Microsoft Forms Standalone Company to Deploy AI Inside Enterprises
The plan, reported exclusively by TechCrunch and confirmed by people familiar with it, is a new structure for a familiar ambition: Microsoft has created a wholly owned subsidiary focused on…
Together AI Raises $800 Million, Doubling Valuation to $8.3 Billion
The round, announced this week, is one of the largest in the AI infrastructure sector this year: Together AI has raised $800 million in Series E financing, lifting its valuation…
A Small Nuclear Startup Powers Nvidia’s AI Chips in a U.S. First
The announcement, made this week by Valar Atomic, describes a result that the nuclear and technology industries have been predicting for years: an advanced reactor powering AI computing hardware. Valar…
Tesla’s Q2 Delivery Report Looms After Shares Rally Above $420
The numbers will be released after the market closes on Thursday, and Tesla’s investors have already voted with their money. The company’s shares have risen more than 10 percent this…
Prime Day Opens Strong as Amazon Tests Drone Deliveries to Balconies
The first hours of Amazon’s Prime Day brought the kind of numbers the company’s retail business has been waiting for. Sales on the first day of the annual shopping event…
ChatGPT to Deploy on U.S. Military’s GenAI.mil Platform in Early July
The laptop an Air Force analyst opens in a few weeks will have a new icon on its desktop. ChatGPT is arriving on GenAI.mil, the U.S. military’s artificial-intelligence platform, in…
Machine Learning Points to Two New Superconductors, Finnish Team Says
A research team led by Finland’s Aalto University says it has discovered two new superconducting materials by screening a vast field of candidates with a method that combines machine learning…
Schneider Electric to Buy Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 Billion
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire Cognite, a Norwegian company whose software organizes data streaming off factory floors, for $3.1 billion in cash, the French energy-management group said. The deal…
Anthropic’s Claude Models Arrive on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
The model catalog inside Azure AI Foundry gained a new entry this week, and for many of Microsoft’s enterprise customers it was the name they had been waiting for. Anthropic…
Japanese Passive Component Makers Post Record Capacitor Shipments
The unglamorous parts inside every electronic device are having a moment. Japanese manufacturers of capacitors, resistors and other passive components shipped 231.4 billion yen worth of goods in April, up…
