Episode 478: Beware of the Llama

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
  
  

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• CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This


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• 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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