This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches.

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Runner-up Titles

• Yeehaw Buns


• Bush Turkey


• Pigs in Blanket


• The Czech Stop


• "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor"


• “I’m over here in Gemini-land.”


• What if this is as good as it gets?


• How smart are humans?


• You’re Tony Randall!


• Is this the dystopian future we signed up for?


• Extreme in Hungary (Tilberg, actually)


• I don’t think there’s a honey-badger outcome.


• All the porridge


• A bedtime story for investors

Rundown

• OpenAI
  
  
  
  
  • OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know
  
  
  • OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users
  
  
  • GPT-5 is alive
  
  
  • OpenAI is raising money at a $300 billion valuation
  
  
  • Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread
  
  
  • Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
  
  
  • Mr. Short-Term Memory
  
  


• The AI Ecosystem Apps are growing
  
  
  
  
  • Your AI workloads still need a service mesh
  
  
  • AI Security Company | Manage GenAI Risks & Secure LLM Apps
  
  
  • Requesty - Unified LLM Platform
  
  
  • The latest AI news we announced in July
  
  


• Oxide and Friends | Oxide's $100M Series B

Relevant to Your Interests

• Google Pixel 10 | Soon


• The Man Who Beat IBM


• Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"


• Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School


• The 20-Year David Ellison Plan


• AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)


• Ford's cheaper, simpler $30K electric vehicles are how 'we can make money on EVs,' CEO says


• Goodbye API Keys: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation


• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File


• Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately


• Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub


• GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke

Nonsense

• The FDA Wants to Change the Definition of Orange Juice for the First Time in 60 Years

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.


• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.


• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.


• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.


• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.


• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.


• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.


• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: AirPods Max


• Matt: Devolutionary Times


• Coté:
  
  
  
  
  • “Connaissais de Face,”
  
  
  • “Evan Finds The Third Room.”
  
  
  • Live performance of the song “People Everywhere”
  
  

Photo Credits

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