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Episode 578: War for Talent

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Show Notes

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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