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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Update: Sam Altman reportedly won’t return as OpenAI CEO despite investor push

Updated: Some of OpenAI LP’s most influential investors are pushing for the company to reinstate ousted Chief Executive Sam Altman, who’s sudden dismissal Friday afternoon sent shockwaves through the tech world, but the latest word Sunday night was that he’s not returning. Reports from Bloomberg, The Verge and the Wall Street Journal claim Altman (pictured) is ...

Scaleway delivers cost-optimized Ampere Altra instances as an alternative for AI workloads

The French cloud computing infrastructure provider Scaleway SAS today announced the availability of what it calls Cost-Optimized instances based on the Arm central processing unit architecture, targeted at real-time artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. The cost-optimized COP-ARM instances are powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Ampere Altra CPUs, which are said to be a more ...

Report: Applied Materials under investigation for sending chipmaking gear to China in breach of export rules

Shares of the semiconductor manufacturing technology provider Applied Materials Inc. traded lower after-hours today in the wake of a report that it’s being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for violating export restrictions by shipping products to a leading Chinese chipmaker. The report from Reuters emerged shortly after the company released its fourth-quarter earnings results today, ...

Meta announces new breakthroughs in AI image editing and video generation with Emu

Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation. The Facebook and Instagram parent has developed new tools that enable more control over the image editing process via text instructions, and a new method for text-to-video generation. The new tools are based on Meta’s Expressive ...

ServiceNow expands Now Assist family of generative AI agents

The information technology workflow management giant ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s expanding its family of Now Assist generative artificial intelligence agents. The new Now Assist in Virtual Agent, flow generation and Now Assist for Field Service Management offerings are available to all customers via the ServiceNow Store. They’re said to reduce the time workers spend ...

Salesforce moves to reinvent customer service experiences with generative AI

Salesforce Inc. said today it’s adding yet another artificial intelligence capability to its arsenal with the launch of a new application called Service Intelligence within its Service Cloud, its flagship customer relationship management platform for customer service and support. The new offering is powered by Salesforce’s hyperscale data engine, Data Cloud. The company said it ...

Synopsys turns to generative AI to aid in semiconductor design

Synopsys Inc. said today it’s bringing the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence to the computer chip design software industry. The new Synopsis.ai Copilot is already being used in early access by customers. It runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure OpenAI Service and it provides generative AI support via natural language to chip design teams, the company ...

Cisco offers light guidance as new product orders slow, sending its stock lower

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. fell more than 11% in extended trading today as the company warned it will likely miss analysts’ expectations in its fiscal second quarter by a wide margin. The company expects this to have a knock-on effect, and its forecast for the current fiscal year also came in low. The disappointing ...

Martian debuts novel AI model mapping technology for apps to leverage multiple LLMs at once

Martian Learning Inc. today debuted a new artificial intelligence model mapping technology that it says can achieve better performance at lower costs than any single large language model. The startup said it has also raised $9 million in a seed funding round led by NEA, Prosus Ventures, Carya Venture Partners and General Catalyst. The company ...

Microsoft turbocharges AI development with Fabric, Azure AI Studio and database updates

Microsoft Corp. is raising its game for artificial intelligence developers with a host of updates to its Azure cloud computing platform. At its annual Ignite 2023 conference, the company explained that the success of any AI initiative is limited by the data that’s available to it, so one of the main focuses is on the ...