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For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI Adoption
Axios: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/12/ai-adoption-slows-slack-study
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ai-adoption-surges-as-organizations-shift-from-experimentation-to-implementation/
Flexera Serves Up a 2025 IT Priorities Report
Flexera: https://info.flexera.com/ITV-REPORT-IT-Priorities
IT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vCom
BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112277595/en/AppDirect-Announces-Upcoming-Acquisition-of-IT-Spend-Management-Leader-vCom-Solutions
Cloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & Discovery
Cloudera: https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-11-14-cloudera-to-acquire-octopais-platform.html
ServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI Governance
BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241113489335/en/ServiceNow-Advances-Autonomous-Responsible-AI-on-the-Now-Platform-With-New-GenAI-and-Governance-Innovations
Aera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with Workspaces
Aera: https://www.aeratechnology.com/news/aera-technology-introduces-agentic-ai-workspaces-and-control-room-to-enable-the-full-spectrum-of-enterprise-decisions
Does NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-just-became-the-worlds-largest-company-amid-ai-boom/
Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saravanamv_i-saw-sridhar-vembus-post-about-freshworks-activity-7261963800612945921-k2EU
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
What the US Election Means for Tech
Based on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 Presidential Election, Charles and Hyoun preview the key issues that CIOs and tech vendors will face over the next four years and analyze the effect that Trump’s second term will have.
2024 US Election: Biden’s AI Executive Order
The clearest action that the Biden Administration took towards tech was the AI Executive Order, a far-reaching directional order to make AI more explainable and ethical. Trump has stated that he will rescind the order, but will that mean an end to this effort to clean up AI or is it a rebranding?
2024 US Election: CHIPS Bill
The CHIPS bill is slated to provide over $50 billion to the United States semiconductor industry. Trump called this a “bad bill” on the campaign trail, but building up American manufacturing is a bipartisan priority. What will actually happen to those forecasted jobs and chips?
2024 US Election: Tariffs
One of Trump’s signature promises on the campaign trail was to provide 10%-20% blanket tariffs on all imports and 60%+ tariffs on all Chinese goods. How will this affect CIO budgets?
2024 US Election: Electric Power and Energy Concerns
Both nuclear power and the energy grid have increasingly become IT-related topics. Although Trump is expected to be an energy-friendly president, Hyoun and Charles believe this advocacy will not be evenly spread throughout all energy generation and distribution environments.
2024 US Election: H1B Visas
The United States talent pool for technology is increasingly dependent on the H-1B Visa. In Trump’s first term, he made employment-based visa options more restrictive and more difficult to obtain. Will this be different in a second term where tech billionaires played a significant role in Trump’s campaign? Can Peter Thiel and Elon Musk be a moderating factor on Trump in this regard?
2024 US Election: What About the Cloud?
Although Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are obviously big winners in this election, many of the top AI and hyperscaler owners and CEOs were muted or relatively neutral. Where do tech movers and shakers like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos fit into this picture?
2024 US Election: Crypto and Blockchain
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and maybe even blockchain are going to get some attention again. Hyoun and Charles acknowledge how going from an anti-crypto SEC to a presumably crypto-friendly SEC will change the role of cryptocurrency in the United States.
2024 US Election: Section 230 Content Moderation
Section 230 has been both a foundational pillar of the modern Internet in protecting firms from the consequences of third-party content and a thorn in Trump’s side. Even with the emergence of conservative social media platforms such as X, what are the chances that Section 230 continues to be under attack in a second Trump term and what are the repercussions for CIOs and IT teams?
2024 US Election: Deportation and Tech
One of Trump’s big talking points in 2024 was the promise of mass deportations. What are the roles that IT and Big Tech will play in supporting deportation?
2024 US Election: Final Thoughts
The 2024 election has undoubtedly been one of true consequence and a call for change. In that light, Charles and Hyoun provide some final perspectives on finding common ground after a tightly contested election.
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
Microsoft Grows on AI Inference workloads
Data Center Dynamics: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-on-track-for-10bn-in-annual-revenue-from-ai-inference/
Accenture Wins $1.6 Billion Cloud Services Contract
Accenture: https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2024/accenture-federal-services-wins-1-6-billion-u-s-air-force-cloud-one-task-order
AI Demands More Power! More Energy!
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/datacenter_developer_says_power_issues/
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/tech-partnerships-with-power-companies-for-ai-in-doubt-after-ferc-order.html
Yahoo: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/constellation-energy-nuclear-stocks-plummet-after-regulators-block-amazon-power-deal-151109123.html
Where AI Copilots and Assistants Fall Short
CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3594667/why-cios-need-a-two-tier-approach-to-gen-ai.html
Delta Sues Crowdstrike for $500 million
CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/delta-crowdstrike-lawsuit-georgia-microsoft/731273/
Google Fined (Almost a) Googol Rubles?!
