Insights News
July 24, 2026

SAP's second quarter: The AI takeaways

Data to Decisions
SAP reported better-than-expected second quarter results with earnings per share of €1.89, which was well ahead of estimates. Revenue of €9.88 billion was up 9% from a year ago and...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 23, 2026

Google Cloud starts shipping TPU systems, becomes chipmaker

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Google Cloud started recognizing sales of TPU system sales in the second quarter for the first time, which helps explain the 82% surge in revenue to $24.8 billion. With those early...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 22, 2026

IBM CEO following Q2 wipeout: We're confident in our strategy

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna moved to ensure customers and investors that the company's strategy was sound following a profit warning that spurred worries about AI infrastructure spendin...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 22, 2026

Anthropic to deploy AMD Helios in strategic pact

Tech Optimization
AMD said Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of its MI450X GPUs in Helios rack systems starting in 2027 and collaborate on using Claude to optimize workloads. AMD will also inv...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 22, 2026

OpenAI details how its models went rogue, attacked Hugging Face

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Hugging Face was hacked by a rogue AI agent powered by OpenAI models including GPT-5.6 Sol and a quot;more capable pre-release modelsquot; because the LLMs were being tested on the...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 21, 2026

Get ready for US open LLMs and just in time

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The teeth gnashing and near panic over open source large language models from China has reached a fever pitch as Z.ai, DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen and Moonshot AI's Kimi close the gap...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 21, 2026

Google launches new Gemini model trio, teases Gemini 4

Data to Decisions
Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.5 Flash Cyber and focused on efficiency and pricing, but the biggest item may be that the company teased Gemini 4. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 21, 2026

Certinia acquires Moonnox

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Certinia said it will acquire Moonnox, which features a platform built for systems integrators and services firms. With the move, Certinia said it will accelerate its expansion int...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 20, 2026

AMD launches Helios, lands Microsoft Azure deal

Tech Optimization
AMD said Microsoft will deploy its Helios rack systems, GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure in an expanded partnership. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 20, 2026

Hugging Face defends agentic AI attack with Z.ai's GLM 5.2

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Hugging Face detected and responded to an agentic AI attack and used Z.ai's open weight GLM 5.2 because frontier models were hampered by safety guardrails. There are multiple takea...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 17, 2026

Big banks and how they're thinking about AI

Data to Decisions
Wall Street giants reported their quarterly earnings in bunches this week and AI was a hot topic. Big banks are worth watching when it comes to AI because they're essentially techn...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 16, 2026

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3

Data to Decisions
Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8T parameter large language model the company said is on par with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI GPT-5.5. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 16, 2026

TSMC: 'Conviction in multi-year AI megatrend remains high'

Innovation & Product-led Growth
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said the company's quot;conviction in the multi-year AI megatrend remains very highquot; and the company sees 2026 revenue growth topping 40%. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 14, 2026

Is a FINRA-ish group the answer for frontier AI standards?

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Dennis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, argued in a post on X that frontier AI models need a standard for new releases and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) serves a...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 13, 2026

Rightsizing open models may cut your AI inference spend

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Salesforce said it has cut its AI inference bills by right sizing models. The general idea: Tune specific open source models to complete tasks instead of relying on pricey models. ...
Larry Dignan