Amazon announced a new product Tuesday called “AI Factories” that allows big corporations and governments to run its AI systems in their own data centers. Or as AWS puts it: Customers supply the power and the data center, and AWS plunks in the AI system, manages it, and can tie it into other AWS cloud services.
The idea is to cater to companies and governments concerned with data…
Simular’s AI agent wants to run your Mac, Windows PC for you
December 3, 2025
Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with NVentures (Nvidia’s venture arm), existing seed investor South Park Commons, and others joining in.
Simular is an interesting agentic startup because…
French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better than Big Tech rivals.
The 10-model release includes a large frontier model…
What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out
December 3, 2025
The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the…
AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live
December 2, 2025
Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week. Last year’s event was largely focused on their AI efforts, including new foundation models, services tackling AI hallucinations, and new security measures.
Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x – nearly triple – the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.
By 2035, data centers will draw…
Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
December 2, 2025
Amazon’s AI chatbot, Rufus, saw a surge of adoption on Black Friday, according to new data published over the weekend by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. In the U.S., Amazon sessions that resulted in a purchase surged 100% on Black Friday compared with the trailing 30 days, while sessions that resulted in a purchase and didn’t include Rufus increased by only 20%.
In addition…
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub.
She’s a Pro subscriber and uses the…
How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies
December 1, 2025
For years, when it was time for startups to start selling their product, they could turn to any number of traditional playbooks. But as with so many things, AI is changing how companies prepare to go to market.
“You can do more with less than ever before,” Max…
The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
December 1, 2025
For the first time, Washington is getting close to deciding how to regulate artificial intelligence. And the fight that’s brewing isn’t about the technology, it’s about who gets to do the regulating.
In the absence of a meaningful federal AI standard that focuses on consumer safety, states have introduced dozens of bills to protect residents against AI-related harms, including…
