This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.

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Runner-up Titles

• Coté is in a Dungeon
• Everything’s going to be different
• What would Stringer Bell say?
• Displacing Google
• Great Grammarly
• A room full of barking dogs
• A little bit of hustle porn.
• Over value activity
• A whole room with barking dogs

Rundown

• Clouded Judgement 5.3.24
• OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
• Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation
• That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
• The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
• HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM

Relevant to your Interests

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• Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive
• Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech
• Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch
• Open sourcing Octo STS
• Apple is an edge computing company.
• EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch
• Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch
• VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom
• Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment
• How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
• UniSuper and GCP
• AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt
• Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age
• Why companies list fake jobs

Nonsense

• Justice for cord boxes!!!
• Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary
• North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs
• Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco

Conferences

• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
• MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

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