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• The Agentic Series 2#: Pitch Please! Startups Meet Reality with Pete Sbarski

  In the second instalment of our Agentic AI series, Georgia and Matt are joined by returning friend of the pod and AI product expert, Pete Sbarski, to put our AI-generated startup ideas under some very real scrutiny. But first… the news: ⚖️ Legal & Regulatory Shakeups A US court ruled that training AI on legally purchased books = OK, pirated books? Not so much. Germany's taking on DeepSeek, pressuring Apple and Google to block the app over privacy concerns. ⚡️ Infrastructure Watch Amazon's going big in Australia, announcing a massive $13B investment in data centers and solar by 2029. Cloudflare and Google Cloud had a rough week, with outages reminding us that even hyperscalers aren’t immune to single points of failure. 💡 Back to Business: Can AI Actually Build a Startup? Last episode, Claude and Gemini pitched six startup ideas. This week, we brought in Pete to roast them (constructively). Here’s what made the shortlist: 📝 AI RFP Assistant ✅ Compliance Monitor for SMEs 🔍 B2B Data Quality Tool ⚖️ AI Paralegal for Small Firms 💰 Grant Guru for Nonprofits ✍️ Content Copilot for Solo Creators 🧠 Key Takeaways from Pete “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” — some use cases (like legal AI) come with huge liability baggage. Data hygiene does not necessarily mean fancy tools — a lot of orgs want AI, but what they really need is cleaner, more structured data. AI isn’t the bottleneck — people are — from resistance to change to unclear ownership, it’s often human systems holding us back. ✅ What We’re Testing Next We’re moving ahead with two experiments: The Content Copilot – using AI to repurpose and summarise our own podcast archive. RFP / Grant Assistant – trialing real-world applications with a friend’s health tech startup. We’ll be back soon with some early results — and hopefully a winner. 👀 📩 Want early access and exclusive insights from our experiments? Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly executive takeaways from the edge of AI, cloud and innovation here: cloud-dialogues.com

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• The Agentic Series #1: Claude & Gemini Pitch a Startup

  In this episode, Georgia and Matt serve up your weekly dose of AI and cloud news — plus the launch of something brand new (and a little wild): *The Agentic Series* — our hands-on experiment to see if AI agents can design, build, and run a business… with minimal human meddling. 📰 Headlines This Week: Amazon’s AI Workforce Shift: Andy Jassy’s latest shareholder letter teases a leaner, more AI-powered workforce. The hosts dig into what this could *really* mean (and how Amazon Fresh’s “AI stores” were actually powered by humans in a control center in India). BBC vs. Perplexity: The BBC’s getting legal over AI scraping — accusing Perplexity of publishing full articles without permission. Is AI crossing the fair use line? Big Tech Chessboard: Rumors swirl of Apple sniffing around Perplexity, while Elon’s XAI Grok cozies up to Microsoft *and* Oracle Cloud. Game on. 🤖 Launching The Agentic Series What happens when you put Claude Opus, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and ChatGPT 4.5 in a virtual war room and ask them to create a business? We're finding out. 🧪 The Challenge: Create a digital-only, serverless product business — researched, designed, and architected by AI agents. Each LLM acts as a specialist: Claude & Gemini: product strategist & market analysts ChatGPT: evaluator and judge They were tasked with:  Finding underserved problems Sizing the market  Proposing architecture + GTM strategy  Recommending pricing and monetization models 📊 The Outcome: Claude’s Top Picks: 1. AI-powered RFP response assistant 2. Continuous compliance monitoring for SMEs 3. Real-time B2B data enrichment Gemini’s (eventual) Suggestions: 1. AI-powered paralegal for law firms 2. “Grant Guru” for nonprofits 3. Content co-pilot for solo creators 🎯 Winner (according to GPT-4.5): The AI content co-pilot for creators, thanks to high relatability, market size, and strong demo potential. 🔜 What’s Next? We’re moving into solution design and technical architecture in the next episode — with expert guests joining the build. Expect practical use cases, ethical debates, cost guardrails, and a few surprises as we let the agents do their thing. 💡 Don’t want to miss what AI builds next? 👉 Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive insights on executive strategy, AI architecture, and emerging tech trends - subscribe here cloud-dialogues.com

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• Plugged In: Making AI Work for the Enterprise with MCP

