🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-20
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🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)
🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)
🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)
✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)
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AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 - Tech Field Day
#OpenToWork Weekly
I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.
Since late last year, I’ve also been highlighting those in my network that are #OpenToWork by linking to their LinkedIn and quoting their LinkedIn About section. This week I’m simplifying as the About section updates were not getting updated (by me) in a timely fashion.
Week over week, the list grew until I had to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
Congrats Rich Green 🎉
Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉
#OpenToWork
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Jarrod Weise - Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Leader
- Dan Kelleher - Program & Technical Project Manager | CSM
- Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
- Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
- Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
- Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
- Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
- Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
- Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
- Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
- Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
- Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
- Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
- Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
- Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
- Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
- Karl Edwards, PMP - Technical Program Manager | Network Strategy | Telecom & Tech
- Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
- Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-14
As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.
Last week:
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This week:
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-15
Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🦺 + 💰 This proves that there is some money in AI safety and security.
Techmeme: AI safety and security startup Virtue AI raised $30M in seed and Series A funding and says its customers include several frontier labs, Uber, and Glean (Sam Sabin/Axios)
By Sam Sabin / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤔 + 💰 Or, this means fewer but bigger AI related cloud bills are coming.
Techmeme: PitchBook: US startups raised $91.5B in Q1 2025, up 116% YoY, while the number of deals fell 25% YoY to 3,003, as more money went into fewer very large rounds (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
By Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-16
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-17
The market for annotation of data has a fascinating history. And annotation might be increasingly niche with each passing year.
Techmeme: Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
By Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World. View the full context on Techmeme.
For perspective, consider the rise of the most visible format for annotation of data that you’ve probably done thousands of times at this point — Google reCAPTCHA.
It has also been 20 years since the launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-18
🤖 + 💰 The story that caught my eye this week was Hammerspace taking $100M.
Techmeme: Data orchestration startup Hammerspace, which counts Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Palantir, and the DOD as clients, raised $100M, sources say at a $500M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-19
Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses “AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning” and AI can make movies “10% better” (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
By Dade Hayes / Deadline. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
By Matthew Gault / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
By Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 2024, up from $49.8M and $40.1M in 2023, respectively (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
By Jill Goldsmith / Deadline. View the full context on Techmeme.
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