Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

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Intel’s new Core i9-14900KS ‘Special Edition’ chip breaks records with fastest desktop clock speed

Intel Corp. climbed further up the speed clock ladder today as it launched a “special edition” Core i9-14900KS desktop central processing unit that it claims has the fastest clock speed of any currently available PC chip. The Intel Core i9-14900KS clocks in at an impressive 6.2 gigahertz, but despite that record-breaking speed, the company admitted ...

Soft guidance and concerns over generative AI threat send Adobe’s stock lower

Shares of the creative software provider Adobe Inc. fell more than 10% in extended trading today after it reported strong fiscal first-quarter results but offered weak guidance, amid growing fears from investors that the rise of artificial intelligence could hurt its business. There has been a growing debate on Wall Street around whether generative AI ...

AI-focused big data startup Unstructured raises $40M to make raw data LLM-ready

Generative artificial intelligence data processing startup Unstructured Technologies Inc. has closed on its second major funding round in less than a year, announcing a $40 million fundraising. Today’s Series B round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from a host of big-name backers, including Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital arm, IBM Ventures, Databricks Ventures and ...

Google DeepMind’s SIMA AI agent can play video games its never seen before

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today revealed it has been experimenting with a new kind of AI agent that can carry out multiple kinds of tasks in 3D video games that it has never played before. The research organization has long been known for its achievements in games, building intelligent AI systems that can ...

Together AI closes on another bumper funding round and its value soars to $1.25B

Artificial intelligence startup Together Computer Inc., better known as Together AI, said today it has closed on a $106 million funding round that doubles its valuation since its prior raise last fall. Today’s round was led by Salesforce Ventures and saw participation from others including Coatue Management, Lux Capital and Emergence Capital, bringing the company’s ...

Solid earnings beat and strong revenue forecast sends UiPath’s stock higher

Shares of UiPath Inc. were trading slightly higher today after the automation software provider delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and delivered strong guidance for the new fiscal year. The company reported a net profit of $33.9 million in the quarter, up from a loss of $27.6 million in the same period one year earlier. Earnings before ...

IO River raises $5.4M to help internet companies use multiple CDNs with ease

A startup called IO River Ltd. announced today it has closed on a $5.4 million seed funding round, as it launches what it says is the industry’s first multi-CDN-as-a-service platform. Using its platform, internet companies will be able to leverage multiple content delivery networks at the edge to achieve superior performance and reliability for applications ...

Arm reveals most advanced automotive chip designs yet, plus virtual prototypes to speed app development

Chip design firm Arm Holdings Ltd. is bringing the latest generation of its central processing unit architecture to the automotive industry with the launch of its new, safety-enabled Arm Automotive Enhanced range, based on Armv9. The new chips, which are said to deliver server-class performance for artificial intelligence in vehicles, are being launched ahead of ...

Meta unveils two new 24K GPU clusters it’s using to develop more advanced generative AI

Meta Platforms Inc. today revealed a pair of enormously powerful graphics processing unit clusters that it says will be used to support the training of next-generation generative artificial intelligence models, including the upcoming Llama 3. Meta engineers Kevin Lee, Adi Gangidi and Mathew Oldham explained in a blog post that the two 24,576-GPU data center scale ...

Cognition launches Devin, a generative AI-powered coding engineer

A new generative artificial intelligence startup called Cognition AI Inc. is looking to disrupt coding with the launch of a new tool that can autonomously create code for entire engineering jobs, including its own AI models. That tool’s name is Devin, and it takes the premise of GitHub Inc.’s and Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot developer tool ...