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As AI spending accelerates across the enterprise, organizations are grappling with a new generation of cost and optimization challenges while seeking greater AI spend visibility. The next phase of FinOps is increasingly focused on improving visibility and embedding financial accountability into everyday technology decisions. FinOps has evolved well beyond cloud cost management, with organizations now […] The post AI economics reshape FinOps as enterprises seek greater visibility and control appe

A bad day for the creative software company Adobe Inc. was made even worse after it revealed another top executive is departing, as the news overshadowed a solid earnings and revenue beat. The company said today that Chief Financial Officer Dan Durn is going to leave on June 15, having served in the role for […] The post Adobe beats expectations but another top executive leaves, putting pressure on its stock appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Ona, a startup with a platform for managing long-running artificial intelligence agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Developers often run the AI agents they use to write code on their local machines. When a workstation is turned off, the AI agents that it runs […] The post OpenAI acquires AI agent orchestration startup Ona appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has priced its initial public offering at $135 per share ahead of one of the most hotly anticipated market debuts in living memory. The rocket company reportedly sold 555.6 million shares at that price, netting it a staggering $75 billion. Underwriters have the option to buy an additional 83.33 […] The post Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises record-breaking $75B after pricing IPO at $135 per share appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

AI cost management is bringing a new taxonomy to FinOps practitioners, but the core discipline, understanding what you’re using, why, and what it costs, remains the same. That constancy is reassuring and instructive, according to Deeja Cruz (pictured), senior FinOps analyst at Datadog Inc. The biggest practical lesson enterprises can carry from cloud to AI […] The post Datadog’s FinOps analyst says AI cost management starts with tagging and model governance appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

FinOps AI governance is being stress-tested as AI spending accelerates across enterprises. The familiar levers of cost optimization — tagging, rightsizing and reserved capacity — are proving insufficient against a cost model governed by tokens, opaque billing and architectures that shift faster than governance frameworks can keep pace with. The pressure is acute. According to […] The post FinOps AI governance demands new KPIs as token economics reshape enterprise cost models appeared first on Si

Israeli data engineering startup Upriver Data Ltd. today announced it has raised $14 million in new funding to automate the data work that enterprises depend on to make artificial intelligence projects succeed. Founded in 2024 by Chief Executive Ido Bronstein and Chief Technology Officer Omri Lifshitz, Upriver has built what it calls an artificial intelligence-native […] The post Upriver raises $14M to automate enterprise data engineering for AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

An investor consortium today launched a venture called Helix Digital Infrastructure Inc. to build artificial intelligence data centers for hyperscaler cloud providers. The company’s backers include KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia Corp. and Vistra Corp., a major energy utility. The group has provided Helix with more than $10 billion worth of long-term capital commitments. […] The post Helix launches with $10B+ in funding to build AI infrastructure appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Endurance Energy Inc., a Seattle startup building generators that tap heat from undersea volcanoes, revealed today that it has raised $54 million in new funding to advance its plans for offshore power plants as energy demand surges. Founded in 2024 by Andrew Redd, a former SpaceX engineer, Endurance is going after a geothermal source its […] The post Endurance Energy raises $54M to tap geothermal power from undersea volcanoes appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

If the first wave of enterprise artificial intelligence was about compute and foundation models, the next is shaping up to be about the software and data infrastructure needed to make those models useful in real businesses. The first AI winners sold compute: graphics processing units, servers, networks and cloud capacity — the “picks and shovels” […] The post Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Snowflake Summit 2026 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Prometheus Inc., an artificial intelligence startup co-led by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in funding. Axios reported today that the Series B round values the company at $41 billion. The round included contributions from Bezos, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global and Arch Venture Partners. Prometheus, which was until now known […] The post Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus raises $12B to accelerate industrial engineering projects appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Neocloud provider QumulusAI announced today that it has secured more than $124 million in customer subscriptions for three-year terms with Hyperbolic and another leading artificial intelligence inference platform. These agreements cover deployments totaling 1,280 Nvidia Corp. Blackwell GPUs, delivered via 160 Lenovo and Supermicro bare-metal servers connected with Cisco Systems Inc. Nexus networking to form […] The post QumulusAI and the shift from GPU scarcity to GPU efficiency appeared first o

Coinbase Global Inc. today launched Coinbase for Agents, a standalone tool that lets artificial intelligence agents trade cryptocurrency, pay for services and operate with financial autonomy directly from assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. The product is not a feature inside the Coinbase app but a separate account built for agents. Users connect an existing […] The post Coinbase for Agents lets AI assistants trade crypto and move money appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

PhoenixAI Inc., formerly known as CelerData, today announced it has raised $80 million in new funding to fuel the development of the company’s artificial intelligence-native database and expand governance for regulated industries. Sky9 Capital led the Series B round, with participation from Atypical Ventures and Olive Technology Ventures, as well as previous investors. As agentic AI […] The post PhoenixAI raises $80M to drive the development of agentic AI-ready database technology appeared first

The supply chain sector has perhaps more to gain from the artificial intelligence age than any other sector. Supply chains are subject to many different variables — weather, delays, legal restrictions — that traditional planning systems cannot always manage effectively. That’s why Blue Yonder Inc., a supply chain management company, has started using AI agents […] The post Blue Yonder pushes supply chain AI toward autonomous operations appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

AI cost governance is moving to the center of enterprise cloud strategies, and AWS is responding with a new autonomous agent that’s designed to manage the complexity of the change. The FinOps agent, launched in a feature preview at FinOps X 2026, monitors cloud costs, detects anomalies, performs root-cause analysis and routes alerts directly to […] The post AWS launches FinOps agent to bring AI cost governance to cloud spend appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

As AI spending surges, organizations are expanding their focus from AI cost optimization to value measurement. The trend is driving demand for deeper visibility into how AI investments impact productivity and business performance. One of the biggest changes AI introduced was unpredictability, because usage and costs can scale far beyond the patterns typically seen in […] The post Pegasystems builds on its FinOps foundation to navigate the unpredictable economics of AI appeared first on SiliconAN

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are focused on balancing value creation with effective AI-driven cost management. Companies are implementing stronger governance and FinOps practices to bring greater control, accountability and visibility to this rapidly evolving landscape. FinOps has evolved beyond its traditional focus on cloud cost management. As the scope and value of FinOps continue […] The post AI value creation meets cost accountability as FinOps evolves beyond cloud appeared fir

Diagrid Inc. today released Dapr 1.18, an update to the open-source runtime that lets organizations cryptographically prove how an artificial intelligence agent or workflow executed, who held custody of the work, and whether its history was altered. The release centers on a capability the company calls verifiable execution, built from three new features. Workflow History […] The post Diagrid brings cryptographic proof to AI agent and workflow execution appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Fault-tolerant quantum computing specialist Alice & Bob SAS today unveiled its first, full-fledged hardware platform for on-premises deployments, marking its graduation from a quantum chipmaker to a complete system developer. The new Alice & Bob Helium Quantum System is designed to encode the company’s first logical qubit with as little as 18 cat-qubits. The system […] The post Alice & Bob unveils its first quantum hardware system to advance qubit fault tolerance appeared first on SiliconANGLE.