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 (https://www.youtube.com/live/pIp9PXs0SDQ?si=rfo5EdiQCSn_qJo4) 521 (https://www.youtube.com/live/pIp9PXs0SDQ?si=rfo5EdiQCSn_qJo4)
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 (https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/)
Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/salesforce-informatica-deal.html)
Agentic
New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API (https://www.anthropic.com/news/agent-capabilities-api?utm_source=aibreakfast.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-developing-a-wearable-device&_bhlid=1206587f1dbd9e1b358248d2b751bb04aca32ebe)
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt/)
Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users (https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-brings-web-search-to-free-claude-users-224222689.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALjAuhaCUa960tMiV3B93BX-_2-Fq04ZYcRiw3-E8JOtY391-_OpEx7nj0HR6NVKVUUhqEZh0Az3M8wmsQhOkhickrd_80juraYFjgYIRNJobHYtZdUe3RvWsrTerX4cpTzkvysIumyb8_R4-e2ZfMMaofZrDNKJsZnLQa_kzZaO)
SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams (https://www.latent.space/p/token-data-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1084089&post_id=164381135&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=bucq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift (https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/673638/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-ai-search-web-future)
MCP Registry (https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry)
Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers (https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lq27z2k6cc2s)
If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP (https://thenewstack.io/if-ai-can-play-dungeons-dragons-it-can-run-your-erp/)
MCP is the RSS of AI (https://thenewstack.io/mcp-is-rss-for-ai-more-use-cases-for-model-context-protocol/)
Relevant to your Interests
Mistral's new Devstral AI model was designed for coding | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/mistrals-new-devstral-model-was-designed-for-coding/)
“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall (https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/)
From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane (https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/)
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-near-record-6-3-tbps-ddos/)
Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote: Everything Revealed, in 14 Minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGgBuJE0-s4)
Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money (https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/once-worth-over-1b-microsoft-backed-builder-ai-is-running-out-of-money/)
Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models (https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/meta-launches-program-to-encourage-startups-to-use-its-llama-ai-models/?utm_source=aibreakfast.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-developing-a-wearable-device&_bhlid=3602222175ca608068c014ef12dcf2a5d1d6536f)
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla (https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla/)
AWS Breaking Changes (https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes)
Cloud computing is too important to be left to the Big Three (https://on.ft.com/43FnwZc)
How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News (https://hbr.org/2025/05/how-to-lead-an-all-hands-after-delivering-bad-news)
Matt Hicks: CentOS move not popular, but better for open source (https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/infrastructure/131813/matt-hicks-centos-move-not-popular-but-better-for-open-source/)
How tech workers really feel about work right now (https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-really-feel-about)
Exposed: How ransom gang Lockbit negotiates payments (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/exposed--how-ransom-gang-lockbit-negotiates-payments.html)
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath (https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic)
U.S. public wants business to move slower on AI: Axios Harris 100 poll (https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/ai-harris-100-poll-move-slow)
Musk’s xAI signs Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms (https://on.ft.com/45tYlej)
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/)
After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad (https://www.theverge.com/news/674596/whatsapp-ipad-app-meta-availability)
Nonsense
Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies (https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1925648371508810182)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Cable Matters 100-Pack Cat 6 Pass Through RJ45 Connectors (https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Through-Stranded-Connectors/dp/B07PXMN2VK/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Pk41A&content-id=amzn1.sym.255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e%3Aamzn1.symc.a68f4ca3-28dc-4388-a2cf-24672c480d8f&pf_rd_p=255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e&pf_rd_r=B1A17R2AA5KDCVW0K92W&pd_rd_wg=kzlWJ&pd_rd_r=4c4d02be-bbb0-4de7-bc28-242f31111d53&ref_=pd_hp_d_atf_ci_mcx_mr_ca_hp_atf_d&th=1)
Matt: Electric Foot Massager (https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0C9HJJ7ZR)
Coté: Big Mac, inspired by Kenji’s home brew (https://youtu.be/52Gf_0odraY?si=74hGU4qqF5gjgZpp).
