Software Defined Talk

Episode 521: The MacGuffin

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This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles.

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  • What’s your NPS score?
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  • THIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE.
  • You need an MCP.Factory
  • Crimp and Hope
    • Rundown
    • Sam & Jony introduce io
    • Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal
    • Agentic
      • New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API
      • Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
      • Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users
      • SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams
      • Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift
      • MCP Registry
      • Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers
      • If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP
      • MCP is the RSS of AI
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