361: Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works

Welcome to episode 361 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! It’s a full house tonight – Justin, Ryan, Jonathan (and eventually) Matt are all in the studio this week to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including a greenlight for Mythos, an ACME product that *doesn’t* involve an anvil, and a couple of new models from Anthropic and OpenAI. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get into it!

Titles we almost went with this week

Azure EU Capacity Is Full. Please Try Another Continent

OpenAI Names Models After Planets, Charges Like a Rocket

Gemini Spark Now Watches Stocks While You Touch Grass

Three Tiers Walk Into a Bar, Sol Picks Up the Tab

Anthropic Drops Sonnet 5 and Bugs Fix Themselves Now

Your Mac Has a New AI Overlord Named Spark

CloudFormation Finally Stops Waiting Around Like Your CI Pipeline

AI Agents Finally Get Their Own Office Space

No Room at the Cloud Inn for EU Workloads

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