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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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  • 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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                    • 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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