, which were co-sponsored by China and 121 other countries. Keep reading:

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The time taken by European Series A startups to raise the subsequent Series B round widened by 85% in H2 2023 compared to H1 2022, per data from Carta cited by Sifted. European startups took about 760 days to raise Series B funding after closing a Series A round. Read up: https://lnkd.in/grr2Q45k

Southeast Asia's B2C startups bagged the largest share of VC funding in 2023, ending the year with $4.2B capital, per Pitchbook. Consumer-focused startups raked in 36.5% of the total funding deployed in the region. Learn more:

OpenAI could potentially release GPT-5 around mid-year, possibly in the summer, according to sources cited by Business Insider. Some enterprise customers have been shown demos of the newest model and its improvements to ChatGPT, according to a source. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gs3yNrdQ