Today: Vercel unveils a new serverless computing architecture that's better equipped to manage idle resources, nobody knows what Elon Musk's minions are doing to the federal government's servers, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Vercel's serverless infrastructure was designed at a time when speed was the most important goal. AI apps are a little different, and Fluid Compute is an effort to rebuild that infrastructure for the AI era.
Today on Product Saturday: The Allen Institute for AI releases an actual open-source challenger to DeekSeek's V3 model, Microsoft open-sources a NoSQL database under an old and familiar name, and the quote of the week.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Strange times make for strange bedfellows in chips, Google goes nuclear, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: AMD takes on both Nvidia and Intel, Sierra unveils its first voice AI agent for contact centers, and the quote of the week.
Why AMD's $5 billion bet on data-center systems design could make Intel's problems worse, OpenAI brings fine-tuning to its most powerful enterprise model, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: how the most powerful supercomputers in the world are evolving as AI workloads take center stage, Microsoft unveils a new approach to platform services, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: The Commerce Department places new restrictions on shipments of AI chips to China, a critical vulnerability in Cisco router software is being actively exploited, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: inside HashiCorp's decision to stop providing software under an open-source license, why a different kind of chip was the talk of Black Hat in Las Vegas this week, and this week's enterprise moves.
Today: Stack Overflow's annual developer survey helps sort enterprise tech hype versus reality, AMD takes aim at a new rival, and the latest funding rounds raised by enterprise tech startups.
