Welcome to SED News, a podcast by Software Engineering Daily hosted by Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer, focusing on recent developments in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the tech industry.
In this episode, they explore Meta’s legal issues concerning AI training data, analyze the impact of Meta’s $14 billion investment in Scale AI, and discuss how AI competition is altering dynamics among Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google. They also mention notable stories from Hacker News, such as a solar-powered iPhone turned into an OCR server, and an argument for why some AI agents should essentially be SQL queries.
Gregor Vand, a security-focused technologist and founder/CTO of Mailpass, has a background in cybersecurity and software engineering, living in Asia Pacific for about ten years. Sean Falconer, an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent, brings experience as an academic, startup founder, and Googler, with publications in AI and quantum computing.
For the episode’s transcript, click here.