A 5-star cannot stand
Episode 522 · June 6th, 2025 · 1 hr 20 secs
About this Episode
This week, we discuss Apple reversioning macOS, the steady state of private cloud, and Snowflake’s acquisition of CrunchyData. Plus, the eternal quest for a 5-star Uber rating.
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Runner-up Titles
- Saudi crypto money
- You know what humans like? Buses
- I think we need 10 stars
- Snow lion
- Maslow’s hierarchy of enterprise needs
- The Alexandria datacenter for French Telecom
- Always be cobbling
- 20-plus years of Internetting
Rundown
- Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems
- Private Cloud
- Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250 Million
- The AI browser wars are about to begin
- An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell About Coding With AI
- After Klarna, Zoom's CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call
- The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie
- Lonny Ross from 30 Rock
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- The Future of Comments is Lies, I Guess
- Walmart Enters the Cloud Wars and Challenges Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP
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- Exclusive | Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI
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- AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers
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- Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data
- Ciroos.AI Emerges From Stealth, Raises $21M To Scale Agentic AI Tool For Operations Teams
- IBM Said to Have Pursued Informatica Ahead of Salesforce Deal
- Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out
Nonsense
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