The executive who helped turn spare computer capacity into the largest cloud business in the world returned to the keynote stage at AWS re:Invent today to announce Amazon.com Inc.’s bid to reshape the world of artificial intelligence models. Andy Jassy (pictured), who succeeded Jeff Bezos to became chief executive of retail giant Amazon in 2021 after previously ...

Intelligent pieces of software, known as enterprise AI agents, that can perform specific tasks are emerging as a natural outcome of generative artificial intelligence. Salesforce Inc.’s MuleSoft recently announced a composability solution to help organizations build discrete AI services to facilitate this technology. MuleSoft and Salesforce are tackling the challenging computer science problem of converting an ...

Hitachi Vantara LLC is building on a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. announced last year to create an AI-ready full stack platform leveraging Azure for delivering a hybrid cloud solution. The agreement between the two companies launched Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Azure Stack HCI, delivering enhanced cloud management across multiple environments encompassing data centers and ...

The announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. this week that it would introduce new products and services for Microsoft Corp. compute platforms points towards continued enterprise customer interest in data protection, resilience and security. It also highlights customer interest in simplifying deployment of AI workloads in multicloud environments such as Microsoft Azure. “Listening to customer feedback ...

With the launch this week of upgrades for its data intelligence platform, DataDirect Networks Inc. has signaled its intent to bring significant scalability and GPU performance to the infrastructure necessary for processing AI workloads. The company’s deep integration with Nvidia Corp. GPUs and the introduction of its next generation A³I data platform are designed to ...

The ongoing legal saga surrounding Cloudbrink Inc. involves allegations of fraudulent conduct that have drawn attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice — and in the midst of this turmoil, the company has pursued a strategy to elevate its online reputation and burnish the image of Chief Executive Prakash Mana. SiliconANGLE ...

The rocket-powered growth of global adoption of artificial intelligence is accompanied by a paradox: Although the technology has generated tremendous optimism for its potential to positively transform whole sectors of society, AI has also triggered alarm bells over damage to trust and governance. Even a top executive for Microsoft Corp., which has as much invested ...

An iceberg is a piece of ice broken off from a glacier that floats freely in open water, and this definition also provides an appropriate name for the database table format project Iceberg. Open-source Apache Iceberg provides full database functionality on top of cloud object stores. It exemplifies how the separation of storage from compute ...

People have learned about the world through multiple inputs, so it makes sense that as communication between humans and machines continues to advance, it will also be multimodal. In the rapidly changing field of multimodal AI, systems can process multiple data inputs to provide insight or make predictions by training with and using video, audio, ...

A lawsuit filed in November of last year by the co-founder of Cloudbrink Inc. against his former company has attracted the scrutiny of two federal enforcement agencies, SiliconANGLE has learned. Individuals close to the matter have been interviewed by investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, according to sources familiar ...