370: Gates Says AI Might Take Your Job, Ctrl-Alt-Delete Career

Welcome to episode 370 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re super lucky this week, since Ryan has arranged his busy napping schedule to allow for recording the episode, and he’s joined by Justin (also not napping) to discuss all the latest in cloud and AI news, including more detail on the Hugging Face hack by OpenAI’s Skynet, Bill Gates’ thoughts that are totally not dystopian, and more issues with OpenAI and Elon. It’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

Amazon Buys the Duck, Promises Not to Cook It

AWS Adds DuckDB Team, Snowflake Feathers Get Ruffled

Judge Says Claude Ban Was Un-Constitution-al

AWS Bandwidth Buffet Lets You Pick Your Poison

OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hug Turns Into a Chokehold

Google Cloud Wants To Ruin Your Day (Safely)

Patch Tuesday Meets Its Match, Loses Badly

Claude Fable Gets Cheaper, Mythos Stays Mythical Costs

CloudWatch Finally Addresses the Elephants in the Room with PostgreSQL

Bill Gates Predicts AI Layoffs, Windows of Opportunity Closing