The Cloud Pod

317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One

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Welcome to episode 317 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and an out-of-breath (from outrunning bears) Ryan are back in the studio to bring you another episode of everyone’s favorite cloud and AI news wrap-up. This week we’ve got GTP-5, Oracle’s newly minted AI conference, hallucinations (not the good kind), and even a Cloud Journey follow-up. Let’s get into it! 
Titles we almost went with this week:
  • Oracle Intelligence: Mission Las Vegas
  • AI World: Oracle’s Excellent Adventure
  • AI Gets a Reality Check: Amazon’s New Math Teacher for Hallucinating Models
  • Jules Verne’s 20,000 Lines Under the C
  • GPT-5: The Empire Strikes Back at Computing Costs
  • 5⃣Five Alive: OpenAI’s Latest Language Model Drops
  • GPT-5 is Alive! (And Ready for Your API Calls)
  • From Kanban to Kan’t-Ban: Alienate Your User Base in One Update
  • No More Console Hopping: ECS Logs Stay Put
  • Following the Paper Trail: ECS Logs Go Live
  • The Pull Request Whisperer
  • Five’s Company: DigitalOcean Joins the GPT Party
  • WireGuard Your Kubernetes: The Mesh-iah Has Arrived
  • EKS-tending Your Reach: When Your Nodes Need a VPN Alternative
  • Buttercup Blooms: DARPA’s Prize-Winning AI Security Tool Goes Public
  • From DARPA to Docker: How Buttercup Brings AI Bug-Hunting to Your Laptop
  • Agent 007: License to Query
  • Compliance Manager: Because Nobody Dreams of Filling Out Federal Paperwork
  • Do Compliance Managers dream of Public Sector sheep?
  • Blob’s Your Uncle: Finding Lost Data in the Cloud
  • Wassette: Teaching Your AI Assistant to Go Shopping for Tools
  • Monitor, Monitor on the Wall, Who’s the Most Secure of All?
  • Better Late Than IPv-Never
  • VPC Logs: Now with 100% Less Manual Labor
  • CloudWatch Catches All the Flows in Your Organization
  • The Organization-Wide Net: No VPC Left Behind
  • SQS Goes Super Size: Would You Like to Quadruple That?
  • One MiB to Rule Them All: SQS’s Payload Growth Spurt
  • Microsoft Finally Merges with Its $7.5 Billion Side Piece
  • From Hub to Spoke: GitHub Loses Its Independence
  • Cloud Run Forest Run: Google’s AI Workshop Marathon
  • From Zero to AI Hero: Google’s Production Pipeline Workshop
  • The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drift

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    General News 

    01:17 GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down – Ars Technica

    • GitHub will lose its operational independence and be integrated into Microsoft’s CoreAI organization in 2025, ending its separate CEO structure that has existed since Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition in 2018.
    • The reorganization eliminates the CEO position, with GitHub’s leadership team reporting to multiple executives within CoreAI rather than a single leader, potentially impacting decision-making speed and product direction.
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