SoftBank ARMs itself for the Singularity - The Structure Show #12

SoftBank ARMs itself for the Singularity - The Structure Show #12

On this week's episode of The Structure Show, Barb Darrow of Fortune and Stacey Higginbotham of The IoT Podcast join me to talk about the huge Sofbank-ARM deal and its impact on the future of computing, the scramble to scale Pokemon Go on Google's cloud, and why a big win for Microsoft in the courts might actually cause more problems down the road.

Beware the rise of AI washing - The Structure Show #11

On this week's episode of the Structure Show, Derrick Harris of Mesosphere joins me to talk about Microsoft's growing pains in the cloud, the revolving door that is the product development leadership position at Twitter, and why even as companies like Facebook release true AI-driven breakthroughs like Deep Text, the temptation to slap the "AI" buzzword into marketing copy is growing stronger by the week.

What's good for AWS is good for America, kinda - The Structure Show #10

This week, Barb Darrow of Fortune and I talk about the first-quarter performance of Amazon Web Services, the bellweather cloud company that might just be a standard by which to measure the health of the tech industry in general. We'll also check in on the progress of the world's biggest merger ever, should it actually happen, and look at the first release from OpenAI, the joint project from Elon Musk and Sam Altman that is trying to compete with the big AI corporate research groups as a mom-and-pop outfit, although those are two very rich parents.

A Magic Leap of faith - The Structure Show #9

On this week's episode of The Structure Show, Stacey Higginbotham and I talk about yet another quarter of declining revenue at IBM, Mesosphere's move to open-source its most fundamental product, and a mysterious company that claims it's pushing the boundaries of virtual reality with fundamental research into sensors, image processing, and materials science.

No, we're not a bot, we promise - The Structure Show #8

On this week's episode of the Structure Show, Barb Darrow of Fortune and I talk about the inevitability of the Dell-EMC deal as SecureWorks goes public, Box's dilemma in expanding overseas without cash for data centers, and Facebook's AI-related pitch to developers at F8.