Episode Details

This week, we discuss Meta making Llama "open source," Microsoft (over)investing in AI, and AWS doing some spring cleaning. Plus, a lightning round and lamenting the end of Southwest Airlines' open seating.

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Runner-up Titles

• Meat in pastry
• Llama in sheep’s clothing
• Cookies again
• Joining the ranks of the rank
• I don’t like it, but I like the things he said
• Rug pull source
• Where is the source for legless VR?
• Be quiet and do your job
• They’re all ruthless

Rundown

• Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating
• Meta
  • Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
  • Try Llama
  • Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump
• MSFT
  • Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment
  • Azure outage
  • Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI
• AWS Spring Cleaning
  • The end of the Everything Cloud
  • Codecommit - cannot create a repository
  • AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
• CrowdStrike Follow Up
  • Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
  • Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
  • 4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers
  • How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
  • Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
• Lighting Round
  • Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
  • 100 million using WhatsApp across