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The neocloud market is moving past its origins as a stopgap for scarce graphics processing units. AI-native startups now choose their infrastructure on latency, burst capacity and openness, not just chip availability. That shift is playing out at CoreWeave Inc., which is expanding beyond GPU compute into networking, storage and software as inference demand grows. At the same time, LlamaIndex Inc. has evolved from an open-source framework for retrieval-augmented generation into a model builder that rents its compute rather than owning it, according to Jerry Liu (pictured, right), co-founder and chief executive officer of LlamaIndex. “We’re effectively a specialized AI…

Six months ago, first lady Melania Trump walked into a White House education summit next to a faceless robot powered by artificial intelligence, which she said could one day give children personalized instruction.“Imagine a humanoid educator named ‘Plato,’” she said. “Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous…humanity’s entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home.”Weeks earlier, her guest at the State of the Union had been a 10-year-old from Alpha School, a fast-growing private school network where children learn reading and math from AI software for two hours a day, and spend the rest of…

From connected records to breakthrough research, cloud tech is redefining healthcare beyond hospital walls. But when the data is this personal, convenience can never come at the expense of trust. At 2:13 in the morning, you do not care what cloud deployment model your hospital uses. You care that the doctor treating you can see your allergies before prescribing medication. You care that the scan taken six months ago has not disappeared into another hospital’s system. You care that the nurse is not typing your information into three different screens while asking you the same questions you answered downstairs. And…

Joe Raedle/Getty Images After officials in Florida’s St. Lucie County opted to end use of Flock cameras and began removing them, they discovered several devices that were not connected to any local agencies. The Washington Post reported that the county leaders thought they had 52 cameras, but found 14 additional ones that were unaccounted for and unpermitted. Three of the cameras without permits were later claimed by the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, although the department did not inform The Post why that gear did not obtain the paperwork. That means there were 11 Flock cameras…

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec’s suspected administrator and main operator, Hamburg police said on October 1. Police and prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany, led the operation. The Guardia Civil and the Mossos d’Esquadra, both Spanish police forces, detained him in Alicante and searched a home and an office…

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had been around for several years. The automotive industry responded by rallying together, and, in a triumph of self-regulation, voluntarily put the safety feature in every new vehicle that rolled off the line.Kidding! Of course they didn’t do that. In the fall of 1966, Congress established the Department of Transportation and then passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety…

The book “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” by Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management, walks readers through the 24 steps of starting a venture. With more than half a million copies sold, the approach has proven remarkably effective: MIT students who use the framework in the delta v startup accelerator program have a 61 percent survival/acquisition rate and have collectively raised over $3 billion dollars.But while the framework is taught at hundreds of colleges around the world, it is not designed for…

Tired of companies constantly updating their terms and conditions to train their AI with your data, recruit your personal info for their own ends, or charge ever-higher fees? On Thursday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched its 2026 Opt Out October guide, urging people to retake control of their data and devices. If you’ve been wanting to change your privacy settings, stop social media from looking over your shoulder and avoid age verification requirements, this is the guide to start with. The EFF guide walks through all the toggles to flip and the platforms or services you should outright avoid, suggesting…

Salesforce Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire artificial intelligence customer research startup Listen Labs Inc., three weeks after reports first surfaced that the two companies were in talks. Business Insider broke the news of the negotiations on Sept. 9 and reported that the price under discussion was about $2 billion. Neither company disclosed terms. Salesforce expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2027, pending regulatory clearance. The Listen Labs deal follows Salesforce’s agreement in June to buy customer service automation company Fin for about $3.6 billion. Listen Labs builds AI agents that do…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖The customer wants a mature supplier. The supplier needs customers to become mature.Someone needs to take the first real step.Imagine a European cybersecurity startup that passes a large company’s technical evaluation. The team likes the product. Then procurement asks for references it does not yet have. Nobody owns the deployment budget. Another year goes to the incumbent.Each decision makes sense on its own, but the outcome is still frustrating.Europe needs stronger cybersecurity companies and more control over the technology its businesses use. Most people now see this as obvious. The challenge is turning it into reality.I find sovereignty…