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Broadcom Inc. said today it’s transforming its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 software into an artificial intelligence-native platform, giving developers a secure, modern and private cloud infrastructure that’s geared for the development of sophisticated AI applications and agents. At VMware Explore 2025 in Las …
VMware Tanzu delivers speedy, AI-ready data access for AI agents
Broadcom Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its VMware Tanzu Platform for developers, adding support for artificial intelligence agents via a new data lakehouse called VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence, which provides low-latency access to multimodal data at large scale. It was introduced …
Integrated photonics startup OpenLight gets $34M to design and build faster interconnects for AI chips
Data center interconnect design and manufacturing startup OpenLight Photonics Inc. says it wants to accelerate the transition to silicon photonics after spinning out of its parent company Synopsys Inc. and closing on $34 million in Series A funding. Today’s round was co-led …
D-Matrix reveals plan to break through AI’s ‘memory wall’ with 3D DRAM-based chip architecture
Artificial intelligence computing startup D-Matrix Corp. said today it has developed a new implementation of 3D dynamic random-access memory technology that promises to accelerate inference workloads by “orders of magnitude.” The new technology was announced at the Hot Chips 2025 conference, where …
Linux Foundation takes over Solo.io’s open-source Agentgateway project
Cloud-native application networking startup Solo.io Inc. has donated its open-source Agentgateway project to the Linux Foundation, ensuring its development will proceed under neutral governance for the foreseeable future. The Agentgateway project is an open-source and artificial intelligence-native proxy that’s designed to optimize …
Workday’s stock falls on disappointing guidance and persistent concerns about AI threat
Workday Inc.’s stock came under pressure in late trading today after the company issued guidance for the current quarter merely in line with expectations, eroding whatever optimism was generated by its solid second-quarter earnings results. The company reported a profit before certain …
Vast Data’s SyncEngine helps AI agents to tap unstructured data from every source
Data storage company Vast Data Inc., which is in the process of transforming itself into an “operating system” for artificial intelligence, today announced a new capability called Vast SyncEngine. The company says it acts as a “universal data router,” combining a highly …
Definite bags $10M in funding to replace clunky big-data warehouses, connectors and BI tools
A startup called Definite reckons it can help businesses to do away with their clunky big-data stacks and business intelligence tools after raising $10 million in seed funding today. The round was led by Coatanoa and saw participation from Acrew Capital and …
KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies
Self-styled “synthetic labor” startup KnowledgeLake Inc. has become the latest “agentic” artificial intelligence platform to attract millions in funding. It has raised $65 million in a majority growth investment round led by Edison Partners, with participation from some of its existing shareholders. …
IBM’s and NASA’s Surya AI model is designed to predict the next ‘Carrington-class’ solar storm
IBM Corp. said today it’s teaming up with experts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create an artificial intelligence model that can provide an early warning about solar flares and coronal mass ejections that could cause serious disruption to life …