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The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there’s no plan as yet to make the details public fare. The Trump administration teamed up with executives from a number of firms that included Anthropic PBC, The post White House, AI firms keep safety framework talks private appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Technology holding company Bending Spoons S.p.A. today announced plans to acquire Airtable Inc., the developer of a popular cloud-based spreadsheet platform. The all-cash deal is worth $1.285 billion. That’s less than the approximately $1.4 billion Airtable has raised from its investors. The company was valued at $11.7 billion following its most recent funding round, a The post Bending Spoons to acquire productivity software startup Airtable for $1.285B appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered another strong quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations as its artificial intelligence infrastructure business continued its rapid expansion. The company posted 107% year-over-year growth in data center revenue, reinforcing that AMD is becoming a formidable challenger in the race to power enterprise AI. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker reported second-quarter The post AMD’s AI engine shifts into higher gear as data center revenue more than doubles, Helios ramps & market is confused appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Shares in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the newly public company beat Wall Street on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and disclosed capital spending billions of dollars above what analysts had modeled. It was SpaceX’s first quarterly report since its June initial public offering, the The post SpaceX stock falls 8% as first earnings beat is overshadowed by $18B capex appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night. The company said it developed Crew to allow developers to start a task, walk away and come back when something is worth administering. It tasks multiple agents and their sub-agents on a The post AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC. The round The post Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity’s next major attack surface appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.2 billion. Existing investors a16z, Base10, Y Combinator joined venture capital firms Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, T.Capital, Bankinter, Endeavor Catalyst, Kfund and Wave-X The post HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp. today announced it is open-sourcing the application programming interface for its powerful cuFile vertical data storage stack, enabling millisecond data access. The company also announced a large-scale industry initiative with technology leaders to optimize memory and storage with Storage-Next. The initiative The post Nvidia open-sources cuFile API, accelerating GPU read/write capability for high-speed storage appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced the formation of asago, an open-source community project intended to turn artificial intelligence governance policies into operational controls that can be deployed with AI systems. Short for AI Safety and Governance Orchestration, asago is intended to connect the work that is now often divided among compliance teams, data The post Red Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Developer tooling startup Convex Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $57 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital also contributed to the Series B investment. It brings Convex’s total outside funding to $110.5 million. Convex was founded in 2021 by former members of Dropbox Inc.’s infrastructure The post Convex reels in $57M for its AI-optimized application backend appeared first on SiliconANGLE.