🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-17

Last Week

I made several updates to the workflow last week.

This Week

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

✈️

💺

🛜

🤓

📈 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.

SymbolName% Change
GRNDGrindr Inc7.38%
IONQIONQ Inc6.88%

By comparison…

Yahoo Finance Screener

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-12

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-13

🔙 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

Oracle, Google strike AI deal | LinkedIn

Oracle, Google strike AI deal | LinkedIn

The partnership will allow businesses and software developers to use the Google AI models and Oracle's cloud simultaneously.

2010

Google and Oracle trade legal blows and barbs

Why Oracle, not Sun, sued Google over Java

Why Oracle, not Sun, sued Google over Java

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition.

✅ 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.

Trade experts: Nvidia's and AMD's deals to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is “unprecedented” and a sign of “a new and dangerous world”

Trade experts: Nvidia's and AMD's deals to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is “unprecedented” and a sign of “a new and dangerous world”

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

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 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

View this page on GitHub.

NexusTekThanks to NexusTek for sponsoring the free version of this newsletter post 🤓