For more than a decade, cloud architectures have been built around a deliberate separation of storage and compute. Under this model, storage became a place to simply hold data while intelligence lived entirely in the compute tier. This design worked well for traditional analytics jobs operating on structured, table-based data. These workloads are predictable, often

Apple promised a big week of new product introductions  and seems ready to deliver. Starting the week off are the iPhone 17e and an iPad Air with a powerful M4 chip. Both systems meet the promises we heard during pre-introduction speculation, but perhaps it is even more impressive that Apple has somehow also managed to offer

OpenAI has struck a deal to supply the US government with AI services, announcing it hours after US President Donald Trump’s decision on Friday to ban its AI rival Anthropic from all US government contracts. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said of the negotiation, “It was definitely rushed, and the optics don’t look good,” in

Windows 11 25H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows

A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine raises concerns about the safety of Open AI’s health service ChatGPT Health, which in many cases fails to recommend emergency care when it ‘ actually needed, according to The Guardian. Researchers tested ChatGPT Health with 60 realistic patient scenarios, ranging from mild discomfort to acute medical

AI adoption in financial services has effectively become universal–and the institutions still treating it as an experiment are now the outliers. According to Finastra’s Financial Services State of the Nation 2026 report, which surveyed 1,509 senior executives across 11 markets, only 2% of financial institutions globally report no use of AI whatsoever.  The debate is

At MWC 2026 in Barcelona, SK Telecom outlined how it is rebuilding itself around AI, from its network core to its customer service desks. The shift goes beyond adding new AI tools. It involves rewriting internal systems, expanding data centre capacity to the gigawatt scale, and upgrading its own large language model to more than

Smack Technologies has raised $32 million in seed and Series A funding to build what it describes as the first frontier AI lab built specifically for national security. The Series A round was led by Geodesic Capital and Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Point72 Ventures, Felicis, First In, Scribble Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Washington Harbor Partners,

Ease Health has raised $41 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company is building an AI-native platform that brings together customer relationship management, electronic health records, and revenue cycle management into one unified system designed specifically for behavioral health providers. The round was announced as Ease emerges from stealth.

Arcfra, an innovator in cloud & AI-ready infrastructure, today announced the launch of Arcfra Neutree, an enterprise-grade Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform designed to industrialize AI operations. As the centerpiece of the new Arcfra AI Infrastructure Solution, Neutree shifts the enterprise focus from merely “running” models to operating them as reliable, governable, and scalable services. Bridging the “Production Gap”