Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587 Runner-up Titles Inertia wins again We don’t talk about the Pope very much. Better than this year’s storage arrays AI pimps its own ride Chonking machine A lot of chonk opportunity I’m tired of tech people being all fancy Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron No religion, no politics, no AI My recommendation: try harder Teletubbies for Adults. Rundown Singularity, Models and Routers Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time The AI backlash goes mainstream 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? The AI Hater's Manifesto 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents Relevant to your Interests Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors Nonsense Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works 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, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. 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: Tuner ** Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents Matt: Tech, Texas & What It Takes to Run a Podcast with Matt Ray | Cyber Chat Ep. 5 Line of Duty Anti-pick: Roku’s New Slop Channel Coté: Mini MLC, 30L. Sponsored By: WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA Promo Code: DEVPOD50