Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575

Runner-up Titles

• Who Wins AI?
• Models vs. Middleware
• Jensen After Dark
• Once again, robots
• Why is this something you talk about in a keynote?
• Could this have been an app?
• Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone
• Your tokens are my margin
• Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram?
• Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way

Rundown

• Nvidia
  • NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI
  • Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind
  • Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors
  • Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
  • AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars
• Microsoft Build
  • Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work
  • Microsoft Build Live Blog
  • Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
• OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public
  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
  • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
  • How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast
  • Anthropic and SpaceX compute
  • OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
  • OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push
  • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph

Relevant to your Interests

• Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
• GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
• Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
• SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
• Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
• Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
• Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
• AI Generated Summaries
• WSJ: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace with AI
• Microsoft open-sources the earliest DOS source code discovered to date
• Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
• Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking.
• How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
• Snowflake to Acquire Natoma to Bring Governed Agentic Access to the Enterprise
• U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
• Meta to start testing AI subscription services, cheapest plan at $7.99/month

Sponsors

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Nonsense

• What Is a Dickover?

Listener Feedback

• Henning corrects Coté’s pronunciation of León.

Conferences

• VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
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• Brandon: The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
• Matt:
  • Boards of Canada: Inferno
  • Aphex Twin - Live in Houston
• Coté: ElevenLabs, for example Coté’s learning Dutch podcast.

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573

Runner-up Titles

• We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.
• Go easy on the AI
• I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican
• I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope
• I should take more showers
• I came to measure and chew bubblegum
• Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.
• Usability golf
• No dependencies, no problems
• Peak Software
• We are a safe haven for measures
• Tools and Rules

Rundown

• Layoffs
  • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
  • How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI
• Revenue and IPO
  • Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
  • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
  • SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.
• GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
  • NHS Pulls OSS
  • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog

Relevant to your Interests

• Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
• Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
• SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
• Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
• Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway
• IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award
• Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
• Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
• What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks
• U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
• Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
• Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Sponsors

• Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

Nonsense

• GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished
• Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction
• America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State

Listener Feedback

• Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App

Conferences

• VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
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• Brandon: Trek Austin
• Matt: VESA
• Coté:
  • AI-Generated Summaries
  • Table for Two
  • Slim Daddy’s Repair

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573

Runner-up Titles

• Stupid Macs
• I like my idea
• What was I thinking?
• Opt-in AI
• Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend
• It’s a low plateau
• There’s no vibe in X-Code
• Matt’s trading with AI
• Everyone’s watching

Rundown

• Google I/O
  • A new era for AI Search
  • All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote
  • I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era
• AI Stuff
  • Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman
  • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
  • OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts
  • Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader

Relevant to your Interests

• Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
• Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other
• Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
• Amazon ditches Rufus chatbot, launches Alexa shopping agent in AI strategy pivot
• Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom
• Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
• From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
• CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
• Shai-Hulud Returns: npm Worm hits @antv in latest ongoing campaign
• Intel CEO says foundry business is gaining momentum as customer interest grows
• Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
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Nonsense

• "solutions architects" in 2026

Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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• Brandon: Varlock
• Matt: Sheep Detectives

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572

Runner-up Titles

• Sugar Kingdom
• Bastard Sugar
• Choose butter
• It’s just AI now
• People don’t like paying for software
• It’s an exciting time to be writing software
• Are we going to start funding open source?
• Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated
• We’re leaving the table
• Weird network stuff
• That box of cables on GitHub

Rundown

• Security
  • Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages
  • Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders
  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents
  • Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  • Redis and the Cost of Ambition
• AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers
  • Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat
  • Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees
  • Linear increases workforce

Relevant to your Interests

• Laws, anecdotes, idioms, and other shit people say - cote.pizza
• The smart lock standard that could replace your keys is finally here
• dirtyfrag/README.md at master · V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
• Red Hat Summit Newsroom
• Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted
• Your Container Is Not a Sandbox
• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company
• Corporate Card Startup Ramp Raising Funds at $40 Billion Valuation
• Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.
• AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
• AI and DevOps Maturity
• Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
• Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS
• He's not wrong, but what can they do? How are those Microsoft foundation models going?

