Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby

This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586 Runner-up Titles Special Sauce A new monkey’s thing I am all for USB-C Did I like it It’s all water marked' That NPC did need to be there It's Pre-Watermarked We Need to Touch Grass More Send Us Your APIs Rundown Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity Relevant to Your Interests Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market The shapeshifter's little brother Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Listener Feedback Milestone iOS App Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: TextSniper Coté: the dndbeyond.com API for AI: curl -s "https://character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v5/character/145972701" Sponsored By: WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA Promo Code: DEVPOD50