Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

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What to expect during Nvidia’s GTC event: Join theCUBE March 20

It’s not an easy task to dominate the news cycle at a technology show as large as the annual CES gathering in Las Vegas, with over 4,000 exhibiting companies, 6,900 media participants and more than 148,000 attendees. Yet that is exactly what Nvidia Corp. did in January. The AI powerhouse unveiled Alpamayo, a new open ...

Internet under fire: Will Section 230 live to see another birthday?

It’s only 26 words in a 60,000-word act, but Section 230 has proven to be one of the most significant, and controversial, pieces of law ever passed in the United States. Contained in the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Section 230 was originally designed to protect social media platforms and other websites from legal liability ...

The AI trust gap: Developers grapple with issues around security, memory, cost and interoperability

There’s a paradox among developers surrounding their use of artificial intelligence today: They’re willing to use AI, but trust in AI tools has dropped sharply. That was among the findings contained in the annual developer survey commissioned by Stack Overflow, a popular web resource in the developer community. The survey found that though 84% of ...

Agents in the enterprise: Salesforce and DeepL see productivity move the needle as use cases grow for AI

If 2025 was the year of experimentation and pilots with agentic artificial intelligence, then 2026 is shaping up to be the year when agents find a permanent home in enterprise operations. Use cases are scaling up rapidly, based on data delivered during briefings at the AI & Big Data Expo in London this week by ...

Expanding cyberattack surface from AI agents, models and rogue nations raises new alarms

As the global artificial intelligence engine keeps accelerating, so are concerns about threats to the very infrastructure powering it. The rise of AI agents has opened new questions about the levels of security needed to control the access they have and the actions they take. More questions are being raised about securing protocols around inter-agent ...

Data retrieval and embeddings enhancements from MongoDB set the stage for a year of specialized AI

The process of moving an artificial intelligence prototype to production has a lot of moving parts and can get bogged down quickly. To break up this logjam, database services provider MongoDB Inc. released a series of new capabilities this week designed to help developers build and implement AI solutions more rapidly and with greater accuracy. ...

From components to control plane: How Dell and Microsoft are reshaping infrastructure for AI

What happens when two of the world’s most valuable companies combine forces to make AI the new baseline for enterprise infrastructure? We are about to find out, because Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are moving beyond servers, storage and software and advancing a compelling narrative around infrastructure, data strategy and AI adoption. Throughout much ...

AI gets physical: Nvidia’s self-driving platform captures consumer world’s attention at CES

Last January, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang walked onto the keynote stage at the CES trade show in Las Vegas and declared that robotics had reached an inflection point and artificial intelligence was poised to deliver on its promise for navigating the physical world. This week at the annual event, Huang (pictured) made another keynote appearance ...

Medical data and smart cities: AI’s ‘flywheel effect’ gains traction as partnerships and projects evolve

The “flywheel effect” has taken hold in the rapidly evolving world of enterprise AI, and it is driving collaboration among major industry players to build scale and resilience. The “flywheel” business concept, first popularized by the author Jim Collins in his book, “Good to Great,” describes how consistent, small efforts to build momentum over time ...

They said it in 2025: From one reporter’s notebook, memorable quotes from SiliconANGLE’s coverage

Another year is done and, once again, artificial intelligence was the dominant story. From large language models and agents to robotics and massive data centers, it was nearly impossible to cover the relentless pace of the tech world and not write something related to AI. The topic of AI covers a lot of ground, as ...