Insights News
July 21, 2026

Certinia acquires Moonnox

Data to Decisions
Certinia said it will acquire Moonnox, which features a platform built for systems integrators and services firms. With the move, Certinia said it will accelerate its expansion int...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 20, 2026

AMD launches Helios, lands Microsoft Azure deal

Tech Optimization
AMD said Microsoft will deploy its Helios rack systems, GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure in an expanded partnership. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 20, 2026

Hugging Face defends agentic AI attack with Z.ai's GLM 5.2

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Hugging Face detected and responded to an agentic AI attack and used Z.ai's open weight GLM 5.2 because frontier models were hampered by safety guardrails. There are multiple takea...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 17, 2026

Big banks and how they're thinking about AI

Data to Decisions
Wall Street giants reported their quarterly earnings in bunches this week and AI was a hot topic. Big banks are worth watching when it comes to AI because they're essentially techn...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 16, 2026

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3

Data to Decisions
Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8T parameter large language model the company said is on par with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI GPT-5.5. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 16, 2026

TSMC: 'Conviction in multi-year AI megatrend remains high'

Innovation & Product-led Growth
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said the company's quot;conviction in the multi-year AI megatrend remains very highquot; and the company sees 2026 revenue growth topping 40%. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 14, 2026

Is a FINRA-ish group the answer for frontier AI standards?

Data to Decisions
Dennis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, argued in a post on X that frontier AI models need a standard for new releases and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) serves a...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 13, 2026

Rightsizing open models may cut your AI inference spend

Data to Decisions
Salesforce said it has cut its AI inference bills by right sizing models. The general idea: Tune specific open source models to complete tasks instead of relying on pricey models. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 9, 2026

SpaceXAI, Meta puts pricing squeeze on Anthropic, OpenAI

Data to Decisions
OpenAI and Anthropic were already set up to be squeezed by open source large language models (LLM) from China and the US, but now SpaceXAI and Meta are getting in on the fun. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 8, 2026

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5

Data to Decisions
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, a model that is designed to outperform on coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, in a move that highlights why the company acquired Cursor for $60 bi...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 8, 2026

Apple, Broadcom confirm $30 billion custom chip pact

Tech Optimization
Apple said it inked a $30 billion deal with Broadcom to design and manufacture custom chips. According to Apple, the deal will produce more than 15 billion chips manufactured in th...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 7, 2026

DeepSeek's real impact happening now

Data to Decisions
DeepSeek freaked out the LLM industry about 18 months ago and kicked off the US-China AI race in earnest. Then DeepSeek's buzz faded a bit as other Chinese open LLMs flooded the ma...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 6, 2026

Anthropic inks 20-year lease with TeraWulf

Tech Optimization
Anthropic inked a 20-year lease agreement with TeraWulf to add capacity. The deal highlights how neoclouds and second-tier providers are scrambling ahead of what's expected to be M...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 1, 2026

Meta eyes cloud computing: Here’s the fallout

Revenue & Growth Effectiveness
Meta is reportedly considering a cloud computing unit to rent out spare capacity in a move that would put it in competition with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The fallout ...
Larry Dignan