This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 38

For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. Microsoft Grows on AI Inference Workloads
2. Accenture Wins $1.6 Billion Cloud Services Contract
3. AI Demands More Power! More Energy!
4. Where AI Copilots and Assistants Fall Short
5. Delta Sues Crowdstrike for $500 Million
6. Google Fined (Almost a) Googol Rubles?!

Sources:

Microsoft Grows on AI Inference workloads

Data Center Dynamics: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-on-track-for-10bn-in-annual-revenue-from-ai-inference/ 

Accenture Wins $1.6 Billion Cloud Services Contract

Accenture: https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2024/accenture-federal-services-wins-1-6-billion-u-s-air-force-cloud-one-task-order 

AI Demands More Power! More Energy!

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/datacenter_developer_says_power_issues/ 

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/tech-partnerships-with-power-companies-for-ai-in-doubt-after-ferc-order.html 

Yahoo: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/constellation-energy-nuclear-stocks-plummet-after-regulators-block-amazon-power-deal-151109123.html 

Where AI Copilots and Assistants Fall Short

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3594667/why-cios-need-a-two-tier-approach-to-gen-ai.html 

Delta Sues Crowdstrike for $500 million

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/delta-crowdstrike-lawsuit-georgia-microsoft/731273/ 

Google Fined (Almost a) Googol Rubles?!

BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo.amp 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights