Within 72 hours of publishing its AI adoption report, Microsoft's messaging saturated LinkedIn. The coordination wasn't secret—it was architectural. When you own the platform, distribution is just moving furniture between rooms.
Google unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF, with Shopify, Walmart, and twenty other partners. The "open standard" routes AI shopping through Google's surfaces. Merchants trade customer relationships for visibility.
Microsoft says one in six people now use AI. The methodology: counting clicks on Microsoft products. The US ranks 24th despite hosting every major AI lab. South Korea's surge? A viral selfie filter. The company selling AI infrastructure has appointed itself scorekeeper of AI adoption.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Werner Vogels printed sixty thousand newspapers and walked off the Re:Invent stage for the
Werner Vogels ends his 14-year keynote streak by handing out printed newspapers and warning developers about "verification debt." His parting message: AI generates code faster than humans can understand it. The work is yours, not the tools.
Good Morning from Las Vegas, Bloomberg called it a coup. Apple's design community called it a relief. Meta
Good Morning from Las Vegas, I'm on the ground at AWS re:Invent, where Amazon just unveiled custom
AWS calls them "frontier agents." They run for hours, even days, making decisions across your codebase while you sleep. The question developers want answered: how do you trust AI that works unsupervised? AWS's agentic AI lead explains the framework.
AWS unveiled a full-stack AI architecture at re:Invent 2025, from custom silicon to autonomous agents. The strategy isn't about competing with Nvidia. It's about capturing the entire AI value chain before anyone else can carve it up.
Your employees paste customer records and source code into AI tools you've never approved, dozens of times daily. Bans don't stop them—IBM found the habit adds $670,000 to breach costs. The companies winning aren't building higher walls.
Good Morning from Las Vegas, Sam Altman called a Code Red. The New York Times called David Sacks a conflict.
The NYT calls David Sacks's 708 tech investments a scandal. But when America needs an AI czar, should it hire someone who's never built anything? The real conflict might be demanding expertise without exposure.
Good Morning from Las Vegas, Labels matter. Or they don't. Depends who's applying them. David Sacks
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