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July 24Episode 582: Talking About Modernization
This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.
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Runner-up Titles
Turn off my dog
Dad Wisdom
Amazon subscription and let it fly
Dad box
Talking about modernization
Skin in the game
The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”
Business fortnight
No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America
Rundown
Rewriting Bun in Rust
OpenAI
OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up
OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring
Relevant to your Interests
SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company
Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate
Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined
Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?
Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI
Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack
IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks
Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform
Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses
House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords
1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude
forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents
Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software
What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend
You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance
Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?
AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:
China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?
IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD
Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years
Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally
Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion
Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine
Sponsors
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Nonsense
Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings
United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
Listener Feedback
Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC
Tim releases a font for developers whose close-up vision isn't what it used to be
The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th
Conferences
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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Brandon:
entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere.
28 Years Later, The Bone Temple
Matt: Vacation, not micro-retirement
Coté: Wolf Hall books.
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1 hr 7 min
July 17Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents
Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.
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Show Links
Signadot
Free Trial
Brex Case Study
Signadot Documentation Overview
Contact Arjun Iyer
LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer
Twitter: @arjuniyer_
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52 min
July 10Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables
Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file.
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Show Links:
varlock.dev
varlock on GitHub
@env-spec Overview
DMNO (corporate site)
Varlock MCP Server (docs)
howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce
unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label
Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp
bumpy
Contact Phil Miller:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman
Email: [email protected]
Music: unsafeharbour.com
Contact Theo Ephraim:
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Website: theoephraim.com
Twitter/X: @theozero
Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social
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General Contact:
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Varlock Community
Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users
GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests
varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates
Varlock on X
Varlock on Bluesky
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Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.
55 min
July 03Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle
This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.
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Runner-up Titles
Everything is Files
It’s just about meetings
Did you do the pre-meet?
Meetings
Judgement
Let it ride
If it’s hot, turn on the AC
I don’t have time for a towel.
Headless HEB
Rundown
I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
Fable is Back
White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
AI News of the Month - June 2026
AI is NOT killing jobs
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
The PDF of the Slides
Relevant to your Interests
The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code
Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble
SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out.
News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO
Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results
The AI Compass
T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware
Listener Feedback
Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents
Conferences
WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
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DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
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Brandon: Walmart+ for Grocery Delivery
Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram
1 hr 12 min
June 26Episode 578: War for Talent
This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day.
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Runner-up Titles
Ready to podcast from a sailboat
It’s just people fighting
Calculator budget
Ask Siri to do your homework
Software Defined Consulting: SDC
The Magic Platform
AI Curious
I watched ALLLLL the keynotes.
I don’t know that, but I know that
You gotta stay to vest
Brandon, remember Cursor?
Educated Hater
Rundown
Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms
IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms 
What is an "AI Governance Platform?
AI Consolidates Talent
Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent
Relevant to your Interests
Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo
Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets
Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP
Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban …
Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million
Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas
Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
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Wiz Ice Cream for CISOs
IN THE WEIGHTS
Conferences
WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
25 Free Tickets
DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.
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Brandon: Disclosure Day
Matt: Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet
Coté:
The Millennial Aesthetic
Coté’s CFP acceptance rate chart
Coté’s newsletter
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1 hr 5 min
June 19Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s
This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577
Runner-up Titles
Waited out the storm
Maybe we should build some castles or something
Years of lawsuits ahead of us
The ultimate dream
AI SEO
I hope you’re paid by the hour
Always be monitoring to me
Rundown
Anthropic
How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
Cursor
Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
Vibe Coding
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
curl summer of bliss
Relevant to your Interests
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
apple/container
The Virtual OS Museum
YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)
OpenAI to acquire Ona
Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
VCs behaving badly
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther
Sponsors
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Nonsense
The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute
Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver
Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
Conferences
WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Germany.
DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
25 Free Tickets
DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
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Brandon: Digital ID
Matt: Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay
Coté: WordPress.com. Tetilla cheese from the Camino de Santiago.
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1 hr 1 min
June 12Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase
Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576
Show Links
OpenObserve
OpenObserve on GitHub
Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post
Launching OpenObserve
OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo
Download OpenObserve
Contact Prabhat Sharma
LinkedIn: hiprabhat
Twitter/X: @hiprabhat
Contact Shani Shoham
LinkedIn: shanishoham
Twitter: @shohams
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Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.
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49 min
June 05Episode 575: UI blizzard
This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work?
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
WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
25 Free Tickets
DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 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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1 hr 2 min
May 29Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer
This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574
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
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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
WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
25 Free Tickets
DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026 , Coté keynoting.
VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
SDT News & Community
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Email the show: [email protected]
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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Recommendations
Brandon: Trek Austin
Matt: VESA
Coté:
AI-Generated Summaries
Table for Two
Slim Daddy’s Repair
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1 hr 2 min
May 22Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?
This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track.
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
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