Anthropic creates a Skills issue; Oracle jumps in the lake
Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
A generation of cloud architects, developers, and systems engineers has stayed loyal to AWS over nearly two decades in part because of its reputation for supporting anything it launched that was used by a customer to build their infrastructure. That commitment appears to be changing.
The shared-responsibility model is groaning under the weight of the modern security environment. Snowflake's ongoing nightmare should be a wake-up call for any infrastructure or SaaS provider that they need to do more to protect their customers, because the old model is no longer working.
Today: why the decades-old bargain that governed cloud security is showing its age, OpenAI thinks smaller is better, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: AWS outlines its vision of how generative AI tools could finally deliver on the promise of low-code development, Microsoft cuts a deal with its European cloud rivals, and the latest enterprise moves.
The AI boom is pushing the limits of clean-energy sources, forcing utilities to push back on new data-center construction plans and keep their coal-fired plants running. A relatively small but fast-growing number of people believe the solution is nuclear power.
A pullback in cloud spending and the AI boom put AWS and Adam Selipsky on a defensive footing during the last two years of his three-year run. Matt Garman's job will be to get AWS back on offense.
Today: AWS taps Matt Garman as CEO, the executive many expected to replace Andy Jassy three years ago, Google Cloud ramps up its TPUs and developer platform, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why AWS growth is "reaccelerating" after a rough year, GitHub is ready to find out if developers want a new AI-centric place to write code, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Several familiar names from the current enterprise AI push made the Department of Homeland Security's "safe" AI advisory board, but there were also some notable omissions from a group that will put a lot of trust in AI companies.
Today: The Department of Homeland Security announces a new set of AI advisors focused on critical infrastructure, Microsoft quietly takes aim at the infrastructure-as-code market, and the quote of the week.
Today: why some of the biggest names in enterprise tech will back an open-source fork of Redis, Databricks jumps into the open LLM game, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: AI2 COO Sophie Lebrecht on the importance of true open-source generative AI models, AWS chooses the nuclear option, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.