Most of the MAG 7 reports tonight as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft all report earnings. I'll be focused on the cloud hyperscalers.

• Alphabet is expected to report non-GAAP first quarter earnings of $2.63 a share on revenue of $107.03 billion.
• Amazon is expected to report first quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $177.17 billion.
• Microsoft is expected to report fiscal third quarter non-GAAP earnings of $4.06 a share on revenue of $81.43 billion.

For all three companies, capital expenditures will be closely scrutinized as will revenue growth in cloud units. All three companies have shares that have delivered strong gains in the last month. For instance, Amazon and Alphabet are up 30% and 27% in the last month, respectively. Microsoft has surged 17% in the last month.

Those gains mean there's little margin for error and a high likelihood of sell the news.

• AWS launches Amazon Quick, Connect family of business apps, OpenAI managed agents
• Microsoft adds slew of AI agents in Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Sales, Customer Insights
• OpenAI goes multi-cloud in amended deal with Microsoft
• Google Cloud Next 2026: A look at the big themes

Nvidia delivered the latest addition to its Nemotron model family. The company launched Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodel model designed for AI agents using video, audio, image and text. Nvidia said a host of software companies including Palantir, DocuSign, Infosys and Oracle are evaluating the model.

• Nvidia Nemotron: Much needed open-source model champion in US
• Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 open models to enable multi-agent systems
• Nvidia GTC 2026: We're a software company too
• Why enterprise AI leaders need to bank on open-source LLMs

Seagate's third quarter results were a blowout as revenue of $3.11 billion was up 44% from a year ago. Net income of $934 billion was up 129% from a year ago.

This slide says it all. AI means storage...lots of it.

Otter.ai launched the Conversational Knowledge Engine in a move that aims to expand beyond being an AI notetaker. The company also launched an expanded model context protocol server, AI Chat and Otter for Desktop. According to Otter.ai, the Conversational Knowledge Engine is designed to bring together decisions, context and intent embedded in conversational data. The company said:

"There has never been a system of record for what people actually say during meetings, which has driven Otter.ai's strategic evolution into a new category. The Conversational Knowledge Engine will be as fundamental as CRM in capturing customer data, HRIS for employee data, and ERP for financial data."

That's a heady idea, but Otter.ai can fill in a lot of context gaps. I'm a longtime Otter.ai customer and can attest that the upgraded AI Chat is way better than before. Otter.ai's Conversational Knowledge Engine is aimed at sales, marketing, recruiting and product management.

We'll loop back on Otter.ai's plans when we get a more fleshed out briefing.

SAS held its Innovate conference and outlined a series of updates. Here’s the roundup of announcements.

• SAS AI Navigator to bring order to AI chaos
• SAS expands SAS Viya with governed AI assistants and agentic AI capabilities
• SAS aims AI agents at industry’s toughest challenges
• SAS survey: Industry leaders on the quantum AI cusp
• Liverpool FC and SAS will deliver more personalized, real-time digital fan experiences with AI
• SAS at 50 years: Built on trust, shaping the future of AI
• SAS advances its AI-ready data management foundation for industry agents and automation, with governance built-in
• Expanded agentic AI capabilities coming to SAS Customer Intelligence 360

Oracle said in a post on X that "we’re seeing firsthand how quickly adoption of their technology is accelerating, driven by the strength of their latest models. Judging by the comments, Oracle's post went over like a lead balloon. Oracle was responding to a WSJ story saying OpenAI is missing internal expectations. OpenAI reportedly called the story clickbait, according to Bloomberg.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a video appearance at an AWS event. He said: "I wish I could be there with you in person today. My schedule got taken away from me today."

General Motors reported strong first quarter results and said that its digital services efforts are starting to pay off. The company said OnStar ended the first quarter with recognized revenue topping $750 million, up 20% from a year ago. Super Cruise is tracking to deliver revenue of about $400 million in 2026.

We've chronicled GM's digital efforts as well as what Ford has been doing with AI. Rivian too.

• GM to integrate Google Gemini, delivered unified software defined vehicle architecture
• Ford launches Ford Pro AI
• Rivian’s AI strategy: Four takeaways

Adobe said it has closed the Semrush purchase as it looks to meld SEO, generative engine optimization (GEO) and agentic search optimization (AEO) as part of the broader customer experience platform via Adobe CX Enterprise, which was the headliner at Adobe Summit.

• Adobe acquires Semrush in $1.9 billion deal
• Adobe Scoops Up Semrush to Expand Brand Visibility Play
• AEO, GEO, and What Happens as AEM Enters the Chat

I still have a laundry list of followups from Google Cloud Next 2026, but here's the link stack from last week.

News and news analysis

• Google Cloud Next 2026: A look at the big themes
• Google Cloud presses full-stack AI edge with new TPUs, Agentic Data Cloud, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
• Google Cloud CEO Kurian on AI model evolution, CPUs importance and being open

Customer stories

• How Verizon manages AI agent sprawl
• Citigroup's wealth unit launches Citi Sky, a Google-powered wealth advisor
• The big picture behind Ask Macy’s, a Gemini powered AI agent
• Merck inks Google Cloud agentic AI deal worth up to $1 billion

IBM said IBM Bob, an AI-first software development platform, is generally available. IBM said Bob goes beyond writing code to managing the entire software development lifecycle from planning and coding to testing, deployment and governance. By offering a structured framework, IBM argues that Bob can scale transformation. The platform includes orchestration, modernization, security controls, audits and coordination of multiple models. IBM Bob also has a package for Z mainframe systems.

OpenAI open sourced Symphony, an orchestrator that shifts software development entirely to agent-driven workflows. That's the news. The more interesting part of the post is how the process of software development changed and how going agent-only had upside, but also created new problems. The bottleneck moved away from coding itself to task definition, coordination and system-level design.

OpenAI is missing its internal projections and its CFO Sarah Friar has questioned its spending habits and whether it's ready for an IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Typically, this story would be merely interesting, but given that much of the AI sector, notably Nvidia and Oracle, depends on OpenAI meeting its AI data center commitments through 2030 or so the article is going to get play. It's also worth noting that Microsoft and OpenAI amended their deal in part because the AI lab needs to grow and expand its distribution to other clouds.