Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

AI

Canadian legal tech startup Clio swoops to acquire vLex for $1B

By Mike Wheatley Jun 30, 2025

Canadian legal software provider Clio has pounced on its second major acquisition of the year, buying an artificial intelligence startup called vLex LLC for $1 billion. The deal will help Clio, officially known as…

AI

China’s Baidu declares war on OpenAI and others by open-sourcing Ernie AI model

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2025

Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. today announced that it’s open-sourcing its powerful generative artificial intelligence foundation model Ernie 4.5, in a move that experts say will nudge the industry away from a battle…

Policy

Elon Musk says latest version of Trump’s budget bill is ‘utterly insane’ and will destroy clean energy sector

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2025

Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has slammed the latest version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.” In a post on his social media platform X, Musk…

Infra

HPE finally gets green light to buy Juniper and take on Cisco in AI networking

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2025

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has finally been allowed to proceed with its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. after settling a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ had tried…

AI

Report: DeepSeek’s newest model delayed by GPU export restrictions

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2025

China’s top artificial intelligence company DeepSeek Ltd. has reportedly come unstuck in its efforts to develop its next-generation R2 reasoning model, because it cannot get its hands on enough of Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing…

AI

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff says AI now does up to half of all the work at his company

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2025

Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff says his company is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence, using the technology to automate dozens of workloads that were, until recently, done by humans. In…

Big Data

DataBahn raises $17M to automate data pipeline management with AI agents

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2025

Intelligent data pipeline startup DataBahn LLC said today it has closed on a $17 million early-stage funding round. The Series A round was led by Forgepoint Capital and saw participation from S3 Ventures and…

AI

AI hiring startup Metaview raises $35M to automate recruiters’ admin work

By Mike Wheatley Jun 25, 2025

Artificial intelligence recruitment platform startup Metaview Labs Inc. has snagged $35 million in funding from investors including Google Ventures, building on a $7 million Series A investment that was closed one year earlier. Plural,…

Blockchain

Prediction market startup Kalshi raises $185M as rival Polymarket closes on $200M round

By Mike Wheatley Jun 25, 2025

The blockchain-based prediction market startup Kalshi Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $185 million funding round led by the cryptocurrency-focused venture capital firm Paradigm, bringing its value to $2 billion. The…

Infra

Micron generates massive profits as AI fuels demand for high-bandwidth memory

By Mike Wheatley Jun 25, 2025

Micron Technology Inc. delivered solid profits today thanks to rampant demand for artificial intelligence chips that drove record quarterly revenue, but it wasn’t enough to move the needle in its stock price, which remained…

Mike Wheatley

Canadian legal tech startup Clio swoops to acquire vLex for $1B

China’s Baidu declares war on OpenAI and others by open-sourcing Ernie AI model

Elon Musk says latest version of Trump’s budget bill is ‘utterly insane’ and will destroy clean energy sector

HPE finally gets green light to buy Juniper and take on Cisco in AI networking

Report: DeepSeek’s newest model delayed by GPU export restrictions

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff says AI now does up to half of all the work at his company

DataBahn raises $17M to automate data pipeline management with AI agents

AI hiring startup Metaview raises $35M to automate recruiters’ admin work

Prediction market startup Kalshi raises $185M as rival Polymarket closes on $200M round

Micron generates massive profits as AI fuels demand for high-bandwidth memory

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