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration

Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
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• Brandon: Xcode MCP
• Matt: whatcable
• Coté: Shogun.

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571

Runner-up Titles

• The world is just paper.
• TODO debris pile
• Fancy countries you live in
• Enron Conspiracy Shredder.
• Cote’s mom’s gonna love this
• Brandon works out his Workday trauma.
• Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang
• ChatGPT PS Edition
• Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday
• It’ll probably work, that’s the future

Rundown

• Earnings
  • Cloud Giants Update
  • Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth
  • Microsoft calls for $190 billion in 2026 capital spending on soaring memory prices
  • Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion
  • Meta stock drops on quarterly results
  • Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips
• How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks
• Services
  • Anthropic launches enterprise AI firm with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs
  • Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

Relevant to your Interests

• Q1 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO
• Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it
• Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
• Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
• IBM Bob hits 80,000 developers with 45% productivity gains
• Shares of eBay take off on a $56 billion buyout bid from GameStop's Ryan Cohen
• Wall Street Rollup (@WallStRollup) on X
• The Venture-Capital Populist
• Cursor's $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model
• What you're actually writing when you write a SKILL.md
• So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet
• No more Jeeves: Ask.com officially shuttered
• OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope
• Workload Identity Federation
• AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download - AWS
• IREN Announces Acquisition of Mirantis to Strengthen AI Cloud Delivery Capabilities

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
• WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
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• Your Name in Landsat

Listener Feedback

• JD recommends varlock

Conferences

• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
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• Brandon:
  • Overcast Upload CLI utility
  • The 2026 AI Draft
  • Epson 400 II
• Matt: Casablanca.
• Coté: iA Writer.

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 570

Runner-up Titles

• You can’t win against time
• The Shining Path of Least Resistance
• The Burger Diagram
• You guys were talking about CORBA the other day.
• Is this just destiny
• Burger Diagram Aficionado
• Think like a computer
• Those are the fun agents.
• AI for None of Us
• Matt Ray, but verify
• Gen-X Stamp Collecting

Rundown

• Google Cloud Next
  • Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
  • You can now easily generate files in Gemini.
  • Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge
  • Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic
• AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
  • From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing
  • An update on GitHub availability
• "Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use

Relevant to your Interests

• Former Google Employee Announces Silicon Valley Satire, ‘Paradox Inc.’
• The base model $599 Mac mini is now completely out of stock
• Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms
• Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
• AI Coding Firm Cognition in Funding Talks at $25 Billion Value
• Clouded Judgement 4.24.26 - The AI-Driven Employment Explosion
• Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
• Spotify Brings Music and Podcast Recommendations to Claude — Spotify
• Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) on Threads
• The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world … will probably read this book and try even harder
• OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
• Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year
• The future of AI in Ubuntu
• Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
• Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
• Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court over the fate of OpenAI
• Meta to cut one in 10 jobs after spending billions on AI
• The week that Meta employees became training data
• In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
• OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal | TechCrunch
• Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
• An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

Sponsors

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Nonsense

• Your Name in Landsat

Listener Feedback

• Light Bulb Info
  • Can You Throw Light Bulbs in the Trash? A Type-by-Type Guide - BulbCycle: Fluorescent Bulb & Lamp Disposal
  • Battery, mobile phone and light bulb recycling, light bulb, lightbulb - City of Sydney
• OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with the iPhone: report
• PROMOTE STICKER, FM Newsletter and why podcasts are the best for learning

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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• Brandon: 1Password CLI Tool
• Matt: Summer Album/Winter Album
• Coté: AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569

