The Stack

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

The UK Ministry of Defence this week trumpeted a £1bn investment in AI powered battlefield systems, and a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command. The Digital Targeting Web was revealed as defence secretary John Healey visited the UK military’s cyber HQ at MOD Corsham, and as Whitehall gears up for the Labour government’s first strategic defence review.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

GPU-powered systems are not for the “faint-hearted” Dell’s vice chairman and COO warned yesterday as the firm announced first quarter results that were swollen by accelerating demand for NVIDIA-packed AI servers. Jeff Clarke also shrugged off the effect of the US government’s tariffs regime in the quarter, while confirming that some customers had pulled purchases forward. Overall net revenue for the first quarter ending May 2 came in at $23.4 billion, up 5 percent on the year.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Even the world’s biggest, most technologically advanced companies rely on Excel spreadsheets: planners and sales people don’t always want to break free from their tiny green cells. But what if you could leave sales people enjoying their spreadsheets or other “legacy” apps, while putting together a CRM system that pulls in the relevant data from them, as well as information from the myriad other systems an enterprise relies on?

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Phillip de Wet

When it started building the transformer-based foundational model it is now integrating across its stack to detect fraud and improve products, Stripe didn't actually know if an "LLM-style approach" would work in its sphere.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

Zscaler agreed to buy managed detection and response (MDR) specialist Red Canary as it looks to expand into the security operations centre. Red Canary promised that its products will “continue to integrate with the 200+ technology and security products they currently do, and we’ll keep expanding that number” and committed to existing partners. Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudry said the deal would "accelerate our vision of AI-powered SOC of the future". Terms of the deal were not disclosed.