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Roy Chua of AvidThink joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to talk about the big events and incidents since they last jumped on the reThink Podcast to recap RSAC 2024. Turns out that one of the biggest topics to hit the headlines is the CrowdStrike "Outage" which shook the cybersecurity world. Leonard and Roy also chat about TM Forum's DTW Ignite 2024 event, the state and direction of network APIs, and the implications and prospects of Nokia's acquisition of Infinera.

Roy and Leonard cover the following agenda:

• CloudStrike "Outage" - What really happened? (02:46)
• Highlights & takes from TM Forum's DTW Ignite 2024 (24:00)
• The state of the Network API. Is it going in the right direction? (33:40)
• The problems with boards and tech hype - misguided pressure problem (48:00)
• What does the Nokia acquisition of Infinera mean? (49:40)
• Not letting AT&T and Snowflake off the hook! Another straw on the cybersecurity camel's back. (56:20)

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Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve on a Data Diva 911 episode of the reThink Podcast to share takes and reactions to some major incidents in the world of cybersecurity and privacy, most prominently, the CrowdStrike outage. Debbie and Leonard also address the other big incident that was overshadowed by CrowdStrike, AT&T's data breach. Debbie also shares her views on Google backing out of their commitment to eliminate cookies on Chrome. Finally, Oracle settles on the order of millions as they rethink their data collection practices and business.

Leonard and The Data Diva parse through the big cybersecurity and privacy headlines of the past few weeks:

• CrowdStrike "outage" - what happened and what is it? (02:03)
• The cybersecurity incident forgotten - AT&T data breach (24:00)
• Google's reversal on the elimination of cookies for privacy (30:27)
• Oracle settles and resets on their data brokerage business (38:55)

Connect with Debbie Reynolds at www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com

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In this installment of the neXt Curve reThink Podcast Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research talk catch up after a far-too-long hiatus and talk about the state of AI supercomputing and Karl's new area of research, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

The duo talk and debate about:

• Karl's new research area - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (01:58)
• Is there a better way than LLMs to get to AGI? (06:30)
• The great illusion of intelligence (8:45)
• Will NVIDIA need to reinvent itself and its approach to AI? (11:55)
• Huang's Curve and the scaling wall (18:06)
• The profit in Generative AI (23:00)
• The consequences of the yearly cadence of AI supercomputing (27:00)
• Is interconnect and networking or CUDA the real NVIDIA moat? (28:29)
• Cerebras, the different way of looking at AI supercomputing (36:00)
• Apple's mystery Apple Silicon server chip (39:37)
• Qualcomm's growing AI supercomputing footprint (41:30)
• What does NVIDIA Rubin mean to Karl? (44:46)

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