tech:

taffy

NextDocs Hires Microsoft Senior Director

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Nitin Bhatia has joined NextDocs as vice president, Global Services. As head of NextDocs’ worldwide services team, Mr. Bhatia is responsible for ensuring customer service during the sale, deployment, and ongoing management of NextDocs solutions.

Mr. Bhatia was previously a senior director in the Office 365 business group at Microsoft. In that role, he managed various teams while leading the development and advancement of Microsoft’s cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms. Prior to his role with the Office 365 group, Mr. Bhatia spent 14 years at Microsoft Services, where he held various leadership positions.

Just in

Snowflake to acquire TruEra AI observability platform

Snowflake has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TruEra, providers of an AI observability platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Biggest Windows 11 update in 2 years nearly finalized, enters Release Preview — Ars Technica

Microsoft has released Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.712 to its Release Preview testing channel for Windows Insiders, a sign that the update is nearly complete and that the company has shifted into bug-fixing mode ahead of general availability, writes Andrew Cunningham in Ars Technica. 

Elon Musk’s xAI is working on making Grok multimodal — The Verge

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is making progress on adding multimodal inputs to its Grok chatbot, according to public developer documents, writes Kylie Robison in The Verge.