This was the week that Apple finally infused artificial intelligence into its new iPhones, Watches and AirPods, though some of features won’t be coming for a bit and overall, the AI stuff seemed a little underwhelming. The medical features such as AirPods’ ability to serve as FDA-grade hearing aids and sleep apnea detection, though, look great.
The OpenAI freight train keeps rolling, as it reportedly raises $6.5 billion on a $150 billion valuation — crazy? — from the UAE Investment Fund and introduces the first of its much-anticipated Strawberry AI “reasoning” models. But it’s still facing significant competition from the likes of Mistral, which introduced its multimodal AI model, and even enterprise search platform Glean, which raised $260 million on a $4.6 billion valuation.
Oracle seems to have made peace with the big cloud providers, doing a deal with Amazon Web Services to bring its autonomous database to AWS and cementing relationships with Google and Microsoft. At Oracle CloudWorld, it introduced new AI features as well as what it says is the world’s first zettabyte-scale AI cluster in its cloud.
Indeed, hardware is an increasing concern for scaling up AI, as our writer Mark Albertson outlined after his visit to the AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit in San Jose.
Google continues to come under fire from regulators all over the place.
Look for lots of significant events next week: Dreamforce, CrowdStrike Fal.con and Mandiant’s mWISE, where SiliconANGLE and theCUBE video studio will be onsite along with theCUBE Research analysts.
SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante discuss this and other news in more detail on this week’s theCUBE Pod, out late Friday on YouTube. And don’t miss Vellante’s weekly deep dive, Breaking Analysis, coming this weekend.
Here’s the big enterprise and related tech news from SiliconANGLE and beyond:
AI and data: Now worth $150B, OpenAI debuts Strawberry model
Breaking Analysis: Is the modern data stack out over its skis?
A report from Mark Albertson at the AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit in San Jose: Hardware industry confronts challenges and embraces opportunities from AI juggernaut
Meta confirms it scrapes Australian users’ posts for AI training without opt-out option
Money matters
OpenAI reportedly seeking $6.5B investment at $150B valuation
Enterprise AI search platform Glean raises $260M+ on $4.6B valuation
Enterprise-focused AI translation platform and marketplace operator Smartcat raises $43M in funding
Aifleet raises $16.6M to scale up AI-driven trucking solutions
Autonomous AI sales agent startup Bounti Labs raises $16M in seed funding
Financial risk management startup Datricks raises $15M to help enterprises identify fraud
PIN AI raises $10M in pre-seed funding to advance decentralized AI platform
New models and services
Report: OpenAI’s most advanced AI model Strawberry to launch earlier than planned In fact, the first Strawberry models just arrived: OpenAI’s new o1 large language model can decode scrambled text and ace math exams
Mistral unveils Pixtral 12B, a multimodal AI model that can process both text and images
Salesforce announces Agentforce autonomous AI agent builder platform
Salesforce unleashes an army of artificial intelligence bots with Industries AI
Oracle boosts AI development features for analytics and HeatWave managed service
Oracle NetSuite expands its AI capabilities to deliver greater efficiency for businesses
ServiceNow debuts array of new AI features for its platform
The NFL and AWS expand their partnership to tackle more AI use cases
Amplitude unveils simplified platform to streamline user experience and data collection
There’s moreAI andbig data news on SiliconANGLE
Around the enterprise: Hell freezes over as Oracle embraces AWS
Oracle buries the hatchet with AWS, bringing its database to the world’s top cloud platform
Oracle to offer ‘world’s first’ zettascale AI cluster via its public cloud
Oracle’s stock pops on strong earnings beat, driven by cloud growth and new partnerships
Uber revealed it will run on compute instances based on Ampere chips in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Adobe’s stock falls on downbeat forecast and softer demand for AI tools
AMD reveals plans to unify its data center and consumer GPU architectures
Altera CEO Sandra Rivera denies Intel is looking to sell the company
Google Search now links to ancient websites via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
SiMa.ai debuts new system-on-chip for multimodal AI at the network edge
MariaDB goes private after acquisition by K1 Investment Management
Kong, the king of API management, reinforces its platform for AI applications
Docker updates pricing to simplify access to products through a single subscription model
Exclusive: Vantage expands cloud cost optimization service to GitHub
Money matters
Progress to acquire file sharing provider ShareFile for $875M
Japanese chip fab startup Rapidus reportedly seeking $700M investment
Every.io raises $22.5M to develop new products for startup back office support
Generative infrastructure-as-code startup AppCD rebrands as StackGen after raising $12.3M
AttoTude raises $29M in Series A to revolutionize high-speed networking for AI and hyperscale data center applications
We have more news oncloud,infrastructure andapps
Cyber beat: Mastercard embraces security
Attack & response
Avis Car Rental reports data breach affecting nearly 300,000 customers
Palo Alto Networks details new ‘Repellent Scorpius’ group distributing Cicada3301 ransomware
Money matters
Mastercard acquires threat intelligence provider Recorded Future for $2.65B
Despite positive earnings, Rubrik sees late stock decline
Aembit raises $25M to tackle nonhuman identity security challenges
P0 Security raises $15M to enhance identity governance and access management
Metabase Q secures $11M, expands platform with new mitigator feature
Operant AI raises $10M to expand runtime application protection platform
Realm Security launches with $5M in funding to tackle cybersecurity data overload
New services
Wiz launches new code security tool to strengthen cloud-native development
CAST AI launches new Kubernetes security solution for enhanced threat detection
JFrog unveils new runtime security and Nvidia integration for AI model protection
More cybersecurity news here
Elsewhere in tech: Apple finally embraces AI
Apple announces iPhone 16 lineup focused on AI, Watch 10 and new AirPods 4 The medical features on the Watch look quite useful, but the AI on the iPhones seems underwhelming so far.
Top EU court rules against Apple, Google in multibillion-dollar cases
Ireland opens privacy probe into Google’s PaLM 2 language model
White House secures commitment from AI firms to curb deepfake porn
Quantum Source nabs $50M to develop practical, large-scale quantum computing
Autonomous driving startup Forterra closes $75M investment
Coalition of US attorneys general calls for warning labels on social media
Blockchain music streaming startup Tune.ai raises $50M
Darkhive raises $21M to strengthen US drone ecosystem with secure software solutions
And check out more news onemerging tech,blockchain and crypto andpolicy
Comings and goings
Microsoft named Carolina Dybeck Happe new executive vice president and chief operations officer.
Microsoft laid off 650 more people from its gaming division.
Darktrace named Chief Operating Officer Jill Popelka CEO, tasking her with leading it through its acquisition by Thoma Bravo.
Aviatrix has a new chief information security officer: John Qian from Zoom, where he was head of security architecture.SugarCRM appointed David Roberts CEO, Craig Charlton moved to chairman.
What’s next
Sept. 17-19: Dreamforce, San Francisco: SiliconANGLE will be onsite with all the news, along with interviews and analysis from theCUBE and theCUBE Research in partnership with the NYSE.
Sept. 17-18: CrowdStrike Fal.con, Las Vegas: SiliconANGLE will have the news, and theCUBE will be onsite with interviews and analysis.
Sept. 18-19: mWISE, the Mandiant Worldwide Information Security Exchange, Denver:TheCUBE will be onsite with interviews and analysis.
Sept. 23-24: NetApp Insight, Las Vegas: SiliconANGLE will have all the news and theCUBE will be onsite with interviews and analysis.