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Microsoft and Quantinuum said they have created 12 highly reliable logical qubits by combining Azure Quantum's qubit virtualization system to Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum computer. Microsoft also said it would work with Atom Computing to add a new quantum system to Azure Quantum.
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Constellation Research founder R "Ray" Wang discusses the criteria for the Constellation ShortList #AI and Machine Learning Cloud Platforms, emphasizing the importance of handling large #data, delivering compute power, and supporting contextual decisions.
Ray highlights IBM's Watson X for its clear project onboarding, ethical AI capabilities, and popular use cases like Q&A resources, content creation, and chatbots. Ray explains how Watson X accelerates innovation, reduces project timelines, and supports a maturity model from augmentation to automation.
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Nuclear-powered data centers are on the horizon (and here in some cases), but deployments will take time and likely extend into 2026 or 2027. What's driving the nuclear data center concept? Generative AI workloads and an electricity grid that's currently under strain.
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison dropped this nugget on the company's first quarter earnings call:
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The #AI pricing landscape is shifting faster than a quantum particle. For providers, the message is clear: cost-cutting alone is a losing game. The real winners will be those who can offer unique value – be it through industry specialization, edge solutions, or comprehensive platforms. Constellation analyst Andy ThurAI sits down with R "Ray" Wang to explain the new #generativeAI price battle and what #CXOs need to know about the shifting generative AI landscape. Watch below ⬇
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ServiceNow launched the Xanadu version of its Now Platform, which includes AI Agents that can autonomously perform tasks without human intervention, RaptorDB Pro, a new back-end database that improves performance, industry-specific features, and a new integrated development environment (IDE).
Those high-level additions are part of hundreds of new features launched in the Xanadu release. Here's a look at the Xanadu release.
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Oracle is going after the lakehouse market with HeatWave to go along with a bevy of generative AI features including HeatWave GenAI and HeatWave on AWS. Oracle also launched its Intelligent Data Lake and genAI apps across its platform. Oracle also announced a zettascale cloud computing cluster with Nvidia's Blackwell platform.
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Oracle and Amazon Web Services announced a strategic partnership to complete CTO Larry Ellison's multicloud trifecta. Oracle first partnered with Microsoft Azure, then Google Cloud and now AWS. Oracle also delivered strong cloud revenue growth in the first quarter.
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Apple’s iPhone 16 event added a bevy of hardware upgrades in a bid to entice customers to upgrade devices even though Apple Intelligence will be delivered via software updates over the next year. Apple, however, does have a knack for useful killer apps and AirPod Pro as a clinical grade hearing aid will sell well.
Based on innovation, I'd rank the event this way.
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The parade of cybersecurity vendors looking to capitalize on the CrowdStrike and Microsoft outages has gone by, but it's unclear whether enterprises will be able to have both resiliency and vendor consolidation.
These conflicting goals are worth pondering as Microsoft meets with CrowdStrike and other security vendors Sept. 10 in Redmond.
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Late last month Salesforce announced its first AI-powered agents, addressing business development and sales coaching use cases. Fast on that news is the release of new proprietary AI models, under the xGen moniker. These are essentially new libraries of large language models (LLMs) designed for generative text use cases supporting CRM processes. Think email and web content creation, document summaries, etc.
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UiPath's second quarter results indicate that enterprises are starting to realize that genAI-powered agents will require orchestration and process automation at the core.
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Salesforce's purchase of Own Company for $1.9 billion highlights how the company has to play small ball with mergers and acquisitions given the scrutiny it gets with big deals. But keep in mind that small acquisitions such as Airkit.ai, which powered Salesforce’s Agentforce strategy, can have bigger impact.
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Broadcom reported better-than-expected third quarter results as revenue growth was driven by Ethernet networking and custom accelerators for AI data centers. The fourth quarter outlook, however, was a bit light.
The company reported a third-quarter net loss of $1.87 billion, or 40 cents a share, on revenue of $13.07 billion, up 47%. Non-GAAP earnings in the third quarter were $1.24 a share.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro is focused on a three-year strategy aimed at driving 3% annual growth by expanding its retail presence and growing its direct-to-consumer (DTC) channels.
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C3 AI's revenue growth in its first quarter checked in at 21% as the company continued to land enterprise use cases. C3 AI's outlook for the second quarter was light.
The company reported a first quarter net loss of 50 cents a share on revenue of $87.2 million, up 21% from a year ago. Non-GAAP loss for the quarter was 5 cents a share. Subscription revenue was 84% of total revenue.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its third quarter was driven by AI systems as revenue was up 10% from a year ago.
The company reported third quarter net income of 38 cents a share on revenue of $7.7 billion, up 10% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the quarter were 50 cents a share.
Wall Street was expecting HPE to report third quarter earnings of 47 cents a share on revenue of $7.66 billion.
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Quantum Brilliance and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) said they will collaborate on a platform that couples quantum computing with high-performance computing (HPC).
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Anthropic launched Claude Enterprise, which offers an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity and GitHub integration as well as single sign-on, role-based permissions and admin tooling.
With the move, Anthropic is building out a suite of enterprise plans powered by its Claude large language model (LLM). Anthropic is also available on the hyperscale cloud providers such as AWS used by enterprises.
Here's a look at Anthropic's steady cadence of enterprise tools:
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Zscaler had a strong fourth quarter, but its outlook for fiscal 2025 fell well short of estimates.
The company, known for its Zero Trust Exchange platform, is among the cybersecurity leaders and in the middle of the platformization debate that has been dented by the CrowdStrike outage.
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Intel joined the AI PC parade with its Intel Core Ultra 200V series, code named Lunar Lake, with a launch designed to show that x86 architecture can compete with Arm in Copilot+ PCs.
PC makers are already betting that AI PCs will create an upgrade cycle for long-in-the-tooth devices purchased in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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