351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money

Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news about Mythos, Amazon finally becoming a utility, and even an aftershow where we discuss the computing power of Artemis. It’s a great show, so let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

Three StorageClasses Walk Into an AI Workload Deprecated Models Don’t Die, They Just Fail Your API Calls SQL Walks Into a Graph Bar and Stays Too Many Agents Spoil the Workflow One Registry to Rule All Your Rogue AI Agents Eight CPUs Walk Into Space, Only One Comes Back Stop Retyping the Same Gemini Prompt Like a Caveman Claude Code Routines Let AI Work While You Sleep AWS Builds a Yellow Pages for Your AI Agents GPT Finally Stops Refusing to Talk About Hacking None of the hosts is ready for Next We are once again trying to look into our next next next crystal ball and failing Google is gonna announce AI, it’s just mandatory now Las Vegas is calling, our Livers are crying

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Since the original Mythos/Project Glasswing announcement, AISLE published follow-up testing showing that small, inexpensive open-weight models can replicate much of the vulnerability detection work Anthropic attributed to Mythos, with all 8 tested models detecting the flagship FreeBSD NFS buffer overflow, including a 3.6B parameter model costing $0.11 per million tokens. A notable correction to the framing of the original announcement: cybersecurity AI capability does not scale smoothly with model size or cost. Model rankings reshuffle completely across different security tasks, meaning there is no single b...