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Microsoft leans hard on autonomous security for AI agents
Artificial intelligence-enabled agents are taking the enterprise by storm, and the level of autonomy they introduce brings some serious security challenges that Microsoft Corp. is doing its best to address. At Microsoft Ignite today, the company announced a swathe of updates across platforms including Microsoft Defender, Entra, Intune, Purview and Sentinel, designed to help enterprises ...
Google’s Gemini 3 AI model makes its long-awaited debut, crushing rivals on top benchmarks
Google LLC has come up with the perfect response to the bevy of artificial intelligence announcements at Microsoft Ignite this week, launching its most intelligent model: Gemini 3. The launch of Gemini 3 has been hotly anticipated for several months, and Google is doing everything it can to ensure that users won’t be disappointed. As ...
Microsoft accelerates automation in Windows with MCP and agent connectors
Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision for the “agentic enterprise,” positioning the Windows operating system at the center of new, artificial intelligence agent-led intelligent workflows. At its annual Ignite conference in San Francisco, the company announced a barrage of updates focused on AI agents that can automate almost any aspect of enterprise work, including a complete ...
Microsoft’s Azure Copilot to support agentic cloud operations at scale with new AI agents
Microsoft Corp. is infusing artificial intelligence agents into Azure Copilot to turbocharge cloud operations with agentic automation. Announced today at Microsoft Ignite 2025, the revamped Azure Copilot has been transformed into an “agentic interface” teams can use to orchestrate a half-dozen highly specialized AI agents that automate a wide array of complex cloud infrastructure operations. ...
Hammerhead AI raises $10M to tackle the AI energy crisis in data centers
The extensive energy demands of artificial intelligence are causing a bottleneck in data centers, and Hammerhead AI Inc. wants to do something about it after raising $10 million in seed funding today. The oversubscribed round was led by Buoyant Ventures and saw participation from SE Ventures, which is backed by the French energy management giant ...
Exowatt has a rock-solid plan to provide cheap, abundant energy for AI data centers
Exowatt Inc., a solar-thermal energy startup backed by OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman and other high-profile investors, wants to solve the artificial intelligence energy crisis with millions of hot rocks. To do that, it has raised millions of dollars – $50 million in fact, led by MVP Ventures and 8090 Industries. Today’s round ...
Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 agent learns to think and act inside virtual worlds
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind has introduced a new, video game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate through 3D virtual worlds it has never encountered before and solve all kinds of problems. It’s a key step toward the creation of general-purpose agents that will ultimately power real-world robots, the research outfit said. Announced ...
Applied Materials beats forecasts and predicts higher AI chip demand in 2026, but stock falls anyway
Semiconductor industry giant Applied Materials Inc. beat expectations for its latest financial results and forecast higher sales in the coming year thanks to artificial intelligence demand, but its stock moved lower in late trading. The company reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.17 per share, easily clearing Wall Street’s target ...
Alembic Technologies raises $145M and buys an Nvidia-powered supercomputer to accelerate ‘causal AI’
Causal artificial intelligence startup Alembic Technologies Inc. said today it has raised $145 million in a Series B growth round that increases its valuation almost 16-fold. It’s using a big chunk of those funds to invest in what it says is one of the fastest privately owned supercomputers ever built – a new Nvidia Corp. ...
Microsoft brings Atlanta-based AI ‘super factory’ online
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s bringing online its first artificial intelligence “super factory” with the grand opening of its newest multibillion-dollar data center facility in Atlanta. The company said it’s going to link the massive new server farm with existing data center infrastructure elsewhere in the country to ensure it can provide the immense computing ...