Apple Q2 better than expected, China sales lower but better than feared
Apple's second quarter results were better-than-expected, but revenue fell 4% from a year ago. The company said it plans to buy back an additional $110 billion in shares.
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Apple's second quarter results were better-than-expected, but revenue fell 4% from a year ago. The company said it plans to buy back an additional $110 billion in shares.
Atlassian launched Atlassian Rovo, a generative AI assistant built on Atlassian Intelligence, which will operate across the company's teamwork platform. In addition, Atlassian said it was combining Jira Software and Jira Work Management into one project management tool.
Anthropic said it will launch a Team plan and iOS app for its Claude large language model for $30 a month with a minimum of five seats.
Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said, "we remain in the early stages of understanding how generative AI will reshape the way we live, learn and work."
ServiceNow posted strong first quarter results and said its genAI offerings are the "fastest selling in the company’s history."
It's easy to conclude that generative AI is going to take jobs from humans. But there's another argument that genAI will be needed just to maintain and improve productivity levels because there will be fewer workers. There’s a demographic donut hole in the workforce that may be partially ameliorated by genAI.
The survey, based on 107 CEOs mostly in the US, found 56% of respondents rank efficiency and productivity as the primary benefit.