Today: OpenAI unveils its take on AI agents that promise to take all the drudgery out of using a computer, more on the massive Project Stargate circus, and this week's enterprise moves.
Today: OpenAI reveals its plan to build $500 billion worth of data centers in the U.S., why Oracle's decision to keep TikTok running could backfire down the road, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: Nvidia and Snowflake try to get more enterprises on the AI train by focusing on safety and costs, and the quote of the week.
Even companies eager to jump on the GenAI bandwagon have struggled to organize their data and get past deployment hurdles, and nobody likes to spend all that time, effort, and money to build technology that can't be shipped because it can't be trusted.
AWS didn't ignore AI during Garman's presentation Tuesday, but it spent a significant amount of time on the services that turned it into a $100-billion a year enterprise computing powerhouse: compute, storage, and databases.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
This week a U.K. regulatory agency published summaries of hearings it conducted this past July with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Their responses provide an interesting look into how the cloud providers see themselves, their competitors, and the current state of the market.
For years, Oracle tried to convince longtime database customers who wanted to shed their on-premises data centers to run those databases on Oracle's public infrastructure cloud, slamming AWS at every turn. Times have changed.
A generation of cloud architects, developers, and systems engineers has stayed loyal to AWS over nearly two decades in part because of its reputation for supporting anything it launched that was used by a customer to build their infrastructure. That commitment appears to be changing.
Kubernetes has become the second-most widely used open-source project in the world, behind only Linux itself, thanks to a dedicated community that celebrated its 10th birthday last week.
The AI boom is pushing the limits of clean-energy sources, forcing utilities to push back on new data-center construction plans and keep their coal-fired plants running. A relatively small but fast-growing number of people believe the solution is nuclear power.
Microsoft is bent on installing Copilots into all of its services across Azure, Microsoft 365, and GitHub, which continues to enjoy the most visible success of Microsoft's AI kick.
Chip companies have invested billions in Israeli manufacturing and design facilities over the past decade, and they've continued that push over the last six months. A unique talent base and a rich history of tech innovation drew them in, but the region's instability looms over that decision.
A pullback in cloud spending and the AI boom put AWS and Adam Selipsky on a defensive footing during the last two years of his three-year run. Matt Garman's job will be to get AWS back on offense.
Several familiar names from the current enterprise AI push made the Department of Homeland Security's "safe" AI advisory board, but there were also some notable omissions from a group that will put a lot of trust in AI companies.
