Andreessen Horowitz today announced that it has raised a $1.1 billion fund to back artificial intelligence infrastructure startups. The Machine Age Fund will invest in companies that make data center equipment such as chips, memory and networking gear. Andreessen Horowitz also plans to prioritize providers of edge AI hardware. The venture capital firm listed smart […] The post Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1B AI infrastructure fund appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
A federal court has overturned the U.S. Defense Department’s ban on Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence models. Judge Rita Lin wrote in a late Thursday ruling that the Pentagon’s move was “illegal and baseless.” The saga began in fall 2025, when the Defense Department approached Anthropic about bringing Claude to an internal platform called GenAI.mil. The […] The post Court rules Pentagon can’t ban Anthropic’s AI models appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
The artificial intelligence juggernaut kept cruising along this week thanks to big earnings results from Nvidia — and even Salesforce, the supposed epicenter of the SaaSpocalypse. Nvidia not only beat all expectations for revenue, CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) indicated it’s going to be capacity-constrained for awhile longer, which certainly indicates no diminution of demand. Likewise […] The post It’s Nvidia’s world. We just live in it appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Anthropic PBC today previewed a standard that makes it easier for artificial intelligence agents to control machines such as microscopes. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is the fruit of a collaboration between the Claude developer and medical research institute HHMI. Anthropic has so far only made the technology accessible to a limited number of […] The post Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI agents that operate machines appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding. The company told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the round is being co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark. It’s set to value Instinct at $2.5 billion. The startup previously raised $100 million […] The post Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct reportedly raising $250M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Enterprise AI capabilities are improving almost everywhere, yet the returns still trail the spending. The technology is reaching production, but it often stops short of the business process where revenue, innovation and risk actually live — a gap that is now reshaping how enterprises measure AI success. That gap is widest in industries where a […] The post The enterprise AI payoff shifts beyond models to mission-critical workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Rumors that an acquisition was in the cards first leaked on Monday. Business Insider broke the news that Hugging Face had received interest from multiple prospective buyers. On late Wednesday, The Information reported that Nvidia […] The post Nvidia reportedly acquires AI project hosting platform Hugging Face for $12.9B appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence is changing what storage and data management platforms look like. In collaboration with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Solidigm, DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DDN Enterprise AI HyperPOD, built on Nvidia Corp.’s AI Data Platform. The goal is to simplify the storage, scaling and deployment of AI inference for enterprise workloads. “Customers are […] The post The AI storage stack gets an inference-era rethink appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Runable Inc., a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses build, run and grow, announced Wednesday that it raised $21 million in early-stage funding to scale its operations and reach more enterprise outfits. Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners co-led the Series A funding round, alongside continued support from existing investors Together Fund […] The post Runable raises $21M to realize small businesses’ growth vision using AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today announced the launch of Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review, aimed at developer teams adopting artificial intelligence coding agents at an ever-increasing pace. Now that AI agents produce code faster than a team can write, review, test and deploy it, that work is shifting to where […] The post Harness tackles influx of agent-delivered code with Code Repository and AI Code Review appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Plaud Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled note-taking devices, today introduced the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of earbuds and a charging box that connect people to AI agents for work and everyday digital tasks. Both the Plaud One earbuds and the case can act as listening devices to record nearby conversations, and the […] The post Plaud unveils wearable earbuds with built-in agentic AI interface appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates sounded the alarm recently regarding how artificial intelligence will cause profound disruption in the labor market, warning that millions of jobs are at risk and there’s no plan yet to help those who will lose out. Gates, now a philanthropist, said in an almost-6,000-word essay that the transition to the […] The post Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Z.ai Co. today released the code for GLM-5.3-Flash, a large language model that is ten times more cost-efficient than its predecessor. The algorithm made its original debut last week under the codename Ox Alpha. LLM marketplace operator OpenRouter Inc. launched a free hosted version of Ox Alpha and didn’t disclose its developer, which drew a […] The post Z.ai open-sources ‘Ox Alpha’ model as GLM-5.3-Flash appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised $43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons and Zscaler Inc., a publicly traded cybersecurity provider. The deal brings Deep Cogito’s total outside funding to more than […] The post Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Since completing its acquisition of VMware in 2023, Broadcom Inc. has reshaped the company around VMware Cloud Foundation or VCF. Over the past three years, Broadcom has positioned VCF as a major on-premises alternative to public cloud, with private cloud becoming a central part of its strategy that will undoubtedly be one of the primary […] The post What to expect during VMware Explore: Join theCUBE Aug. 31-Sept. 2 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the enterprise world is still dealing with a data pipeline problem. