This Week in Enterprise Tech

In Podcast Episode 70 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars
2. EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice
3. FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data
4. Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity.
5. Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?
6. Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?
7. Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down
8. RIP, IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

Sources:

Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars

Perplexity.ai: https://comet.perplexity.ai/#values 

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/704162/opeani-ai-web-browser-chatgpt 

EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice

European Commission Press Release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1787

EU AI Code of Conduct: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai 

FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/40617345 

Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity

METR: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ 

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/business-value-of-developer-experience-improvements-amazons-15-9-breakthrough/ 

Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?

The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai-researcher-warns-metastatic-cancer-afflicting-company-culture 

Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?

Tom’s Guide: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/grok-4-is-here-elon-musk-says-its-the-same-model-physicists-use 

Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down

Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-announces-chief-operating-officer-transition/ 

RIP to IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ibm_almaden_research_center/ 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In Podcast Episode 69 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access
2. AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?
3. Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time
4. Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype
5. In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest
6. The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence
7. Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility
8. On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%
9. CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

Sources:

Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access

Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Marketing Tech: https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/cloudflare-launches-pay-per-crawl-to-help-sites-monetise-ai-access/

AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-giants-atlassian-intuit-and-aws-are-planning-for-a-world-where-agents-call-the-apis/

TWIET on Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo4-0ZNHEY&t=2710s

Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNagNezo8w

Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21521

In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest

Robert Jr. Caruso’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_last-episode-the-atari-2600-blew-up-chatgpt-activity-7345180141079175169-wSCk

The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-03/what-does-superintelligence-mean

Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility 

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/saas-costs-climb-despite-finops-itam-flexera/752233/

On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/hyperscale-ai-infrastructure-eclipses-enterprise-data-center-capacity-srg/751744/

CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In Podcast Episode 68 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Agentforce 3: Salesforce’s Fastest Trilogy Ever?
2. The New York Times Forces OpenAI to Be Less Governed 
3. Anthropic + Meta Get Mixed Ruling on Content Use
4. Google Prepares for the Future with… CLI?
5. SAP Shifts AI Pricing Strategy
6. Fed Chair Jerome Powell Weighs In On AI
7. Nothing Better Than the Real Thing: ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot!

Sources:

Agentforce 3: Salesforce’s Fastest Trilogy Ever?

Salesforce Announcement: https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/agentforce-3-announcement/ 

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Salesforce-Agentforce-update-enterprise-customer-pepsico/751516/ 

The New York Times Forces OpenAI to Be Less Governed 

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/copyright-cases-should-not-threaten-chatbot-users-privacy 

Anthropic + Meta Get Mixed Ruling on Content Use

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/two-courts-rule-generative-ai-and-fair-use-one-gets-it-right 

Mintz: https://insights.mintz.com/post/102kpvb/bartz-v-anthropic-what-the-ruling-means-for-businesses-using-ai 

Google Prepares for the Future with… CLI?

DevClass: https://devclass.com/2025/06/25/google-positions-itself-for-next-decade-of-ai-as-gemini-cli-arrives-with-generous-free-tier/ 

SAP Shifts AI Pricing Strategy

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/4014135/saps-rise-rebrand-conceals-cost-changes.html 

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Weighs In On AI

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/powell_ai_coming_for_your_job/ 

Nothing Better Than the Real Thing: ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-vs-copilot-inside-the-openai-and-microsoft-rivalry 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In Podcast Episode 67 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Pope Leo Brings AI to Church
2. Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?
3. Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service
4. Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly
5. Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity
6. AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues
7. Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

Sources:

Pope Leo Brings AI to Church

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-tech-771cca48 

Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2025/06/12/is-jeetu-patel-bringing-cisco-investors-a-satya-nadella-moment/ 

Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18878 

Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly

Salesforce Blog: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/ 

Glen McCracken on Salesforce:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenmccracken_friday-vent-salesforces-agentforce-proves-activity-7341691326565908485-GNhd/ 

Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity

Brain on LLM: https://www.brainonllm.com 

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 

AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866 

Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/vmware_price_hikes_excuse/ 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs
2. Snowflake Summit: An Avalanche of Announcements
3. Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles
4. OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity
5. IBM’s One Madison is Now an Incubator

Sources:

FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs

FinOps Day 1 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-1-keynote/ 

FinOps Day 2 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-2-keynote/ 

Snowflake Summit Shares an Avalanche of Announcements

Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/announcements-snowflake-summit-2025/ 

Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/snowflake_analyst_conference/ 

OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/r/6c4b22c3?m=aa74cd61-a873-4485-9028-fedb54b96b1e 

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-hits-3m-business-users-and-launches-workplace-tools-to-take-on-microsoft 

IBM’s One Madison is Now An Incubator

IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-06-02-ibm-unveils-watsonx-ai-labs-the-ultimate-accelerator-for-ai-builders,-startups-and-enterprises-in-new-york-city 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Oracle Goes All-In on AI
2. Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation 
3. Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
4. How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree
5. Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI
6. This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

Sources:

Oracle Goes All-In on AI

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/a9cd130f-f6bf-4750-98cc-19d87394e657 

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/oracle_openai_40b/ 

Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation 

Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/labs 

Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?

Sloan Review: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-ai-will-not-provide-sustainable-competitive-advantage/ 

How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree

Leet Code Wizard: https://leetcodewizard.io/blog/the-state-of-tech-jobs-in-2025-layoffs-automation-and-adaptation 

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic 

MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111207/a-nobel-laureate-on-the-economics-of-artificial-intelligence/ 

Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3998156/avery-dennison-takes-culture-first-approach-to-ai-transformation.html 

This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8g7a0IWKDRE?feature=shared&t=500 

Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail: https://youtu.be/wxPjB3GBg1s?si=LEICmYc3Ah5n7w5j

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Salesforce Acquires Informatica
2. Google IO Establishes Google’s AI Intentions
3. OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive for $6 Billion
4. In AI, Bigger is Not Always Better
5. Broadcom Boosts EU VMware Prices up to 1500%
6. Calero Hires Eric Martorano as President and CRO
7. Are Amazon Coders the New Warehouse Workers?
8. Do Notepad and Paint Really Need AI?
9. Dave, Will You Stop? Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail

Sources:

Salesforce Acquires Informatica

Atlan founder Prukalpa: https://tinyurl.com/PrukalpaINFA
Hyoun's take: https://tinyurl.com/HyounParkINFAAcq
TWIET's April 2024 Take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvaqjTDGxQ

Google IO Establishes Google’s AI Intentions

Google IO: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleIO2025Annc
Flow: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleFlowAIVeo
Developer Tools, including Firebase Studio: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleFirebaseStudio

OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive for $6 Billion

CNBC: https://tinyurl.com/JonyIveAcq 

In AI, Bigger is Not Always Better

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-launch-cheaper-blackwell-ai-chip-china-after-us-export-curbs-sources-say-2025-05-24/ 

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/25/ai_models_are_evolving/ 

Broadcom Boosts EU VMware Prices up to 1500%

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_says_broadcom_licensing_unfair/ 

Calero Hires Eric Martorano as President and CRO

Calero: https://www.calero.com/blog/calero-appoints-eric-martorano-as-cro-and-president 

Are Amazon Coders the New Warehouse Workers?

NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html  

Do Notepad and Paint Really Need AI?

Windows: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/22/paint-snipping-tool-and-notepad-updates-with-new-features-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/ 

Dave, Will You Stop? Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Alteryx One Unites Analytics & LLM Governance
2. Boomi AgentStudio Tackles Holistic Agent Orchestration
3. Informatica Supports Agent Composition & Connectivity
4. Qlik Announces Agentic Discovery & Conversational Insights
5. Salesforce Acquires Convergence.ai for Complex Agents
6. Does Stack Overflow Need a Rebrand?

Sources:

Alteryx One Unites Analytics & LLM Governance

Alteryx: https://www.alteryx.com/about-us/newsroom/press-release/alteryx-introduces-a-unified-platform-for-enterprise-analytics-and-ai-orchestration 

Boomi AgentStudio Tackles Holistic Agent Orchestration

Boomi: https://boomi.com/resources/resources-library/boomi-ai-driven-automation-announcements/ 

Informatica Supports Agent Composition & Connectivity

Informatica: https://www.informatica.com/about-us/news/news-releases/2025/05/20250514-informatica-unveils-agentic-ai-offerings-on-industrys-first-ai-powered-cloud-data-management-platform.html 

Qlik Announces Agentic Discovery & Conversational Insights

Qlik: https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-expands-embedded-ai-capabilities-for-smarter-decisions-and-faster-intelligence 

Salesforce Acquires Convergence.ai for Complex Agents

Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-convergence-ai/ 

Does Stack Overflow Need a Rebrand?

