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 70
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:
- Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars
- EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice
- FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data
- Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity.
- Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?
- Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?
- Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down
- 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/
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