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Microsoft is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for its Microsoft Bing generative AI searches.
Oracle announced the multi-year agreement with Microsoft in a press release. What we don't know is whether Microsoft is using Oracle Cloud to overflow Bing workloads or completely due to efficiency and/or procurement of Nvidia GPUs.
OpenAI launched new developer tools, models and GPTs designed for specific use cases.
On its first developer day, OpenAI moved to expand its ecosystem, enable developers, and leverage the popularity of its models so they can be customized.
Palo Alto Networks said it has acquired Talon Cyber Security, an enterprise browser security startup. The move comes days after the company acquired Dig Security.
Talon Cybersecurity aims to address attacks via unmanaged devices via its Talon Enterprise Browser. The Talon Enterprise Browser will be combined with Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE platform and look to protect unmanaged endpoints that connect to SaaS enterprise applications.
Dig Security is a startup focused on data security posture management, or DPSM.
Understanding and explaining the workings of artificial brains—particularly deep neural networks—has been a problem for a decade or so. Some AI entrepreneurs seem almost to boast they don’t know how their creations work, as if mysteriousness is proof of real intelligence. But algorithmic transparency is being mandated in new European legislation so that individuals have better recourse when adversely affected when robots miscalculate their credit or health insurance risks.
A common mantra among technology companies is that it's better to disrupt yourself than let a competitor do it. On the whiteboard that mantra makes long-term sense. In reality, a business model transition can crush your stock.
Just ask Paycom, a human capital management software provider that created Beti, a service that dramatically reduces payroll errors and drives value for customers. The concept is shockingly simple: Give employees access to payroll to fix errors before the checks are cut.
DisrupTV Episode 341: Cybersecurity, Cloud Innovation & Global Threats
In DisrupTV Episode 341, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a thought-provoking discussion with three distinguished guests:
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said companies are starting to reimagine their businesses for artificial intelligence one process at a time. The big question is what industries hit scale first.
Apple's fourth quarter results were better-than-expected but revenue was down for the fourth consecutive quarter. Mac sales in the quarter were weaker than expected, but may get a lift with new MacBook Pro models on tap.
The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.46 a share on revenue of $89.5 billion, down 1% from a year ago.
Wall Street was expecting Apple to report fourth quarter earnings of $1.39 a share on revenue of $89.28 billion.
Palantir's commercial annual revenue run rate is closing in on the company's government business as Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) gains enterprise traction.
The upcoming parity point between commercial revenue and Palantir's core government business is worth watching. In the third quarter, Palantir commercial revenue grew 23% to $251 million with US revenue growing 33% to $116 million. Government revenue grew 12% to $308 million in the third quarter.
SAP launched SAP Build Code development tools that leverage generative AI and court Java and JavaScript developers as well as connect to data stores across the enterprise.
At SAP's TechEd 2023 conference, SAP outlined a series of tools that aim to enable developers to build applications and connect them to the SAP Business Technology Platform. These pro code tools, which build on last year's low code/no code rollout, feature the following:
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said workflow and process optimization are blending as enterprises shift away from siloed data and infrastructure to focus on transforming operations with new technologies such as generative AI.
McDermott, speaking during ServiceNow’s industry analyst day, closed out sessions with ServiceNow executives who outlined generative AI plans, strategy, target industries and returns on investment.
Snowflake consolidated its AI and machine learning efforts with Snowflake Cortex, a managed service that provides access to large language models (LLMs), AI models and vector search in one place and includes Snowflake Copilot, Document AI and Universal Search.
AMD's third quarter financial results were better than expected, but the outlook for the fourth quarter was lighter than expected. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said "our data center business is on a significant growth trajectory" due to its EPYC server processors and Instinct MI300 accelerator shipments.
While generative AI dominated the talking points among the big three cloud hyperscalers--Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud--there was a term that remained a close second: Optimization.
All three talked about cloud optimization as they have for the past year. CEOs are loathe to say things like cost cutting in the context of cloud, but there is certainly an ongoing tweaking of spending.
McDonald's said its strong third quarter results were in part driven by digital sales and more than 57 million 90-day active members in its MyMcDonald's rewards program.
Generative AI has its benchmark use case: Developer productivity. Why? Software engineers are pricey and the returns on multiple fronts--costs, developer engagement and overall value creation--are hard to ignore.
Intel handily topped third quarter expectations as the company's PC business stabilized.
The company reported third-quarter earnings of 7 cents a share on revenue of $14.2 billion, down 8% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the quarter were 41 cents a share.
Wall Street expected Intel to report non-GAAP earnings of 22 cents a share on revenue of $13.6 billion.
While Intel isn't the juggernaut it once was, the company appears to be rebounding.
Amazon Web Services third quarter revneue was up 12% from a year ago to $23.1 billion with operating income of $7 billion.
AWS was expected to report revenue of $23.2 billion.
For comparison, Microsoft Azure delivered revenue growth of 29% and Google Cloud's growth was 22%.