DevClass: https://devclass.com/2025/05/13/stack-overflow-seeks-rebrand-as-traffic-continues-to-plummet-which-is-bad-news-for-developers/ 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. ServiceNow Buys Data.World, Announces Data Network
2. ServiceNow Challenges SAP + Salesforce Data
3. ServiceNow Expands to Support CRM, HR, IT Use Cases
4. ServiceNow + Salesforce Face Off
5. IBM Think Establishes IBM’s AI Credentials
6. IBM + Amazon Validate AI Investments
7. Microsoft + OpenAI Don’t See Eye to A-Eye
8. US Tech Employment Declined By 214K Jobs in April
9. Pentagon Seeks Software Purchasing Process Overhaul
10. SAP Explained, by Hyoun Park + Charles “Dickens” Araujo

Sources:

ServiceNow Buys Data.World, Announces Data Network + ServiceNow Challenges SAP + Salesforce Data

ServiceNow: https://tinyurl.com/SNDataFabric 

ServiceNow Expands To Support CRM, HR, IT Use Cases

ServiceNow:

https://tinyurl.com/SNCRMAI

https://tinyurl.com/SNUKGAI

https://tinyurl.com/SNAutonomousIT

ServiceNow + Salesforce Face Off

Reworked's Siobhan Fagan: https://tinyurl.com/SNvsSF

IBM Think Establishes IBM’s AI Credentials

watsonx Orchestrate: https://tinyurl.com/IBMwxOrch 

watsonx.data https://tinyurl.com/IBMwxdata 

IBM + Amazon Validate AI Investments

IBM Press Release https://tinyurl.com/IBMCEOsAI 

VentureBeat's Michael Nunez: https://tinyurl.com/AWSGenAIReport 

Amazon's Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/AWSAIAdoption 

Microsoft + OpenAI Don’t See Eye to A-Eye

Eric Newcomer: https://tinyurl.com/OpenAIvsMS 

US Tech Employment Declined by 214K Jobs in April

CompTIA: https://tinyurl.com/USTechJobs0425 

Pentagon Seeks Software Purchasing Process Overhaul

USDOD: https://tinyurl.com/DODSWBuying 

SAP Explained, by Hyoun Park + Charles “Dickens” Araujo

The Register's Lindsey Clark: https://tinyurl.com/SINKwithSAP 

CIODive's Matt Ashare: https://tinyurl.com/SAPCEOStays 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. RSA: North Korean Spies Hate This One Question
2. RSA: NSA Conspicuously Absent
3. RSA…I? AI Takes Over Every Security Offering
4. Microsoft Hopefully Tolls the Death Knell for Passwords
5. Is a $150 Billion Commit Enough to Be a US Tech Company?
6. Swiss Researchers Experiment on Redditors with AI 
7. AI Is Not Taking Jobs Or Cutting Wages… Yet
8. When is an Agent Really an Agent?
9. Australia Replaces DJ with AI. No One Notices. 

Sources:

RSA: North Korean Spies Hate This One Question

The Register: Iain Thomson: https://tinyurl.com/NKInterviewQ 

Wired: Bobbie Johnson: https://tinyurl.com/NKJobSteal 

RSA: NSA Conspicuously Absent

The Register: Jessical Lyons  https://tinyurl.com/RSANoNSA 

RSA…I? AI Takes Over Every Security Offering

Security Week: https://tinyurl.com/RSASecWeek 

Microsoft Hopefully Tolls the Death Knell for Passwords

The Verge: Umar Shakir https://tinyurl.com/MSPasswordless 

Is a $150 Billion Commit Enough to Be a US Tech Company?

CIODive: Matt Ashare: https://tinyurl.com/IBMMfg150B 

IBM's Newsroom: https://tinyurl.com/IBM150BPR 

TWIET on NVIDIA's $500 billion commitment: https://tinyurl.com/TWIET59NVIDIA 

TWIET on Project Stargate: https://tinyurl.com/TWIET47Stargate

Swiss Researchers Experiment on Redditors with AI 

Science.org: https://tinyurl.com/RedditAIResearch 

Original research proposal: https://tinyurl.com/ChangeMyViewAI 

AI Is Not Taking Jobs Or Cutting Wages… Yet

Computerworld: Taryn Plumb: https://tinyurl.com/AIProductivityNotYet 

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects: https://tinyurl.com/LLMSLME 

When is an Agent Really an Agent?

CIO.com: https://tinyurl.com/RealAIAgent 

Australia Replaces DJ with AI. No One Notices. 

The Verge: Emma Roth: https://tinyurl.com/OzAIDJ 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights