Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Google delivers connective tissue for autonomous AI agents to access data without restrictions

BIG DATA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Google Cloud is turning the traditional enterprise data platform on its head, unveiling the Agentic Data Cloud infrastructure platform that aims to act as a kind of central nerve center for the era of artificial intelligence agents. In a blog post, Andi Gutmans, Google’s vice president and general manager of Data Cloud, explains that existing ...

With Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google brings agentic development and control under one roof

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Google Cloud is taking a massive leap toward building the autonomous enterprise with the launch of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, an evolution of the existing Vertex AI platform that becomes its new hub for building artificial intelligence agents. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, the new offering brings together all of the model ...

With Workspace Intelligence, Google’s productivity suite gets more AI smarts

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Google Cloud has long believed that one of most compelling benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps people get more work done faster, and that’s the main purpose behind a slate of new capabilities being added to Google Workspace. The main update is a new system called Workspace Intelligence, announced today at Google Cloud ...

Google puts Gemini Enterprise at the heart of the new agentic taskforce for enterprise automation

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Google Cloud is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence agents across enterprise computing environments, paving the way for a new era where AI can automate many of the most complicated, multistep tasks currently performed by humans. To that end, it has announced a major revamp of Gemini Enterprise, saying it intends ...

Grafana is trying to close the AI observability gap before enterprise agents reign supreme

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Observability startup Grafana Labs Inc. said today it’s trying to shine a light on the “black box” inner workings of artificial intelligence models with the launch of new capabilities that will better enable companies to trust and control them in production. The announcement came during Grafana’s annual user conference GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, where it also ...

NanoClaw partners with Vercel to deliver one-click approvals for AI agents working on sensitive tasks

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing alternative to OpenAI Group PBC’s OpenClaw project, said today it’s teaming up with Vercel Inc. and OneCLI to try to fix the “trust problem” holding back artificial intelligence agents. Their idea is to bring human-in-the-loop oversight to AI agents performing sensitive tasks via popular messaging applications such as ...

AI Mode in Chrome adds split-screen view to enhance the web search experience

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Google LLC today rolled out a major revamp of AI Mode in Google Chrome, giving users a more efficient way to explore the web through its conversational search experience. The most impactful update is that clicking links in AI Mode will see the resulting webpage open up alongside the artificial intelligence interface. This means that ...

OpenAI ratchets up Codex’s agentic capabilities to rival Claude Code

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

OpenAI Group PBC today announced a major revamp of its artificial intelligence coding tool Codex, giving it a number of new “agentic” capabilities that enable more complex task automation. The ChatGPT maker is engaged in a fierce battle for AI coding supremacy with its rival Anthropic PBC, and is widely perceived to be in danger ...

Antioch prepares to accelerate simulated testing for autonomous robots after raising $8.5M

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Antioch Inc., a developer of cloud-based simulation software for artificial intelligence-enabled robots, has raised $8.5 million in funding to accelerate the development of more autonomous systems outside the physical world. Today’s round, which comes just four months after the startup raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding, was led by A* and Category Ventures. Others, including ...

Best of frenemies: Oracle’s and AWS’ clouds unite with dedicated, private connectivity

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 MONTHS AGO

Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic relationship that acknowledges the reality of today’s multicloud technology environments. The two technology giants today revealed a plan to establish private, high-speed connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Joint customers will ...