Runner-up Titles

• I love throwing stuff in the trash.
• Dillo dirt’s a thing.
• BurgerOps.
• Thomas opens for Richard.
• Department of “No” people
• Starfish Stomach Model
• Enterprise — come into me
• The Organization will Assimilate it
• Gold plaques all around
• He can let his freak flag fly
• Take the first billion dollar offer

Rundown

• Google Next
  • Welcome to Google Cloud Next26
  • Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post
• Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")
• Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook
• Cursor Watch
  • Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
  • There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor
  • SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

Relevant to your Interests

• Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase
• Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
• Snapchat owner cuts 16% of global staff in latest round of job cuts
• Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta
• DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.
• Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms
• China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports
• Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
• AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
• Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE
• Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology
• Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration
• Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product
• OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
  • Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster
  • OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding
  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 \ Anthropic

Sponsors

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Listener Feedback

• Subscribe to Failover New

Nonsense

• Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
• Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Claude /team-onboarding
  • The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work
• Matt: Resident Alien
• Coté: and

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 568

Runner-up Titles

• It’s clearly an AI chair.
• I’ve given up on the green screen
• No animals, only buttholes
• I don’t know if I can think on my own
• Make your pecans really pop
• Did they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attention
• Always take the first offer for a billion dollars
• Bad Parking
• The Apple IIE had this problem
• I was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal.

Rundown

• Anthropic
  • Anthropic vs. OpenAI Revenue
  • Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
  • Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps
  • Clouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) !
  • Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges
  • Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
  • Anthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock Deal
  • Claude Command /powerup
  • Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak
• OpenAI Palace Intrigue
  • OpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changes
  • OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing
  • Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
  • OpenAI is getting weird again - Casey Newton
  • OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
  • Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
• OpenAI buys TBPN
  • Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN
  • OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
  • OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
  • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
• Backstage
  • Backstage is dead
• Observability
  • Cisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentral
  • Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native Observability
• Cursor and Coding Agents
  • Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default
  • Cursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents
  • Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned

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• Starlink satellite tracker
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• Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation
• Trump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunch
• TIME100 AI 2025: Chris Lehane
• Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetings
• Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHub
• Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
• Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center
• Social media is turning into a freak show
• The Building Block Economy
• Giant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloud
• How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future
• Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers
• Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
• SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology
• Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
• Giving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer Documentation
• France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
• You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?
• Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
• Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
• Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close
• AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte
• Amazon jumps deeper into space race
• Amazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's Starlink
• Meta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employees

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• NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help
• Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House
• AI CEO vs Engineer (2026).
• Poor Blue Blob
• Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Listener Feedback

• Michael Neal: built mesh-llm — Decentralised LLM Inference
• Shaun built: workworkwork
• Brandon’s App: Milestone Birthday and Anniversary Tracker

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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  • IKEA Klippbok water sensor
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• Scaling Telehealth Video Infrastructure: Sessions Health Case Study

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 566

Runner-up Titles

• pawpatrol891@gmail.com
• I get that dude’s email
• Those turtles are dyslexic
• I’m just a space hyperchicken judge
• curl|bash is the debate
• Djikstra’s algorithm for calendaring

Rundown

• Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address. Here’s How
• Claude had a week
  • He Rewrote Leaked Claude Code in Python, And Dodged Copyright
  • Anthropic admits Claude Code quotas running out too fast
  • Auto mode for Claude Code
  • Anthropic leaked its own source Code
• Are sandboxes the future
  • Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely
  • Docker Sandboxes: Run Claude Code and More Safely
  • Coder Raises $35M
• Axios NPM Distribution Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

