Frontier AI companies land Department of Defense deals
The US Department of Defense has awarded contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI with a ceiling of $200 million to each vendor to leverage AI models for national security.
The US Department of Defense has awarded contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI with a ceiling of $200 million to each vendor to leverage AI models for national security.
Amazon Web Services launched Kiro, an integrated development environment (IDE) that uses AI agents to move from prompt to prototype to production.
DisrupTV episode 403 takeaways: AI is going to rewrite how businesses operate and enterprises are going to avoid chasing existing markets to create new categories, drop the obsession with transformation and add-on approaches, treat AI as a co-founder and cut the latency from idea to prototype to near zero.
The view from the C-suite is increasingly gloomy as executives navigate policy, inflation and the economy that's a reality show with two-week story arcs. It's hard to plan when your conditions change every other day. Yet, technology companies--including a few that barely have revenue--live in a world full of unicorns and rainbows.
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping.
Dr. David Bray emphasized that adaptability is a competitive advantage in today's rapidly changing environment, and boards should focus on empowering their organizations to sense and respond quickly to changes rather than getting bogged down in tactical decisions.
Samsung is betting that the acquisition of Xealth and its ecosystem combined with new sensors and health features in Galaxy Watch8 and its devices will make it a healthcare player.
According to CoreWeave, the acquisition of Core Scientific will eliminate about $10 billion of future leases, create $500 million annual run rate cost savings by the end of 2027 and simplify operations.
Enterprises may want to start thinking of large language models (LLMs) as ensemble casts that can combine knowledge and reasoning to complete tasks, according to Japanese AI lab Sakana AI.
The money being thrown around AI talent and infrastructure is staggering, but the return on investment may be sketchy for longer time frames. What happens if AI demand doesn't deliver triple-digit growth forever?
Grammarly built a strong business by bringing its AI writing assistant to wherever you work, but recent acquisitions of Coda and Superhuman and new capital point to much larger ambitions.
HPE's has closed the acquisition of Juniper Networks in a move that will double its networking business.