Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure business by a year. …

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s agentic AI efforts aren’t progressing as fast as he had hoped

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he had hoped. It’s a rare admission from the founder that not everything is …

SoftBank unveils plans to enter the US neocloud business with SB Neo

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificial intelligence chips to hyperscalers and other businesses in need of compute resources. The …

Tripo AI secures additional $150M in funding to enhance its 3D and world models

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Tripo AI, a developer of interactive 3D foundation models and world models, said today it has closed on a hefty $150 million Series A3 funding round to scale up its platform in the intelligent manufacturing, entertainment and robotics industries. The startup attracted …

Homebuilding AI startup Higharc bags $90M in Series C funding

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised $95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C round was led by Insight Partners, and saw participation from a …

Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq Labs raises $35M to lower the design cost of custom AI silicon

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Artificial intelligence chipmaking startup Oxmiq Labs Inc. says it wants to become the next Arm Holdings Plc. after raising $35 million in an early-stage A funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $60 million. Today’s Series A round was led …

AWS turbocharges log analytics in Amazon OpenSearch Service at no extra cost

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today. The cloud computing giant says the new engine is able to reduce data …

Aligned bags $60M in funding to build the AI-native sales execution layer for enterprise deals

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Team Aligned Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to streamline deal execution for corporate buyers and sellers, said today it has clinched $60 million in a new round of funding. PeakSpan Capital led the Series B round, which saw participation from …

Schneider Electric acquires Cognite for $3.1B in industrial AI push

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a $3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to strengthening its AI software and industrial data business. The deal highlights the …

New instances bring AWS’ Graviton5 CPUs to high-performance cloud workloads

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY2 MONTHS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc.‘s next-generation silicon is working its way deeper into the company’s cloud compute infrastructure offerings with the debut of the new Amazon EC2 C9g and EC2 C9gd instances today. The new virtual machines are powered by the company’s flagship …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s agentic AI efforts aren’t progressing as fast as he had hoped

SoftBank unveils plans to enter the US neocloud business with SB Neo

Tripo AI secures additional $150M in funding to enhance its 3D and world models

Homebuilding AI startup Higharc bags $90M in Series C funding

Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq Labs raises $35M to lower the design cost of custom AI silicon

AWS turbocharges log analytics in Amazon OpenSearch Service at no extra cost

Aligned bags $60M in funding to build the AI-native sales execution layer for enterprise deals

Schneider Electric acquires Cognite for $3.1B in industrial AI push

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