Show Notes
This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?
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Runner-up Titles
Swedish Death Cleaning
Give it a best effort
Trying it bad for profits.
That pen better be really good
You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool
Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes.
The Kremlinologist of AWS
The aaSes of Cloud
They’ll like our apples better
Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist
What we have is a situation
Rundown
Apple gets AI from Google
Joint statement from Google and Apple
Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time
Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
Relevant to your Interests
Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation
Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops
Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Google Guys Say Bye to California
Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era
Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability
Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer
The Fediverse Experiment
RIP the metaverse
Nonsense
American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members
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