Episode Details

This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 521

Runner-up Titles

• Don’t ride a bike for a week
• You’ve got to focus on the important things
• What’s your NPS score?
• It all comes back to CSV
• THIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE.
• You need an MCP.Factory
• Crimp and Hope

Rundown

• Sam & Jony introduce io
• Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal
• Agentic
  • New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API
  • Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
  • Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users
  • SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift
  • MCP Registry
  • Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers
  • If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP
  • MCP is the RSS of AI

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