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At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Lisa Su called her shot – just like Babe Ruth. The question now is whether AMD has built the engineering machine to hit it. Last week, we argued that AMD’s next reinvention did not require it to beat Nvidia. …
AMD’s next reinvention: A new playbook for the AI era
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s first reinvention rebuilt the company. It was frankly about survival. Its next reinvention must redefine the company. AMD’s resurgence over the past decade came from doing what many thought was improbable – rebuilding its processor franchise, taking meaningful …
Alex Karp, frontier models and the real fight for Enterprise AI
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s argument is that frontier model vendors (he didn’t mention Anthropic and OpenAI by name) intend to …
Arvind Krishna AMA at IBM Think 2026: Openness, integration and key questions on the IBM AI stack
IBM Corp. entered Think 2026 with a different posture than the market is used to. In this artificial intelligence cycle, the company is leaning hard into openness and ecosystem – and doing it without the usual proprietary overtones. According to Chairman and …
Arvind Krishna’s keynote at IBM Think: AI-first enterprises, hybrid as default, quantum moves from science to engineering
The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes. That’s according to IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind …
A cybersecurity harbinger: Oracle front-runs AI model threat with new customer security advisory
SiliconANGLE was able to review an Oracle Corp. security alert that went out to customers this week. We believe it was a direct response to Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos artificial intelligence model, and other frontier models, that significantly lower the cost for …
As AI powers Google, what’s next for Google Cloud
The agentic artificial intelligence era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents that take action go well beyond analyzing data sitting in lakehouses. When agents operate on behalf of humans – continuously, at machine scale – they introduce requirements that most …
Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang’s Groq ‘Mellanox moment’ and the inference land grab
Ahead of Nvidia Corp.’s GTC 2026 this week, we reiterate our thesis that the center of gravity in artificial intelligence is shifting from “How fast can you train?” to “How well can you serve?” Training has ushered in the modern AI era. …
Cloud earnings bring capex clarity, concern and confusion
This winter’s 2026 hyperscale earnings prints from Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp,, Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. made it quite clear that capital expenditures are accelerating. Combined, these four firms will spend more than $615 billion in capex this year, an increase of approximately …
Microsoft investors fret as capital spending and Azure growth decouple
Microsoft Corp. last week delivered what looks on paper like a great quarter, with a beat of 1% and 5% on revenue and operating operating profit, respectively. But the two-day reaction from investors tells a different story, with the stock off double …