In Podcast Episode 67 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Pope Leo Brings AI to Church
2. Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?
3. Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service
4. Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly
5. Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity
6. AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues
7. Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

Sources:

Pope Leo Brings AI to Church

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-tech-771cca48

Is Cisco’s Jeetu Patel the New Satya Nadella?

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2025/06/12/is-jeetu-patel-bringing-cisco-investors-a-satya-nadella-moment/

Salesforce AI Research Benchmarks Sales & Service

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18878

Salesforce Raises Prices to Embed AI More Broadly

Salesforce Blog: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/

Glen McCracken on Salesforce: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenmccracken_friday-vent-salesforces-agentforce-proves-activity-7341691326565908485-GNhd/

Too Much ChatGPT Reduces Brain Activity

Brain on LLM: https://www.brainonllm.com

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

AI Cannot Fully Solve Productivity Issues

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

Broadcom Has Solved Its Pricing Concerns!

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/vmware_price_hikes_excuse/

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 Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs
2. Snowflake Summit: An Avalanche of Announcements
3. Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles
4. OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity
5. IBM’s One Madison is Now an Incubator

Sources:

FinOps X FOCUSes on AI Costs

FinOps Day 1 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-1-keynote/

FinOps Day 2 Keynote: https://www.finops.org/insights/finops-x-2025-day-2-keynote/

Snowflake Summit Shares an Avalanche of Announcements

Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/announcements-snowflake-summit-2025/

Snowflake Faces Enterprise Refresh Cycles

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/snowflake_analyst_conference/

OpenAI’s Enterprise Push to Office Productivity

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/r/6c4b22c3?m=aa74cd61-a873-4485-9028-fedb54b96b1e

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-hits-3m-business-users-and-launches-workplace-tools-to-take-on-microsoft

IBM’s One Madison is Now An Incubator

IBM: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-06-02-ibm-unveils-watsonx-ai-labs-the-ultimate-accelerator-for-ai-builders,-startups-and-enterprises-in-new-york-city

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 Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Oracle Goes All-In on AI
2. Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation
3. Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
4. How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree
5. Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI
6. This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

Sources:

Oracle Goes All-In on AI

Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/a9cd130f-f6bf-4750-98cc-19d87394e657

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/oracle_openai_40b/

Perplexity Labs Supports Independent Document Creation

Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/labs

Is AI a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?

Sloan Review: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-ai-will-not-provide-sustainable-competitive-advantage/

How Many Jobs Will AI Take? Economists, AI Builders Disagree

Leet Code Wizard: https://leetcodewizard.io/blog/the-state-of-tech-jobs-in-2025-layoffs-automation-and-adaptation

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111207/a-nobel-laureate-on-the-economics-of-artificial-intelligence/

Avery Dennison Leads the Way on Enterprise AI

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3998156/avery-dennison-takes-culture-first-approach-to-ai-transformation.html

This AI Approach Makes Us Concerned For Google

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8g7a0IWKDRE?feature=shared&t=500

Claude Opus Turns to Blackmail: https://youtu.be/wxPjB3GBg1s?si=LEICmYc3Ah5n7w5j

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights