<p>Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to &#8220;go it alone&#8221; as an entrepreneur. But what about scaling that one-person business into something meatier [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.</p>

<p>Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intel&#8217;s co-interim CEO, executive vice president, and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel tries to correct course after a number of disappointing product launches and historic losses, while competitors like AMD and Nvidia gain ground. Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus said during the company&#8217;s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.</p>

<p>U.S. prosecutors are seeking to block the deal citing antitrust concerns.</p>

<p>The data center market is booming, driven by AI demand. Just last week, OpenAI said that it plans to team up with backers including SoftBank to spend at least $100 billion on data center infrastructure in the U.S. Microsoft aims to put around $80 billion toward AI infrastructure this year, and rival tech giants have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Talk to many architects, and they&#8217;ll likely tell you that Autodesk&#8217;s software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been indispensable to their work for decades. But despite their widespread use, Autodesk&#8217;s former co-CEO and chief product officer Amar Hanspal says that the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is using 20th century tools to design 21st [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the company&#8217;s co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Savant Labs launched its automation platform for data analysts in 2023. The company, which competes with the likes of Alteryx, on Thursday said it had raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Unlike some other low-code/no-code tools, Savant&#8217;s focus is squarely on business analysts. Analysts, its CEO and founder [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he was drawn to how it could turn raw data into a story. Zhao founded his first data analytics startup Polyture in 2021. But advancements in generative AI just a year later made Zhao realize what Polyture was building was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SuperOps has raised $25 million in an all-equity Series C round led by March Capital to bolster AI integration into tools supporting managed service providers and IT teams.</p>

<p>LinkedIn, the social platform where people look for and talk about work, may be less visible in Microsoft’s earnings compared to the years when it was an independent company. But around earnings time, LinkedIn often reveals some figures that point to how it continues to grow.&nbsp; On Wednesday, as Microsoft reported its Q2 numbers, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft&#8217;s close partner and collaborator, OpenAI, might be suggesting that DeepSeek stole its IP and violated its terms of service. But Microsoft still wants DeepSeek&#8217;s shiny new models on its cloud platform. Microsoft on Wednesday announced that R1, DeepSeek&#8217;s so-called reasoning model, is available on Azure AI Foundry service, Microsoft&#8217;s platform that brings together a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Even just a few years ago, FinOps — a collection of best practices to manage the costs of cloud computing — wasn&#8217;t something that was top of mind for a lot of businesses. Since then, though, businesses have started tightening their purses. Today, FinOps is pretty much a standard discipline, and there are dozens of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his PhD in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and Germany. But while he knew a lot about weather forecasting from the prediction side, he realized the gaps that remained on the consumption [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jetify, the company formerly known as Jetpack.io, is launching its first AI agent product Tuesday. Dubbed Testpilot, the company&#8217;s first AI agent is meant to make the majority of the routine test-creation process a matter of simply letting Jetify create a test plan, execute it, and report back, all while the agent directly interacts with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Atomicwork has raised $25 million in a Series A round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Z47 to expand its AI agentic platform for enterprises.</p>

<p>DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, became the talk of the proverbial AI town when it released its R1 model on Friday. R1&#8217;s functionality and accuracy compared to its U.S. counterparts, despite using fewer resources and less compute power, seems like a win for the overall AI industry. But it isn&#8217;t necessarily good news for everyone. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union will give tech and social media companies a &#8220;stress test&#8221; to see how they handle misinformation ahead of Germany&#8217;s election next month. European Commission officials have invited tech companies, including X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to a meeting on January 31, according to multiple news outlets. During this meeting, [&hellip;]</p>