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For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and special guest host Shane Carlson critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

  1. o1, the Next Big Thing in AI ... Kinda?
  2. Agentic AI Takes Center Stage for IT
  3. Why Amazon Struggles with Non-Technical Users
  4. Oracle Embraces Cloud-First for the Database
  5. Nuclear Power for Data Centers? Hell, Why Not?
  6. You Get an AI! And YOU Get an AI! Oprah Goes All In

Sources:

o1, the Next Big Thing in AI … Kinda?

OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

Agentic AI Takes Center Stage For IT

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/servicenow-introduces-a-library-of-enterprise-ai-agents-you-can-customize-to-fit-your-workflow/

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3518646/salesforce-unveils-agentforce-to-help-create-autonomous-ai-bots.html 

Why Amazon Struggles With Non-Technical Users

Windows Central: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/leaked-employee-discussions-demonstrate-amazon-qs-lack-of-feature-parity-and-potential-loss-of-clientele-to-microsofts-copilot-aiq-is-fit-for-demos-and-very-tightly-controlled-simple-use-cases

Oracle Embraces Becoming Cloud-First For the Database

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/oracle-AWS-google-multicloud-data-ai-partnership/726471/

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/oracle-database-is-in-many-enterprises-and-now-its-in-google-cloud-too/ 

Nuclear Power for Data Centers? Hell, Why Not?

Data Center Frontier: https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/55139736/oracle-hits-every-major-cloud-via-aws-reveals-plans-for-gigawatt-triple-smr-data-center 

You Get an AI! And YOU Get an AI! Oprah Goes All In

ABC.com: https://abc.com/movies-and-specials/d9e8a932-0cd7-4187-81b8-294929f8c8f7 

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/ophah-just-had-an-ai-special-with-sam-altman-and-bill-gates-here-are-the-highlights/ 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Reportand

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights