2025: The State of Consumer AI, Menlo Ventures survey - “More than half of American adults (61%) have used AI in the past six months” - wow! Even for the millions who “just typed one thing at it for 45 seconds” (or whatever) that is a shit-ton.
Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) - A lot of thinking about EU sovereign cloud, from the fiber level to the social media level.
Europe’s Sovereign Cloud Crossroads: Competitiveness vs Control - “Why has cloud sovereignty become such a pressing issue? Nearly three-quarters (72%) of cloud services are provided with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in Europe, and up to 90% of European data resides outside EU-controlled infrastructure - therefore creating serious geopolitical and jurisdictional challenges for the EU."
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Versus VMs and Containers on Bare Metal - VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog - ”Your current VMware engineers need no special Kubernetes knowledge to manage both the VMs and the consumed Kubernetes components or clusters. Your platform engineers or developers can gain access through self service and your virtualization engineers can manage the virtual infrastructure as they always have.”
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and Private AI: Kubernetes On-Prem is “Having a Moment” - ‘I hear my customers say, “We don’t really know what we’re doing with AI, but we do know our competitors are doing something with it, so we have to do something with it too."’ And: “if you’re running VCF with vSphere 8.0 U3, with a few GPUs, you can start running VKS in a few hours and start processing those AI models."
32 notes on AI & writing, Jasmine Sun - Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors.
AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified - ”32% said it has increased the number of software development positions; only 8% cited a decline.” - What’s up with the other 60%?
Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce to Lead CNCF - Good appointments.
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal - Looks good, helpful, and fun.
How much does AI impact development speed? - “AI sped up task completion by ~21%.” // Aside: Love the implication that 21% is approximate. Are we talking a difference in decimals here, or the actually number? Is it between 21.08% and 21.5%, or 19% and 22%?