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo.amp
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
Gartner Shares IT Spend Trends & the AI Tax
Gartner: https://tinyurl.com/GartnerITSpend24
Also Gartner: https://tinyurl.com/GartnerITSpend25
NVIDIA Argues for AI-First Companies
WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nvidia-chief-makes-case-for-ai-first-companies-1214235e?mod=djemCIO
Zoho Partners with NVIDIA for Midmarket AI
Zoho: https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-corporation-to-leverage-nvidia-nemo-to-build-llms.html
Asana Launches No-Code AI Teammates, Microsoft Pushes Out Autonomous AI Agents
ZDNet: https://www.zdnet.com/article/asana-launches-a-no-code-tool-for-designing-ai-agents-aka-your-new-teammates/
Celonis Brings Process Mining Logic to AI
Diginomica: https://diginomica.com/celonis-launches-agentc-process-intelligence-essential-any-enterprise-ai-strategy
UIPath Advocates for A More Robotic AI
Diginomica: https://diginomica.com/uipath-forward-where-does-agentic-ai-go-here-and-rpa-still-relevant
Anthropic Wants to Automate Your Personal Computing
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/anthropics-new-ai-can-control-your-pc/
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
OpenAI Hires a Chief Economist
OpenAI: https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-chief-economist-announcement/
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/openai-hires-its-first-chief-economist/
Is Gen AI About to Crash?
Intellyx: https://intellyx.com/2024/10/21/how-to-protect-yourself-from-the-inevitable-genai-crash/
Perplexed by the Terms of Perplexity
Leonard Park’s LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/LeoParkPerplexity
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
OpenAI and Microsoft Quarrel on the Future of AI
NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-openai-partnership-deal.html
IBM Reveals Gaps Between Corporate and Consumer AI Preferences
IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-10-16-new-ibm-study-insurance-leaders-agree-that-rapid-adoption-of-generative-ai-is-necessary-to-compete,-but-insurance-customers-express-reservations
Amazon and Databricks Partner to Bring Hardware and Models Together
Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-databricks-strike-five-year-deal-around-ai-chips-a2a135ab?mod=djemCIO
The Era of Nuclear Powered AI Has Begun!
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/amazon_nuclear_smr/
Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-continues-push-to-add-more-nuclear-energy-with-2-new-deals-575c0e5e
WiPro Takes a Hybrid Stance
Saurabh Govil’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saurabhgovil_hybridwork-returntooffice-wipro-activity-7251526018329391105-4JGR
CIOs Really Need More Focus on Value Creation
Diginomica: https://diginomica.com/ceos-switch-your-cio-focus-productivity-not-efficiency
Data Center Provider F*cked Around, The SEC (Finally) Found Out
Network World: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3567954/data-center-provider-fakes-tier-4-data-center-certificate-to-bag-11m-sec-deal.html
US Department of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/data-center-company-ceo-indicted-major-fraud-and-making-false-statements-us-securities-and
2017 SEC Audit of Data Centers, including “D1”: https://www.sec.gov/files/Audit-of-the-SECs-Management-of-Its-Data-Centers.pdf
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
The IBM Mainframe Is Locked Into the Enterprise
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-mainframe-workloads-grow-ai-cloud-ibm/728996/
Can SAP Joule Actually Support 80% of Business Tasks?
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/saps-joule-collaborative-ai-agent-driving-innovation-with-open-source-llms/
AI Gets the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics!
Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/all-nobel-prizes-2024/
When to Call It Quits With AI
CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3555331/when-is-the-right-time-to-dump-an-ai-project.html
Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-had-fun-experimenting-with-ai-now-they-have-to-show-the-returns-2a683592?mod=djemCIO
AI Ain’t Always The Answer
The Register: https://tinyurl.com/FCPI1014
Everyday AI for Everyday People
Digital Native: https://www.digitalnative.tech/p/the-design-of-everyday-things
Writer Beats Megavendors in AI Workflow Automation
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/writers-palmyra-x-004-takes-the-lead-in-ai-function-calling-surpassing-tech-giants/
Apple Researchers Refute Claims of LLM Formal Reasoning
Marcus on AI: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and
ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
LLMs as Instant Mediocrity: https://amalgaminsights.com/2023/06/06/instant-mediocrity-a-business-guide-to-chatgpt-in-the-enterprise/
LinkedIn Says It’s Your Fault for Trusting Them
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/linkedin_ai_misinformation_agreement/
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
OpenAI Raises a Record $6.6 Billion
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-closes-66-billion-funding-haul-valuation-157-billion-with-investment-2024-10-02/
Microsoft Digs Deep on AI CapEx Bling
Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-ai-story-is-getting-complicated-ebe63ac9?mod=tech_lead_pos1
Who Are The “True” AI Leaders in the S&P 500?
Semafor: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/02/2024/americas-emerging-ai-leaders-amazon-walmart-and-wells-fargo
Augmented Intelligence Raises $44M to Access Symbolic AI
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/augmented-intelligence-claims-its-symbolic-ai-can-make-chatbots-more-useful/
AI, You Don’t Know Tiger Woods!
Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-doesnt-know-much-about-golf-or-farming-or-mortgages-or-ae296774?mc_cid=b6ab7c6eb8&mod=tech_lead_pos2
Two Weird Tips for Making AI Work
CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3541409/how-ai-is-transforming-business-today.html
Gartner IDs AI Challenges, Skimps on Solutions
Gartner: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/cio-challenges
Is This End of Enterprise SaaS?
Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2024/09/30/the-end-of-the-saas-era-rethinking-softwares-role-in-business/
Goodnight, Sweet Hololens
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259369/microsoft-hololens-2-discontinuation-support?mod=djemCIO
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
Newsom Vetoes AI Compliance Bill
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/29/24232172/california-ai-safety-bill-1047-vetoed-gavin-newsom
US DoJ Changes Governance Guidance for AI
McDermott blog: https://www.mwe.com/insights/doj-makes-key-revisions-to-corporate-compliance-program-guidance/
Full document:
DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/page/file/937501/dl
CA Requires Data Transparency for LLMs
CA Legislature: Full language of bill https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2013
TechCrunch Summary article by Maxwell Zeff: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/29/here-is-whats-illegal-under-californias-18-and-counting-new-ai-laws/
NIST Acknowledges G!8B#r|5h is a Lousy Password
Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/nist-password-guidance-improvements/
WhatFix raises $125M to Guide Digital Adoption
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/whatfix-raises-125m-to-provide-in-app-guides-to-users/
Smartsheet Taken Private By Blackstone and Vista Equity
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/blackstone-and-vista-equity-partners-to-acquire-software-maker-smartsheet.html
Rabbit Loses Momentum in its AI Leap
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254253/rabbit-r1-5000-daily-users-ai-gadget?mc_cid=fabd2e4e07
Will AI Be a Bust? Goldman Sachs Says Maybe?
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/technology/ai-jim-covello-goldman-sachs.html
Has Notion Made the New Clippy or Is It Better?
FastCompany: https://www.fastcompany.com/91192119/notions-new-animated-ai-assistant-looks-more-new-yorker-than-clippy
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
Agentforce: The Next BYO?
Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-launch-zone-announcement/
Microsoft Doubles Down on Copilot with Agents
Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/copilot-studio/unveiling-copilot-agents-built-with-microsoft-copilot-studio-to-supercharge-your-business/?mod=djemCIO
It’s Dangerous to Build Alone: On In-House AI Agents
CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3529740/thinking-of-building-your-own-ai-agents-dont-do-it-advisors-say.html
Alation and Workday Affirm Salesforce’s Data and AI Offerings
Alation: https://www.alation.com/blog/salesforce-connector-data-trust/
Zoho Analytics 6.0: Bridging Data Science + Analytics
Zoho: https://www.zoho.com/blog/analytics/6.0-launch.html
KubeCost: Another Piece of the IBM FinOps Puzzle?
IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/blog-ibm-acquires-kubecost-to-broaden-hybrid-cloud-cost-management-capabilities
Tidelift Says Pay Your Open-Source Maintainers
Tidelift: https://tidelift.com/about/press-releases/tidelift-study-reveals-paid-open-source-maintainers-do-significantly-more-critical-security-and-maintenance-work-than-unpaid-maintainers
AWS Admits Data Repatriation is On the Rise
CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/aws-microsoft-google-uk-regulatory-hearings-cloud-wars/727571/
Amazon: Get Back to the Office, Everyone
Amazon: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio?mod=djemCIO
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and special guest host Shane Carlson critically assess last week's biggest tech news:
Sources:
o1, the Next Big Thing in AI … Kinda?
OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/
Agentic AI Takes Center Stage For IT
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/servicenow-introduces-a-library-of-enterprise-ai-agents-you-can-customize-to-fit-your-workflow/
CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3518646/salesforce-unveils-agentforce-to-help-create-autonomous-ai-bots.html
Why Amazon Struggles With Non-Technical Users
Windows Central: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/leaked-employee-discussions-demonstrate-amazon-qs-lack-of-feature-parity-and-potential-loss-of-clientele-to-microsofts-copilot-aiq-is-fit-for-demos-and-very-tightly-controlled-simple-use-cases
Oracle Embraces Becoming Cloud-First For the Database
CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/oracle-AWS-google-multicloud-data-ai-partnership/726471/
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/oracle-database-is-in-many-enterprises-and-now-its-in-google-cloud-too/
Nuclear Power for Data Centers? Hell, Why Not?
Data Center Frontier: https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/55139736/oracle-hits-every-major-cloud-via-aws-reveals-plans-for-gigawatt-triple-smr-data-center
You Get an AI! And YOU Get an AI! Oprah Goes All In
ABC.com: https://abc.com/movies-and-specials/d9e8a932-0cd7-4187-81b8-294929f8c8f7
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/ophah-just-had-an-ai-special-with-sam-altman-and-bill-gates-here-are-the-highlights/
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights
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