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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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

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