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Databricks said its annual revenue run rate is $5.4 billion, up 65% from a year ago, and it has raised another $7 billion to invest in its Lakebase and Genie efforts.
The $5.4 billion annual run rate is above the $4.8 billion annual run rate disclosed in December.
Databricks valuation remains at $134 billion. The $7 billion capital raise includes $5 billion in equity and $2 billion in debt.
Workday said Co-Founder Aneel Bhusri will as CEO as Carl Eschenbach stepped down. Workday affirmed its outlook.
Eschenbach, credited with strengthening Workday's operations and financial discipline, was CEO for two years.
Software as a service companies are being repriced, re-evaluated and rethought as analysts, investors and customers wonder how AI agents will affect the category. CxOs need to go through the same exercise to ensure they don't get stuck as enterprise software is disrupted.
Beating the Odds in an AI Era: Leadership, Probability Hacking, and the Power of KindnessOn the latest episode of DisrupTV, co-hosts Vala Afshar and R "Ray" Wang welcomed two guests who approached success and leadership from very different—but deeply complementary—angles: Kyle Young, author of Success Is a
$1 Trillion wipeout in a week
Enterprise software stocks had been drifting for months as investors quietly questioned whether the traditional SaaS model was sustainable. Then the drift turned into a snap.
It took nearly 2 years to erase $5 trillion of market value during the dot-com crash, with Nasdaq falling almost 80% from peak to trough. In early February 2026, it took roughly a week of trading to wipe out nearly $1 trillion of value from enterprise software and related stocks.
As the question goes: Are you ready for some football? That’s right…it’s Super Bowl time! This year’s championship game will be a far cry from the first Super Bowl at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. When the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Green Bay Packers back in 1967 at the ‘AFL-NFL World Championship Game”, there were only 11 television cameras and 2 production trucks doing the heavy lifting to capture the broadcast. Game statistics were calculated by hand by league statisticians sitting with pencils and play sheets up in the press box.
Amazon met fourth quarter earnings estimates, slightly topped revenue targets and saw AWS sales jump 24% from a year ago. The real whopper was Amazon's capital expenditure projection of $200 billion in 2026.
Anthropic and OpenAI rolled out dueling models as both large language model providers go after a broader spectrum of professional work.
The duel between Anthropic and OpenAI lands as Wall Street increasingly questions the future of enterprise software. OpenAI already made its move to be an AI agent orchestrator with OpenAI Frontier.
Also note that Google will be updating Gemini in months ahead.
OpenAI launched OpenAI Frontier, a platform to enable enterprises to build, deploy and manage AI agents, and cited flagship customers including HP, Intuit, Oracle, Uber and State Farm.
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar said the company's strategy in 2026 revolves around solving the AI velocity gap between AI infrastructure spending and business value.
Kumar's comments on Cognizant's fourth quarter earnings call are worth noting. Indeed, the gap between actual returns on investment among enterprises and the trillions of dollars thrown at AI infrastructure is wide.
Google Cloud's fourth quarter revenue was $17.7 billion, up 48% from a year ago, as the company saw its Gemini usage spike. Alphabet, parent company of Google, Google Cloud and YouTube, said its 2026 capital expenditures will be between $175 billion to $185 billion, up from $91 billion in 2025.
Live from Davos 2026 at the IBM House, Constellation Research’s Ray Wang sits down with IBM’s Neil Dhar to explore how AI is moving from proof-of-concept experiments to real, measurable business transformation.
In this conversation, they discuss:
At AWS re:invent, R "Ray" Wang talks with Caroline Roche of IBM about how IBM and AWS are partnering to help enterprises move from AI experiments to real business outcomes.
They explore:
How do you take projects that used to take 10 months and deliver them in 8 weeks? In this AWS re:Invent conversation, IBM’s Javier Olaizola Casin explains how IBM and AWS are helping enterprises accelerate with data, AI, and hybrid cloud.
We discuss:
Cloud security was never meant to be manual—but for most enterprises, it still is. In this video, we explore how IBM Consulting’s Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC), co-developed with AWS, tackles the growing gap between fast-moving cloud environments and traditional, rule-based security operations.
Learn how ASC:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the storyline that software is dead due to AI--generative AI, agentic AI and everything in between--is "the most illogical thing in the world, and time will prove itself." The exact timing of sorting out software winners and losers may be tricky.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said data centers in space will happen, but timelines are likely to be a lot longer than expected.
Garman was asked at the Cisco AI Summit whether space data centers was in the plans. Elon Musk's SpaceX, which announced a merger with xAI, touted data centers in space due to efficiency, unlimited power and cooling.
AMD reported strong fourth quarter earnings that handily topped expectations as its data center revenue surged 39% from a year ago.
The chipmaker reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.5 billion, or 92 cents a share, on revenue of $10.3 billion, up 34% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.53 billion.
Wall Street was looking for non-GAAP fourth quarter earnings of $1.32 a share on revenue of $9.67 billion.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the chipmaker will make GPUs as well as CPUs and is striving to run two interdependent businesses with its foundry and product units.
Tan said the strategy for Intel is to partner and compete with GPU vendors and focus on advanced packaging.
Economic uncertainty is not easing up. The labor market slowed down to the worst pace in 10 years, inflation continues unabated, and consumer sentiment continues to drop. At the same time, according to Q4 reports, the stock market posted a significant yearly gain in 2025, GDP rose more than expected, and the K-shaped economic theory is proving correct: 20% of consumers accounted for 85% of spending in the consumer portion of the GDP, while the rest continue to battle affordability.
Snowflake said that Cortex Code and Semantic View Autopilot are generally available. The company also rolled out enhancements to Snowflake Postgres.
The news comes a day after Snowflake outlined a $200 million partnership with OpenAI.