371: MrBeast Bets on Gemini for Survival

Welcome to episode 371 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is away this week, so Matt and Ryan are doing their best to keep things on track and bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including even more models, like OpenAI’s Astra and Google’s Mantis (It eats the bad bugs! Get it?) Plus news from GuardDuty and a chat about the BPG hijack that’s giving Ryan an eye twitch.

There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

AI Agents Need Babysitters, AWS Says Zero Trust

Softaculous Gets Hacked, Signs Nothing, Regrets Everything

GuardDuty Watches the Robots, So You Don’t Have To

Cloudflare Hires AI Bouncer for Vulnerability Nightclub

AWS Ships Linux From The Future, Enforcing Included

Amazon’s Guard Dog Learns 35 New Tricks

OpenAI Launches Astra, Bills You By The Token

GPT-6 Goes Agentic, Legacy Apps Never Saw It Coming

MrBeast Bets on Gemini for Survival