Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news about Mythos, Amazon finally becoming a utility, and even an aftershow where we discuss the computing power of Artemis. It’s a great show, so let’s get started!

• Three StorageClasses Walk Into an AI Workload
• Deprecated Models Don’t Die, They Just Fail Your API Calls
• SQL Walks Into a Graph Bar and Stays
• Too Many Agents Spoil the Workflow
• One Registry to Rule All Your Rogue AI Agents
• Eight CPUs Walk Into Space, Only One Comes Back
• Stop Retyping the Same Gemini Prompt Like a Caveman
• Claude Code Routines Let AI Work While You Sleep
• AWS Builds a Yellow Pages for Your AI Agents
• GPT Finally Stops Refusing to Talk About Hacking
• None of the hosts is ready for Next
• We are once again trying to look into our next next next crystal ball and failing
• Google is gonna announce AI, it’s just mandatory now
• Las Vegas is calling, our Livers are crying

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They’ve been doing this in Europe for years, 15,000-plus attendees in Berlin, it’s one of the biggest developer events over there. Coté from Software Defined Talk is actually speaking at their Berlin event this summer, so we’ve got some firsthand context here. In September, they’re launching the North America edition. San José, September 23 to 25. 500-plus speakers, 18 tracks — cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, AI, data engineering, all of it. Speakers from Datadog, Honeycomb, Sentry, Google, LinkedIn, and Stack Overflow. Olivier Pomel, Christine Yen, Milin Desai, Kelsey Hightower – plus workshops and masterclasses, not just talks. These are people who know how to do a developer conference at scale. wearedevelopers.us, code DEVPOD26 for 15% off. Group rates on top of that for 4 or more.

01:47 AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier

• Since the original Mythos/Project Glasswing announcement, AISLE published follow-up testing showing that small, inexpensive open-weight models can replicate much of the vulnerability detection work Anthropic attributed to Mythos, with all 8 tested models detecting the flagship FreeBSD NFS buffer overflow, including a 3.6B parameter model costing $0.11 per million tokens.
• A notable correction to the framing of the original announcement: cybersecurity AI capability does not scale smoothly with model size or cost.
• Model rankings reshuffle completely across different security tasks, meaning there is no single b...

Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this and more – so let’s get started!

• AWS Console Gets a Makeover Nobody Asked For
• From Eight Hours to 22 Seconds, Hackers Got Fast
• AWS Spring Cleaning Hits Nine Services Hard
• Trivy Pursuit Turns Into a 500K Credential Heist
• Skip the Consultant, AWS Security Now Hacks Itself
• AWS Pen Testing Agent Pokes Your Cloud Around the Clock
• Your Cringey Gmail Address Gets a Second Chance
• Stop Babysitting Servers, Let Google Handle MCP
• AI Agent Untangles Your Kubernetes Networking Spaghetti
• One Bad Actor Poisons a Hundred Million Downloads
• Lambda Finally Hits the Gym with 32 GB
• From GPU Hype to Production Inference Without the Hyperscaler Headache

01:28 Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says

• A US District Judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of War’s blacklisting, ruling the designation was First Amendment retaliation rather than a legitimate national security action.
• The court found officials lacked authority to blacklist Anthropic without considering less restrictive alternatives or providing evidence of an urgent security risk, noting the designation was triggered by Anthropic’s “hostile manner through the press.”
• The practical business impact was already substantial before the ruling, with three trade deals cancelled and other potential partners delaying negotiations, representing potentially billions in lost contracts over five years.
• Anthropic continues to balance the legal fight with maintaining its government relationships, publicly emphasizing alignment with the Department of War’s mission around safe AI deployment even while litigating against it.
• For cloud and AI vendors, this case establishes a notable precedent around government procurement decisions and First Amendment protections, with implications for how companies publicly challenge federal contracting positions.

02:35 Jonathan – “I’m guessing Anthropic is super busy with all the people coming to them for deals right now, because it seems to me that Anthropic is getting all the business customers and OpenAI are getting the personal customers.”

04:08 Delve Announces Changes and New Customer Support Measures

• Delve has responded to allegations from an anonymous Substack post by denying claims of faked evidence, clarifying that independent AICPA-accredited auditors, not Delve, issue SOC 2 reports and ISO 27001 certifications.
• The company published...