In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. RSA: North Korean Spies Hate This One Question
2. RSA: NSA Conspicuously Absent
3. RSA…I? AI Takes Over Every Security Offering
4. Microsoft Hopefully Tolls the Death Knell for Passwords
5. Is a $150 Billion Commit Enough to Be a US Tech Company?
6. Swiss Researchers Experiment on Redditors with AI
7. AI Is Not Taking Jobs Or Cutting Wages… Yet
8. When is an Agent Really an Agent?
9. Australia Replaces DJ with AI. No One Notices.

Sources:

RSA: North Korean Spies Hate This One Question

The Register: Iain Thomson: https://tinyurl.com/NKInterviewQ

Wired: Bobbie Johnson: https://tinyurl.com/NKJobSteal

RSA: NSA Conspicuously Absent

The Register: Jessical Lyons https://tinyurl.com/RSANoNSA

RSA…I? AI Takes Over Every Security Offering

Security Week: https://tinyurl.com/RSASecWeek

Microsoft Hopefully Tolls the Death Knell for Passwords

The Verge: Umar Shakir https://tinyurl.com/MSPasswordless

Is a $150 Billion Commit Enough to Be a US Tech Company?

CIODive: Matt Ashare: https://tinyurl.com/IBMMfg150B

IBM's Newsroom: https://tinyurl.com/IBM150BPR

TWIET on NVIDIA's $500 billion commitment: https://tinyurl.com/TWIET59NVIDIA

TWIET on Project Stargate: https://tinyurl.com/TWIET47Stargate

Swiss Researchers Experiment on Redditors with AI

Science.org: https://tinyurl.com/RedditAIResearch

Original research proposal: https://tinyurl.com/ChangeMyViewAI

AI Is Not Taking Jobs Or Cutting Wages… Yet

Computerworld: Taryn Plumb: https://tinyurl.com/AIProductivityNotYet

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects: https://tinyurl.com/LLMSLME

When is an Agent Really an Agent?

CIO.com: https://tinyurl.com/RealAIAgent

Australia Replaces DJ with AI. No One Notices.

The Verge: Emma Roth: https://tinyurl.com/OzAIDJ

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM Success
2. Dataiku Supports Agent Create and Control
3. Banks Still Investing in Digital Transformation
4. Verizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident Report
5. Amazon Cuts AI CapEx Commitments
6. Are Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?
7. Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!
8. 51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A Waste

Sources:

ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM Success

CXToday coverage by Charlie Mitchell: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/servicenow-secures-9-crm-megadeals-reiterates-goal-to-lead-the-market/

Dataiku Supports Agent Create and Control

Dataiku Press Release: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/24/3067473/0/en/Dataiku-Brings-AI-Agent-Creation-and-Control-to-The-Universal-AI-Platform.html

Banks Still Investing in Digital Transformation

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-tech-cloud-data-cyber-generative-ai-broadridge/745931/

Verizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident Report

Verizon: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/#top-takeaways

Amazon Cuts AI CapEx Commitments

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/aws_datacenter_leases/

Are Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?

Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/ibm-posts-sales-topping-estimates-says-doge-hit-15-contracts

Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!

Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430

Microsoft's Kurtis Beavers weighs in: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/why-using-a-polite-tone-with-ai-matters

51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A Waste

Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/news/college-degree-value-generational-divide

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s Future
2. Intel Sells Altera as Lip Bu Tan Gets Started
3. Amazon Wants Windows Server Business
4. NVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US Manufacturing
5. Will AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?
6. DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOps
7. The Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGE
8. Can You Outrun a Robot?

Sources:

Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s Future

Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/tableau-next-announcement/

Intel Sells Altera as Lip-Bu Tan Gets Started

Intel Press Release: https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025

Altera declared standalone business: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/03/intel-plans-to-ipo-programmable-chip-unit-within-three-years.html

Intel’s 2015 purchase of Altera https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/333/intel-to-acquire-altera

Amazon Wants Windows Server Business

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/aws_microsoft_license_harms/

NVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US Manufacturing

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/nvidia-domestic-ai-infrastructure-chip-manufacturing-tariffs/745441/

Project Stargate: https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/

Will AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-enabling-an-always-on-economy-companies-need-to-pick-up-the-pace-15ba93da

DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOps

DoiT: https://www.doit.com/news/doit-launches-cloudflow/

The Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGE

Whistleblower Aid: https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf

Can You Outrun a Robot?

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/man-versus-machine-as-china-shows-off-humanoid-robots-in-half-marathon-75d7e766

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement
2. Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise
3. Google Opens Up Its Global Network
4. Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security
5. Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation
6. Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance
7. Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol
8. AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios
9. How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty
10. Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?
11. DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

Sources:

Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement

Hyoun’s Announcement https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-change-hyoun-park-3ravc

Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/google-clouds-second-chance-at-the-enterprise/

Google Opens Up Its Global Network

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPCloudWAN

Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPUnifiedSec

Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation

9 to 5 Google: https://9to5google.com/2025/04/09/google-workspace-flows/

Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance

Google Developers: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol

Elena Cross: https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b

AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/39358709

How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty

David Politis on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/PolitisITBudget

Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?

CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-price-increase-china-tariffs/\#

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-tariffs-uncertainty-cio-enterprise-it-spend/745074/

DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/defense_department_cancels_contracts/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. How US Tariffs Affect the CIO Office
2. Meta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of Models
3. IBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI Demands
4. Zoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task Completion
5. CloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOps
6. WPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm Infosum
7. PagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI

Sources:

How US Tariffs Affect the CIO Office

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/apple-loses-250b-market-value-as-tariffs-tank-tech-stocks/

Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/

Meta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of Models

Meta: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/06/metas-benchmarks-for-its-new-ai-models-are-a-bit-misleading/

IBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI Demands

IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/z17

Zoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task Completion

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/zoom-tasks-agentic-AI/744655/

CloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOps

Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/CloudBoltStormForge

StormForge: https://stormforge.io/blog/reflecting-on-an-incredible-week-carbon-relay-receives-63m-investment-from-insight-partners/

CloudBolt: https://www.cloudbolt.io/company/news/cloudbolt-announces-35-million-in-series-b-funding-led-by-insight-partners/

Solo Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/SoloIOMCP

WPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm Infosum

WPP: https://www.wpp.com/en-us/news/2025/04/wpp-acquires-infosum-in-major-investment-in-its-ai-driven-data-offer

Infosum’s last funding round in 2021: https://tinyurl.com/Infosum65M

PagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-agentic-AI-adoption-ROI-expectations-PagerDuty/744265/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Databricks + Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise
2. Workato Buys DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support
3. N8n Raises $60M to Open Up AI Automation
4. Symphony AI + Microsoft Partner to Automate Industrial Environments
5. Red Hat AI Boosts Model Testing, Governance Capabilities
6. US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs
7. Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?
8. OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol
9. CIOs Cull Internal GenAI Projects
10. OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli

Sources:

Databricks and Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise

Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-and-anthropic-sign-landmark-deal-bring-claude-models

Workato Acquires DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support

BusinessWire: https://tinyurl.com/WorkatoDeepCongress

N8n Raises 60 Million to Open Up AI Automation

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/fair-code-pioneer-n8n-raises-60m-for-ai-powered-workflow-automation/

Symphony AI Partners with Microsoft to Automate Industrial Environments

Big Data Wire: https://www.bigdatawire.com/this-just-in/symphonyai-expands-industrial-ai-to-the-edge-with-microsoft-azure-iot-operations/

Red Hat AI Enhances Model Testing and Governance Capabilities

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-boosts-enterprise-ai-across-hybrid-cloud-red-hat-ai

US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/congress_software_licensing/

Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Virginia-AI-bill-veto-HB2094-Youngkin-policy-regulation/743518/

OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol for Data Connection

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/openai-adopts-rival-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/

CIOs Start to Cut GenAI Budgets

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-software-device-spending-soars-gartner/743888/

OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli

Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/openais-ghibli-frenzy-took-dark-122253521.html

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron
2. NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches
3. NVIDIA, Google, Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI
4. NVIDIA Open Sourcing cuOPT
5. Adobe Summit (How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo)
6. Stop It; Operational Efficiency Is Not Innovation
7. Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better
8. We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?
9. SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027

Sources:

NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron

NVIDIA Press Release: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIALlama2
CIO Dive’s Lindsey Wilkinson: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIALlamaNemotron

NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches

NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAPhotonics

Optics.org: https://optics.org/news/16/3/26

NVIDIA, Google, and Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI

NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAPhysAI

NVIDIA Open Sourcing CuOPT

NVIDIA: https://tinyurl.com/NVIDIAcuOPT

Adobe Summit and How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo

Adobe on Agents: https://tinyurl.com/AdobeAgents

Adobe on Gen AI:
https://tinyurl.com/AdobeFireflyGenAI

CIO: https://tinyurl.com/AdobeAgentic

Stop it. Operational Efficiency is Not Innovation.

CIO.com, Michael Bertha: https://www.cio.com/article/3847331/operational-efficiency-is-not-transformation.html

Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better

One Useful Thing - Ethan Mollick: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate

We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?

White House Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/eliminating-waste-and-saving-taxpayer-dollars-by-consolidating-procurement/

The Register’s Brandon Vigliarolo: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/trump_orders_it_contracts_consolidated/

SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027

CIO’s Ji-Hyun Lee: https://www.cio.com/article/3850705/sap-ceo-christian-klein-ai-transformation-in-korean-enterprises-will-be-driven-by-business-data-cloud-and-jules.html

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence
2. ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era
3. Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud
4. Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use
5. IBM, Intel, Cisco Tran Up for New Data Governance Standards
6. Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agent Communications?
7. Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?
8. Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?
9. Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses
10. Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures

Sources:

Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence

Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-found-someone-brave-enough-000825480.html

The Next Platform https://tinyurl.com/LipBuTanIntel

ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era

ServiceNow: https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/platform-yokohama-release.html

Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud

WSJ: https://tinyurl.com/HerjavecZetaris

Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use

TechCrunch: https://tinyurl.com/SnowflakeOmni

Anomalo: https://tinyurl.com/SnowflakeAnomalo

IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards

Oasis Open: https://www.oasis-open.org/2025/03/06/oasis-to-advance-data-provenance-standards/

Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?

VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/AGNTCY

Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/AI-project-fail-data-SPGlobal/742590/

Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/learning-to-live-with-good-enough-ai/

Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses

VentureBeat: https://tinyurl.com/CreatioAgent

Also VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/is-googles-notebooklm-a-secret-crm-killer/

Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures

Yahoo Finance: https://tinyurl.com/DaybreakFirstFund

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights