Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens
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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
- AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
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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