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

1. OpenAI and Microsoft Quarrel on the Future of AI
2. IBM Finds AI Divide Between Firms, Consumers
3. Amazon, Databricks Partner to Bridge Hardware & AI Models
4. The Era of Nuclear Powered AI Has Begun!
5. WiPro Takes a Hybrid Work Stance
6. CIOs Really Need More Focus on Value Creation
7. Data Center F*cked Around, The SEC (Finally) Found Out

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