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TheCUBE Pod quick take: Washington’s deregulation drumbeat meets Wall Street’s AI fever
Inside a week when stablecoins are rising, Intel sounded the alarm — and Figma prepared to shut down Broad Street. Minutes after the closing bell echoed through the New York Stock Exchange, I tried to sum up an extraordinary stretch at the NYSE CUBE Studios. In one frenetic week we covered President Trump’s AI Action Plan, Tom Lee’s crypto ...
‘The bottom turtle’: Amazon’s storage workhorse is getting an AI upgrade
When Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec joined Amazon Web Services more than a decade ago, the company’s Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, was a humble online bucket for photos, logs and the occasional startup backup. Today it houses exabytes of corporate treasure, and Bukovec (pictured), now vice president for data and analytics, is busy teaching ...
Exclusive with Amazon Bedrock chief Atul Deo: AWS’ big bet on cheaper AI — and a new breed of software agent
Atul Deo’s goal is to make artificial-intelligence software both cheaper and smarter at the same time. The up-and-coming executive, head of Amazon Bedrock and generative artificial intelligence for Amazon Web Services Inc., has only six months to show it can be done before the company’s blockbuster annual re:Invent conference in December. “The AI space is moving ...
Exclusive: Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman bets on an agentic future
From a glass-lined conference room high above Amazon’s campus, Matt Garman firmly emphasizes one word: “speed.” With a full year under his belt, the new chief executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. (pictured) has just finished what we called a “halftime huddle” — two days of video exclusive meetings and interviews with top AWS lieutenants ...
AWS DC Summit 2025: The cloud becomes strategic national infrastructure for the AI era
At this year’s AWS DC Summit, one thing was clear: AI, cloud infrastructure and public-private partnerships are no longer future ambitions — they are national priorities happening now. TheCUBE Research’s Scott Hebner and I had a chance to interview the top leaders and ecosystem partners to extract the signal. The game is about capital spending ...
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Iceberg and the future of data intelligence
As data becomes the lifeblood of modern enterprises, the expectations placed on data platforms are evolving at an unprecedented pace. No longer confined to powering dashboards or historical reports, today’s data ecosystems must fuel real-time decision-making, intelligent applications and AI agents that continuously learn and adapt. The new requirements for modern data platforms In this ...
The next frontier in enterprise AI: What to watch at Snowflake and Databricks summits
As we enter the artificial intelligence summit season, two pivotal events, Snowflake Summit and Databricks’ Data+AI Summit offer a rare lens into how the battle for the future of enterprise AI is unfolding. These are not just product showcases. They are directional signals that will shape how businesses organize around data, logic and automation over ...
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Welcome to the AI factory era: A preview of Dell Technologies World 2025
In just a few years, computing has undergone a massive shift. What was once a marketplace dominated by general‑purpose servers and monolithic data centers has fractured into a complex ecosystem of specialized accelerators, hyper‑scaled clusters, edge‑enabled devices, large‑scale cloud providers and sovereign‑cloud platforms. At the center of this transformation stand two sides of the market ...
The key takeaways from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang took the stage today at Nvidia Corp.’s annual GTC keynote with his characteristic blend of technical mastery, visionary ambition and a touch of humor. This year’s event underscored not just how fast the AI revolution is moving but how Nvidia continues to redefine computing itself. The keynote by Huang (pictured) ...
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IBM’s open-source playbook: The AI market shift, DeepSeek’s lessons and the future of AI development
IBM Corp. is at a turning point. After strong earnings and a rapid rise in stock price, it’s clear that Chief Executive Arvind Krishna’s long-term strategy is paying off. We’ve been following IBM closely — we’ve seen Krishna’s vision firsthand, attended analyst meetings, had one-on-one discussions with executives, and covered its artificial intelligence and hybrid ...
