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

1. Microsoft Quantum Takes a Majorana Step Forward
2. Alibaba and Apple Both Commit $50B to AI
3. Avaya Cuts Off Customers with <200 Seats
4. Gitlab Being Sued For Providing Believable AI Hype
5. TMobile Wins NYC 911 Contract with Network Slicing
6. Ready for a Personalized AI Agent? PIN AI thinks so
7. Codeium Raises at Near-$3 Billion Valuation to Assist Coders
8. Is Your Most Important Customer AI
9. xAI Plays Fast and Loose with Grok 3 Benchmarks

Sources:

Microsoft Quantum Takes a Majorana Step Forward

Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-just-claimed-a-quantum-breakthrough-a-quantum-physicist-explains-what-it-means/

Alibaba Commits Over $50B to AI, while Apple Goes Further

Morningstar: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20250224715/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/23/asia_tech_news_roundup/

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/618172/apple-500-billion-us-investment-tariffs-trump

Avaya Cuts Off Customers with <200 Seats

Avaya: https://news.avaya.com/axp-evolution-update-partners

Gitlab Being Sued For Providing Believable AI Hype

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/gitlab_thrice_sued/

T-Mobile Wins NYC 911 Contract with Network Slicing

Fierce Network: https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/t-mobile-pushes-network-slicing-major-nyc-deal-announced

Ready for a Personalized AI Agent? PIN AI Thinks So

Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/91278338/pin-ai-encrypted-assistant-app-launch-llm

Codeium Raises at Near-$3 Billion Valuation to Assist Coders

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/ai-coding-startup-codeium-in-talks-to-raise-at-an-almost-3b-valuation-sources-say/

Your Most Important Customer May Be AI

Scott Mulligan, MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/19/1112076/your-most-important-customer-may-be-ai/

xAI Plays Fast and Loose with Grok 3 Benchmarks

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/22/did-xai-lie-about-grok-3s-benchmarks/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

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

1. The Dissection of Intel Begins…
2. AWS Marketplace Changes Affect SaaS FinOps Strategy
3. Glean Releases Agents to Manage Data
4. Snowflake Brings Cortex Agents to Public Preview
5. SAP & Databricks Team Up to Unlock SAP Data
6. Workday Releases Agent System of Record
7. Outshift by Cisco Discusses Internet of Agents
8. PegaSystems Points Out Employee Concerns for Agents
9. Anthropic Economic Index Measures Enterprise AI Usage
10. Microsoft Research Finds AI Atrophies Cognitive Confidence
11. DOGE Struggles to COBOL Together a Mainframe

Sources:

The Dissection of Intel Begins …

WSJ: https://tinyurl.com/IntelSplitSpec

AWS Marketplace Changes Affect SaaS FinOps Strategy

Duckbill Group: https://tinyurl.com/AWSMktRules

Glean Releases Agents to Manage Data

Glean: https://tinyurl.com/GleanAgents

Snowflake Brings Cortex Agents to Public Preview

Snowflake: https://tinyurl.com/SnowflakeCortexPreview

SAP & Databricks Team To Unlock SAP Data

SAP: https://tinyurl.com/SAPDatabricks

Workday Releases the Agent System of Record

AOL: https://tinyurl.com/HRofAIAgents

Workday: https://tinyurl.com/WorkdayAgentSOR

Outshift by Cisco Discusses the Internet of Agents

VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/IoAgentsCisco

PegaSystems Points Out Employee Concerns for Agents

CIODive: https://tinyurl.com/WorkforceAIConcern

Anthropic Economic Index Measures Enterprise AI Usage

The Register: https://tinyurl.com/AIJobsImpact

Paper: https://tinyurl.com/AnthropicEI

Microsoft Research Discovers AI Atrophies Cognitive Confidence

404 Media: https://tinyurl.com/AIAtrophiesCognition

Microsoft: https://tinyurl.com/MSCritThink

DOGE Struggles to COBOL Together a Mainframe

Fast Company: https://tinyurl.com/DOGECOBOL

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:

1. Good News: Ransomware Down 35%!
2. AWS S3 Bucket Registrations: A Sneaky Backdoor Threat
3. Zoho Day and the Race to Agentic AI
4. Fei-Fei Li: “It Takes $50 to Distill A Reasoning Model”
5. Will Semiconductor Tariffs Force CIOs to Close the Deal?
6. Is the CIO a Policy Strategist or a Rubber Stamp?
7. Will the Windows 10 Sunset Force AI PCs into the Workplace?
8. CIOs Bullish on AI, IT Employees Not So Much
9. Where Salesforce AI’s Super Bowl Ad Missed the Mark

Sources:

Good News: Ransomware Down 35%!

Chainalysis: https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-crime-ransomware-victim-extortion-2025/

AWS S3 Bucket Registrations: a Sneaky Backdoor Threat

Watchtowr: https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

Zoho Day and the Race to Agentic AI

CX Today: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/zoho-previews-ai-agents-commits-to-low-pricing-shares-more-on-its-ceo-transition/

Fei-Fei Li: “It Takes 50 Dollars to Distill A Reasoning Model”

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/researchers-created-an-open-rival-to-openais-o1-reasoning-model-for-under-50/

Will Semiconductor Tariffs Force CIOs to Close the Deal?

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/nvidia_trump_tariffs/

Is the CIO a Policy Strategist or a Rubber Stamp?

CHCOC.gov: https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM Memo Guidance Regarding Redesignating SES CIO Positions 2-4-2025 FINAL.pdf

Will the Windows 10 Sunset Force AI PCs into the Workplace?

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3812887/will-the-end-of-windows-10-accelerate-cio-interest-in-ai-pcs.html

CIOs Bullish on AI, IT Employees Not So Much

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3815935/cios-are-bullish-on-ai-agents-it-employees-not-so-much.html

Where Salesforce AI’s Super Bowl Ad Missed the Mark

Defector: https://defector.com/salesforce-is-using-a-hallucination-to-sell-ai

Salesforce AI Super Bowl Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JNLL7U8H8

Google Gemini Super Bowl Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7e6g11BJc0

ServiceNow AI Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqR735mAo4

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights