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

In Podcast Episode 67 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Pope Leo Brings AI to Church
2. Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?
3. Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service
4. Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly
5. Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity
6. AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues
7. Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

Sources:

Pope Leo Brings AI to Church

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-tech-771cca48

Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2025/06/12/is-jeetu-patel-bringing-cisco-investors-a-satya-nadella-moment/

Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18878

Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly

Salesforce Blog: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/

Glen McCracken on Salesforce: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenmccracken_friday-vent-salesforces-agentforce-proves-activity-7341691326565908485-GNhd/

Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity

Brain on LLM: https://www.brainonllm.com

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/vmware_price_hikes_excuse/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs
2. Snowflake Summit: An Avalanche of Announcements
3. Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles
4. OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity
5. IBM’s One Madison is Now an Incubator

Sources:

FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs

FinOps Day 1 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-1-keynote/

FinOps Day 2 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-2-keynote/

Snowflake Summit Shares an Avalanche of Announcements

Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/announcements-snowflake-summit-2025/

Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/snowflake_analyst_conference/

OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/r/6c4b22c3?m=aa74cd61-a873-4485-9028-fedb54b96b1e

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-hits-3m-business-users-and-launches-workplace-tools-to-take-on-microsoft

IBM’s One Madison is Now An Incubator

IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-06-02-ibm-unveils-watsonx-ai-labs-the-ultimate-accelerator-for-ai-builders,-startups-and-enterprises-in-new-york-city

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Oracle Goes All-In on AI
2. Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation
3. Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
4. How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree
5. Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI
6. This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

Sources:

Oracle Goes All-In on AI

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/a9cd130f-f6bf-4750-98cc-19d87394e657

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/oracle_openai_40b/

Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation

Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/labs

Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?

Sloan Review: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-ai-will-not-provide-sustainable-competitive-advantage/

How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree

Leet Code Wizard: https://leetcodewizard.io/blog/the-state-of-tech-jobs-in-2025-layoffs-automation-and-adaptation

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111207/a-nobel-laureate-on-the-economics-of-artificial-intelligence/

Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3998156/avery-dennison-takes-culture-first-approach-to-ai-transformation.html

This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8g7a0IWKDRE?feature=shared&t=500

Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail: https://youtu.be/wxPjB3GBg1s?si=LEICmYc3Ah5n7w5j

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Salesforce Acquires Informatica
2. Google IO Establishes Google’s AI Intentions
3. OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive for $6 Billion
4. In AI, Bigger is Not Always Better
5. Broadcom Boosts EU VMware Prices up to 1500%
6. Calero Hires Eric Martorano as President and CRO
7. Are Amazon Coders the New Warehouse Workers?
8. Do Notepad and Paint Really Need AI?
9. Dave, Will You Stop? Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail

Sources:

Salesforce Acquires Informatica

Atlan founder Prukalpa: https://tinyurl.com/PrukalpaINFA
Hyoun's take: https://tinyurl.com/HyounParkINFAAcq
TWIET's April 2024 Take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvaqjTDGxQ

Google IO Establishes Google’s AI Intentions

Google IO: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleIO2025Annc
Flow: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleFlowAIVeo
Developer Tools, including Firebase Studio: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleFirebaseStudio

OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive for $6 Billion

CNBC: https://tinyurl.com/JonyIveAcq

In AI, Bigger is Not Always Better

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-launch-cheaper-blackwell-ai-chip-china-after-us-export-curbs-sources-say-2025-05-24/

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/25/ai_models_are_evolving/

Broadcom Boosts EU VMware Prices up to 1500%

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_says_broadcom_licensing_unfair/

Calero Hires Eric Martorano as President and CRO

Calero: https://www.calero.com/blog/calero-appoints-eric-martorano-as-cro-and-president

Are Amazon Coders the New Warehouse Workers?

NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html

Do Notepad and Paint Really Need AI?

Windows: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/22/paint-snipping-tool-and-notepad-updates-with-new-features-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

Dave, Will You Stop? Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Alteryx One Unites Analytics & LLM Governance
2. Boomi AgentStudio Tackles Holistic Agent Orchestration
3. Informatica Supports Agent Composition & Connectivity
4. Qlik Announces Agentic Discovery & Conversational Insights
5. Salesforce Acquires Convergence.ai for Complex Agents
6. Does Stack Overflow Need a Rebrand?

Sources:

Alteryx One Unites Analytics & LLM Governance

Alteryx: https://www.alteryx.com/about-us/newsroom/press-release/alteryx-introduces-a-unified-platform-for-enterprise-analytics-and-ai-orchestration

Boomi AgentStudio Tackles Holistic Agent Orchestration

Boomi: https://boomi.com/resources/resources-library/boomi-ai-driven-automation-announcements/

Informatica Supports Agent Composition & Connectivity

Informatica: https://www.informatica.com/about-us/news/news-releases/2025/05/20250514-informatica-unveils-agentic-ai-offerings-on-industrys-first-ai-powered-cloud-data-management-platform.html

Qlik Announces Agentic Discovery & Conversational Insights

Qlik: https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-expands-embedded-ai-capabilities-for-smarter-decisions-and-faster-intelligence

Salesforce Acquires Convergence.ai for Complex Agents

Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-convergence-ai/

Does Stack Overflow Need a Rebrand?

DevClass: https://devclass.com/2025/05/13/stack-overflow-seeks-rebrand-as-traffic-continues-to-plummet-which-is-bad-news-for-developers/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights