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THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
AI wars: Microsoft pitches the agent superstore, Google models ace tests and OpenAI looks over its shoulder
Those were sighs of relief you heard from investors after Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings, putting off for awhile longer worries about an AI bubble. But they quickly turned into sighs of resignation. Nvidia’s stock ended up declining 3% on Thursday as enthusiasm for richly valued tech stocks wore thin, even for the wealthiest of them ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
Amazingly, AI companies are still short of data centers — but not money to build them
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
Despite big AI infrastructure deals, investors get nervous about the payoff
Big artificial intelligence infrastructure deals are multiplying as everyone scrambles for compute capacity. Amazon Web Services did a $38 billion deal to provide OpenAI with compute and a $5.5 billion deal with Cipher Mining to hedge its bets, while Microsoft is spending $7.9 billion to quadruple its capacity in the UAE and did its own ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
Rising AI tide lifts all cloud boats, but investors get more choosy
Nvidia kept pressing its advantage in AI chips this week at its first Washington, D.C.-based conference, marshaling a lot of friends in support of all its technologies, from HPE and Nokia to Samsung, which is teaming up to build an AI Megafactory for chip manufacturing and more. To underscore that point, Nvidia’s market cap just hit $5 ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
For better or worse, it’s still full speed ahead for AI factories
Despite a rising drumbeat of worries about an AI bubble, AI clouds and factories keep growing like crazy. Just this week, Anthropic and Google announced a multibillion-dollar cloud deal, “neocloud” Crusoe raised $1.3 billion and Uniphore raised $260 million. In addition, OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage announced a new $15 billion data center in Wisconsin. For a ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
Mark Benioff pitches Salesforce’s agentic dreams as AI factories boom
Salesforce tripled down on AI agents at Dreamforce this week, but it’s still not clear despite CEO Marc Benioff’s insistence that his own company is benefiting massively from them that most enterprises are ready for large-scale deployment. That’s going to require many things, but one big one is to ensure the resilience of their data. ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
AI embraces and extends enterprise software as funding keeps pouring in – but is all this a bubble?
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of software even faster than its many proponents predicted. This week we saw several big moves by major companies to leverage AI to transform — let’s call it embrace and extend, as one software giant used to put it — the $900 billion enterprise software market. First up was ...
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OpenAI battles Anthropic for model supremacy, AI chips stay hot, and California passes landmark AI safety bill
It’s funny how many tech leaders want government to get out of their way, until, oh right, they need government services to keep things running smoothly. The government shutdown could have big impacts throughout tech, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence. Anthropic and OpenAI continue to battle tooth and nail with new AI models. Ain’t competition ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
OpenAI keeps raising big and spending big, Oracle gets two new CEOs, and Trump cracks down on H1-B visas
That’s a crazy-seeming investment of $100 billion by Nvidia into OpenAI, its customer, but it’s in stages and you gotta put all that GPU money somewhere, so I guess, why not your customers? Well, reasons, but enterprise use of artificial intelligence sure isn’t slowing down yet, so AI startups aren’t slowing down either. Indeed, OpenAI ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE
Nvidia joins the Intel bailout, Meta pitches AI smart glasses, and CrowdStrike aims for ‘security AGI’
In a seminal announcement for the chip industry, Nvidia made a $5 billion investment in Intel Thursday. The plan for today’s and yesterday’s tech stars is to create joint CPU-GPU chips for both data centers and personal computers that combine Nvidia’s graphics processing units with Intel’s x86 central processing units, along with Nvidia’s fast NVLink ...









