Episode 496: It’s Not About Being Paranoid
Update: 2024-12-06
Description
This week, we discuss Intel’s CEO “resignation,” the rise of custom silicon, and the biggest announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some thoughts on the simple satisfaction of label makers.
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Runner-up Titles
- re:Primitives
- Primitives, Re:invented
- Chatbots, Call Center Agents and Dev Co-Pilots.
- Thanksquitting
- Even the paranoid die
- Pardon me while I commoditize your business.
- Being paranoid has nothing to do with it
- This is a trailing indicator
- Robotic Cows.
- ARMchair Quarterbacking (that was funny!)
- Arm is going to get X86’d
- One Bill
Rundown
- Intel
- Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
- Intel CEO Forced Out After Board Grew Frustrated With Progress
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Resigns After Struggling to Turn Around Chip Maker
- Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality
- Are Intel’s Problems Too Big to Fix?
- Nvidia Keeps Its Old Chips Selling Hot
- AWS Re:invent 2024
- Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 | Amazon Web Services
- CEO Matt Garman unveils the future of cloud with generative AI and agentic workflows
- Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview)
- Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available
- New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests
- Build faster, more cost-efficient, highly accurate models with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation (preview)
- New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
- New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock
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- Modern Work Fucking Sucks.
- Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform
- Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025
- Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale
- LogicMonitor's massive $800M raise shows AI is driving the demand monitoring
Nonsense
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