This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday.
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Runner-up Titles
- The world is just paper.
- TODO debris pile
- Fancy countries you live in
- Enron Conspiracy Shredder.
- Cote’s mom’s gonna love this
- Brandon works out his Workday trauma.
- Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang
- ChatGPT PS Edition
- Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday
- It’ll probably work, that’s the future
Rundown
- Earnings
- Cloud Giants Update
- Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth
- Microsoft calls for $190 billion in 2026 capital spending on soaring memory prices
- Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion
- Meta stock drops on quarterly results
- Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips
- How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks
- Services
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- IBM Bob hits 80,000 developers with 45% productivity gains
- Shares of eBay take off on a $56 billion buyout bid from GameStop's Ryan Cohen
- Wall Street Rollup (@WallStRollup) on X
- The Venture-Capital Populist
- Cursor's $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model
- What you're actually writing when you write a SKILL.md
- So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet
- No more Jeeves: Ask.com officially shuttered
- OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope
- Workload Identity Federation
- AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download - AWS
- IREN Announces Acquisition of Mirantis to Strengthen AI Cloud Delivery Capabilities
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