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Vint Cerf said the introduction of AI is about much more than technology so much so that it may make sense to have a few sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists to help with policy.
IBM said it has acquired data and AI consultant Hakkoda in a deal that will give it data migration platform services. Hakkoda is a big partner for Snowflake.
Meta launched Llama 4 family with open weights with two models available so far on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Now that the first quarter is closed and the second quarter is just ramping up it's worth pondering questions about enterprise technology spending, what projects get funded amid economic chaos, data strategies and AI implementations.
Microsoft added a bevy of new features for Copilot to enhance memory, ability to take action and conduct research and also updated its Azure AI Foundry with tools to build AI agent systems.
The enterprise data center was supposed to be dead by now, but the reality is on-premises workloads are getting new life courtesy of AI workloads.
ServiceNow said that the purchase of Logik.ai will expand its reach into CRM. Salesforce said Logik.ai will also accelerate its efforts in sales and order management processes.
The AI Landscape's Tectonic Shift: OpenAI's dominance is crumbling under the weight of technical missteps, unsustainable economics, and intensifying competition from both established players and newcomers. With Microsoft testing rival models, Apple reconsidering partnerships, and Chinese innovations accelerating, the "simply partner with OpenAI" strategy has become dangerously outdated. The next 18 months will transform the AI ecosystem—and only organizations with flexible, sophisticated approaches will emerge as winners.
Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, said its infrastructure is being taxed by non-human traffic scraping the site for data to train AI models.
Informatica's Spring launch of its platform integrates its data management platform with the key enterprise data platforms as well as a preview of its CLAIRE Copilot for Data Integration.
