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Amazon Web Services rolled out Braket Direct, a service that allows researchers to procure dedicated private access to quantum processing units from providers such as IonQ, Oxford Quantum Circuits, QuEra, Rigetti, or Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab.
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I'm excited to be live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas This year's event is packed with announcements about the leading-edge of cloud computing and the hot topic of the year, generative AI. It's also rife with opportunities for cloud professionals to learn and grow. From a CIO perspective, I'm particularly interested in the keynotes, innovation talks, and builder labs to show where the AWS as a platform is heading for IT leaders.
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Amazon Web Services and Salesforce expanded their partnership in a deal that will put Salesforce applications on AWS Marketplace, integrate Amazon Bedrock into Salesforce's ecosystem and better connect Salesforce Data Cloud to AWS services.
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Fiona Tan, CTO of Wayfair, said alignment between business and technology is critical--especially when navigating a demand surge and a pivot to efficiency. The key to navigating the change is to have a platform mindset.
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This Thanksgiving I'll be thankful that I won't have to care (even slightly) about who is running OpenAI. The saga is over (until it isn't). Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO.
You really can't make this up. But you can question who is driving a technology as important as generative AI. For now, any enterprise customer of OpenAI can stop wondering if the company and its APIs will exist.
On X, Altman said (punctuation his):
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Master Data Management Vendor Stibo Systems Highlights GenAI Innovation, Sustainability Differentiation
Stibo Systems introduces GenAI-powered Product Experience Management offering and advances in managing sustainability and compliance data.
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HP's fourth-quarter sales were light relative to expectations as personal systems revenue fell 8% from a year ago. HP's results are closely watched for signs of a PC recovery.
The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of 97 cents a share, or 90 cents a share non-GAAP, on revenue of $13.8 billion, down 6.5% from a year ago.
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Nvidia crushed third quarter estimates on the top and bottom lines as data center revenue was up 279% from a year ago. Nvidia also projected fourth-quarter revenue of $20 billion, up from $6.05 billion a year ago.
The company reported third quarter net income of $9.24 billion, or $3.71 a share, with revenue of $18.12 billion, up 206% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $4.02 a share.
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Dairyland Power Cooperative, a La Crosse, Wis., is a utility designed to serve rural areas and supply power to customers in four states. It also sits in the middle of multiple trends including energy transition, sustainability and the convergence of information and operational technologies.
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Zoom Video Communications reported better-than-expected third quarter as the company saw strong usage of its AI capabilities and better retention of small business customers.
The company reported third-quarter earnings of $141.2 million, or 45 cents a share, on revenue of $1.136.7 billion. Non-GAAP earnings in the quarter were $1.29 a share.
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Critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and design are the top skills employers are banking on as generative AI is widely adopted through 2028, according to an Amazon survey.
The survey, which lands roughly a week ahead of AWS' re:Invent conference, was based on 1,340 employers and 3,297 employees in the US.
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DisrupTV Episode 343: Innovating with Purpose and Performance
In DisrupTV Episode 343, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with two distinguished leaders who are at the forefront of innovation and performance:
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In a boardroom drama designed for the TikTok generation, Sam Altman was ousted as CEO of OpenAI, negotiated for a return and then landed at Microsoft along with Greg Brockman to lead an "advanced AI research team." The fact Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved so quickly illustrates the high stakes.
Nadella said on X that it will remain a partner of OpenAI, led CEO Emmett Shear, Co-founder of Twitch, but added Altman and Brockman. Perhaps the biggest takeaway--at least for Microsoft's market cap--is that Nadella said:
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With holiday shopping season underway, retailers see uncertain consumer spending, better inventory positions, lower supply chain costs and customer experience investments they hope deliver.
Adobe is forecasting US online holiday sales of $221.8 billion (Nov. 1 through Dec. 31) in 2023. Salesforce noted that 2023 is all about keeping loyal customers happy and focusing on the experience metrics that matter.
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Sam Altman just faced his Steve Jobs moment when the OpenAI board fired him on Friday.
The balance between too much governance and not enough innovation was the challenge OpenAI faced. This was a very immature board with members who had never built companies, never moved from ideology to commercialization, nor had any pragmatic board experience.
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At Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference the company fleshed out its generative AI offerings and strategy and, in some places, put some serious distance between it and the competition.
Here's a look at three Ignite 2023 takeaways. Also see the following for coverage:
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Is personalization really where CX wants to land? Is it even close to enough? In this installment of CR CX Convos, Liz Miller continues to dive into the details of her last convo with SAP's Nitin Badjatia where they discussed the shifting tides of CX and more specifically therising call for contextualization over personalization.
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Alibaba said it won't spin off its cloud intelligence group citing US sanctions and an uncertain demand environment.
The company reported cloud revenue of $3.79 billion, up 2% from a year ago, for the quarter ended Sept. 30. EBITA for the cloud unit was $193 million. Alibaba recently launched a new proprietary large language model, built out its AI developer ecosystem and AI application development platform.
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ServiceNow launched a series of Now Assist generative AI services across its platform.
The features, available today, are part of a systematic effort to infuse generative AI use cases across workflows courtesy of Nvidia GPUs, ServiceNow large language models (LLMs) and the Now Platform.
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Cisco Systems reported better-than-expected first quarter results, but its fiscal 2024 outlook fell short of expectations. Cisco said it saw "a slowdown of new product orders in the first quarter of fiscal 2024."
The company reported first quarter earnings of 89 cents a share on revenue of $14.7 billion, up 8% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.11 a share. CEO Chuck Robbins said the first quarter was a "solid start" to the fiscal year.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company will launch Azure Models as a Service, which will aim to build out its OpenAI model offerings with a broader selection.
Nadella, speaking at Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference, said the company wants to "bring the best selection of open-source models to Azure and do so responsibly."
He added that Azure's models-as-a-service offering will include Stable Diffusion, Llama2 from Meta, Mistral and Jais, the world's largest Arabic language model. Command from Cohere will also be available.
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Microsoft fleshed out its generative AI infrastructure plans with the launch of its custom processors for model training and inference along with Copilot Studio for new use cases.
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