QumulusAI, a Georgia-based provider of graphics processing unit-powered cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence, is making moves to claim a leadership position in the emerging neocloud market today by naming Michael Maniscalco new chief executive officer. Maniscalco (pictured), former chief technology officer of Applied Digital Corp., will bring his technical skills to an already deep team to bring enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to market.
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the addition of fully managed open-weight models Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1 to its AI model portfolio. The new models offer greater flexibility to customers that rely on the Amazon Bedrock generative AI service to meet their evolving business needs. Open-weight models provide increased transparency for developers regarding model weights, which makes it easier to customize models for specific use cases.
Zoom Communications Inc. has a variety of products, including meetings, contact center, front-line worker applications and others, but this week there’s a single theme that cut across the fully virtual Zoomtopia event: artificial intelligence. In fact, with that emphasis on how AI is expanding and enhancing Zoom’s conferencing and related services, they could have called the event ZoomtopAI.
It has been almost a year and a half since Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Splunk Inc. At the time, investors were happy because it was a good financial move. Cisco spent $28 billion and would get back about $4 billion a year in revenue that was accretive to profit margins. Splunk revenue is primarily subscription-based, which would accelerate Cisco’s march toward this model.
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today added more capabilities to its fast-growing Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform by leveraging AI to create what the company calls “a blueprint for the AI-ready enterprise.” The Secure Access Service Edge service delivers protection against AI-powered threats, data security that adapts to how information flows, and unified operations capable of intelligent scaling.