Software Defined Talk

This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589

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Sleep Strategy

Obviously I Have Issues

Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing

At One Point, I Knew That

Bitterness Rug Pull

The American in Me Would Be Bitter

Gaping Pit of Despair

They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing

It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money

We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It

We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started

Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts

The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia

We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It

Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet

We Could Do Better, Slack

Rundown

The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory

The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary

He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly.

Apple’s iPhone Duo

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The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth

I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…

Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase

Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth

Write Things Down

Nonsense

Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport

The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

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This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588

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Mark this moment

Refrigerator magnets

Fester in your inbox

The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it”

Maximum boasty

Your silos are showing

They want me to get started

The really is no plan except eating

RISCy business

It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers

We Fell for It

Agent Zero Was the Problem

I Thought You Were My Friend

More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004

Vibes based analysis

Rundown

Agent Civilizations

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast)

Who Wins Hardened Containers

Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities

Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats

Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS

Lightwell (IBM)

Lightwell (Red Hat)

The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

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Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days

Twitter - The Square Is Back

Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

Kara Swisher on Threads

Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates

Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built

Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed

Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth

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This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587

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Inertia wins again

We don’t talk about the Pope very much.

Better than this year’s storage arrays

AI pimps its own ride

Chonking machine

A lot of chonk opportunity

I’m tired of tech people being all fancy

Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron

No religion, no politics, no AI

My recommendation: try harder

Teletubbies for Adults.

Rundown

Singularity, Models and Routers

Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun

Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs

Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time

The AI backlash goes mainstream

52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

The AI Hater's Manifesto

40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop

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Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week

Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say

Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments

OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees

Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data

The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts

Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus

Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors

Nonsense

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death

Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

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This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

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Special Sauce

A new monkey’s thing

I am all for USB-C

Did I like it

It’s all water marked'

That NPC did need to be there

It's Pre-Watermarked

We Need to Touch Grass More

Send Us Your APIs

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Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October

AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything

The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross

Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform

How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster

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Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat

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The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything

Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal

Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors

Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study

Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration

OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence

OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue

OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh

OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say

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This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

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Law of Unintended Consequences

We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense

Trillion-dollar open source company

The Meta Manifesto

I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.

Using AI to fight AI

Put me as a strong maybe.

Rundown

Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again

Meta's Big AI Week

The Future is for Everyone

Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model

Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI

Superintelligence is a dragon

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

The AI Money Machine

Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’

48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit

Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

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