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IBM launched a Flex Plan for access to its quantum computing hardware in a move that aims to expand access for organizations, enterprises and researchers who want access without monthly limits.
Resilience is the major theme as enterprises report quarterly results and the biggest takeaway is that the giants will weather the storm and smaller companies won’t.
A large language model's behavior issues and personality quirks should be tested as any safety risk would, according to OpenAI's postmortem after an update to ChatGPT-4o made the model sycophantic.
Quantum computing is hogging the headlines in 2025 and it's ok to say it's the year of quantum--or maybe qubits--with 10 months to go in the year. The quantum computing developments are flying, but it's worth noting that we're years away from big commercial adoption.
Apple reported better-than-expected for its fiscal second quarter as iPhones, Macs and iPads sold well.
Amazon Web Services delivered revenue of $29.3 billion, up 17% from a year ago. Parent Amazon reported better-than-expected first quarter results.
Amazon Web Services said Amazon Nova Premier, the most capable model in the cloud provider's family of in-house large language models, is generally available.
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar said the company saw strong growth in health sciences and financial services accounts and the common theme is using artificial intelligence to take out costs.
Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure outlook to $64 billion to $72 billion to support its AI buildout and "expected cost of infrastructure hardware."
Microsoft handily topped third quarter targets and said Azure delivered revenue growth of 33%.
Whether you're freaked out about hyperscalers pulling back on AI data center buildouts boils down to time frame. Are you planning for 5 months or five years?
