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Cadence, Berkeley Design Automation Settle Lawsuit

Cadence and Berkeley Design Automation (BDA) have reached a settlement agreement in a case filed by Cadence against BDA last year. As part of the settlement, BDA and Cadence signed a multi-year agreement to support interoperability between BDA’s Analog FastSPICE Simulator and Cadence’s Virtuoso Analog Design Environment. BDA has also agreed to pay Cadence an undisclosed amount.

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Generative AI arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR — NYT

New AI technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can today, writes Cade Metz.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies, creating iPhone versus Android dynamic — CNBC

Meta will partner with external hardware companies, including Lenovo, Microsoft and Asus, to build virtual reality headsets using the company’s Meta Horizon operating system, writes Kif Leswing. 

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone — The Verge

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users, writes Tom Warren.