For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. California Takes on AI with SB 1047
2. AMD Acquires ZT Systems
3. Juniper Makes Networking More Interesting
4. Nice Systems Picks a CEO from SAP
5. Cockroach Pursues Pricing Experiments
6. Palo Alto, What Were You Thinking?

Sources:

California Takes on AI with SB 1047

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/california-weakens-bill-to-prevent-ai-disasters-before-final-vote-taking-advice-from-anthropic/ 

Letter: https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-08-15%20to%20Gov%20Newsom_SB1047.pdf 

Compromises made on SB 1047 https://www.platformer.news/california-ai-bill-sb-1047-wiener-controversy-changes-lofgren/ 

AMD Acquires ZT

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-deal-shows-ai-chip-business-isnt-just-about-chips-81fb46d9?mod=djemCIO 

Juniper Aligns Networking To AI Challenges

Juniper: https://newsroom.juniper.net/news/news-details/2024/Juniper-Networks-Unveils-First-Blueprint-for-Accelerating-AI-Native-Network-Platform-Adoption-Delivering-up-to-9x-Faster-Time-to-Value/default.aspx 

Nice Systems Picks a CEO from SAP

BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240815240570/en/NICE-Announces-the-Appointment-of-a-New-CEO 

Cockroach Pursues Pricing Experiments

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/cockroach-labs-shakes-up-its-licensing-to-force-bigger-companies-to-pay/ 

Palo Alto, What Were You Thinking?

BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y5r11xmkvo.amp

Palo Alto Networks: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2024/08/a-letter-from-our-ceo/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights