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About this Episode

This week, we revisit our 2021 Intel CEO predictions, discuss Hyperscaler AI investment concerns and debate LinkedIn content. Plus, which products could thrive if Google were broken up?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 480

Runner-up Titles

• New camera, dog is still here
• Teenagers can put away some meat
• We operated at a loss last year because of BBQ
• Dog ate your Internet
• Getting out of a Zoom
• Under the couch data center
• Excuse me can I plug in my Satellite Dish
• A lot of 86-stuff
• You shouldn’t be AI-ing that much
• Out of tokens, again
• Never bet against inertia
• Home of Markdown
• One cord, all power.

Rundown

• Looking back at Intel Predicatons
  • SDT Episode 281
  • Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
  • How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times
• Is AI too expensive for HyperScalers?
  • Microsoft’s AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality
  • Amazon's cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates
  • Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off
  • Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans
• Are all LinkedIn posts just a form of virtue signaling?
  • There’s One Thing You Really Don’t Need to Do After Getting Laid Off
• Lighting round
  • US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
  • H-E-B is finally testing Apple Pay,

Relevant to your Interests

• Why CSV is still king
• Missing Semester IAP 2020
• iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
• Sonos reportedly delaying two upcoming product releases to fix its misbehaving app
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
• Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success
• Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers
• Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake in spotlight as cloud consumption rose in July: BofA
• The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
• Google takes another startup out of the AI race
• How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
• Delta CEO offers employees free flights after CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos
• Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
• External Technical Root Cause Analysis

Nonsense

• not sure why barking at it didn't help tbh. 12/10 for both #weratedogs
• Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

Listener Feedback

• How South of the Border Keeps Going After All These Years
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• XBox Game Pass Ultimate

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Google Colab
• Matt: macOS Universal Control
• Coté: Present & Correct.

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