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Lowe's said it is navigating a "challenging industry backdrop for the homeowner" with technology projects that drive productivity, enable omnichannel retailing and customer experiences with AI.
OpenAI said GPT-4o fine tuning, which will enable you to customize the company's best model with proprietary data sets, is available to developers across all paid usage tiers.
"I know there was significant consternation around our platformization guarantee six months ago," said Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. "All I want to say is, I wish it started down that path sooner."
With ZT Systems AMD is looking to combine its Instinct AI accelerators, EPYC server chips and networking gear to design integrated systems.
Brian Niccol, who takes over as Starbucks CEO on Sept. 9 after leading Chipotle since 2018, is landing at a company with more scale, IT platforms and digital transformation efforts. It'll be interesting to see what Niccol does at Starbucks.
Here's a look at the enterprise technology takeaways from Walmart's second quarter:
HPE said Morpheus Data will give GreenLake the ability to provision multi-cloud and multi-vendor apps, orchestrate and automate workloads and optimize cloud costs.
Alibaba said it saw "double-digit public cloud growth and increasing adoption of AI-related products." AI-related product revenue grew at a triple-digit pace.
