Welcome back to SED News, a podcast from Software Engineering Daily featuring hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer, covering the latest in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the tech industry.
In this episode, Gregor and Sean explore Meta’s legal issues over AI training data, evaluate the strategic effects of Meta’s $14 billion investment in Scale AI, and assess how AI competition is changing the dynamics between tech giants like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google. They also spotlight intriguing Hacker News stories, including a solar-powered iPhone turned OCR server and a compelling argument for why some AI agents should just be SQL queries.
Gregor Vand is a technologist specializing in security and the founder and CTO of Mailpass, with a background in cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and software engineering companies across Asia Pacific for nearly ten years. Connect with him via vand.hk.
Sean has been an academic, startup founder, and Googler, with published works on AI to quantum computing. He is currently an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent, focusing on AI strategy and thought leadership, and can be reached on LinkedIn.
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