  🎙️ Cloud Dialogues #34: Plugging AI Into the Real World — Why MCP Matters In this episode of Cloud Dialogues, Georgia and Matt go beyond the buzzwords and into the wiring of enterprise AI. From AI agents that write code to cloud strategies that make a lick of sense, we unpack the tools and protocols reshaping modern AI — starting with the week’s wild headlines. 🔥 News Highlights: Databricks acquires Neon, strengthening the serverless Postgres story OpenAI drops Codex, a multitasking software agent that’s raising a few eyebrows Google launches Gemini 2.5 and VO3, stepping further into multimodal territory Microsoft open-sources GitHub Copilot, plus introduces a new SRE agent Oracle bets big on AI, snapping up $40B in Nvidia chips for U.S. data centers We also call out the rise of “vibe coding” and the risks of AI-powered startups without adult supervision. Georgia thinks that credentials still matter.... 🧠 Deep Dive: What the Heck Is MCP? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an answer to a growing problem that we are all hearing about: LLMs are powerful, but kind of clueless. Without fresh data, structured tools, and the ability to reason in real-time, they hallucinate. A lot. MCP fixes that — by letting AI agents safely plug into real systems (think APIs, dashboards, HR tools) with structure, permissions, and traceability. 💼 Why Execs Should Care: ✅ Inject real-time data into AI workflows without retraining models ✅ Reduce hallucinations and increase trust, auditability & reliablity ✅ Enable secure, role-based access to internal systems (HR, finance, ops) ✅ Build agents that do more than chat — they act 🛠️ Real-World Use Cases: Pulling support ticket history during a live customer call Executing a compliance check via a secure API Asking your AI assistant to summarize live KPIs across platforms 🎧 We wrap up with a challenge: what would it really take to let an AI agent run an entire startup? (Spoiler: we’re not there yet — but we’re closer than you think - eyes on this space 👀) 📩 Want weekly insights like this straight to your inbox? Subscribe to our newsletter for exec-focused takes on AI, cloud, and digital transformation — link in the comments. #CloudDialogues #MCP #GenAI #AgenticAI #Copilot #CloudStrategy #AIIntegration #Anthropic #Claude #APIs #ModelContextProtocol #TechLeadership #DigitalTransformation

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• Google Next 2025: Betting Big on Cloud and AI

  🎙️ Cloud Dialogues: Vegas, AI, and What’s Next with Google This week on Cloud Dialogues, Georgia and Matt are joined by Anupam Phoghat, fresh off the tarmac from Google Next 2025 in Las Vegas, to break down the biggest announcements, hottest trends, and a few surprises from the cloud world’s glitziest event. But first… the news roundup was 🔥: 🚨 In the News: AWS’s Big Growth Energy: 19% year-over-year growth and strong focus on making AI cheaper and faster—thanks to Tranan 2 chips. Data Center Power Drain: By 2030, data centers could be drawing more power than Japan. Edge computing, you’re up. OpenAI Eyes Windsurf: Rumored $3B acquisition of a VS Code fork to boost its dev game—and catch up to Claude Code. Nvidia’s $5.5B Problem: U.S. export restrictions to China are biting hard. Kubernetes is Back (Again): KubeCon London showed signs of a Kubernetes renaissance—maybe AI on the edge is to thank. MCP Becomes the Standard: Google jumps on Anthropic’s Model Connection Protocol bandwagon. AI models are finally learning to play nice with data.   🎰 Straight from the Vegas Strip: Google Next 2025 Highlights Anu gives us the inside scoop from the Strip, where 35,000+ attendees spread across 10 hotels saw Google go all-in on AI everything. ✨ Big Announcements: The AI Hyper Computer: Custom hardware to supercharge inference at scale GKE Upgrades: Now with inference gateway and full VM support Cloud Run & Cloud WAN: Big leaps in serverless and networking Vertex AI’s Model Garden: A smorgasbord of foundation models, including Claude and Llama Agent Development Kit: Tooling to build your own AI agents (think RAG meets agents IRL) Open-source + Interop Love: More cross-platform support, less vendor lock-in We also dug into: ⚾️ MLB’s use of AI agents to manage network ops 🧠 Why your AI is only as smart as your training data 🚩 Twitter/X as a case study in what not to feed your model Anu wrapped by sharing the mission behind Nebulla Action—his new venture building practical, industry-focused AI tools for healthcare, finance, and retail.   🎧 Ready to decode Google’s big bets and what they mean for your business? Tune in now wherever you get your podcasts—or hit the link in our bio.   #CloudDialogues #GoogleNext2025 #AI #CloudComputing #VertexAI #DevOps #OpenSource #CloudStrategy #GKE #AIInfrastructure #Podcast

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• Behind the Scenes of CloudOps: What to Automate and When

  In this episode of Cloud Dialogues, Georgia and Matt are joined by Amit from OpenOps for a deep (and refreshingly honest) dive into the state of cloud automation today—and where it's heading next. We kick things off with a look at the latest industry news: Huawei gears up to produce its own AI chips in response to ongoing tariff challenges Microsoft and Amazon hit pause on data center expansion due to power constraints And yes… humanoid robots just ran a half-marathon in China (because why not?) Then we shift gears into automation. Amit brings a wealth of experience—from Microsoft to cybersecurity to autonomous vehicles—and shares sharp, real-world insights on what it actually takes to build a sustainable automation strategy in the cloud. 🔍 Topics We Cover: The journey from visibility → orchestration → automation Why “human-in-the-loop” automation is often the safest bet How risk appetite should drive your automation roadmap Why not automating can cost you more than you think—especially in cloud security and efficiency The growing role of AI in automation (and why it still needs a chaperone) 💡 Amit reminds us that while the dream of fully autonomous cloud ops is on the horizon, we’re not quite there yet—and human oversight remains as crucial as ever. Whether you're early in your automation journey or deep in fine-tuning, there’s something in this episode for every cloud leader. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts—and check out OpenOps on GitHub for some powerful tools to get started. Fine OpenOps on GitHub https://github.com/openops-cloud  #CloudAutomation #CloudOps #AI #DevOps #CloudStrategy #CloudDialogues #OpenOps

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