Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Hope Lynch and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, examine the latest Anthropic acquisitions and alliances as AI vendors race to expand their ecosystems. The gang then looks at IBM’s $11 billion acquisition of Confluent, marking one of the largest data and AI platform purchases to date.
The episode wraps with a review of Google’s carbon capture initiative, which aims to reduce data center emissions as sustainability efforts intensify across the cloud and AI infrastructure landscape.