This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.
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Runner-up Titles
- Do what works
- Blame the children
- I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
- I like carrots
Rundown
- A.I. Announcements
- Palace Intrigue
Relevant to your Interests
- Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
- Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics?
- Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein
- Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year
- Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business
- Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp?
- How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount
- Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake?
- Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
- DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
- Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal
- Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson
- Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year
- Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
- DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
Nonsense
- YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125!
- Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
- World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time
Conferences
- Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
- 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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Recommendations
- Brandon: Dark Matter
- Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson.
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