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

1. DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out
2. Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back
3. OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer
4. Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event Driven Architecture
5. Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?
6. Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?

Sources:

DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out

Wired Coverage by Zeyi Yang https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/

DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/

Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-stargate-openAI-nvidia-oracle/738060/ 

OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer

OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/ 

Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event-Driven Architecture

Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/autogen-v0-4-reimagining-the-foundation-of-agentic-ai-for-scale-extensibility-and-robustness/  

Venturebeat  https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-autogen-v0-4-a-turning-point-toward-more-intelligent-ai-agents-for-enterprise-developers 

Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?

Gartner: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-01-21-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-9-point-8-percent-in-2025 

CIO.com coverage by Paula Rooney: https://www.cio.com/article/3808191/cost-concerns-put-cios-ai-strategies-on-edge.html

Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy? 

Henry Shi on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henrythe9th_we-tried-replacing-1000-human-jobs-with-ai-activity-7288235299191603201-mH4H 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights