Agentic AI is still up for grabs
Today: Workday jostles for position in the race to bring agents to the enterprise, a new type of software supply-chain attack is spreading, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi promises to unify the open-format split, a former Microsoft employee reveals new details about its broken security culture, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: an interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, the U.K. signals that Microsoft could be force to make some pricing changes, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: how the rapid adoption of open-source storage formats is upending the Databricks/Snowflake rivalry, Salesforce warns that enterprise software is in for a slow summer, and the latest enterprise moves.
As Snowflake and Databricks gear up for back-to-back user conferences in early June, their customers are increasingly betting on open storage formats that give them new flexibility.
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.
There are lots of companies interested in generative AI apps with money but limited skills. They'll need helpful platform tools to get up and running, and competition in this category could set the tone for the enterprise AI era.
Today: why experiments with enterprise AI apps are increasingly moving outside corporate walls, how a really weird glitch almost took down the internet, and this week's enterprise moves.
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.
Today: how Microsoft plans to turn its investments in OpenAI's generative AI technology into revenue, a newly discovered security flaw impacts just about everybody running a widely used piece of open-source software, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: how Microsoft plans to rebuild trust in its security culture, Big Tech engineers are burning out on the AI hype cycle, and the quote of the week.
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.
Today: The Department of Homeland Security announces a new set of AI advisors focused on critical infrastructure, Microsoft quietly takes aim at the infrastructure-as-code market, and the quote of the week.