This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 70

In Podcast Episode 70 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars
2. EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice
3. FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data
4. Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity.
5. Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?
6. Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?
7. Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down
8. RIP, IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

Sources:

Perplexity and OpenAI Start the AI Browser Wars

Perplexity.ai: https://comet.perplexity.ai/#values

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/704162/opeani-ai-web-browser-chatgpt

EU AI Act Finally Gets a Code of Practice

European Commission Press Release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1787

EU AI Code of Conduct: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai

FlexOlmo Controls AI Access to Creator Data

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/40617345

Research Says AI is Clearly Increasing And/Or Decreasing Dev Productivity

METR: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/business-value-of-developer-experience-improvements-amazons-15-9-breakthrough/

Is Meta Short for Metastatic Culture?

The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai-researcher-warns-metastatic-cancer-afflicting-company-culture

Is Grok a Superintelligence, MechaHitler, or Both?

Tom’s Guide: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/grok-4-is-here-elon-musk-says-its-the-same-model-physicists-use

Apple Celebrates Supply Chain Excellence as COO Steps Down

Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-announces-chief-operating-officer-transition/

RIP to IBM Almaden: Birthplace of the Hard Drive & Relational DB

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ibm_almaden_research_center/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights