Enterprise AI’s next big bottleneck isn’t training models—it’s feeding them the right data, fast. Dell Technologies, the self-proclaimed world’s No. 1 AI infrastructure provider, is aiming to fix that with a major refresh to its Dell AI Data Platform, announced today at SIGGRAPH 2025.
In modern warfare, the speed at which you can detect, decide, and act can mean the difference between mission success and failure. Aitech, a veteran in rugged embedded computing for defense and space, has unveiled the A230 Vortex AI GPGPU supercomputer, a first-of-its-kind AI-on-the-edge system engineered for the toughest environments—from armored vehicles on the ground to satellites in low Earth orbit.
Manual industrial inspections may soon feel as dated as clipboards and carbon paper. PROtect, LLC has teamed up with German AI specialist sentin GmbH to bring automated, AI-powered Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to North America—making PROtect the first inspection provider in the region to offer it as a service.
The next frontier in AI performance may come with a staggering energy bill. A joint report from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Epoch AI projects that training a cutting-edge AI model could require more than 4 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2030—enough to keep millions of U.S. homes running.
In an era where image quality can make or break a brand’s digital presence, Xole AI is aiming to raise the bar. The company today launched its AI Image Upscaler, a machine-learning-powered tool that can increase image resolution by up to 8x while preserving sharpness, texture, and color fidelity.
Belgian spacetech startup EDGX just scored a €2.3 million seed round to accelerate the rollout of its Sterna edge AI computer for satellites—a system designed to process data in orbit instead of beaming terabytes back to Earth for analysis.
If you were hoping 2025 would be the year generative AI stole the show again, Gartner has some news: the spotlight is shifting. In its newly released Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2025, the research firm says AI agents and AI-ready data are now the fastest-moving stars on the curve, elbowing past headline-grabbing chatbots to sit at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.”
As AI adoption deepens across institutional decision-making, a new startup is rethinking the very foundation of how autonomous agents operate. Weilliptic, founded by Apache Cassandra creator and Amazon Dynamo co-inventor Avinash Lakshman, today announced the launch of a cryptographically secure platform purpose-built for agentic AI systems.
The company has officially launched the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a powerful new service aimed at simplifying the deployment of high-performance, mission-critical applications across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide.
