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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.
CrowdStrike and Amazon Web Services expanded a partnership where Amazon will standardize on CrowdStrike's Falcon platform and CrowdStrike will expand usage of Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker.
MongoDB launched new Atlas features and integrations with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services as well as an expanded partner program. The effort, announced at MongoDB.local NYC, is designed to make it easier for developers to scale MongoDB applications across clouds and edge infrastructure.
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.
By unit, AMD posted record data center revenue in the first quarter of $2.3 billion, up 80% from a year ago. Growth was driven by AMD Instinct GPUs and 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs.
AWS delivered Q1 operating income of $9.4 billion on revenue of $25 billion, up 17% from a year ago.
The headliners for Amazon Q are Amazon Q Developer, a coding assistant, Amazon Q Business, designed to make employees more productive, and Amazon Q Apps, which are part of Amazon Q Business and can automate business tasks.
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."
Snapchat made a bet on using machine learning and AI to improve its advertising platform, increase content engagement and ultimately revenue growth. If it could optimize its infrastructure spending, Snapchat would be able to grow the bottom line.
Every enterprise technology stack needs neutral vendors. The problem is that these neutral vendors are acquired if they become too successful. Once these neutral vendors are acquired it's all about the cross-sell game under new ownership.
SoundCommerce Co-Founder and CEO Eric Best said retail winners will increasingly be determined by how they leverage data and artificial intelligence to drive customer lifetime value.
