The race for artificial intelligence infrastructure is no longer just about building faster chips. Bottlenecks in AI infrastructure are drawing attention to a larger challenge: feeding these chips with data, connecting over high-speed networks, and operating within increasingly demanding performance and cooling limits. This system-level challenge is the focus of the AI Data Pipeline Forum … Read more
Professional services firms are rethinking the way they deliver customer value as artificial intelligence increasingly takes over routine tasks and shifts the focus to human judgment, trusted results and new operating models. The transition is changing the way companies structure projects, manage knowledge and measure success. Rather than simply accelerating existing processes, companies are starting … Read more
A distributed AI control plane could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge, or in the cloud. According to Vito Palermo (pictured), founder and CEO of Seismora, Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across different vendors and computing environments. The goal is to allow developers … Read more
Enterprise AI orchestration must consider agents working with the data, applications, and infrastructure that organizations already use. As companies move beyond experimentation, the consistent operation of these systems brings issues of access, oversight and operational control into greater focus. These deployment challenges will shape the discussion at IBM TechXchange 2026, October 26-29 in Atlanta. According … Read more
Ultra Robotics Corp. announced today that it has raised $62 million in two rounds of funding. Fortune reported that the company raised the majority of the capital, $50 million, through a Series A investment led by Framework Ventures. Ultra’s seed round was co-led by Y Combinator and NextView Ventures. Ultra sells a warehouse robot called … Read more
Data center hardware startup Oxide Computer Inc. announced today that it has raised $445 million in funding. Returning backer Eclipse Capital led the Series D round. They were joined by AMD Ventures, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Atreides Management and USIT, which led Oxide’s previous $200 million capital raise in February. Oxide sells a data center … Read more
TypeSafe Inc., the inventor of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a valuation of $7.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with contributions from Sequoia Capital, DCVC and unnamed angel investors. The cash injection comes less than a month after TypeSafe launched Jev. The company’s … Read more
The White House has told Microsoft Corp. Banned from further participation in a federal program that allows U.S. companies to apply for green cards for employees on H-1B visas after Microsoft Corp. was accused of abusing the system to replace American workers with cheaper foreign workers. Microsoft’s suspension from the Permanent Work Certification program was … Read more
AI inference is quickly becoming the workload that will determine the economic viability of the AI boom. Training created the first wave of GPU clouds, but deploying models faster and more cost-effectively will define the next wave. This shift is pushing specialized cloud providers beyond just GPU capacity into storage, networking and software. According to … Read more
Gallatin AI Inc., a developer of military logistics software, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding. The Series A round included contributions from 8VC, Silent Ventures and several others. This will be followed by a seed capital increase of $15 million in 2024. El Segundo, California-based Gallatin has developed a software platform … Read more