Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.

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Runner-up Titles

• I love throwing stuff in the trash.

• Dillo dirt’s a thing.

• BurgerOps.

• Thomas opens for Richard.

• Department of “No” people

• Starfish Stomach Model

• Enterprise — come into me

• The Organization will Assimilate it

• Gold plaques all around

• He can let his freak flag fly

• Take the first billion dollar offer

Rundown

• Google Next

• Welcome to Google Cloud Next26

• Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post

• Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")

• Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook

• Cursor Watch

• Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

• There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor

• SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

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