🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-17

Updates to workflows, tech throwbacks and more

August 17, 2025

Last Week

I made several updates to the workflow last week.

• Hot Fudge Daily is now free and posted on fudge.org.
• Unfurling of URLs is adding some splash to the look and feel.
• Buttondown APIs are powering my writing workflow and Sunday email deliveries.

This Week

Once again, I will be making updates from the road.

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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-11

My second attempt at the screener approximation of Yahoo Finance screener is getting a little closer. More to do.

By comparison…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-12

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

• Tahoe Therapeutics (building AI models of cells): $30M
• Profound (optimizing brands for AI search): $35M
• Squint (AI and AR for manufacturing): $40M
• Merge Labs (OpenAI backed rival to Neuralink): $250M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpQ5bcxouw

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-14

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making starkly different headlines in the tech world on this day many years ago.

2025

Google and Oracle trade AI clouds and models

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/oracle-google-strike-ai-deal-6495180/

2010

Google and Oracle trade legal blows and barbs

https://www.cnet.com/culture/why-oracle-not-sun-sued-google-over-java/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-15

I believe the biggest story this week was the reported deal that would require a 👀 15% (originally 20% depending on the news source) 👀 cut of revenue that would be paid directly to… a government. In this instance, the US government and two companies; NVIDIA and AMD.

https://www.techmeme.com/250811/p10#a250811p10

Of course, allegations, actions, and historical instances of pay-to-play is not a new thing. For such a young country, 100 years of US history goes by in the blink of an eye. So, if “data is the new oil” holds true, the future of our AI value chain might rhyme with history.

#OpenToWork Weekly

I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.

I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we’ve grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

• Congrats Kelly Britt 🎉
• Congrats Tamera Rousseau King 🎉
• Congrats Thomas Chatham 🎉
• Congrats Dan Kelleher 🎉
• Congrats Jarrod Weise 🎉
• Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉
• Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
• Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
• Congrats Rich Green 🎉
• Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
• Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
• Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

• Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
• Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
• Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
• Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
• Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
• Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
• Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
• Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
• Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
• Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
• Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
• Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
• Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
• Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
• Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
• Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
• Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership

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