Episode 522: A 5-star cannot stand

This week, we discuss Apple reversioning macOS, the steady state of private cloud, and Snowflake’s acquisition of CrunchyData. Plus, the eternal quest for a 5-star Uber rating.

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Runner-up Titles

• Saudi crypto money
• You know what humans like? Buses
• I think we need 10 stars
• Snow lion
• Maslow’s hierarchy of enterprise needs
• The Alexandria datacenter for French Telecom
• Always be cobbling
• 20-plus years of Internetting

Rundown

• Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems
• Private Cloud
  • Still a lot - private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
  • Private cloud still matters—but it doesn’t matter most
  • Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought)
  • Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated
• Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250 Million
• The AI browser wars are about to begin
• An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell About Coding With AI
• After Klarna, Zoom's CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call
• The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie
  • Lonny Ross from 30 Rock

Relevant to your Interests

• Exclusive: Meta splits AI team to move faster
• The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere
• DOGE Days
• Thanks to AI, Gen Z is replacing pitch decks with pitchforks
• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users
• The Future of Comments is Lies, I Guess
• Walmart Enters the Cloud Wars and Challenges Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP
• It’s Waymo’s World. We’re All Just Riding in It.
• Exclusive | Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI
• Space Forge raises $30M Series A to make chip materials in space
• AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers
• Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI
• Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data
• Ciroos.AI Emerges From Stealth, Raises $21M To Scale Agentic AI Tool For Operations Teams
• IBM Said to Have Pursued Informatica Ahead of Salesforce Deal
• Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out

Nonsense

• WeatherStar 4000+

Conferences

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