In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
- Databricks + Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise
- Workato Buys DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support
- N8n Raises $60M to Open Up AI Automation
- Symphony AI + Microsoft Partner to Automate Industrial Environments
- Red Hat AI Boosts Model Testing, Governance Capabilities
- US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs
- Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?
- OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol
- CIOs Cull Internal GenAI Projects
- OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli
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For this video presentation of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech issues for the CIO office:
- Databricks + Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise
- Workato Buys DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support
- N8n Raises $60M to Open Up AI Automation
- Symphony AI + Microsoft Partner to Automate Industrial Environments
- Red Hat AI Boosts Model Testing, Governance Capabilities
- US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs
- Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?
- OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol
- CIOs Cull Internal GenAI Projects
- OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli
Databricks and Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise
Databricks and Anthropic announce a partnership where Databricks Mosaic AI provides tools to build governed agents on proprietary data while Anthropic’s Claude models optimize with hybrid reasoning. Charles and Hyoun discuss how this partnership helps both vendors, each facing massive challengers.
Workato Acquires DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support
Workato announced the acquisition of AI Agent vendor DeepConverse to enhance agentic support. Hyoun and Charles discuss how these customer support automation capabilities are technically helpful to Workato and how this is also a smart talent acquihire for AI.
BusinessWire Press Release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250327092892/en/Workato-Acquires-Generative-AI-Support-Automation-Company-DeepConverse-Further-Investing-in-the-Agentic-Enterprise
N8N Raises 60 Million to Open Up AI Automation
Germany-based N8N raised $60 million to support AI-based workflow automation. Charles and Hyoun discuss N8N in a rapidly growing world of “AI-powered automation” and their “fair code” commitment to open source.
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/fair-code-pioneer-n8n-raises-60m-for-ai-powered-workflow-automation/
Symphony AI Partners with Microsoft to Automate Industrial Environments
Symphony AI launched Microsoft Azure IOT Operations to push Industrial AI capabilities to the edge. Hyoun and Charles share insights on bringing operational tech and agentic AI together with some special insights from Symphony’s own Charles Araujo.
Big Data Wire: https://www.bigdatawire.com/this-just-in/symphonyai-expands-industrial-ai-to-the-edge-with-microsoft-azure-iot-operations/
Red Hat AI Enhances Model Testing and Governance Capabilities
Red Hat enhances both OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with AI capabilities. Charles and Hyoun disagree on how meaningful this announcement is for the AI world.
US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs
SAMOSA is the tasty acronym for a bipartisan bill to cut government software costs. This straightforward approach to the US government’s $15 billion software bill makes sense to Charles and Hyoun, but will it get enacted?
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/congress_software_licensing/
Virginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?
The Virginia Governor recently vetoed a bill requiring regulations for using high risk AI systems. Charles and Hyoun puzzle over why this happened and how this helps tech vendors and users.
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Virginia-AI-bill-veto-HB2094-Youngkin-policy-regulation/743518/
OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol for Data Connection
In a rare sign of shared standards and adoption between hyper-competitive AI megastartups, OpenAI has agreed to use Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) for data augmentation. This may be as close as AI gets to interoperability and Hyoun and Charles discuss why this is a vitally important announcement for the future of AI. .
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/openai-adopts-rival-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/
Tags: Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, Anthropic, OpenAI, Model Context Protocol
CIOs Cull Internal GenAI Projects
As Generative AI spend soars, CIOs start to shift from “Build Your Own Model” to “There’s an App for That”. Charles and Hyoun settle a recent debate on why AI projects were failing.
CIODive’s Matt Ashare: https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-software-device-spending-soars-gartner/743888/
OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio Ghibli
OpenAI built another event that, in CEO Sam Altman’s words, “melted the chips” with its recreation of the Ghibli artistic style. Hyoun and Charles explored what risks Altman is taking and what should you consider as you seek to imitate copyrighted works or currently famous artists?
Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/openais-ghibli-frenzy-took-dark-122253521.html