Failover Weekly: IPOs, Raccoons, and the Pope
This week had the kind of range that makes you remember why this is a great beat. A hardware IPO, the Vatican weighing in on AI labor policy, Microsoft Build fallout, and a raccoon metaphor for service mesh security that's better than most whitepapers. Let's get into it.
From the Network
The Enterprise AI Show
Episode 1033: Cerebras is Disrupting the Market with Fast Inference
Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras AI, breaks down the structural case for centralized inference over distributed GPU clusters — and why the economics may favor the WSE architecture in ways that compound over time. Well-timed given Cerebras's AI IPO earlier this year.
Episode 1032: How Will Team Collaboration Evolve Within Enterprise AI?
The harder organizational question: which teams can actually govern and scale AI agents? Covers governance standardization, bottom-up vs. top-down alignment, and what success metrics even mean when the workflows themselves are being rewritten.
Software Defined Talk
NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build recaps, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race — a lot happened this week. We also got sidetracked by credit card insurance, because that's just who we are.
The Cloud Pod
TCP Talks: Keep the Raccoons Out
Linkerd creator William Morgan explains why securing agentic workloads is basically a raccoon problem — they get in through gaps you didn't know existed. Service mesh, MCP security, and why this is harder than most teams think.
Episode 356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
Pope Leo entered the AI ethics conversation this week. Plus: intelligence agencies acquiring AI models, and a GitHub supply chain vulnerability worth knowing about.
What We're Listening To
Tech: Designed in California — Episode 1
Jason Snell and Myke Hurley (of Upgrade) just launched a new show dedicated to the history of Apple. If you've ever wanted a deep, serious dive into how the company actually got built — this is promising from the jump.
Tech-Adjacent: The Daily: How the Trump Administration Is Trying to Regulate AI
The Daily walks through the administration's approach to AI policy just as the big AI IPOs are starting to roll out. The regulatory picture is going to matter a lot for where this industry goes next.
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