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(The First) Google Antitrust Trial Kicks Off
Previous: The DOJ Play at Home Game, A New Antitrust Doctrine, Google’s Turn in the Antitrust Hotseat
AWS: “We’re three rankles into a 10k rankle”
Previous: “Every Single” Amazon PR Team is Working on Generative AI (Part I’ve Lost Count), “Every Single” Amazon PR Team is Working on Generative AI, Titan or Titanic?, Amazon Pioneers LLM-less Generative AI, A PR Campaign About Nothing: AWS and Generative AI, Day Two of Amazon’s PR Campaign About Nothing, Amazon’s Relentless PR Campaign About Nothing
Related: “Amazon’s the only one that’s not playing ball with Nvidia”
Larry Ellison Makes Pilgrimage to Redmond
“Oracle is desperate to defend its database business which has lost considerable share to the cloud,” Fitzgerald said via email. “Unable to woo many customers to Oracle Cloud, Oracle is now relenting and encouraging customers to run Oracle Database on Azure. Microsoft wins as they have the broader customer relationship and pick up workloads around the database like AI and analytics.”
Previous: Follow the CAPEX: Keeping Up With The Clowns
Related: Kim Jong Un’s Armored Train, Oracle draws parallels to New York Jets as stock slides after earnings
Salesforce Rallies Its Deep Bench of AI Experts (and Cartoon Characters)
It got awkward as each company expected the other was bringing some actual technology to the partnership.
Previous: Bluster, Bombast and Bullshit: Just Another Day at Salesforce, Salesforce’s Shamelessness is Staggering, Salesforce Gonna Salesforce, The Spectacle that is Dreamforce
EU Explores Replacing Regulators with Generative AI
The Perils of Working for a Cult of Personality
Previous: Press Releases We’d Like to See, Best Nickname for Emmanuel Macron, Winnie-the-Pooh: Lover of Honey, Champion of Freedom, Missing the (Bamboo) Forest for the (Apple) Trees
