This Week in Enterprise Tech
Welcome to "This Week in Enterprise Tech" where we discuss the latest enterprise technology announcements and how they will affect your business and your bosses' expectations. Join TWIET as we guide CIOs and technical managers through the strategic ramifications behind the vendor hype, product innovation, and the avalanches of money going in and out of enterprise tech.
This Week in Enterprise Tech
This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 69
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:
- Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access
- AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?
- Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time
- Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype
- In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest
- The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence
- Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility
- On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%
- 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?
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%
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