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

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

1. Earnings: IBM, SAP, ServiceNow
2. ServiceNow’s AI Orchestrator Automates Complex Workflows
3. IT Service Automator Atomicwork Secures $25M
4. EU AI Act In Effect: Now What?
5. Musk’s Government Actions Stoke CIO Concerns
6. DeepSeek’s Disruption: Lower AI Costs, More Efficient Models
7. New US CIO Barbachi’s Background Brings Up Big Questions

Sources:

Earnings: IBM, SAP, ServiceNow

CNBC on IBM: https://tinyurl.com/IBMQ424CNBC

SAP: https://news.sap.com/2025/01/sap-announces-q4-and-fy-2024-results/

ServiceNow: https://tinyurl.com/ServiceNowQ424

ServiceNow’s AI Orchestrator Automates Complex Workflows

VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/SNAIOrch

IT Service Automator Atomicwork Secures $25M

Atomicwork: https://tinyurl.com/Atomicwork25M

EU AI Act In Effect: Now What?

Official EU AI Act Website: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/

Littler: https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/first-requirements-eu-ai-act-come-force-february-2025

NCC Group: https://www.nccgroup.com/us/the-eu-ai-act-pioneering-the-future-of-ai-regulation/

Musk's Government Actions Stoke CIO Concerns

Fortune: https://tinyurl.com/MuskDogeFortune

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk-treasury-payments-system/

MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rcna190222

DeepSeek’s Disruption: Lower AI Costs, More Efficient Models

Stratechery DeepSeek FAQ: https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

Dario Amodei: https://tinyurl.com/AmodeiDS

VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/VentureBeatDS

Prateek Kathpal: https://tinyurl.com/KathpalDS

New US CIO Barbachi’s Background Brings Up Big Questions

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/the_us_governments_new_cio/

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. 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

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

1. DOGE is Not a Department. It’s a Service.
2. Can OpenAI Influence America’s AI Policy?
3. Google Gemini Wants 500 Million Users
4. Microsoft Restructures to Support Agents
5. ServiceNow Acquires CueIn for Conversation Analysis
6. ContextualAI Launches for Custom RAG

Sources:

DOGE is Not a Department. It’s a Service.

The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/

Can OpenAI Influence America’s AI Policy?

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/openai-economic-blueprint.html

Google Gemini Wants 500 Million Users

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-2025-chatgpt-openai-b6eb595d

Microsoft Restructures to Emphasize Agents

Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/01/13/introducing-core-ai-platform-and-tools/

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344214/microsoft-365-copilot-chat-agents-pricing-availability

ServiceNow Acquires CueIn for Conversation Analysis

ServiceNow: https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/servicenow-to-acquire-cuein.html?ref=runtime.news

ContextualAI Launches for Custom RAG

Contextual.ai: https://contextual.ai/blog/contextual-ai-platform-generally-available/

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. NVIDIA Makes AI More Accessible with Project Digits
2. NVIDIA Nemotron: Advantage or Market Tension?
3. NVIDIA, Google, and the Future of AI-Powered Robotics
4. KPMG: 2025 is the Year of AI Deployment
5. Open AI’s Pro Pricing Dilemma: How We’d Fix It
6. Half of CIOs Struggle to Own Enterprise AI Responsibilities
7. Nékojita FuFu Revolutionizes Coffee Ecosystems

Sources:

NVIDIA Makes AI More Accessible with Project DIGITS

NVIDIA Project DIGITS Press Release: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/

NVIDIA Nemotron: Advantage or Market Tension?

Emilia David’s coverage on VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidias-ai-agent-play-is-here-with-new-models-orchestration-blueprints/?utm_source=AmalgamInsights

NVIDIA Nemotron Blog: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-model-families/

NVIDIA, Google, and the Future of AI-Powered Robotics

Jess Weatherbed on The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338053/google-deepmind-world-modeling-ai-team-gaming-robot-training

KPMG: 2025 is the Year of AI Deployment

Gyana Swain on CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3778320/enterprises-willing-to-spend-up-to-250-million-on-gen-ai-but-roi-remains-elusive.html?utm_source=AmalgamInsights

KPMG AI Quarterly Pulse Survey: https://kpmg.com/us/en/media/news/kpmg-ai-quarterly-pulse-survey.html

Open AI’s Pro Pricing Dilemma: How We’d Fix It

Kyle Wiggers on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/

Half of CIOs Struggle to Own Enterprise AI Responsibilities

Paul Barker at CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3800869/study-probes-trends-around-ai-in-the-enterprise.html

Nékojita FuFu Revolutionizes Coffee Ecosystems

Brian Heater on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/this-tiny-robot-cat-will-blow-on-your-coffee-to-cool-it-off/

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. How Does Florida’s Pornhub Ban Affect Content Access?
2. 6th Circuit Kills Net Neutrality: IT Investment Concerns
3. Has Google Figured Out GenAI's Killer App?
4. Agentforce 2.0 Evolves Enterprise Agentic AI
5. What Is the Future of AI Pricing?
6. Aaron Levie Clarifies the Value of AI Access to PCs
7. Bench's Rough Winter Break: Enterprise SaaS Considerations
8. Felicis & The Promise of Lights Out Ops
9. Is AI Your New Organizational Strategist?
10. Are AI Hallucinations About Being Wrong or Being Creative?

Sources:

How Does Florida’s Pornhub Ban Affect Content Access?

Jessica Lyons on The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/05/pornhub_vpn_demand_surge/

6th Circuit Kills Net Neutrality: IT Investment Concerns

Brian Barrett on Wired: https://tinyurl.com/NetNeutralityDead

Court Ruling: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0002p-06.pdf

Has Google Figured Out GenAI's Killer App?

Will Douglas Heaven on MIT Technology Press: https://tinyurl.com/GenAIKillerApp

Agentforce 2.0 Evolves Enterprise Agentic AI

Salesforce: https://tinyurl.com/Agentforce2

What Is the Future of AI Pricing?

Grant Gross on CIO.com: https://tinyurl.com/AIPricingFuture

Aaron Levie Clarifies the Value of AI Access to PCs

Aaron Levie: https://x.com/levie/status/1867027506286694539

Bench's Rough Winter Break: Enterprise SaaS Considerations

Bench FAQs: https://www.bench.co/transition-faqs

Josh Scott on BetaKit: https://betakit.com/bench-had-a-crazier-holiday-break-than-your-startup/

Felicis Outlines The Promise of Lights Out Ops

Felicis: https://www.felicis.com/insight/ai-it-qa-incident-response

Is AI Your New Organizational Strategist?

Wired.com: https://tinyurl.com/AIOrgStrat

Are AI Hallucinations About Being Wrong or Being Creative?

New York Times: https://tinyurl.com/AICreativityHallucination

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights