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Snowflake partners with Palantir to speed up customers’ AI projects
Snowflake Inc. is teaming up with Palantir Technologies Inc. to help joint customers build artificial intelligence applications faster. The collaboration, which was announced today, builds on a years-long partnership between the companies. They previously introduced a connector that enables customers to move data between their respective platforms. The companies’ new collaboration focuses on two Palantir ...
Spatial-temporal reasoning startup General Intuition closes $133.7M investment
General Intuition PBC, a startup developing artificial intelligence models that can navigate three-dimensional environments, has raised $133.7 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst led the seed round. Raine Ventures participated as well. General Intuition was recently spun off from Medal B.V, a venture-backed startup with a popular video sharing ...
Anthropic debuts entry-level Claude Haiku 4.5 hybrid reasoning model
Anthropic PBC today debuted Claude Haiku 4.5, a large language model geared toward cost-sensitive use cases. The company will charge users of the model $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Anthropic’s flagship LLM, Claude Sonnet 4.5, costs three times as much. Haiku 4.5 is a hybrid reasoning model, which means ...
Apple debuts refreshed MacBook Pro, iPad Pro powered by new M5 chip
Apple Inc. today introduced a new system-on-chip, the M5, that it will ship with refreshed versions of the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro mixed reality headset. The processor is based on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s N3P process. The node, which entered production late last year, is the third iteration of the company’s three-nanometer manufacturing ...
Nscale inks 200,000-GPU data center contract with Microsoft
Startup Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. will build four artificial intelligence data centers for Microsoft Corp. as part of a new contract announced today. The facilities are expected to host about 200,000 graphics processing units. According to CNBC and the Financial Times, the contract is worth up to $24 billion. Nscale is a London-based data center ...
Nvidia to start shipping AI-optimized DGX Spark desktop computer
Nvidia Corp. late Monday announced the launch of the DGX Spark, a compact desktop computer optimized to run artificial intelligence models. Software teams typically use cloud infrastructure to fine-tune neural networks. Setting up an off-premises training environment takes time and effort, which slows down development. The DGX Spark removes that bottleneck while avoiding the cybersecurity ...
Salesforce introduces new OpenAI, Anthropic integrations
Salesforce Inc. is expanding its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC to automate repetitive business tasks for customers. The new collaborations, which were announced today at Dreamforce 2025, focus on Agentforce 360. It’s a suite of artificial intelligence features that Salesforce ships as part of its cloud services. Agentforce 360 includes more than a half ...
Oracle details upcoming AI clusters powered by Nvidia, AMD chips
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to build new artificial intelligence clusters powered by rivals Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips. The first cluster, the OCI Zettascale10, will be hosted in the company’s OCI public cloud. It will enable customers to configure AI environments with up to 800,000 Nvidia graphics processing units. Separately, Oracle ...
JPMorgan launches $10B tech, infrastructure investment initiative
JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced plans to invest up to $10 billion in technology and infrastructure companies. The news sent several quantum computer makers’ shares soaring more than 20%. JPMorgan will invest mainly in U.S. companies with the goal of supporting their engineering and manufacturing operations. The bank will make the investments as part of ...
Data management providers Fivetran and dbt Labs to merge
Fivetran Inc. and dbt Labs Inc., two venture-backed developers of data management software, today announced plans to merge. The all-stock transaction is expected to create a company with nearly $600 million in annual recurring revenue. The company’s chief executive will be George Fraser, who currently holds the same title at Fivetran, while his dbt Labs ...