Agent Assimilation

About this Episode

This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569

Runner-up Titles

• I love throwing stuff in the trash.
• Dillo dirt’s a thing.
• BurgerOps.
• Thomas opens for Richard.
• Department of “No” people
• Starfish Stomach Model
• Enterprise — come into me
• The Organization will Assimilate it
• Gold plaques all around
• He can let his freak flag fly
• Take the first billion dollar offer

Rundown

• Google Next
  • Welcome to Google Cloud Next26
  • Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post
• Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")
• Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook
• Cursor Watch
  • Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
  • There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor
  • SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

Relevant to your Interests

• Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase
• Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
• Snapchat owner cuts 16% of global staff in latest round of job cuts
• Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta
• DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.
• Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms
• China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports
• Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
• AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
• Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE
• Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology
• Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration
• Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product
• OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
  • Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster
  • OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding
  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 \ Anthropic

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Nonsense

• Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
• Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Claude /team-onboarding
  • The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work
• Matt: Resident Alien
• Coté: and