Trends in AI, tech executive departures, and market capitalizations discussed. Highlights include Kubernetes growth, Dell's employee satisfaction survey, and contrasting tech and sports industry attitudes towards departures.
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Cloud providers are focusing on AI, expecting interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year.
Enterprise CIOs face challenges with AI implementation due to outdated training data.
Tech giants with trillion-dollar market caps navigate regulatory constraints for acquisitions.
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Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions about RTO and Tech Exec poaching.
Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?
Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?
Trend 3 - We’re at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we’ll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year?
Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree?
