Episode Details

This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?

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Runner-up Titles

• Swedish Death Cleaning
• Give it a best effort
• Trying it bad for profits.
• That pen better be really good
• You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool
• Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes.
• The Kremlinologist of AWS
• The aaSes of Cloud
• They’ll like our apples better
• Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist
• What we have is a situation

Rundown

• Apple gets AI from Google
  • Joint statement from Google and Apple
  • Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time
  • Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI
• AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate

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