Episode 521: The MacGuffin

This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles.

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Runner-up Titles

• Don’t ride a bike for a week


• You’ve got to focus on the important things


• What’s your NPS score?


• It all comes back to CSV


• THIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE.


• You need an MCP.Factory


• Crimp and Hope

Rundown

• Sam & Jony introduce io


• Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal


• Agentic
  
  
  • New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API
  
  
  • Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
  
  
  • Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users
  
  
  • SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams
  
  
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift
  
  
  • MCP Registry
  
  
  • Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers
  
  
  • If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP
  
  
  • MCP is the RSS of AI
  
  

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Nonsense

• Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies

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