SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily, hosted by Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer, highlighting significant stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the tech industry.
This episode discusses the $1.7B acquisition of Security AI, LangChain’s significant valuation, and the unexpected $300M funding round for Periodic Labs. They analyze the major AWS outage, Apple’s unique reconsideration of its glass UI design, and the developing network of trillion-dollar AI infrastructure deals around OpenAI.
Gregor and Sean then explore the chipmaking sector, detailing Intel’s fight for survival, AMD’s new partnership and 10% investment from OpenAI, Apple’s strategic move towards on-device AI with its M5 chips, and NVIDIA’s efforts to uphold its market leadership amid rising custom-chip competition.
Additionally, they spotlight notable Hacker News threads, such as developers rediscovering the versatility of curl and a hacker’s ingenious dismantling of Kindle’s DRM protections.
