This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.

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Runner-up Titles

Do what works
Blame the children
I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
I like carrots

Rundown

A.I. Announcements
Palace Intrigue

Relevant to your Interests

Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
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Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein
Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year
Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business
Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp?
How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount
Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake?
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal
Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson
Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!

Nonsense

Conferences

Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

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Recommendations

Brandon: Dark Matter
Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson.

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