Relevant to your Interests

• Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
• Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
• Jensen Huang runs Nvidia with 60 direct reports — and no one-on-ones
• Report: Apple to Move a Part of its Embedded Cores to RISC-V, Stepping Away from Arm ISA
• A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year
• Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac
• ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.
• Hacked Files of F.B.I. Director Kash Patel Circulate Online
• We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
• I Decompiled the White House's New App
• Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center
• The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron
• Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub
• American Exchange Group Inks $39 Million Deal for Allbirds Assets
• OMG. Best back to back posts. Maintainer for Axios, before and after the supply chain breach.
• Historical GitHub Uptime Charts
• Reddit - The heart of the internet
• Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
• Steve Blank Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

Nonsense

• The Untold Story of Wiz (ft. Wiz Khalifa)

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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  • The Trial of the Driverless Car
• Coté:
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  • booWhoops

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565

Runner-up Titles

• Product Management Slot Machine
• We poisoned our own data
• As the resident hater of SDT
• I’m optimistic on this one
• I’ll check back when you call it Siri
• AI SEO
• The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts

Rundown

• Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
  • Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all
  • OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment
  • Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst
  • Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors
• Python and OpenAI
  • Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
  • OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI
• Security
  • TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
  • Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign
  • KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack
  • Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack
  • Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)
  • Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI
  • AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact
• Claude defaults
  • Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

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• Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
• Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
• Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
• Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
• What Is the PARK Stack?
• Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
• Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
• FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
• Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
• Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
• Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
• Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
• Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
• Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
• Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
• Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
• Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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• Brandon: Project Hail Mary, The Movie
• Matt: From Robert Mueller to Stringer Bell: How the Post-9/11 FBI Drove The Wire

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564

Runner-up Titles

• Let's T this up.
• One Trillion Dollars
• Leader to laggard
• My terms of service
• Someone should come up with a term
• Networking FOMO
• Slide crimes
• It’s token machines all the way down.
• The Claude-ning
• So why Nemo Cloud?
• You’re just selling token machines
• Billionaire version of Gallagher
• I’ve seen too much
• Upward Replicability

Rundown

• NVIDA GTC
  • Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming
  • Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026
• AI Roundup
  • Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.
  • 2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)
  • Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders
  • Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
  • MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI

Relevant to your Interests

• YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company
• The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion
• Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
• Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
• How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era
• Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"
• The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing
• Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers
• Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
• The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report
• Agents Over Bubbles
• "Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."

Listener Feedback

• Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George

Conferences

• KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
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  • Stitch - Design with AI
  • Milestone iOS App
  • Claude Command: /insights
• Matt:
  • Caleb Sasser XOXO 2024
  • The McDonald’s Centralia Mural
  • MPC app
• Coté:
  • Dream Router 7

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563

Runner-up Titles

• Upgraded to Max
• The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.
• The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.
• Should we become the Claudecast?
• Matt Ray in Your Pocket.
• Come into the tent
• You have agency in your life

Rundown

• Coté went to Claude Camp
  • Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365
  • Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
  • Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline
• Google completes acquisition of Wiz

Relevant to your Interests

• I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.
• Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate
• Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About
• Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
• Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas
• Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise
• Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac
• Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again
• When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
• Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• Oracle Job Cuts
• OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs
• Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

Nonsense

• McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

Conferences

• KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
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• Coté: Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562

Runner-up Titles

• Demos over Memos
• Products over Prose
• Software written by the many for the few
• USB is flaky
• Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?
• I thought I had typed it somewhere
• Markdown is taking down the economy
• Claude, Take the Wheel
• Sticking with month-to-month
• Precious Tokens
• Rip Van Winkle this whole AI thing
• The ants have won
• They have infinite tokens
• Is SLDC Dead?

