A major shift in U.S. government sentiment toward cryptocurrencies combined with innovation from AI are making the stablecoin market an emerging force in the digital asset economy. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that crypto is having its “ChatGPT moment” and stablecoins are leading some of the largest companies in the world into programmable finance. Apple […] The post Stablecoins on the march: Government green light and AI drive growing enterprise interest in digital currency appea...| SiliconANGLE
A U.S. investor consortium has reportedly acquired a controlling stake in Israeli spyware developer NSO Group Ltd. The company told TechCrunch today that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” The valuation that NSO received in the deal and the names of the […] The post US investor consortium buys controlling stake in spyware developer NSO Group appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
IonQ Inc. today detailed the terms of a transaction that will see it receive $2 billion in funding from investment firm Heights Capital. The quantum computer maker plans to raise about three quarters of capital by selling 16.5 million shares for $93 apiece. Heights Capital, an affiliate of Wall Street heavyweight Susquehanna International, is also buying […] The post Quantum computer developer IonQ to raise $2B in funding appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has given Google LLC a new regulatory designation that could expose it to additional antitrust scrutiny. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, gave the company strategic market status in a notice published today. The designation applies to Google’s general search and search advertising businesses. Today’s decision traces back to an […] The post UK gives Google ‘strategic market status’ in search and search advertising appeared first on Sili...| SiliconANGLE
Agentic artificial intelligence is the new belle of the software ball. C-level executives want their companies to use AI agents to move faster, therefore driving vendors to deliver AI agent-driven software, and every software delivery team is looking for ways to add agentic capabilities and automation to their development platforms. By parallel coding with co-pilots, […] The post To test agentic AI, apply agents liberally appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of software even faster than its many proponents predicted. This week we saw several big moves by major companies to leverage AI to transform — let’s call it embrace and extend, as one software giant used to put it — the $900 billion enterprise software market. First up was […] The post AI embraces and extends enterprise software as funding keeps pouring in – but is all this a bubble? appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today that it has opened a probe into a series of incidents concerning Tesla Inc. cars, some of them resulting in injuries. About 2.8 million Tesla vehicles with the company’s Full Self-Driving or FSD system will be scrutinized after a total of 58 traffic safety incidents involving FSD, amounting […] The post Tesla faces probe after accidents in cars fitted with full self-driving software appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
Researchers from Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. have created a tiny artificial intelligence model that punches far above its weight on certain kinds of “reasoning” tasks, challenging the industry’s longheld logic that “bigger means better.” Released this week, the Tiny Recursive Model or TRM has just 7 million parameters, far fewer than most other AI models. […] The post Samsung researchers create tiny AI model that shames the biggest LLMs in reasoning puzzles appeared first on Silic...| SiliconANGLE
Former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is moving into the technology world, joining Microsoft Corp. and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC as a senior adviser. Sunak (pictured), who quit his role as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Conservative Party after suffering defeat in that country’s general election in July 2024, is still a member […] The post Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as an adviser appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
It seems every day there’s a new announcement regarding an economic event with artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia Corp. made an investment in OpenAI and then OpenAI turned around and took a stake in Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Then there was the $6.3 billion deal between CoreWeave Inc. and Nvidia. Why so much activity? The reason […] The post The $500M blueprint: How QumulusAI and USD.AI are forging a new financial model for the AI neocloud appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
Tigris Data Inc., the operator of an object storage service optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, has raised $25 million in early-stage funding. The company said in its announcement of the Series A round today that Spark Capital was the lead investor. Returning backer Andreessen Horowitz chipped in as well. Sunnyvale, California-based Tigris positions its service […] The post Tigris Data raises $25M for its AI-optimized cloud storage service appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
Browser infrastructure platform for artificial intelligence agents startup Kernel Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $22 million in funding to scale its platform so AI agents can reliably navigate, persist sessions and securely use the web. Founded earlier this year, Kernel is building what it calls browser infrastructure as a service, a service […] The post Kernel raises $22M to power browser infrastructure for AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI Inc. revealed today that it has raised $2 billion in new funding to scale up its open-source frontier AI models, expand global infrastructure and research teams and invest in safety, evaluation and responsible deployment. According to The New York Times, the round was raised on a valuation of $8 billion, […] The post Reflection AI lands $2B at $8B valuation to expand frontier AI infrastructure and safety research appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
German automation software provider n8n GmbH today announced that it has closed a $180 million investment at a $2.5 billion valuation. Accel led the C round, which comes six months after the company’s previous raise. It was joined by Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures startup fund, Meritech, Redpoint and several other backers. The cash infusion follows a […] The post Nvidia backs $180M round for workflow automation startup n8n appeared first on SiliconANGLE.| SiliconANGLE
