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.
As autonomous systems spread from factory floors to farmland, the demand for smarter, safer control is rising—and FORT Robotics is cashing in on it
The UK-based ML acceleration specialist has announced that its VOLLO® inference engine now supports Napatech’s NT400D1x SmartNICs, enabling machine learning inference at sub-microsecond latencies. Yes, that’s faster than a typical blink—and a serious play for environments where every nanosecond counts.
VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) is stepping up its AI game with the appointment of Dr. Chan Wai Mun as its new Chief AI & Data Officer—a move that signals the company’s ambitions to be more than just a regional player in Southeast Asia’s fast-evolving tech landscape.
