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IBM TO BUY CONFLUENT IN US $ 11BN ENTERPRISE GEN AI PUSH
IBM is acquiring Confluent for US $ 11bn to build an end-to-end smart data platform supporting Gen AI and agentic AI.
Arvind
Krishna, CEO, IBM

“ THE TATA GROUP IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING A ROBUST SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY IN INDIA”

Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons
Sebastian Siemiatkowski,
CEO, Klarna
WHY CEOS FROM GOOGLE TO KLARNA ARE HOOKED ON VIBE CODING
CEOs like Google’ s Sundar Pichai and Klarna’ s Sebastian Siemiatkowski are embracing vibe coding as it empowers anyone to rapidly create software using AI.

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