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 99% of this data is dark to AI because there is no easy solution to query it, according to industry experts. Yet organizations are still trying to build AI […] The post AMD, Supermicro and MinIO target the enterprise data pipeline bottleneck appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Glean Technologies Inc. today unveiled Glean Tau, a desktop workspace that connects the company’s enterprise artificial intelligence to a user’s local files, applications and code. The launch anchors a broad slate of product news at Glean:GO, the company’s conference this week in San Francisco. Packaged with it were benchmark numbers aimed at Anthropic PBC. Glean said […] The post Glean unveils Tau desktop workspace, claims token-cost edge over Claude appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence developer Stability AI Ltd. today announced that it has raised $76 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, the world’s three largest record labels. They were joined by more than a half dozen others including AMD Ventures. London-based […] The post Major record labels, AMD back $76M round for Stability AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it has exited stealth with $26 million in funding to try and revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, rather than the billions of autonomous agents that many believe will soon dominate the internet. The seed round was backed by investors including Accel, Brightwing Capital, […] The post Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weighing an investment in the startup that could value it at over $30 billion. Furthermore, Nvidia has reportedly floated the idea of licensing Perplexity’s technology and […] The post Perplexity AI launches Portable Computer on-device AI agent appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Apple Inc. today debuted four custom processors that will power a new generation of Macs. The company is bringing to market a new Mac mini miniature desktop and Mac Studio workstation that are both available in two editions. Each edition features a different processor. All the chips include a central processing unit, a graphics processing […] The post Apple refreshes Mac mini, Mac Studio lineups with new chips appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts and generate more data that they must access quickly during inference. Agentic AI is also changing the shape of the data problem. Interactions are growing longer […] The post AI inference gets a new tier as context windows grow appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Scaling enterprise AI depends on more than deploying intelligent agents. For Banco BS2, a Brasil-based digital bank, it begins with establishing the infrastructure, governance and operational discipline needed to support AI before expanding its use across the organization. Operating in Brasil’s highly regulated banking environment makes that foundation especially important. The country’s financial institutions must […] The post Banco BS2 takes a foundation-first approach to scaling enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC announced today it’s changing how Claude, its flagship AI product, uses memory by allowing users to see everything it remembers “topic by topic,” and edit or delete any of it. Claude also does not store sensitive subjects by default. This includes topics mentioned by users, including health concerns, race, ethnicity, […] The post Anthropic updates Claude’s memory to enhance customization and protect sensitive topics appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational AI models have grown smaller and more efficient, adding numerous capabilities alongside language understanding, computer vision and audio processing. As more AI models compress in […] The post Nvidia doubles compute for entry-level edge robotics with Jetson Orin Nano 2 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is crossing an important threshold. The conversation is shifting from acquiring graphics processing units to building complete AI factories that can generate tokens reliably, efficiently and at scale. This is the next bottleneck. GPUs may be the engine, but an AI factory is a system. Compute, networking, storage, cooling, software […] The post AI factories enter the execution era as Cisco and NVIDIA push rack-scale systems into production appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework for deploying artificial intelligence across their entire infrastructure, Secure AI Factory with Nvidia from Cisco Systems Inc. now integrates rack-to-fabric liquid cooling supporting systems beyond 200 […] The post Nvidia and Cisco push the enterprise AI factory into the rack-scale era appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
AI factories are moving from ambitious plans toward production, but the path from graphics processing unit acquisition to usable systems remains a race against time. Neoclouds already have customers waiting for capacity, enterprises are looking to bring inference workloads closer to home and sovereign AI programs are being built now. Those distinct buyer motions are […] The post Cisco and Nvidia take AI factories from rack to runtime appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement data to train robots. Smart robotics requires tremendous amounts of high-quality data taken from various environments. Most of the training data used to build the artificial intelligence foundation […] The post Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Generalist AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding. Axios today cited a source as saying that 8VC led the investment. It was reportedly joined by a number of unnamed existing investors. Generalist’s previous $400 million round in June included the participation of Nvidia Corp., […] The post Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.