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ExaGrid replaces record number of Dell Data Domain appliances Tiered purpose-built backup appliance provider ExaGrid had yet another growth quarter, with an 80 percent plus win rate as its customer count went past 5,200 in the second 2026 quarter. The company has introduced all-f

The company behind the disk space analyzer TreeSize has irked some users by no longer offering support or updates for perpetual licenses beyond their maintenance period unless customers subscribe. Further frustration has come from JAM Software’s long-standing policy of not provid

Behind the scenes at Nvidia's Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more Where the sausage is… tested? Nvidia invited a group of about a dozen journalists out to the company's HQ to learn more about its Vera CPU, as well as how

China’s AI ambitions were on full display over the last week. The size and capabilities of Moonshot’s new open-source Kimi K3 model narrow Washington’s AI lead, underscore the limits of US chip controls, and call into question frenetic AI spending by American tech giants, analyst

Major powers criticized China for what the US called “dangerous and aggressive” naval maneuvers, with regional tensions set to dominate today’s meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers. China blamed the Philippines for the clash at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed part of the South China

DETROIT — General Motors will launch new gas-powered Cadillac vehicles beginning next spring as the automaker continues to shift gears away from all-electric vehicles. GM CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday that the next-generation Cadillacs will include new versions of the company's CT5

Making a Billion Intelligent Machines Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts This week, Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applic

AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at unprecedented scale. At this level, networking becomes a critical computin

This week is quickly shaping up to be a busy week in the world of server hardware. Later this week earnings season for the industry will kick off, starting, as always with Intel. Meanwhile AMD’s annual enterprise an AI event, Advancing AI, is taking place in San Francisco mid-wee

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to larger, more expensiv

Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternative Light Phone, he’s as surprised as anyone that his customers are begging for a flip phone. “We’ve been interviewing you

MOST POPULAR AI - AI + ML The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive nowHey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 -

Now in preview: Find and fix software vulnerabilities with CodeMender Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Gemini Enterprise Clemens Viernickel Director, Product Management, Cloud AI As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them wi

Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers Nvidia would like you to know that it’s a CPU company, too. Nvidia’s Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance co

Nvidia deep dives Vera CPU for AI data centers — SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks revealed, Olympus architecture specifics, and more Setting the stage for a Vera / Venice showdown. Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its first bid to become a key player in the data center CPU market. Although Grace has

Nvidia details Rubin architectural optimizations for inference – improvements target better performance and efficiency from the GPU to the rack FLOPS are only the start Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin platform, set to arrive later this year, will take the stage as the AI world shift

Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale Memory makers are the big winners, regardless of how it works out. A new AI model from Chinese

Ilium by Dan Simmons. This Hugo Award-winning retelling of the Odyssey takes place on a distant-future Mars, where a post-human species forces the characters of Homer’s epic to reenact the events of the poem, choreographed by Simmons’ narrator, a 20th-century Earth scholar resurr

Snap is the latest big tech company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company has reached a “tentative” agreement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its portion of the

A cyberattack at AI music generator Suno last year allowed a hacker to steal the personal information of more than 55.3 million people, according to the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, offering the first glimpse into the scale of the data theft. Per Have I Bee

Why Iran is risking so much over the Strait of Hormuz - Published After 10 days of exchanging strikes with the US over control of the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway, Iran's leaders may appear to have three choices. None offer a clear route to victory. The first is to accept much

Local AI clustering with Dell's Pro Max GB10 — connecting two Nvidia Grace Blackwell to scale out AI compute at home A power LED and panels that don't snag are a nice bonus. Our local AI testing in 2026 has focused on large language models that can fit entirely into the 128GB of

The latest round of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz showed the risk faced by the Greek shipowners who are among the few still chasing outsized profits by sending their tankers into the world’s most dangerous waters. On Monday, projectiles launched by Iran struck two vessels owned

MOST POPULAR AI - AI + ML The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive nowHey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 -

We hear this a lot: “Once you have AI agents the work, you don’t need CRM. Just give them a Postgres database and let them rip.” It sounds clean. It’s also wrong, I think. At least for 99% of us. At least for now. At SaaStr AI, we’ve gone from ~30 humans down to 3 humans + 20+ AI

MOST POPULAR AI - AI + ML The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive nowHey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 -

Wasabi Technologies and Megaport Limited have entered a strategic partnership to add Wasabi cloud object storage to Megaport Storage. The integration combines Wasabi’s object storage platform with Megaport’s private global network, targeting AI data platforms, analytics environme

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated library infringes on authors’ rights Anthropic pays authors and publishers for pirating millions of books. A U.S. federal ju

Do you use your vehicle’s app to pre‑cool the cabin on a scorching day, confirm the doors are locked from bed, or have the car automatically call for help when the airbags go off? Savor those connected, cloud‑based conveniences while you can—the clock is already ticking on their

The News Fintech startups fail, mostly, because they spend all their money acquiring customers. The cost of lead generation and subway ads pile up, and users churn before companies can earn it back. Omer Ismail, CEO of the Walmart-backed fintech OnePay, thinks he’s found the way

A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in China, Russia, or other foreign nations, raising fresh concerns that adversary governments could harvest data revealing wher