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.
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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
Meta
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
Try Llama
Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump
MSFT
Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment
Azure outage
Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI
AWS Spring Cleaning
The end of the Everything Cloud
Codecommit - cannot create a repository
AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
CrowdStrike Follow Up
Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Lighting Round
Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
100 million using WhatsApp across the United States
Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
Relevant to your Interests
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone
Who will control the future of AI?
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
Announcing Chainguard's Series C
ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it
CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This
Why open source is not a good strategy for startups.
CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations
Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence
The re:Invent session catalog was released
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow
Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019
Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs
Nonsense
The Scale of Life
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