Show Notes
This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?
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Runner-up Titles
Stack the deck
Pets and Chickens
Blame it on Android
They’re fungible
Are they going to have to introduce a new principle?
Managers of rocks
The world we live in
Marketing wins
We’re the healthy skeptics
Rundown
Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone
Cloud Earnings
AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025
Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion
Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1
Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results
Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit
Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3
7m OpenAI work users
Amazon's culture went the wrong way
Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips
Relevant to your Interests
Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours
Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
Meta Stock Slides After Earnings.
AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions
Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”
Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well
SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad
The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity
Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef
Nonsense
Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business
Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million
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Recommendations
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Matt: The Other Two
Coté: NØLSON shirts
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