AI, user data and the asymmetry of understanding
Every time users belatedly discover that an artificial intelligence feature has been drawing on their data in ways they did not fully grasp, the reaction is often an instinctive sense of violation – o
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Every time users belatedly discover that an artificial intelligence feature has been drawing on their data in ways they did not fully grasp, the reaction is often an instinctive sense of violation – o
Public sector organizations are increasingly rethinking how they manage critical infrastructure as demands for always-on digital services and greater operational efficiency continue to grow. As govern
Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying th
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a set of orders designed to expedite data center projects. The agency’s five commissioners unanimously approved the directives on Thursday. The
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei is calling on the U.S. government to block the deployment of dangerous artificial intelligence models in the same way as it prevents unsafe airplanes from ta
Cloud-based artificial intelligence infrastructure startup TensorWave Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper 350 million Series B funding round as it strives to meet demand for an alternative to Nv
Google LLC today released DiffusionGemma, a large language model based on an emerging machine learning approach known as text diffusion. The company says the algorithm can generate text four times fas
The government of Canada announced today that it’s mulling a ban on social media for children under 16, though unlike some other countries that have already introduced such a ban, Canada has said the
AI FinOps is busy rewriting the rules of cloud financial management, systematically dismantling its own rulebook, which took nearly a decade to write. The shift goes deeper than simple cost optimizati
Akash Systems Inc. believes it has a solution for the heat problem of graphics processing units: lab-grown diamonds. The company originally got its start in space, managing solar radiation on satellit
Artificial intelligence is creating a new class of cloud cost problem — one that no longer belongs exclusively to engineers. As AI tools put spend capabilities into the hands of sales, finance and exe
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s next-generation custom silicon is finally being made accessible to customers for the first time with the launch of the Elastic Compute Cloud M9g and M9gd instances. They’re
Cyera Ltd., a startup that helps organizations track and secure their data assets, has raised 600 million from investors at a 12 billion valuation. The company is one of three cybersecurity providers
Strategic AI partnerships play a central role in the deployment of Dell Technologies Inc.’s initiatives. The company’s alliances with chipmakers, virtualization leaders, cloud providers, and a host of
AI is reshaping AI cost management, forcing organizations to rethink how they create and measure value. As AI spending accelerates, enterprises are seeking new ways to connect AI investments with meas
MotherDuck Corp., the maker of a cloud-native data warehouse based on the open-source DuckDB analytical engine, is betting that artificial intelligence agents will reshape how data pipelines are built
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Relai Inc. said today it has closed on 6.9 million in funding as it bids to ensure the reliability of autonomous AI agents for enterprises. The company a
As FinOps AI strategies continue to emerge,the familiar cloud cost management approach is breaking down — and organizations that fail to adapt risk runaway spending on workloads they barely understand
As generative AI accelerates from a product experiment into a core enterprise operating cost, the discipline of FinOps is evolving rapidly around managing AI spend, introducing a layer of complexity t
Google LLC’s newest artificial intelligence tool promises to bring real-time translation to every smartphone user, enabling more natural and fluid conversations between speakers of different languages
For all the excitement artificial intelligence has generated, success is still eluding many companies. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study found that just 20% of enterprises are achieving at lea
As enterprises accelerate past AI experimentation into full-scale production, the central challenge has shifted from accessing models to managing the organizational context those models need to act re
Enterprise artificial intelligence context startup Jedify Inc. today announced that it has raised 24 million in new funding to build what it calls context graphs that give AI agents the business knowl
Lium, a startup formerly known as Astromind, today announced the launch of an “agentic harness” that helps large language models dig into the most complex and messiest datasets. The launch comes after
Microsoft Corp. has patched more than 200 security vulnerabilities, the most the company has ever fixed in a single Patch Tuesday, as researchers say artificial intelligence bug-hunting is the reason
Automation startup Neura Robotics GmbH is raising a funding round worth up to 1.4 billion from a group of prominent investors. The company detailed today that the consortium includes Amazon.com Inc.,
NinjaOne Inc., a startup with a platform for managing information technology infrastructure, today announced that it has raised more than 400 million in secondary funding. The share sale marks the sec
Shares of Oracle Corp. fell 9% in late trading today even though it surpassed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue and raised its profit forecast for the next financial year. The problem
Since Zscaler Inc.‘s launch, the company’s mission has been to disrupt traditional access and security with its Zero Trust platform. At its user event, Zenith Live, in Las Vegas, the company made its
