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

Senser raises $9.5M to transform IT observability with packet filter technology and AI

Artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure monitoring startup Senser Ltd. said today it has closed on a $9.5 million seed funding round. The funds will be used to launch its new AI operations platform, which uses Extended Berkeley Packet Filter technology to monitor complex cloud and on-premises information technology environments. Today’s round was led by Eclipse and saw participation ...

LearnOps startup Cognota lands $5.5M early-stage funding round to boost corporate learning

Canadian corporate development software startup Cognota Inc. has closed on a $5.5 million early-stage round of funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Grotech Ventures and saw participation from IDEA Fund Partners, BDC Capital, Generation Ventures, CEAS Investments, Tyton Partners and angel investors Neal Dempsey and Jay Steinfeld. Cognota is the creator of a ...

Revefi raises $10.5M in seed funding to disrupt the data observability industry

Revefi Inc. said today it has armed itself with $10.5 million from a seed funding round, aiming to disrupt the data observability market with its artificial intelligence-powered Data Operations Cloud. Today’s round was led by Mayfield Managing Partner Navin Chaddha and saw participation from GTMfund, Neythri Futures Fund and more than 10 other strategic investors. ...

The CIA says it’s building a ChatGPT-style generative AI chatbot to aid data analysts

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says it’s building its own ChatGPT-style chatbot to help analysts sift through enormous amounts of data so it can improve its investigations. The CIA’s chatbot will leverage advanced generative artificial intelligence to help its agents access and understand open-source data, the agency said. The technology was developed by the CIA’s Open ...

Report: Palo Alto Networks targets Dig Security for $300M+ acquisition

Multiple sources are claiming that the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks Inc. is closing on the acquisition of Dig Security Solutions Inc., with the deal said to be valued at between $300 million and $400 million. Reports in Calcalist and TechCrunch today said the two companies are now in “advanced negotiations,” though nothing has been finalized ...

Microsoft hedges its bets, seeking more cost-effective AI models

Although Microsoft Corp. is said to own just under half of ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP, it’s also working on alternative artificial intelligence models that are less powerful, but also much more efficient. That’s according to a report today in The Information, which cites unnamed OpenAI employees as saying Microsoft is concerned about the sometimes staggering ...

MongoDB revs up its vector search feature to power faster and more accurate generative AI apps

Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced a slew of updates to its platform that are designed to help software developers build applications that can harness the power of generative artificial intelligence. Among other improvements, it announced new Vector Search functionality that improves the way it filters and aggregates unstructured data, making it easier for ...

SAP debuts Joule, a generative AI copilot for intelligent insights across its entire software portfolio

Enterprise software giant SAP SE is building on this year’s launch of its Business AI tools with the availability of a new generative artificial intelligence copilot that it says will be embedded throughout its cloud enterprise portfolio. It’s called Joule, and it will provide proactive and contextualized insights from across its entire suite of cloud ...

Dell expands APEX portfolio to extend Microsoft Azure Cloud to the edge

Dell Technologies Inc. said today that it’s expanding its APEX portfolio with a new family of products for on-premises deployments of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Cloud. It’s the first offering from Dell’s recently announced Dell APEX Cloud Platform. It provides a range of infrastructure offerings for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that customers ...

SRI International spins out Synfini, an AI-powered drug discovery platform provider

Silicon Valley-based nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International said today it’s spinning out its patented Synfini drug discovery platform as an independent startup named Synfini Inc. Synfini combines technologies that include physical and virtual chemistry, neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, a vast proprietary chemistry dataset and robotic automation to develop novel molecular compounds as promising drug candidates. ...