🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-23

Last Week

This Week

I’m looking forward to a second week without travel and before AWS re:Invent and Gartner IT IOCS. Let me know if you’ll be around.

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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-17

Today was a slow day for the screener with only one top tech mover.

SymbolCompany Name% Change
QUBTQuantum Computing Inc+7.83%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-18

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

  • Peec AI (AI brand search visibility): $21M
  • Sphere (AI tax compliance platform): $21M
  • Agentio (AI creator campaign automation): $40M
  • Maxima (AI automated accounting tasks): $41M
  • Lambda (AI compute cloud infrastructure): $1.5B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-19

First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.

Wacky Wonderful

Homestar Anniversary Merch

  • 25 years of the website (and counting)
  • Trogdor the Burninator Polo
  • Whimsical Harlequin playing cards

Wayback

Amazon Kindle Launched (2007)

  • “The iPod of reading” debuts at $399
  • Sold out in 5.5 hours
  • Whispernet (Sprint EVDO, no Wi-Fi needed!)

Whoa

Gemini 3 Arrives

  • “Deep Think” reasoning mode
  • Google Gemini turns 3 after only 2 years 7 months
  • Multimodal mastery (Video-MMMU 87.6%)

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-20

Here is what was making waves in tech history on this day.

5 Years Ago: November 20, 2020

The orderly transfer of power for the US Govt was performed… using a Google Workspace and Titan Security Keys.

10 Years Ago: November 20, 2015

If you were a cola fan, you might have been in the market for… the Pepsi Phone.

15 Years Ago: November 20, 2010

COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) was the latest bill attempting to balance concerns with censorship and IP protections… it would fail, but only to be rewritten as the PROTECT IP Act… which also failed to advance.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-21

📈 ⛏️ 💰 The biggest story this week was NVIDIA’s Q3 earnings.

The shovel-selling business remains the only sure bet in town for now. Pricing power consumption is a beautiful thing.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-22

The goal of Sneak Peak Saturday is to sift through Friday news dumps for the stories designed or timed to be forgotten by Monday that represent peak patronizing publishing.

This time, it’s a tale as old as Silicon Valley, where the “safety first” mission statement for physical intelligence is alleged to have ignored all previous instructions. The title of this tale is, “Figure AI sued by its (former) head of product safety”.

Combined with misanthropic misalignment of non-physical intelligence training, this could lead to a dystopian outcome. If the literally skull-crushing allegations are true, this would alter the “move fast and break things” cliché to convey an even more chilling connotation in our likely future.

#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:

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