What platform did the author migrate to recently?

The author migrated from Mastodon to GoToSocial.

What was identified as the biggest news story of the week in the blog post?

The author identified Oracle's $300B win as the biggest story of the week.

Which companies received significant funding according to the 'Hot Takes Tuesday' section?

Motion, DataCrunch, Cognition, Reflection AI, and Mistral all received funding.

Jay Cuthrell September 14, 2025 Hot Fudge Sunday

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-14

GoToSocial, cybersecurity in hospitality, and more

Last Week

I migrated from Mastodon and decided on GoToSocial. It was pretty smooth but it is still early days for the Fediverse. Also, Jason Pullo at ESP, a NexusTek company shared insights on the top cybersecurity challenges in Hospitality.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/cybersecurity-challenges-in-hospitality

This Week

Work travel this week!

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-08

And my screener gets a bit closer…

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
ALAB	Astera Labs Inc	+11.52%
APP	Applovin Corp	+10.38%
ESTC	Elastic NV	+6.06%
LYFT	LYFT Inc	+5.93%
RBRK	Rubrik Inc	+4.89%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+4.55%
GTLB	Gitlab Inc	+4.51%

Yahoo Screener

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-09

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Motion (AI agents for SMBs): $38M
DataCrunch (European AI cloud hyperscaler): $59M
Cognition (AI coding tool): $400M
Reflection AI (AI coding tools): $1B
Mistral (French AI champion): $1.8B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-10

Sometimes the videos are not wacky or whimsical but they are… just… wonderful.

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

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-11

Today means many different things for many different people.

A post on governing by AI vs. governing of AI, caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250911/p25#a250911p25

Notable headlines in recent years are interesting to consider.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-12

I think the biggest story this week was Oracle’s $300B win.

https://www.techmeme.com/250910/p43#a250910p43

That’s a lot of power. Twinkie for scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzaQjS1JstY

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-13

One article squeaked into Friday news coverage that caught my eye.

I guess we’ll just have to wait a little while longer before we can embrace our new robot overlords.

https://www.techmeme.com/250912/p3#a250912p3

#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.