Money, and desperation, sure can pave over a lot of ill will. This week’s example: Anthropic signed a mammoth deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus data center full of AI chips. Yes, that Elon Musk, the one who until this week liked to call Anthropic Misanthropic, ...

If anyone thought artificial intelligence was running into a slow patch, let alone running into any fundamental technical or financial hurdles, this week quieted the doubters — at least for now. In a blockbuster week of Big Tech earnings, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all reported results massively boosted by AI spending by its customers, ...

At Cloud Next this week in Las Vegas, Google made its case this week that it has all the pieces — literally the entire “stack” of technologies from chips to models to data management platforms — needed to provide essentially the operating system for AI agents, the autonomous software that is the only thing that seems ...

Quantum computing keeps gaining momentum even though practically it’s years away from wide commercialization, and World Quantum Day April 14 provided an excuse for a lot of announcements. Among them: Nvidia unveiled AI models for quantum error correction. Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin concluded at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s quantum day event on theCUBE that artificial ...

Sure, at some point quantum computing may break data encryption — but well before that, artificial intelligence models already seem likely to wreak havoc. That became starkly apparent this week when Anthropic announced a new model called Claude Mythos that it says is so good at uncovering cybersecurity vulnerabilities that it’s not going to release it ...

Can Elon Musk pull off the mother of all IPOs? This week his SpaceX reportedly filed confidentially for a $75 billion initial public offering that could value it at $1.75T. It would be the largest IPO ever, and investors seem to be lining up. Given the state of the world and the economy, there’s a lot ...

Artificial intelligence has been a prime concern for cybersecurity for years, but it took on a new urgency at this week’s RSAC conference in San Francisco. AI agents in particular were the chief concern on everyone’s lips, and no wonder: You’ve got these things that you give access to your data and applications, let them ...

Nvidia dominated tech news this week, as its hold on the artificial intelligence factory boom only tightened at its annual GTC conference in San Jose. It introduced a raft of updated chips and software as well as partnerships with just about everyone in sight. Check out our extensive coverage below for all the details, and tune ...

As soon as online photo storage startup SmugMug Inc. heard about Amazon.com Inc.’s Simple Storage Service, an online data storage repository that debuted on March 14, 2006, “my eyes got all big,” co-founder and Chief Executive Don MacAskill said at the time.  Amazon’s S3, the pioneering service for what soon became known as cloud computing, ...

Massive AI startup funding raged on this week with a couple of billion-dollar-plus rounds for Yann Lecun’s and Mira Murati’s startups, plus multiple multi-hundred-million rounds for vertical startups and tool providers — I mean, look at the AI and Data Money Matters section down there, it’s nuts — plus big funding for data centers too. ...