Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Blue Origin seeks to raise $10B from external investors in first VC-led funding round

By Mike Wheatley Jul 8, 2026

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin Enterprises LP is reportedly looking to raise money from outside investors for the first time in more than two decades. The company is in talks to secure $10…

AI

SpaceXAI’s newest AI model Grok 4.5 dramatically undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on price

By Mike Wheatley Jul 8, 2026

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Corp. has released a new model called Grok 4.5, in what is its first major launch since it went public a few weeks earlier. In a blog post earlier today, the…

Infra

Apple promises to buy $30B worth of US-made chips from Broadcom

By Mike Wheatley Jul 8, 2026

Apple Inc. said today it has penciled in a new multiyear deal with Broadcom Inc. that’s expected to be worth more than $30 billion, in what is the iPhone maker’s largest commitment to U.S.…

AI

With $25M in funding, Alta AI aims to accelerate go-to-market automation

By Mike Wheatley Jul 8, 2026

Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised $25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for enterprises. The…

AI

Microsoft is reportedly ditching OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models in favor of its own to cut costs

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2026

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Microsoft AI or MAI…

AI

Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2026

DeepSeek Ltd., one of China’s most visible artificial intelligence companies, is pushing to design its own, in-house silicon aimed at inference workloads, according to a report by Reuters today. The report cites three people…

AI

Tangos grabs $20M in funding to take on the bad guys by automating financial crime investigations

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2026

Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct financial crime investigations at unprecedented scale, said today it has closed on $20 million in seed funding. The round was led by Red…

Infra

IBM debuts compact z17 mainframes and LinuxONE servers for on-premises enterprise AI

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2026

IBM Corp. today announced a massive expansion of its on-premises enterprise infrastructure lineup, with new single-frame and rack-mount versions of its iconic z17 mainframes and more compact LinuxONE 5 server platforms. The new lineup…

Infra

Syntiant, which makes low-power chips for on-device AI, files for initial public offering

By Mike Wheatley Jul 6, 2026

A chipmaker called Syntiant Corp. that specializes in making low-powered processors that run artificial intelligence locally on devices has filed to go public. The company filed its initial public offering paperwork with the U.S.…

Infra

Samsung says memory chip demand will drive 19-fold jump in operating profit

By Mike Wheatley Jul 6, 2026

Record-breaking memory chip sales and prices are set to drive a 19-fold increase in Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s second-quarter operating profit, according to a preliminary earnings report issued by the company today. The strong…

Mike Wheatley

Blue Origin seeks to raise $10B from external investors in first VC-led funding round

SpaceXAI’s newest AI model Grok 4.5 dramatically undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on price

Apple promises to buy $30B worth of US-made chips from Broadcom

With $25M in funding, Alta AI aims to accelerate go-to-market automation

Microsoft is reportedly ditching OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models in favor of its own to cut costs

Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips

Tangos grabs $20M in funding to take on the bad guys by automating financial crime investigations

IBM debuts compact z17 mainframes and LinuxONE servers for on-premises enterprise AI

Syntiant, which makes low-power chips for on-device AI, files for initial public offering

Samsung says memory chip demand will drive 19-fold jump in operating profit

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