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

Exowatt has a rock-solid plan to provide cheap, abundant energy for AI data centers

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY11 MONTHS AGO

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 – …

Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 agent learns to think and act inside virtual worlds

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY11 MONTHS AGO

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 …

Applied Materials beats forecasts and predicts higher AI chip demand in 2026, but stock falls anyway

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY11 MONTHS AGO

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 …

Alembic Technologies raises $145M and buys an Nvidia-powered supercomputer to accelerate ‘causal AI’

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

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 …

Microsoft brings Atlanta-based AI ‘super factory’ online

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

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 …

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 model gets a personality makeover and superior reasoning skills

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

OpenAI Group PBC has announced the first major upgrade to its flagship GPT‑5 large language model, following mixed reviews when it launched in August. The update is intended to make ChatGPT “smarter and more enjoyable” to converse with, the company said today. The …

Cisco’s focus on AI infrastructure pays off with strong earnings and revenue beat

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. delivered better-than-expected profit and revenue in its fiscal first-quarter earnings results today and offered solid guidance for the current period, demonstrating progress in its efforts to capture more artificial intelligence spending. The encouraging results helped boost Cisco’s …

Google Photos adds support for Nano Banana-powered AI editing features

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

Google LLC today announced one of the biggest updates to the Google Photos application in years, adding a half-dozen new features — many of them powered by its new image and video generation model, Nano Banana. The updates were announced in a blog …

SoftBank offloads $5.8B stake in Nvidia to free up cash for OpenAI investment

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

SoftBank Group Corp. has sold its entire remaining stake in Nvidia Corp. in order to raise funds for its promised $22.5 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI Group PBC. The Japanese company said in its latest financial earnings report today that it …

AMD snaps up MK1 to accelerate inference and reasoning on Instinct GPUs

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY12 MONTHS AGO

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has added to a string of recent acquisitions, buying a startup called MK1 that develops software to enhance the inference and reasoning capabilities of its artificial intelligence processors. The acquisition was announced today in a blog post by …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Exowatt has a rock-solid plan to provide cheap, abundant energy for AI data centers

Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 agent learns to think and act inside virtual worlds

Applied Materials beats forecasts and predicts higher AI chip demand in 2026, but stock falls anyway

Alembic Technologies raises $145M and buys an Nvidia-powered supercomputer to accelerate ‘causal AI’

Microsoft brings Atlanta-based AI ‘super factory’ online

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 model gets a personality makeover and superior reasoning skills

Cisco’s focus on AI infrastructure pays off with strong earnings and revenue beat

Google Photos adds support for Nano Banana-powered AI editing features

SoftBank offloads $5.8B stake in Nvidia to free up cash for OpenAI investment

AMD snaps up MK1 to accelerate inference and reasoning on Instinct GPUs

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