Comet Cloud offers SMBs cheaper GPU alternatives
October 21, 2026: Comet Cloud offers SMBs cheaper GPU alternatives - Comet Cloud is targeting small and midsize businesses overlooked by hyperscalers, which now require multiyear GPU contracts that exclude smaller customers. Founded by Thomas Kato, the company offers dedicated bare metal clusters for data-sensitive clients like medical offices and law firms, pricing ...
Dell: AI Supply Constraints Trump Price Negotiations
October 21, 2026: Dell: AI Supply Constraints Trump Price Negotiations - Demand for AI infrastructure has outpaced supply, forcing enterprises to abandon end-of-quarter discount tactics or risk project delays of 60 to 120 days. Dell SVP David Schmoock says customers must share deployment plans far earlier than in past hardware cycles. Shortages now span GPUs, memory, sto...
Google Brings Gemini AI Navigation to Apple CarPlay
October 21, 2026: Google Brings Gemini AI Navigation to Apple CarPlay - Google is rolling out its conversational Gemini AI assistant to Apple CarPlay, starting with US drivers today, with a global rollout also underway. The feature was first introduced on Android Auto nearly a year ago. Google has not yet provided specific details on regional availability outside the US...
Red Hat and Nvidia Partner to Secure AI Agents
October 21, 2026: Red Hat and Nvidia Partner to Secure AI Agents - Red Hat and Nvidia expanded their collaboration to help enterprises secure autonomous AI agents, announced at Nvidia's GTC event in Berlin. The partnership combines agent runtime controls, model inference software and hardware support under the Red Hat AI Factory with Nvidia. Security controls are p...
Meta Creates Non-Voting Stock to Fund AI Push
October 21, 2026: Meta Creates Non-Voting Stock to Fund AI Push - Meta confirmed plans to issue a new class of non-voting stock to help fund its artificial intelligence expansion. CFO Susan Li said the shares will be distributed to existing shareholders as a stock dividend and used for capital raising, employee compensation, and acquisitions, while preserving voti...
Homebase AI assistant handles scheduling and payroll tasks
October 20, 2026: Homebase AI assistant handles scheduling and payroll tasks - Homebase has launched Homebase Assistant, an AI tool built for small business owners managing hourly teams. It automates tasks like scheduling, payroll checks, and candidate screening. When an employee calls out sick, the assistant identifies potential replacements and contacts them only after owner...
Gemini AI Gets Personal Data Access in Cars
October 20, 2026: Gemini AI Gets Personal Data Access in Cars - Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI for use in cars. The update allows Gemini, available through Android Auto and vehicles with Google built-in, to access user information across Google apps including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search. As an example, Google notes t...
Inception Mercury 3 claims speed edge over rivals
October 20, 2026: Inception Mercury 3 claims speed edge over rivals - Inception AI released Mercury 3, its new flagship diffusion language model, claiming it beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on eight of 12 benchmarks at four to eight times their speed. Mercury 3 reached 1,068 tokens per second versus roughly 240 for Haiku 5.5 and 130 for GPT-6 Luna. Its biggest le...
Celigo launches MCP platform to govern enterprise AI agents
October 20, 2026: Celigo launches MCP platform to govern enterprise AI agents - Celigo has announced its Model Context Protocol Management platform, giving IT and security teams centralized control over how AI assistants and agents access enterprise systems. MCP, introduced by Anthropic in 2024 as an open-source standard, connects AI agents to databases, business apps, and APIs...
Schmidt Owns 1% of Anthropic, Worth $20B
October 20, 2026: Schmidt Owns 1% of Anthropic, Worth $20B - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in the AI lab's 2021 Series A round, when the startup was valued at $461 million. That stake is roughly half the 2% held by co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei. With Anthropic expected to go public this...
Ex-Nvidia VC Says Robotics Is in LEGO Era
October 20, 2026: Ex-Nvidia VC Says Robotics Is in LEGO Era - Amulya Vishwanath, founder of Techable Ventures and former Nvidia product marketer, says physical AI is in its LEGO era — a foundational phase where companies are building basic components like robotic hands and actuators that will eventually combine into more advanced systems. She draws parallels t...
AuxoAI Secures $20.7M Series A for Enterprise AI
October 20, 2026: AuxoAI Secures $20.7M Series A for Enterprise AI - AuxoAI Inc. has raised $20.7 million in a Series A round led by NTT Venture Capital to scale its enterprise AI consulting model. The company deploys on-site engineers and strategy teams to embed AI into large business operations, combining data engineering, workflow automation, and AI agents. Its co...
Salesforce acquires Braze for $5.66 billion cash
October 20, 2026: Salesforce acquires Braze for $5.66 billion cash - Salesforce announced plans to acquire marketing automation provider Braze for $5.66 billion in cash, valuing shares at $47.5, a 58% premium over its last closing price. The premium reflects Braze's strong performance, including 26% year-over-year revenue growth to $227.2 million last quarter and nea...
Anthropic Drafts Bill to Block Dangerous AI Models
October 20, 2026: Anthropic Drafts Bill to Block Dangerous AI Models - Anthropic has been circulating a draft AI safety bill it hopes Congress will adopt. The legislation would allow an AI model's release to be blocked if independent evaluators determine it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of killing over 50 people, causing over a billion dollars in property damage, ...
Grafana Labs launches AI agents for AI observability
October 20, 2026: Grafana Labs launches AI agents for AI observability - Grafana Labs announced a suite of AI-focused updates to its Grafana Cloud platform at ObservabilityCON 2026. New features include Assistant Watchers, always-on agents that monitor other AI agents and flag behavioral anomalies, and Grafana Managed Sandboxes, which let AI analyze code and prepare fixe...
DeepSeek open-sources its production inference framework
October 20, 2026: DeepSeek open-sources its production inference framework - DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework powering its own production services, under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. The framework currently supports one model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and runs on Nvidia SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs. One cluster using the system ser...
Lightroom Mobile Now Opens Closed Eyes with AI
October 20, 2026: Lightroom Mobile Now Opens Closed Eyes with AI - Adobe has added a generative AI feature to the mobile version of Lightroom on iOS, iPadOS, and Android that can open closed eyes in photos with a single tap. When the app detects that a person or group of people have their eyes closed, it automatically displays an Open Eyes Quick Action icon over th...
Agents Drive AI Costs Up, Data Layer Is Fix
October 20, 2026: Agents Drive AI Costs Up, Data Layer Is Fix - Agentic AI is exposing a flaw in how companies budget for artificial intelligence. A Cisco study cited by Couchbase SVP Tim Finley found agents generate 450% more traffic per task than humans, straining databases built for human usage patterns. To manage costs, companies are downgrading to cheaper m...
Dell: Proprietary knowledge beats AI models as moat
October 20, 2026: Dell: Proprietary knowledge beats AI models as moat - Dell Technologies CTO John Roese argues that a company's competitive edge in the AI era lies not in the models it uses but in its proprietary knowledge. Dell encodes internal expertise into Markdown-based skill files that guide how autonomous agents behave, making them operate according to company-s...
AI lowers barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks, Dell warns
October 20, 2026: AI lowers barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks, Dell warns - Dell Technologies CSO John Scimone says agentic AI has collapsed the cost and barriers to entry for cyberattacks, giving lower-tier threat actors tools once reserved for nation-states. He warned that the least sophisticated attack of tomorrow will be more sophisticated than anything seen a year ago....
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