Today I’m joined by Olivier Pomel, cofounder/CEO of Datadog. We trace his path from French open-source tinkerer to NYC founder, the dev-vs-ops friction that sparked Datadog, finding product-market fit through integrations, and the choice to stay independent en route to a 2019 IPO and S&P 500. Olivier shares scaling war stories, culture and GTM lessons, and what observability means in an AI era. If you build software—or companies—this one’s packed with playbooks, from hiring to pricing to platform bets that work.
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(CORRECT) OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple
(Sorry about the editing error earlier)
Nvidia is investing in self-driving AI tech. Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI tool. Would you tolerate advertisements on the screen of your smart refrigerator? And why Apple executives are growing worried about OpenAI’s hardware plans.
Nvidia in talks for $500mn investment in UK self-driving start-up Wayve (FT)
Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream (Wired)
Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges (ArsTechnica)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company (NYTimes)
OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners (The Information)
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OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple
Nvidia is investing in self-driving AI tech. Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI tool. Would you tolerate advertisements on the screen of your smart refrigerator? And why Apple executives are growing worried about OpenAI’s hardware plans.
Nvidia in talks for $500mn investment in UK self-driving start-up Wayve (FT)
Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream (Wired)
Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges (ArsTechnica)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company (NYTimes)
OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners (The Information)
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Nvidia And Intel Get Together
Has Intel found the big customer for its Foundry that it needs to survive? The big tie up with Nvidia announced this morning. All the announces from Meta’s event last night. Smartglasses and maybe the Metaverse is still a thing. And AI pattern matching might work as well for health prediction as it has proven to do with weather forecasting.
Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal (Tom's Hardware)
Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses (Road to VR)
Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets (The Verge)
New AI model predicts susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases (FT)
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Nvidia In Trouble In China Again
The framework of a TikTok deal is finally coming together. Nvidia suffers another major setback in China. Bunch of new AI stuff from YouTube. A coming MacBook with a touchscreen. And a roundup of the reviews of the iPhone Air.
U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China (WSJ)
China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia’s AI chips (FT)
YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts (TechCrunch)
YouTube announces new generative AI tools for Shorts creators (TechCrunch)
Kuo: OLED MacBook Pro to Feature Touch Screen Display (MacRumors)
AI Chip Startup Groq Raises $750 Million at $6.9 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Apple iPhone Air review: statement piece (The Verge)
Listener survey link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/779588/apple-iphone-air-review-battery-camera
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