An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense.  Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI…

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Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise

Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise

Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they’re using don’t understand their business. The models are often trained on the internet, rather than decades of internal documents, workflows, and institutional knowledge.  That gap is where Mistral, the French AI startup, sees opportunity. On Tuesday, the company announced…

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Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: Security

Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: Security

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks every company should have an OpenClaw strategy. And Nvidia is here to provide it. Nvidia has developed NemoClaw, an enterprise-grade platform built off the viral, local AI autonomous agent, Huang announced during his GTC keynote on Monday. The open source platform is essentially OpenClaw with enterprise-grade security and privacy considerations…

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How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect

How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote

Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11am PT / 2pm ET. GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships,…

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Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits .6B valuation

Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits $14.6B valuation

Amid growing demand for data centers that can deliver AI compute at scale, Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure company Nscale is now valued at $14.6 billion. This makes it one of Europe’s latest decacorns alongside Helsing and Mistral AI. Nscale has bet on vertical integration, from energy and data centers to compute and orchestration software. Its…

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers

Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers

Enterprises and startups that use Anthropic Claude through Microsoft and Google products need not fear that the model will be ripped from their reach, Microsoft and Google confirmed to TechCrunch. AWS customers and partners can also reportedly continue to use Claude for their non-defense associated workloads. Microsoft was the first big tech company to offer…

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AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for health care

AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for health care

Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help health care organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks including appointment scheduling, documentation, and patient verification, among other things. Amazon Connect Health is HIPAA eligible and connects with electronic health record (EHR) software. The platform is currently partnered…

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How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup

How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup

This isn’t David Park’s first rodeo. The veteran founder and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus has certainly been battle-tested in the enterprise arena. On this episode of Build Mode, Park joins Isabelle Johannessen to discuss how he and his team are intentionally iterating, fundraising, and scaling Narada. This enterprise AI solution uses large action models to automate complex, multistep workflows across enterprise systems.   At face…

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