The road to agentic artificial intelligence will be paved with stepping stones that progressively build on each other. Our research suggests that agentic AI will not suddenly appear without a strong data foundation built on: 1) cloud-like scalability; 2) a unified metadata model; 3) data mesh organizing principles; 4) harmonized data and business process logic; and an ...

Engineered Arts Ltd. thinks everyone should be friends with a robot, and it has just raised $10 million to help make that a reality. The U.K.-founded humanoid robotics startup today announced that it has restructured as a U.S. entity and raised $10 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate product refinement, manufacturing readiness, ...

The time for Intel Corp. to shed its foundry business is now. Though former Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger made a persuasive case for U.S.-based advanced semiconductor manufacturing, his vision was flawed from the start. Intel’s foundry operation, like IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics business a decade ago, is an asset with negative value. Yet its strategic significance for U.S. competitiveness ...

Attending AWS re:Invent 2024 was like watching a forest grow and decay at 10,000-times time-lapse speed. With each major breakthrough release falling, Amazon Web Services Inc. might crush a wide swath of products, including a few of its own, while sprouting even more new startups in its wake. Just pick out any one announcement such ...

AWS re:Invent 2024 this past week ushered in a transformative chapter for both Amazon Web Services Inc. and the broader tech ecosystem. This year’s event marked the debut of Matt Garman as chief executive of AWS, stepping into a role that aligns with what John Furrier aptly describes as a “wartime CEO” — a technically ...

Following the lead of its parent company IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc. today said its Ansible Automation Platform Service is now available as a managed offering in Amazon Web Services Inc. Marketplace. Ansible, an open-source configuration management tool, can be used to simplify the management of hybrid cloud infrastructure and automate complex activities. With a ...

As the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Holistic AI, a provider of artificial intelligence governance software, the one question I’ve been asked repeatedly since the U.S. election is, “What will happen if Trump backs off on initiatives related to AI safety in the U.S.?” Given my background — over a decade of researching AI ...

The sudden explosion of generative artificial intelligence has created immense opportunities for companies and public sector organizations of all sizes – but with such opportunity comes increased risk. The risks inherent in gen AI, in fact, have stopped many enterprise gen AI initiatives dead in their tracks. The knee-jerk reaction for many executives is to ...

Nestled on the ninth floor of an unassuming building in an affluent area of Austin, Texas dubbed The Domain, is one of the world’s most influential research labs powering modern artificial intelligence. SiliconANGLE got an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Annapurna Labs, where the cloud powerhouse does the secretive work of designing ...

Artificial intelligence was on the tip of everyone’s tongue, as expected, at the start of last week’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City, until it wasn’t. If anything, the latest flavors of generative AI and agentic AI are merely driving higher future scalability and stability expectations from Kubernetes-based and related cloud-native applications running almost ...