This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 49

This Week in Enterprise Tech

For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. Good News: Ransomware Down 35%!
2. AWS S3 Bucket Registrations: A Sneaky Backdoor Threat
3. Zoho Day and the Race to Agentic AI
4. Fei-Fei Li: “It Takes $50 to Distill A Reasoning Model”
5. Will Semiconductor Tariffs Force CIOs to Close the Deal?
6. Is the CIO a Policy Strategist or a Rubber Stamp?
7. Will the Windows 10 Sunset Force AI PCs into the Workplace?
8. CIOs Bullish on AI, IT Employees Not So Much
9. Where Salesforce AI’s Super Bowl Ad Missed the Mark

Sources:

Good News: Ransomware Down 35%!

Chainalysis: https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-crime-ransomware-victim-extortion-2025/

AWS S3 Bucket Registrations: a Sneaky Backdoor Threat

Watchtowr: https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

Zoho Day and the Race to Agentic AI

CX Today: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/zoho-previews-ai-agents-commits-to-low-pricing-shares-more-on-its-ceo-transition/

Fei-Fei Li: “It Takes 50 Dollars to Distill A Reasoning Model”

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/researchers-created-an-open-rival-to-openais-o1-reasoning-model-for-under-50/

Will Semiconductor Tariffs Force CIOs to Close the Deal?

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/nvidia_trump_tariffs/

Is the CIO a Policy Strategist or a Rubber Stamp?

CHCOC.gov: https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM Memo Guidance Regarding Redesignating SES CIO Positions 2-4-2025 FINAL.pdf

Will the Windows 10 Sunset Force AI PCs into the Workplace?

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3812887/will-the-end-of-windows-10-accelerate-cio-interest-in-ai-pcs.html

CIOs Bullish on AI, IT Employees Not So Much

CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3815935/cios-are-bullish-on-ai-agents-it-employees-not-so-much.html

Where Salesforce AI’s Super Bowl Ad Missed the Mark

Defector: https://defector.com/salesforce-is-using-a-hallucination-to-sell-ai

Salesforce AI Super Bowl Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JNLL7U8H8

Google Gemini Super Bowl Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7e6g11BJc0

ServiceNow AI Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqR735mAo4

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights