This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 47

This Week in Enterprise Tech

For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out
2. Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back
3. OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer
4. Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event Driven Architecture
5. Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?
6. Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?

Sources:
DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out

Wired Coverage by Zeyi Yang https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/

DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/

Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-stargate-openAI-nvidia-oracle/738060/

OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer

OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/

Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event-Driven Architecture

Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/autogen-v0-4-reimagining-the-foundation-of-agentic-ai-for-scale-extensibility-and-robustness/

Venturebeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-autogen-v0-4-a-turning-point-toward-more-intelligent-ai-agents-for-enterprise-developers

Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?

Gartner: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-01-21-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-9-point-8-percent-in-2025

CIO.com coverage by Paula Rooney: https://www.cio.com/article/3808191/cost-concerns-put-cios-ai-strategies-on-edge.html

Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?

Henry Shi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henrythe9th_we-tried-replacing-1000-human-jobs-with-ai-activity-7288235299191603201-mH4H

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights