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DisrupTV Episode 322: Pioneering Web3, Leadership, and Resilience
In this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with four trailblazers shaping the future of technology, leadership, and personal resilience:
Dirk Lueth – CEO & Co-Founder, Uplandme, Inc.
Generative AI is the question of the day on many earnings conference calls, but the approach to leveraging the technology depends on the industry. Here's a look at how Bank of America, Airbnb, Lemonade and Deutsche Telekom are thinking about generative AI.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan: Generative AI needs more transparency
When the Musk era of Twitter began, in a blog post I suggested that the first question the new owner would need to answer and articulate would be what Twitter actually was going to be moving forward:
Wendy's move to deploy Google Cloud's generative AI technology for drive-thru ordering starting in June is worth watching as large language modeling (and the fine tuning for industry use cases) go mainstream.
Speaking on Wendy's first quarter earnings conference call, Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said Wendy's Fresh AI pilot is part of a larger digitalization push.
Google I/O 2023 kicked off and the proceedings could be summed up in two words: Generative AI. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian walked through Google’s new models, how it’ll incorporate generative AI across the product line and advance business transformation.
PayPal, Block and Shopify have all reported earnings in recent days. Here's a look at what those three companies are saying about the economy, generative AI and their product plans.
PayPal: Controlling what it can
The economy
This week on Constellation TV, catch co-hosts Dion Hinchcliffe and Doug Henschen giving news updates on #GenerativeAI, #AI compliance and privacy and #AutoGPT, and announcing Constellation's newest hire, Larry Dignan, as Constellation's Editor and Chief of Constellation Insights. Then Doug gives an update on his new Market Overview report on Analytics and BI and finally, we conclude with an #AXS2023 panel highlights on the topic of #IT's role in #CX.
Google I/O in previous years focused on Android, Pixel devices and cool features such as Magic Eraser. This year, Google I/O is all about the models.
Against the backdrop of a never ending stream of generative AI announcements and Microsoft's move to infuse its applications with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage and made the case for its generative AI advances. "AI is having a very busy year," quipped Pichai. Here's the case in a nutshell.
Google Cloud is launching Duet AI, which takes Google's foundational generative AI models to make building and deploying cloud applications easier. Developers can also optimize code with Generative AI Support in Vertex AI with three new foundation models.
IBM launched a portfolio of security tools designed to protect data from quantum computing attacks.
The portfolio, IBM Quantum Safe technology, aims to address quantum computing security risks. While quantum computing can address multiple problems, it can break most of the security systems in place today.
Announced at IBM Think, Big Blue outlined the following:
Tableau launched a series of updates to its platform including Tableau Pulse, which aims to bring analytics and insights directly to business users.
The move to provide automated insights and personalized analytics via Tableau Pulse recognizes a key issue: Many data consumers track dashboards sporadically. Constellation Research analyst Doug Henschen said Tableau Pulse can make the analytics platform more prescriptive.
Informatica is adding generative AI to its CLAIRE enterprise data management engine as it added a bevy of new capabilities to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).
The launch, outlined at Informatica World in Las Vegas, highlights the intersection between data management, cloud and generative AI.
IBM launched Watsonx, a platform for artificial intelligence models and generative AI, in a move that revives the Watson brand. IBM also announced a partnership with Hugging Face to bring open source AI models to the enterprise.
Last week, ServiceNow and Hugging Face announced a partnership on open source AI models.
The future of work is being rewritten as we speak as technologies such as generative AI and collaboration change the game in real-time.
DisrupTV Episode 321 brought together Paul Sheard, Author of The Power of Money and former Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Sue Watts, President at Sapience Analytics and Phil Simon, Author of The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace.
(With insights from fellow analyst Holger Mueller)
What is it?
Zoho just launched Ulaa, a new web browser that claims private, secure, and superfast as their tagline. I downloaded the browser and played with it for the last few days. Here are my thoughts on the Ulaa browser and this space in general.
This just in! 📣 FinancialForce announces its rebrand to Certinia to better reflect its evolution around delivering Services as a Business.
In the following interview, Chief Product and Strategy Officer Dan Brown explains to R "Ray" Wang why Certinia outgrew the "FinancialForce" name in its shift towards #customercentricity and #customersuccess.
DisrupTV Episode 321: Navigating the Future of Work and Finance
In this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three thought leaders who explore the evolving landscape of finance, workforce dynamics, and organizational transparency:
Paul Sheard – Author of The Power of Money and Former Vice Chairman of S&P Global
The debate over process and business automation platforms is about to heat up as enterprises look to optimize their technology spending.
This bake-off between best-of-breed process automation offerings and the "suite or platform always wins" will likely become more evident as ServiceNow and SAP both hold their big customer conferences, Knowledge and Sapphire, next week.
Here's a look at some of the recent and upcoming process automation moves:
Every year, ChiefMarTechâ¦helmed by the ever-brilliant Scott Brinkerâ¦puts on the magnifying glasses, throws on the digital muck boots and wades through the swamp of Marketing Technology to compile the annual extravaganza called the MarTech Landscape Supergraphic.
Apple's fiscal second quarter revenue fell as expected, but the drop was less than feared. The results highlight how Apple has been able to weather a weakening economy.
The company reported second-quarter revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3% from a year ago. Apple reported second quarter earnings of $1.52 a share.
Salesforce's Slack launched SlackGPT, its generative AI technology, that will enable customers to use the language model of choice, summarize conversations and offer writing tips.
According to Slack, Slack GPT will be able to use a series of models. For instance, Slack will be able to leverage OpenAI's ChatGPT or other partner apps, feature native AI and tap into Salesforce data via a new Einstein GPT app.
Zoho outlined a broad set of products as well as a generative AI roadmap that fuses OpenAI's ChatGPT with its own Zia AI engine. Overall, Zoho, known best as a business operating suite for small businesses, is reaching for midmarket and larger enterprises as well as "solopreneurs" as it expands from its core SMB market.
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan, who took the helm March 20, said the company is revamping processes in stores as well as the supply chain to enable a strong customer experience. The goal: Enable human connections digitally.