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The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there’s no plan as yet to make the details public fare. The Trump administration teamed up with executives from a number of firms that included Anthropic PBC, […] The post White House, AI firms keep safety framework talks private appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Technology holding company Bending Spoons S.p.A. today announced plans to acquire Airtable Inc., the developer of a popular cloud-based spreadsheet platform. The all-cash deal is worth $1.285 billion. That’s less than the approximately $1.4 billion Airtable has raised from its investors. The company was valued at $11.7 billion following its most recent funding round, a […] The post Bending Spoons to acquire productivity software startup Airtable for $1.285B appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered another strong quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations as its artificial intelligence infrastructure business continued its rapid expansion. The company posted 107% year-over-year growth in data center revenue, reinforcing that AMD is becoming a formidable challenger in the race to power enterprise AI. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker reported second-quarter […] The post AMD’s AI engine shifts into higher gear as data center revenue more than doubles, Helios ramps & market is confused appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Shares in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the newly public company beat Wall Street on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and disclosed capital spending billions of dollars above what analysts had modeled. It was SpaceX’s first quarterly report since its June initial public offering, the […] The post SpaceX stock falls 8% as first earnings beat is overshadowed by $18B capex appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night. The company said it developed Crew to allow developers to start a task, walk away and come back when something is worth administering. It tasks multiple agents and their sub-agents on a […] The post AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC. The round […] The post Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity’s next major attack surface appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.2 billion. Existing investors a16z, Base10, Y Combinator joined venture capital firms Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, T.Capital, Bankinter, Endeavor Catalyst, Kfund and Wave-X […] The post HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp. today announced it is open-sourcing the application programming interface for its powerful cuFile vertical data storage stack, enabling millisecond data access. The company also announced a large-scale industry initiative with technology leaders to optimize memory and storage with Storage-Next. The initiative […] The post Nvidia open-sources cuFile API, accelerating GPU read/write capability for high-speed storage appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced the formation of asago, an open-source community project intended to turn artificial intelligence governance policies into operational controls that can be deployed with AI systems. Short for AI Safety and Governance Orchestration, asago is intended to connect the work that is now often divided among compliance teams, data […] The post Red Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Developer tooling startup Convex Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $57 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital also contributed to the Series B investment. It brings Convex’s total outside funding to $110.5 million. Convex was founded in 2021 by former members of Dropbox Inc.’s infrastructure […] The post Convex reels in $57M for its AI-optimized application backend appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT’s advanced features. Part of a $250 million initiative, the program initially opens to 10,000 users. Participants gain higher usage limits, larger context windows, and an expanded deep research feature. The program also includes Codex, ChatGPT Work, training, and integration support.

Cerebras and AMD announce a partnership to build the world's fastest disaggregated AI inference solution, combining AMD Helios for pre-fill and Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine for decode, achieving 5x higher tokens per second per watt. The solution targets demanding workloads like agentic coding and real-time voice, with plans to deploy AMD Helios in Cerebras data centers later this year.

Knowledge graph architecture has moved from concept to production. Shan Rizvi, founder of Thumos Care, argues that enterprises building knowledge graphs correctly will own the intelligence their AI generates. He contrasts retrieval-augmented generation with knowledge graphs for reasoning, traceability, and knowledge accumulation, emphasizing scalability and latency.

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graphs delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI models into reliable production systems. As companies push AI from pilots into production, a new software layer is emerging to link structured, unstructured and connected data into the neural pathways of a business. Startups are […]

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence. CommonThread AI CEO Tim Gosnell discusses with theCUBE how graph databases enable a larger context window and unified strategy for sustainable growth.

Pangram Labs announced $9M in funding led by Menlo Ventures to improve its AI detection accuracy and expand into image detection. The company released Pangram 4 and an image detection preview, claiming industry-leading low false positive rates. Despite reliability concerns in the field, Pangram aims to differentiate through superior accuracy.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is positioning networking as a cornerstone of its AI infrastructure strategy, aiming to create self-driving networks that automate operations, anticipate problems, and reduce complexity. The company integrates tools from Juniper Networks and Aruba, leverages its Apstra graph database and GreenLake Intelligence platform, and invests in liquid-cooled switches to meet AI bandwidth demands.

Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer’s domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too blunt for production agents. Benchmark testing showed a 21-point increase in answer quality and 51% fewer tokens spent per query.

SnapLogic announced a major update to SnapGPT, transforming it from a copilot into an autonomous agentic assistant capable of planning, building, understanding, and operating data integration pipelines. New features include Plan Mode to validate requirements and refine workflows before development.

As generative AI matures, enterprises converge on the enterprise knowledge layer architecture to ground large language models in trustworthy data. Neo4j CTO Philip Rathle explains how GraphRAG externalizes knowledge via knowledge graphs for better accuracy, explainability, and governance. Independent research from the UK's National Innovation Centre for Data shows GraphRAG outperforms vector-only retrieval, with agents 80% more 'truthful' and answering over twice as many questions. A national tax agency identified over $100 million in tax fraud within 48 hours using graph-based data modeling.

Agentic inference is shifting AI infrastructure from training expansion to context-aware, memory-augmented reasoning. The RAISE Summit highlighted three key insights: specialization across the AI stack with diverse chips and accelerators, storage becoming an active memory extension for GPUs, and the integration of capital deployment and data sovereignty into infrastructure design.

Neocloud provider QumulusAI announced its direct listing on Nasdaq under the ticker QMLS. The move signals the maturation of AI-first infrastructure built around GPUs and power availability. The company focuses on rapid GPU deployment, leveraging colocation and modular data centers. The listing provides capital flexibility, public company credibility, and timing advantage. The article also explores neocloud differentiation and advice for IT leaders.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is a mixture-of-experts model with 975 billion parameters (41B active) trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, image, audio and video, capable of reasoning across all four modalities but outputting only text. It features "thinking effort" controls and uncertainty flagging to reduce hallucinations. The model is fine-tunable via the Tinker API and aims to provide a Western open-source alternative to Chinese AI models. Thinking Machines plans to generate revenue through the Tinker platform rather than per-token API access, potentially disrupting current AI business models.

Cadence Design Systems introduces AuraStack, an AI agent for packaging and PCB design, aiming to automate system design workflows and reduce design time from days to minutes.

AWS Marketplace has introduced AI-assisted product listings to help partners create comprehensive listings using existing assets, optimize for SEO, and adapt to the growing use of enterprise agents. The agentic AI category has grown from 900 to over 3,400 partners in under a year.

Atlassian announced Jira updates including Jira Planner, Jira Coding Agent, and third-party agent integrations to position Jira as the control plane for a mixed workforce of developers and AI agents, addressing planning and coordination bottlenecks.

Perplexity AI introduces SPACE, a sandbox platform that provides a secure, isolated environment for its AI agent 'Computer,' supporting long-running tasks, session pause/resume, and user credential isolation. Built on AWS Firecracker microVMs, it offers improved performance.

Edge AI chip company Axelera AI has released Voyager Wingman, an AI assistant that lets developers build and troubleshoot applications for its edge chips by typing plain-language requests. The tool connects to the company's Voyager SDK and documentation, helping assemble computer vision pipelines, suggest compiler settings, and diagnose errors. It runs as a hosted service with automatically updated knowledge. Available now as a web chat and standalone app with a freemium model.

Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after raising $130 million. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Creaegis and Claypond and saw participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Sentinel Global and Y Combinator. Coming just a year after the company was founded, the round quintuples its valuation to $1.5 billion, making it one of the fastest so-called “unicorns” to emerge in history.

Canva is addressing enterprise concerns about generative AI by integrating AI into trusted, editable workflows, offering IP indemnification and leveraging its Affinity suite to automate manual tasks, allowing designers to focus on creative strategy.