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.
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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
- Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")
- Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook
- Cursor Watch
Relevant to your Interests
- Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase
- Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
- Snapchat owner cuts 16% of global staff in latest round of job cuts
- Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta
- DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.
- Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms
- China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports
- Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
- AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
- Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE
- Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology
- Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration
- Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product
- OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup
- Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
- The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
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Nonsense
- Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
- Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot
Conferences
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
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- WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
- DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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- DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
- DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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