Dragging the mainframe into the AI era
Today: IBM and Arm strike a partnership to keep customers on mainframes as AI coding agents circle a modernization opportunity, Google drops a new open model, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI makes it easier to use ChatGPT with office productivity tools, Broadcom previews new networking chips that take aim at Nvidia, and the quote of the week.
Today: dbt Labs' decision to go with a source-available license for its new Fusion product gets a vote of confidence from Snowflake, Windsurf faces a headwind, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: CoreWeave's Chen Goldberg explains how the company has worked to promise its customers a more efficient AI infrastructure service, CoreWeave's biggest benefactor keeps raking in the cash, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.
Today on Product Saturday: Red Hat leads a consortium of companies working on an open-source AI inference framework, Google makes Gemini Code Assist generally available, and the quote of the week.
Today: Anthropic's new Claude models deliver what the company says is the best AI coding performance on the market, how two employees of a security software company pulled off a massive breach of federal data, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: How Microsoft is trying to hold on to its position at the center of professional software development, Qualcomm gears up — again — to enter the server market, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI previews a coding agent, AWS launches a new service designed to migrate old workloads to the cloud, and the quote of the week.
Today: An interview with Linear CEO Karri Saarinen on the role of AI in product-management software, CoreWeave's up and down year has an up and down week, and the latest enterprise moves.
Linear started off as an issue-tracking tool helping developers coordinate on eliminating blockers and fixing problems, but has expanded into a product-development system. "We have this fairly simple idea that engineering is really the front line of all this information," Saarinen said.