Rundown

• The SaaS-Apocalypse was based on markdown files
• The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
• The Third Era of Software Development
• Intelligence, Subtracted
• Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands
• Exclusive-Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards
• ‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymaker
• Anthropic leads Enterprise AI Spend
• Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions
• $110 Billion in Name Only
• OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon
• OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

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• McKinsey and AWS launch Amazon McKinsey Group
• Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’
• The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art
• Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets
• WIZ: My Personal AI Agent
• OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
• Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024
• Ramp AI Index

Nonsense

• Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
• Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Conferences

• Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
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  • Milestone 1.1
  • Ski Quiver
• Matt: IKEA MYGGSPRAY motion sensor, TRADFRI LED and RODRET
• Coté: The “Anime Wow” sound. And, related to Brandon’s modernization talk last week.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 561

Runner-up Titles

• New’s not good
• He knows how to be retired
• Let Matt Cook
• We don’t have to worry about that Brandon
• You’re that guy
• The stock market feels reactionary
• Siri-Claw
• Foundation Washing
• Give me life-changing money and I’ll have a better take
• Why do I need to pay for power usage?

Rundown

• IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
• IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire
• Mechanical Orchard: Half Baked
• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future
• This Is the Biggest Threat to Microsoft Office I've Ever Seen.
• LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
• Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features

Relevant to your Interests

• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announces it sold 77% of its Amazon
• they hacked CSS
• The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
• YOLO Travel Bookings
• This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
• The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
• OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
• Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform
• Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
• My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

Nonsense

• GE Profile made a smaller version of its nugget ice maker that needs less counter space
• TSA PreCheck Touchless ID | Delta Air Lines

Listener Feedback

• Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS

Conferences

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  • Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
• Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560

Runner-up Titles

• They only talk about AI
• I bet you have 5 shop vacs
• It’s all going into applesauce
• Live Claude Code It
• Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that
• Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos
• I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.
• Free Tier as a Service

Rundown

• Something Big Is Happening
• OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
• Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro
• Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads
• The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)
• Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators
• Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution
• Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
• Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
• Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
• Introducing Sonnet 4.6

Conferences

• DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
  • Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
  • Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
  • Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!
• Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code
• Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
• Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 559

Runner-up Titles

• Do we get to eat Moon Pies?
• Some days it’s just me and the AI
• We have a LinkedIn page
• The state of the world has not gotten better, it’s just moved to Kubernetes
• Trained on the Corpse of Stack Overflow.
• We just have to get the files right
• It is all just files
• It’s all an OODA loop
• Rinse and reply.
• Is Software dead?
• Your margin is my yacht.
• claude-travel.md
• Vegans have morals though

Rundown

• DriftlessAF: Introducing Chainguard Factory 2.0
• Is Software dead?
  • Clouded Judgement 2.6.26 - Software Is Dead...Again...For Real this Time...Maybe?
  • Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets
  • Besieged
  • The $285 Billion 'SaaSpocalypse' Is the Wrong Panic
  • The "whole product" is more relevant than ever
• Cloud Earnings
  • Microsoft Q2 earnings beat on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue tops $50 billion, but stock falls
  • Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments
  • A day of reckoning for the AI boom
  • Oracle says it plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year
  • Google Earnings Beat. Cloud Computing Momentum Builds Amid Spending Boom
  • Amazon stock falls 10% on $200 billion spending forecast, earnings miss
  • Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
  • [Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective](http://(https://platformonomics.com/2025/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2024-retrospective/)
  • Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI
  • Google's parent company raises billions of dollars in debt sale
• OpenAI Drama
  • Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI
  • The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
  • Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
  • OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today

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• All Enterprise software is dead
• The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week
• SpaceX acquires xAI in record-setting deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions
• AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen
• CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions
• Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding
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• Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing
• DHH on OpenClaw
• Adam Jacob really likes AI code generation
• Cautionary Tales – The WOW Machine Stops (Part 2)
• Kyndryl Shares Halved Amid CFO Departure, Accounting Review
• Our $200M Series C / Oxide
• Presentations — Benedict Evans
• Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
• Hello Entire World · Entire Blog
• Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation
• From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface

Nonsense

• What If the Sensors on Your Car Were Inspecting Potholes for the Government? Honda Found Out
• Superbowl Ad 404

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