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

Financial operations platform FloQast raises $100M in late-stage funding

Finance and accounting operations startup FloQast Inc. wants to enhance its platform with more artificial intelligence capabilities after closing on a $100 million late-stage funding round. Announced today, the Series E round was led by existing backer ICONIQ Growth and saw participation from new investors such as BDT & MSD Partners and World Innovation Lab, ...

Georgia Tech announces Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer for students

The Georgia Institute of Technology said today it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to create an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub that’s dedicated to teaching students. Called AI Makerspace, it has been deployed at Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering where it will serve undergraduate students, giving them access to the kind of computing power that was ...

Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time

Big data observability startup Onum said today it’s ready to accelerate its ambitious growth plans after closing on a $28 million early-stage round of funding. The Series A round was led by one of Europe’s top specialist business-to-business software investors, Dawn Capital, and saw participation from Kibo Ventures and Insight Partners. It comes less than a ...

Databricks delivers enhanced data analytics and intelligence for the energy sector

Big-data company Databricks Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a dedicated data intelligence platform for the energy industry, designed to enable customers in the energy sector to harness enormous streams of data and use them for business insights and to feed generative artificial intelligence workloads. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, as it’s officially ...

AI book publishing platform Spines raises $6.5M to disrupt centuries-old industry

Israeli startup Spines is looking to disrupt the centuries-old publishing industry after closing on a $6.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Aleph and saw participation from existing investors M-Fund, LionTree LLC and Dan Senor, co-author of the best-seller “Startup Nation.” Spines, officially known as Boox Publishing Technologies Inc., has created an ...

Google Cloud targets general-purpose and specialized workloads with new virtual machine families

Google Cloud is looking to address the very specific requirements of its customers with a series of updates to its workload-optimized compute infrastructure portfolio. The new virtual machine offerings, announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24, span a wide range of use cases, including general-purpose workloads, power-efficient workloads and specialized applications such as SAP deployments and ...

Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer cloud infrastructure gets new GPUs, TPUs, optimized storage and more

Google Cloud is revamping its AI Hypercomputer architecture with significant enhancements across the board to support rising demand for generative artificial intelligence applications that are becoming increasingly pervasive in enterprise workloads. At Google Cloud Next ’24 today, the company announced updates to almost every layer of the AI Hypercomputer cloud architecture, with new virtual machines ...

With its partners, Google Cloud is building a one-stop shop for generative AI development

Building the next generation of generative artificial intelligence is not an easy thing, and no single cloud provider is able to provide all of the hardware, software, systems, frameworks and expertise required to support its development. Fortunately, that isn’t necessary, as Google Cloud has instead turned to its wide ecosystem of partners to create what ...

Google Cloud showcases how major customers are innovating with its generative AI services

Google Cloud took the opportunity at its annual developer conference Next ‘24 today to showcase how various major customers are taking advantage of its advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. Not surprisingly in this day and age, it was especially keen to show off its chops in generative AI, revealing how the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG is ...

Intel and Altera unveil new chips and FPGAs to enhance AI at the network edge

Intel Corp. and its subsidiary Altera today unveiled a range of new processors and field-programmable gate arrays or FPGAs designed to extend artificial intelligence capabilities to the network edge. The new offerings, said to be broadly available now, include a number of edge-optimized central processing units and graphics processing units made by Intel, as well ...