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Cisco said its quantum networking chip prototype was developed with UC Santa Barbara and generates up to 1 million entangled photo pairs per second at room temperature.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is typically aimed at smaller enterprises. Microsoft is raising storage tiers and pricing for new AI features.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said there is no law that enterprise AI has to be expensive, pegged to large language models and experimental.
Palantir continues to land US commercial accounts as it raised its outlook for the second quarter and 2025.
Amazon Web Services will launch an AI agent for scientific literature via a partnership with Wiley, a publisher of journals.
IBM launched a Flex Plan for access to its quantum computing hardware in a move that aims to expand access for organizations, enterprises and researchers who want access without monthly limits.
Resilience is the major theme as enterprises report quarterly results and the biggest takeaway is that the giants will weather the storm and smaller companies won’t.
A large language model's behavior issues and personality quirks should be tested as any safety risk would, according to OpenAI's postmortem after an update to ChatGPT-4o made the model sycophantic.
Quantum computing is hogging the headlines in 2025 and it's ok to say it's the year of quantum--or maybe qubits--with 10 months to go in the year. The quantum computing developments are flying, but it's worth noting that we're years away from big commercial adoption.
Apple reported better-than-expected for its fiscal second quarter as iPhones, Macs and iPads sold well.
Amazon Web Services delivered revenue of $29.3 billion, up 17% from a year ago. Parent Amazon reported better-than-expected first quarter results.
