Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.

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Runner-up Titles

I love throwing stuff in the trash.

Dillo dirt’s a thing.

BurgerOps.

Thomas opens for Richard.

Department of “No” people

Starfish Stomach Model

Enterprise — come into me

The Organization will Assimilate it

Gold plaques all around

He can let his freak flag fly

Take the first billion dollar offer

Rundown

Google Next

Welcome to Google Cloud Next26

Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post

Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")

Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook

Cursor Watch

Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor

SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

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DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.

Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms

China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

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Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE

Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology

Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration

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OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup

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The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot

Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster

OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 \ Anthropic

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