As companies move AI projects from pilots into production, Dell is changing how it sells to West Coast customers who build much of the AI stack themselves. Infrastructure vendors are finding that these builders call for a different sales approach.
WindBorne, a Silicon Valley startup that combines weather balloons and AI to forecast the weather, has won a US military contract worth almost $50 million. It is a sizeable defense deal for an AI weather company.
The article revisits the build-or-buy decision for platform teams now that coding agents make building in-house easier. It reports that teams building from scratch are 3.5 times more likely to lack a strategy, suggesting the trade-off is about more than developer time.
Startup Honeyjar is pitching AI tools aimed at public relations and corporate communications. It is betting that AI can help fix a PR process that journalists, founders and even some PR professionals describe as broken.
Epic Games has reportedly delayed its Disney game, with developers told to use AI for both code and asset creation. It is a notable shift in how a major studio builds a flagship title.
As agentic workloads multiply, some companies see cloud token bills eat through budgets faster than planned. That pressure is bringing on-premises infrastructure and open-weight models back into enterprise AI planning, Dell and Intel say.