Show Notes
This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.
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Runner-up Titles
“Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
I thought they were First World
Steal your Alpha-tier
Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
Copy, paste, go.
Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.
Rundown
AI IRL
How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
Google Cloud is killing it
Skill vs. Agents
Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
Relevant to your Interests
Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform
IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change
Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million
Google Cloud is killing it
ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]
2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era
Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter
Sponsors
Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.
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AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.
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Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.
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