Tom Krazit
+ Grok is getting closer to the frontier, and Writer aims for the frugal AI developer with its new model.
The new open-weight model is much better at coding and cybersecurity tasks than its predecessor, and while it still trails the frontier models the gap is shrinking.
Only companies in OpenAI's good graces are allowed to sell AI-model powered security features to their customers, who likely can't get access to the latest models on their own.
Dali Rajic, most recently president and COO of Wiz, is the new chief revenue officer at the lab.
+ Lovable feels the funding love, CoreWeave's still on a roller coaster, and IBM Cloud has ... a new customer?
The company expects to end the year with 1.85 gigawatts of data-center capacity, up from previous projections of 1.7 gigawatts.
+ Cloud SMEs get ready for UK public-sector budgets, AI that solves legal disputes, and sorting emails with synthetic data.
Daybreak Blue lets you use its flagship models with some of the annoying security controls disabled, while Daybreak Red members get access to a new model.
+ Runware's new modular data center pods and Google Cloud's new transfer connections into BigQuery.