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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Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt ‘AI factories’ based on its Vera Rubin architecture

Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it’s collaborating with more than 70 partners on the design of more efficient “gigawatt AI factories” to support the next generation of artificial intelligence models. The gigawatt AI factories envisioned by Nvidia will utilize Vera Rubin ...

Flex unveils highly integrated data center reference designs to speed up AI infrastructure deployments

The original design manufacturing giant Flex Ltd. says it wants to help data center operators scale their operations more efficiently with what is effectively a new blueprint for gigawatt data centers that can support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. The company said it’s bundling its power, cooling and computing systems into a series of ...

Samsung researchers create tiny AI model that shames the biggest LLMs in reasoning puzzles

Researchers from Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. have created a tiny artificial intelligence model that punches far above its weight on certain kinds of “reasoning” tasks, challenging the industry’s longheld logic that “bigger means better.” Released this week, the Tiny Recursive Model or TRM has just 7 million parameters, far fewer than most other AI models. ...

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as an adviser

Former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is moving into the technology world, joining Microsoft Corp. and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC as a senior adviser. Sunak (pictured), who quit his role as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Conservative Party after suffering defeat in that country’s general election in July 2024, is still a member ...

Adobe takes aim at business buyers with dedicated B2B AI agents

Adobe Inc. is building on the launch of its first set of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of agentic offerings aimed squarely at marketers in the business-to-business industry. The new agents come almost one month to the day after the company debuted its first set of AI agents in the Adobe Experience Platform, ...

Pavus AI raises $5.2M in funding to build a digital brain for procurement teams

A startup called Pavus AI said today it has raised $5.2 million in funding to help organizations get better access to their procurement data, so they can leverage it to optimize spending and reduce their cost base. The funding comes via seed and preseed rounds led by Sentinel Global, which was the only investor named. ...

Relace wants to build the infrastructure foundation for AI coding agents after raising $23M in funding

Artificial intelligence coding infrastructure startup Relace today announced it has closed on $23 million in early-stage funding. The Series A round was led by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, and saw participation from Matrix Partners and Y Combinator. The startup, which is officially known as Squack Inc., is building ...

A121 Labs’ Jamba Reasoning 3B is a powerful tiny model that promises to transform AI economics

Generative artificial intelligence developer AI21 Labs Inc. says it wants to bring agentic AI workloads out of the data center and onto user’s devices with its newest model, Jamba Reasoning 3B. Launched today, Jamba Reasoning 3B is one of the smallest models the company has ever released, the latest addition to the Jamba family of ...

Spacelift enables instant, ‘codeless’ infrastructure provisioning for cloud workloads

Spacelift Inc. is building on the momentum of its “infrastructure-as-code” orchestration platform, launching an entirely new “agentic” infrastructure deployment model that allows cloud computing resources to be provisioned with natural language commands. The new offering, called Spacelift Intent, enables DevOps and platform teams to choose between traditional IaC and GitOps, which enable more precise control ...

AI sales automation startup AnyTeam gets $10M backing from 40+ investors

Artificial intelligence sales startup AnyTeam Inc. said today it’s launching its platform in early access after closing on a $10 million seed funding round that attracted interest from numerous investors. The round was led by SignalFire and saw participation from Crosslink Capital and a long list of more than 40 individual angel investors, including executives ...