Category: AI

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, marking the largest deal in Akamai’s corporate history. This massive pact highlights the continuous surge in computing power required by leading artificial intelligence labs. Notably, the agreement also emphasizes the growing importance of general-purpose CPUs as AI agents handle increasingly complex tasks […]

AI data center startup Crusoe has walked away from a $1.25 billion agreement to purchase stationary power turbines from Boom Supersonic. The cancelled deal involved supplying advanced natural gas turbines to power large-scale computing campuses. This development is a setback for Boom Supersonic, which launched the energy venture partly to fund its commercial supersonic jet […]

ElevenLabs, the voice AI pioneer known for generating hyper-realistic synthetic speech, is reportedly valued at $22 billion as its annual recurring revenue approaches $600 million. In a recent interview, co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski discussed the company’s trajectory, enterprise adoption, and the evolving landscape of conversational AI agents. Despite facing shifting market boundaries and competition […]

Databricks has announced the acquisition of Row Zero, an early-stage cloud spreadsheet startup known for its capability to scale beyond one million live rows. The deal originated after Databricks’ internal finance team adopted the tool, prompting executives to recognize the immense value of merging familiar spreadsheet interfaces with modern data platforms. The newly acquired technology […]

Oracle has issued a force majeure notice to the developer behind Project Jupiter, a massive data center campus in New Mexico tied to the Stargate artificial intelligence initiative. Rather than signaling an exit from the project, the legal notice provides the company with a safeguard to delay financial commitments if the facility misses its 2028 […]

Startup Feather Robotics is entering the humanoid robotics market with a strategy reminiscent of the Android operating system. Rather than attempting to build both a proprietary general-purpose brain and body simultaneously like larger competitors, the company provides a modular hardware and software toolkit designed specifically for developers. Priced at $30,000 and already generating over $1 […]

AI lab PrismML has developed a specialized version of its compact language models designed to run locally on smart glasses powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. At the Snapdragon Summit, the company showcased its 2-billion-parameter Bonsai 1-bit LLM, which features vision and language capabilities. This allows wearers of compatible smart glasses to ask questions about their […]

Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Waymo, is experiencing significant growth in its commercial robotaxi operations, now averaging 500,000 paid rides weekly across 15 U.S. cities. However, data reveals a highly concentrated deployment strategy, with roughly 80% of its approximately 4,000 vehicles operating strictly within California and Texas. Texas has emerged as a primary hub for this […]