Visa Inc. has struck a deal with OpenAI Group PBC to let artificial intelligence agents make payments for users, bringing one of the world’s largest payment networks into ChatGPT’s push toward agentic
This new era of artificial intelligence is all about getting the most value out of data, and Databricks Inc. is at the center of that development. Following competitor Snowflake Inc.’s annual summit l
Enterprise storage is being repositioned for the artificial intelligence era, and one of the leading players in the field has actively pursued an agenda aimed at operationalizing data. Everpure Inc.,
Zscaler Inc. today unveiled a major expansion of its zero-trust SASE platform, adding an agentic framework that lets administrators manage the system through natural-language prompts and extending its
FinOps startup PointFive Inc. said today it has raised 60 million from investors who are betting on its ability to help companies keep a lid on the spiralling costs of running artificial intelligence
Anthropic PBC today introduced Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, two large language models that it says outperform the competition across a wide range of benchmarks. The LLMs are derived from the Cl
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence tool designed to help organizations lower their cloud bills. AWS FinOps Agent is initially available in public preview. It’s the la
Beacon Software Inc., a startup that buys and operates software businesses, has raised 225 million in a Series C funding. The company stated in its announcement of the deal today that HarbourVest and
As enterprise AI budgets hit their limits earlier each year, the pressure to fund new agentic and inference workloads without expanding total spend is forcing a fundamental rethink of infrastructure a
Observability and security platform company Datadog Inc. today unveiled more than 100 new capabilities at its annual DASH 2026 conference, headlined by a major expansion of its Bits AI agents that the
The decentralized lending protocol Morpho, widely regarded as the closest competitor to Aave, said today it has raised 175 million in funding that increases its valuation to more than 2 billion. Parad
Behavioral intelligence security company DTEX Systems Inc. today introduced an expanded AI Risk Management product that reads the intent behind how employees and autonomous artificial intelligence age
Earlytrade Pty. Ltd., a company solving payments flow for contractors in the construction industry, today announced it has raised about 10 million in new funding. Today’s capital infusion brings the t
French cybersecurity company Filigran SAS today launched XTM One, an artificial intelligence orchestration layer that automates continuous threat exposure management workflows across its platform. XTM
As artificial intelligence drives a new wave of token-based spend across cloud and on-premises environments, enterprises are discovering that understanding what they actually owe — and to whom — is ha
AI token economics is creating a data normalization crisis across the technology stack as enterprises scramble to apply consistent financial controls to GPU clusters, AI factories and token-based cons
Google LLC today updated its NotebookLM service with a set of online research and coding features designed to save time for users. NotebookLM is part note-taking app, part data analysis tool. Workers
Production AI is pushing private cloud back into the center of enterprise infrastructure. The shift is not just about where workloads run. It is about cost control, security, governance and the need t
ChatGPT maker OpenAI Group PBC today filed for an initial public offering ahead of what is sure to be one of the most anticipated stock market debuts in recent history, and a huge payday for early inv
Rental screening startup 100 today announced that it has acquired Cobblestone Labs Inc., a fraud detection and income verification platform built by former engineers from corporate card company Ramp B
Rubrik Inc. today turned its data security platform into an autonomous agent and made its control layer for Anthropic PBC’s Claude generally available, the headline items in a wave of announcements at
Shares in SailPoint Inc. fell more than 11% today after the identity security company beat analyst expectations on revenue and adjusted earnings and raised its outlook, in a selloff that pointed to in
Standard Bots Co., a startup developing artificial intelligence-driven robotic arms for manufacturing and logistics, today announced it has raised 200 million in new funding. RoboStrategy led the Seri
The networking industry loves inflection points. Over the years, we have had many new compute models that require the network to evolve. For as long as I can remember, the holy war between InfiniBand
Artificial intelligence is transforming information technology service operations, pushing organizations to consolidate their data and take advantage of new AI tools. Freshworks Inc. has capitalized o
Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is inc
AI spending is outpacing every budgeting model enterprise finance teams have built, and the gap between what tokens cost on paper and what organizations actually owe is becoming an operational crisis.
Zscaler Inc. today unveiled a set of products designed to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents, with the cybersecurity company claiming it has built the industry’s first complete zero-trus
Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with glass manufacturer Corning Inc. to make optical network components for its data centers. The cloud and retail giant stated today that the deal is worth several billi
Apple Inc. stepped onto the stage today at WWDC 2026 to put Siri back at the center of its artificial intelligence strategy by introducing Siri AI as a rebuilt version of the company’s long-running di
Apple Inc.’s WWDC 2026 keynote today focused on making its software platform feel more polished, more responsive and more tightly managed across the company’s device ecosystem with refinements to the