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Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

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This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.

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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'
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          • 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
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                    • 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
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