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Palantir’s +79% vs Bill’s -43%: The AI Divide That Defined SaaS Performance in 1H’25

SaaStr

commercial revenue surged 71% as Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) gains enterprise traction Deep government/defense roots benefit from heightened geopolitical tensions worldwide Clear AI differentiation has made it indispensable for data-driven decision making How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth (13%) to Hypergrowth (49%!)

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The End of Web3

Tom Tunguz

Some of them will employ the four fundamental innovations of web3 : permanent ownership, paying customers with “equity,” regulatory arbitrage, and new governance models (DAOs). For example, a gaming company might build an app on a classic cloud stack on AWS and offer a decentralized peer-to-peer NFT exchange.

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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Instrumentation and Governance Enable Many New Use Cases : Today’s data leaders are struggling. Meanwhile, regulation and compliance mean the governance burden only increases. The Pendulum Swings to Small Data : Modern Mac laptops have the same computational power as the AWS servers Snowflake used to launch the company.

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

How To Buy Saas

Governments and companies now invest billions: the U.S. This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). poured $109.1 billion into AI in 2024 (about 12× China’s $9.3B). In 2025, U.S.

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Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

Intercom, Inc.

Centralize governance. The more you centralize cost governance, the less time you have to spend on it. “The more you centralize cost governance, the less time you have to spend on it. Crafting tagging policies and implementing them to provide visibility on spend. No surprises.

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Why Cloud Adoption Demands Better Internal Billing

Blulogix

From statewide digital transformation initiatives to university research platforms running on AWS and Azure, cloud services have become essential infrastructure. Cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure dont operate on fixed fees. Its about governance, efficiency, and trust. Schedule a Demo Today Cloud Is Usage-Based.

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How Chargeback Makes IT Strategic in the Eyes of the CFO

Blulogix

For CIOs looking to elevate ITs role in the enterprise or government agency, thats a problem. AI, cloud migrations, platform consolidation) For example, instead of saying We need $5M for cloud, IT can now say, Our AWS costs support 12 agencies. It delivers critical servicesbut from a financial perspective, its a black box.

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