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At CES 2026, Nvidia Corp. announced Alpamayo, a new open family of AI models, simulation tools and datasets aimed at one of the hardest problems in technology: making autonomous vehicles safe in the real world, not just in demos. On the surface, …
Exclusive: AWS CEO Matt Garman declares a new era: Agents are the new cloud
After 13 years covering Amazon Web Services Inc. up close — including watching more than a decade of reinvention from the front row — I’ve learned to feel when the ground is shifting. And this year, that feeling is unmistakable. AWS re:Invent …
AWS unveils EKS capabilities to reinvent Kubernetes operations as AI workloads surge
In major move signaling how Amazon Web Services Inc. intends to redefine Kubernetes operations for the artificial intelligence era, AWS today announced Amazon EKS Capabilities, a fully managed suite of Kubernetes-native tools that integrate popular open-source tooling directly into the EKS control …
Qualcomm’s AI200 turns up the heat on Nvidia — and puts inference economics in the spotlight
Qualcomm Inc. shares spiked as much as 20% early today after the company unveiled new data center artificial intelligence accelerators, the AI200 and AI250, aimed squarely at Nvidia Corp.’s inference stronghold with its graphics processing units. According to today’s reporting, AI200 is …
IBM and Groq join forces to accelerate agentic AI: Making real-time intelligence an enterprise reality
The future of agentic artificial intelligence — intelligent systems that act autonomously on behalf of humans — is coming into focus, and two companies are shaping how it takes form inside the enterprise. IBM Corp. and Groq Inc. today announced a strategic …
Meta and Oracle embrace Nvidia’s Spectrum-X: Ethernet enters the mega AI factory era
At this year’s Open Compute Project Summit, Nvidia Corp. took another major step toward redefining the data center as a mega artificial intelligence factory. The company announced that Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. will adopt its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, a …
TheCUBE Pod quick take: Washington’s deregulation drumbeat meets Wall Street’s AI fever
Inside a week when stablecoins are rising, Intel sounded the alarm — and Figma prepared to shut down Broad Street. Minutes after the closing bell echoed through the New York Stock Exchange, I tried to sum up an extraordinary stretch at the NYSE CUBE …
‘The bottom turtle’: Amazon’s storage workhorse is getting an AI upgrade
When Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec joined Amazon Web Services more than a decade ago, the company’s Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, was a humble online bucket for photos, logs and the occasional startup backup. Today it houses exabytes of corporate treasure, …
Exclusive with Amazon Bedrock chief Atul Deo: AWS’ big bet on cheaper AI — and a new breed of software agent
Atul Deo’s goal is to make artificial-intelligence software both cheaper and smarter at the same time. The up-and-coming executive, head of Amazon Bedrock and generative artificial intelligence for Amazon Web Services Inc., has only six months to show it can be done before …
Exclusive: Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman bets on an agentic future
From a glass-lined conference room high above Amazon’s campus, Matt Garman firmly emphasizes one word: “speed.” With a full year under his belt, the new chief executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. (pictured) has just finished what we called a “halftime huddle” …