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.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 478 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiUufwNdU4)
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 (https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/investing/southwest-airlines-assigned-seats/index.html)
Meta
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/)
Try Llama (https://www.meta.ai/?utm_source=llama_meta_site&utm_medium=web&utm_content=Llama_nav&utm_campaign=July_moment)
Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-31/meta-reports-better-than-expected-quarterly-advertising-sales)
MSFT
Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-stock-drops-over-6-after-results-fall-short-in-latest-ai-disappointment-201321390.html)
Azure outage (https://x.com/AzureSupport/status/1818294946270461983)
Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsofts-costs-focus-fears-rise-103203838.html)
AWS Spring Cleaning
The end of the Everything Cloud (https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-end-of-the-everything-cloud?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Codecommit - cannot create a repository (https://repost.aws/questions/QUshILm0xbTjWJZSD8afYVgA/codecommit-cannot-create-a-repository)
AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO (https://www.thestack.technology/aws-deprecations-services-codecommit/?ref=the-stack-newsletter)
CrowdStrike Follow Up
Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver)
Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/delta-hires-david-boies-to-seek-damages-from-crowdstrike-microsoft-.html)
4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers (https://www.threads.net/@firstadopter/post/C-FrAyHuYZP)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us (https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us)
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/)
Lighting Round
Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205449/apple-maps-web-beta)
100 million using WhatsApp across the United States (https://blog.whatsapp.com/100-million-using-whatsapp-across-the-united-states)
Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/sonos-apologized-for-messing-up-its-app-and-has-offered-a-roadmap-for-fixing-everything-191528422.html)
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205701/openai-searchgpt-ai-search-engine-google-perplexity-rival)
Relevant to your Interests
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations)
Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/david-sacks-paul-graham-silicon-valley-names-brawl-on-x-over-vc-behavior/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIUZwXuCjayx29QLzGycNVIZ4GinuSkEJ0LhF-rJF375790uTpToPI1T1owK8c3om9O_eKPpLLzqlHHAkj5tTa3hbJdlPOnOTHuniZ3KctVZwq_s_69Xk6h4OPtGZulAKZD9XVzK8bRj6OwTlk4zYxuyzWWeNwUZkbU18RfbJxJx)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/)
Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/report-apple-begins-serious-work-on-a-foldable-iphone)
Who will control the future of AI? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/25/sam-altman-ai-democracy-authoritarianism-future/)
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/22/google-cancels-plans-to-kill-off-cookies-for-advertisers.html)
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/360952/summer-travel-airport-facial-recognition-scan)
Announcing Chainguard's Series C (https://x.com/chainguard_dev/status/1816455710080704807?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it (https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-highly-anticipated-voice-mode-to-launch-next-week-heres-how-to-get-it)
CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This (https://www.wsj.com/tech/crowdstrikes-ceo-george-kurtz-failure-global-tech-outage-microsoft-windows-07d27a4a)
Why open source is not a good strategy for startups. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_oss-opensource-startups-activity-7223432828749815809-N_iI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios)
CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too (https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/crowdstrike-outage-puts-its-financial-reporting-under-scrutiny-too-25ad9e9b?st=iliigq6v6581t4g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)
Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-second-quarter-2024-earnings-131726123.html)
Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/29/apple-admits-to-using-google-tensor-hardware-to-train-apple-intelligence)
The re:Invent session catalog was released (https://registration.awsevents.com/flow/awsevents/reinvent24/public/page/catalog/?trk=e83a[…]EeRwzQ5l2ltCKT2Gkyqogx8LCLJOz7_az4jTAAYwK9hsNLDSiwmKa7g)
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow (https://thenewstack.io/salary-pressures-not-ai-vex-developers-says-stack-overflow/)
Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019 (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lawrence-hecht_developer-unemployment-at-highest-level-since-activity-7224056653761916928-ov9N?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs (https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1800912075171999884)
Nonsense
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