PepsiCo taps AWS to accelerate digital transformation, AI adoption | CIO Dive - ”Enterprises across industries are facing ballooning cloud bills as AI adoption drives up costs. Nearly 3 in 4 IT pros blamed the AI boom for ‘unmanageable’ cloud bills last year.”
A behind the scenes glimpse of the launch of GPT-4 - Fun anecdotes about OpenAI figuring out that ChatGPT was a big deal, and then marketing around it. // “Another little detail about the launch video is that we didn’t use titles for any of the OpenAI employees. Even to this day OpenAI is an incredibly flat organization. I watched a DeepMind video where every talking head had a title and it seemed like a caste system. While I don’t know if that’s really how it is there, I wanted to show that at OpenAI titles didn’t matter all that much. The one exception to titles were the people from Microsoft that appeared. I was given very specific instructions from them about titles. Microsoft even flew one of their execs down on a private jet so he could be in the video.” // Considering the goodwill and share value that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI likely brought, well worth it.
The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go - Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and it’s bigger than Hughes. Obsession works–in short bursts, in narrow contexts, with clear feedback loops. But scale it up, let it harden into infrastructure, and it starts to rot the system from the inside. Hughes structurally disallowed any process he couldn’t control. That works in a cockpit. It fails in a boardroom."
Getting things “done” in large tech companies - If the executives don’t know you did something cool, you didn’t do something cool. Legible.
Broadcom’s Tanzu gets AI updates, but is definitely not Kubernetes - Purnima Padmanabhan, GM for Tanzu, explained that these updates can lower the barrier of entry for developers and allow users to more quickly run their applications with AI integration “while maintaining complete security and lower down time… Even though it’s more advanced, it’s actually easier to adopt because I don’t have to have skill sets in my developers to muck around with YAML files and configurations. I don’t have to have people know and spell the various projects in Kubernetes like service mesh or what is your service discovery.”
VMware ups Tanzu’s gen AI support, sheds Kubernetes dependence - Tanzu Platform integrates generative AI capabilities and shifts away from Kubernetes, aiming to streamline AI application development and deployment.
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a ‘ghost’ branch of humanity - A lost genetic line.
Top 10 Platform Engineering Takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025 - I should probably read this.