As enterprises push AI beyond the pilot stage, the cost and complexity of running inference at scale are forcing a fundamental rethink of how infrastructure is designed, governed and sourced, putting horizontal cloud — one shared foundation for running workloads across the enterprise — at the center of AI strategy. The open hybrid cloud model […]
Source: siliconangle.com
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Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots. The social media giant announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. It did specify that the acquisition is designed to advance its efforts to develop humanoid robots. Assured Robot Intelligence’s single-page website doesn’t provide information about…
Technology and computing giant Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Ising, the world’s first open artificial intelligence model family aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction. Nvidia, whose main business is the graphics processing units that power AI, said these AI models will allow researchers and enterprise companies to build better quantum computers capable of running useful…
I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different. Other unified-communications-as-a-service and contact-center-as-a-service providers have been…
It’s 2:17 a.m., and your application monitor flags elevated database latency. Before your on-call engineer finishes reading the alert, three agents have already responded. The performance agent doubles the database capacity. The cost agent, seeing what appears to be overprovisioning, starts consolidating database instances. The routing agent reroutes traffic through the database tier. Each decision…
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and urgent. The product, first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in November, positions itself as…