Episode Details

This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

Runner-up Titles

• Special Sauce
• A new monkey’s thing
• I am all for USB-C
• Did I like it
• It’s all water marked'
• That NPC did need to be there
• It's Pre-Watermarked
• We Need to Touch Grass More
• Send Us Your APIs

Rundown

• Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
• AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences
  • Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
  • Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
• Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything
  • The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
  • Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
  • How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
  • Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

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