Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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China’s Moonshot throws down the gauntlet with Kimi K3, the world’s largest open-weights model

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI today announced the imminent release of Kimi K3, its latest large language model, and already, it’s sending shockwaves across the AI industry. That’s not only because it’s believed to…

AI

Intel says it’s going to lean on Google’s Gemini to help automate and accelerate silicon development

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2026

Intel Corp. said today it’s expanding its long-running partnership with Google Cloud into the agentic artificial intelligence realm. By deploying the Gemini Enterprise platform across its global workforce, the chipmaker says it will be…

Cloud

Spectro Cloud wants to ease AI infrastructure management after raising $100M in funding

By Mike Wheatley Jul 15, 2026

Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged $100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processors might be hard to…

AI

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access

By Mike Wheatley Jul 15, 2026

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling…

AI

Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding

By Mike Wheatley Jul 15, 2026

Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after…

AI

AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations

By Mike Wheatley Jul 15, 2026

A startup called American Growth Insurance said today it has raised almost $70 million in committed equity capital to transform the insurance industry. It plans to do so with an aggressive, technology-focused business model…

AI

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M

By Mike Wheatley Jul 14, 2026

Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million. In addition,…

NEWS

AWS Security Hub expands coverage to Microsoft Azure and beefs up AI protections

By Mike Wheatley Jul 14, 2026

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features were announced today alongside…

NEWS

Cribl buys AI-native threat detection engineering startup CardinalOps

By Mike Wheatley Jul 14, 2026

Data observability and telemetry management company Cribl Inc. says it’s extending its capabilities into security operations after acquiring the artificial intelligence-native security engineering startup CardinalOps Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Cribl said that buying…

Infra

Cloudera and Vast Data partner to accelerate data delivery and prevent GPUs from starving

By Mike Wheatley Jul 14, 2026

Big-data management company Cloudera Inc. said today it’s partnering with storage infrastructure firm Vast Data Inc. on what the companies have termed a “unified AI factory.” They claim to have designed and built a…

Mike Wheatley

China’s Moonshot throws down the gauntlet with Kimi K3, the world’s largest open-weights model

Intel says it’s going to lean on Google’s Gemini to help automate and accelerate silicon development

Spectro Cloud wants to ease AI infrastructure management after raising $100M in funding

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access

Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding

AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M

AWS Security Hub expands coverage to Microsoft Azure and beefs up AI protections

Cribl buys AI-native threat detection engineering startup CardinalOps

Cloudera and Vast Data partner to accelerate data delivery and prevent GPUs from starving

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