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AMD CEO Lisa Su said multiple customers are at the chipmaker to power AI projects and have "initiated or expanded programs supporting future deployments of Instinct accelerators at scale."
New Relic wants to be the single source of truth so engineers can make data driven decisions during the software life cycle. Will going private help?
Generative AI is a boardroom issue and Microsoft and Google Cloud appear to have the better CXO narrative relative to AWS.
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Enterprise technology demand has stabilized, and vendors are expecting gradual demand improvement into the second half with pockets of generative AI-driven strength.
Intel's PC chip business was down 12% in the second quarter from a year ago to $6.8 billion and its data center and AI business had revenue of $4 billion, down 15% from a year ago.
ServiceNow said it will introduce new premium generative AI offerings across IT service management, customer service management and HR service delivery in September with its Vancouver platform release.
AWS outlined a bevy of generative AI enhancements to various services.
Smaller tech players are being acquired by bigger vendors and the mega deals are headed in the right direction.
Google Cloud revenue in the second quarter of $8 billion topped YouTube ad sales of $7.66 billion.
