Accenture says it will train 30K employees on Nvidia's AI tech and start a new Nvidia Business Group focused on driving enterprise adoption of AI agents
Nvidia deal: A first peek into the new world of genAI-centric strategies Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Nvidia's AI Leadership To Drive $1 Trillion Market Growth, With Accenture Partnership Accelerating Ado...
Microsoft reports Q4 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 19% YoY to $28.52B, vs. $28.68B est., including Azure and other cloud services up 29% YoY
but there's a rare miss for Azure cloud results Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA : Microsoft Reports $64.7 Billion Revenue in Q4 FY24, Marking 15% Increase Yuvraj Malik / Reuters : Microsoft beats quarterly r...
SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €4.15B, revenue up 10% YoY to €8.29B, a €918M net profit, and says a “restructuring” will affect ~10,000 jobs
In the second quarter, SAP's strong cloud momentum continued. Lindsay Clark / The Register : Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure Sonja Wind / Bloomberg : SAP Shares Jump After AI D...
Databricks plans to acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and others, for $1B+
We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular … Lindsay Clark / The Register : Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars Tabular : Tabular is joining Da...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Open-source database service MariaDB closed down 39.6% in its NYSE debut after a SPAC merger, reaching a $368M market cap, below its $672M valuation in February
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Rogers experienced an 18+ hour outage on Friday, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada
One of Canada's largest service providers had a major outage this morning. Voice of America : Millions of Canadians Lose Mobile, Internet Services Jem Aswad / Variety : The Weeknd's First Stadium Tour...
vFunction, which helps developers modernize Java apps, raises a $26M Series A, following a $12.2M seed eight months ago
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Redis Labs, maker of an in-memory open source database of the same name, raises $110M Series G led by Tiger Global, at a valuation of $2B+
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Seattle-based Temporal, which is building an open source, stateful microservices orchestration service, raises $18.75M Series A led by Sequoia
Ryland Goldstein, Maxim Fateev, Samar Abbas Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE : Temporal's microservices orchestrator nets startup $18.75M FinSMEs : Temporal Raises $18.75M in Series A Funding Nickie Louise ...