In Podcast Episode 70 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars
2. EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice
3. FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data
4. Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity.
5. Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?
6. Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?
7. Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down
8. RIP, IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

Sources:

Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars

Perplexity.ai: https://comet.perplexity.ai/#values

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/704162/opeani-ai-web-browser-chatgpt

EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice

European Commission Press Release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1787

EU AI Code of Conduct: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai

FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/40617345

Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity

METR: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/business-value-of-developer-experience-improvements-amazons-15-9-breakthrough/

Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?

The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai-researcher-warns-metastatic-cancer-afflicting-company-culture

Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?

Tom’s Guide: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/grok-4-is-here-elon-musk-says-its-the-same-model-physicists-use

Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down

Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-announces-chief-operating-officer-transition/

RIP to IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ibm_almaden_research_center/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In Podcast Episode 69 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access
2. AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?
3. Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time
4. Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype
5. In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest
6. The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence
7. Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility
8. On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%
9. CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

Sources:

Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access

Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Marketing Tech: https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/cloudflare-launches-pay-per-crawl-to-help-sites-monetise-ai-access/

AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-giants-atlassian-intuit-and-aws-are-planning-for-a-world-where-agents-call-the-apis/

TWIET on Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo4-0ZNHEY&t=2710s

Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNagNezo8w

Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21521

In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest

Robert Jr. Caruso’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_last-episode-the-atari-2600-blew-up-chatgpt-activity-7345180141079175169-wSCk

The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-03/what-does-superintelligence-mean

Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/saas-costs-climb-despite-finops-itam-flexera/752233/

On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/hyperscale-ai-infrastructure-eclipses-enterprise-data-center-capacity-srg/751744/

CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In Podcast Episode 68 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Agentforce 3: Salesforce’s Fastest Trilogy Ever?
2. The New York Times Forces OpenAI to Be Less Governed
3. Anthropic + Meta Get Mixed Ruling on Content Use
4. Google Prepares for the Future with… CLI?
5. SAP Shifts AI Pricing Strategy
6. Fed Chair Jerome Powell Weighs In On AI
7. Nothing Better Than the Real Thing: ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot!

Sources:

Agentforce 3: Salesforce’s Fastest Trilogy Ever?

Salesforce Announcement: https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/agentforce-3-announcement/

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Salesforce-Agentforce-update-enterprise-customer-pepsico/751516/

The New York Times Forces OpenAI to Be Less Governed

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/copyright-cases-should-not-threaten-chatbot-users-privacy

Anthropic + Meta Get Mixed Ruling on Content Use

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/two-courts-rule-generative-ai-and-fair-use-one-gets-it-right

Mintz: https://insights.mintz.com/post/102kpvb/bartz-v-anthropic-what-the-ruling-means-for-businesses-using-ai

Google Prepares for the Future with… CLI?

DevClass: https://devclass.com/2025/06/25/google-positions-itself-for-next-decade-of-ai-as-gemini-cli-arrives-with-generous-free-tier/

SAP Shifts AI Pricing Strategy

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/4014135/saps-rise-rebrand-conceals-cost-changes.html

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Weighs In On AI

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/powell_ai_coming_for_your_job/

Nothing Better Than the Real Thing: ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-vs-copilot-inside-the-openai-and-microsoft-rivalry

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights