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.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Salesforce’s latest AI updates enable sellers to integrate purchase experiences everywhere

Salesforce Inc. is rolling out yet more artificial intelligence features, this time for its Commerce Cloud platform. The new capabilities are designed to help companies integrate purchase experiences into every customer touchpoint, the company said. Commerce Cloud is a cloud-based e-commerce platform for businesses with mobile-first strategies. It’s designed to provide customers and stores with a ...

Netskope’s SkopeAI innovations enhance data loss prevention for unstructured data

Cloud security and networking startup Netskope Inc. is beefing up its suite of artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity tools to protect against data loss through the growing adoption of generative AI technologies. The new features announced in SkopeAI today are meant to overcome the limitations of traditional cybersecurity tools and provide enhanced data loss prevention, Netskope said. ...

Cerebras Systems debuts powerful Condor Galaxy supercomputer to rival Nvidia in AI training

Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. has partnered with the Abu Dhabi-based technology firm Group 42 Holding Ltd. on what it says is the world’s largest AI training supercomputer, offering enterprises an alternative to systems made by Nvidia Corp. The company announced today that phase one of its new system, called Condor Galaxy 1, ...

ChatGPT can now remember how users want it to behave

ChatGPT users are getting a nice new update that will remove the need for them to create the same instruction prompts every time they begin a new interaction with it. OpenAI LP said in a blog post today that the “custom instructions” feature is available to subscribers of the ChatGPT Plus service in beta. It’s ...

GitHub’s generative AI-powered Copilot Chat is now available in limited beta

Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub said today it’s making one of the main features of its enhanced copilot tool available to developers in limited beta test mode. Github Copilot Chat is described as the “centerpiece feature” of Github Copilot X, an enhanced version of the popular Copilot coding assistant that debuted in mid-2021. Copilot X was announced in ...

Sustainable energy storage startup Energy Dome extends Series B funding to €55M

Clean energy storage startup Energy Dome S.p.A. said today it has closed on a €15 million extension of its Series B funding round, bringing its amount raised to €55 million, or about $60 million. The Series B extension was led by Innovation Development Oman Investments and saw participation from Vopak Ventures, investors represented by Sagana, ...

FedML raises $11.5M to foster collaborative AI model training at the edge

The collaborative machine learning startup FedML Inc. said today it has closed on an $11.5 million seed funding round. The round was made up of two separate tranches. The first raised $4.3 million and was disclosed in March, while the second pulled in $7.2 million and closed earlier this month. Camford Capital led the round, ...

AI21 Labs announces a plug-and-play tool that promises to fix AI hallucinations

Generative artificial intelligence startup AI21 Labs Ltd. said today it has created a new plug-and-play tool that will forever banish the plague of AI hallucinations by ensuring chatbot responses are based on an organization’s own knowledge base. The new tool is called Contextual Answers, and it can be embedded into digital assets to enhance the ...

Asus agrees to keep Intel’s NUC mini-PC brand alive

Taiwanese laptop computer maker ASUSTek Computer Inc. has agreed to take up the mantle of Intel Corp.’s Next Unit of Compute systems, signing an agreement with the chipmaker to design, manufacture, sell and support future generations of the product. Intel’s NUC computers are super-compact, mini-personal computers that became quite a hit when they were launched ...

Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise with full protection for sensitive corporate data

Microsoft Corp. said today it’s expanding the capabilities of its new, artificial intelligence-powered Bing chat engine to the workplace with the launch of Bing Chat Enterprise. The new tool leverages the same generative AI technology behind ChatGPT to bring a more conversational search experience to enterprise workers. Announced at Microsoft’s annual partner conference Ignite, Bing Chat ...