Episode Details

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'

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