May 11, 2025

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-11

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Welcome to the latest Hot Fudge Daily. Each day of the week you get thematic value.

• 🌶️ Spicy Edition Sunday FREE (Hot Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter captures the best of Hot Fudge Daily and the most clicked links for the week.)
• 📈 Markets Monday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: What is moving markets and why does it matter for the week ahead?)
• 🔥 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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Last week

It was another a big week! 🎉

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This week

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#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 Jarrod Weise 🎉

Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉

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
• 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
• Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
• Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership

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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-05

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:

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 2025-05-05

Two hot takes on funding and an entanglement too!

⚖️ + 💰 TAR and CAR aside, an AI revolution is coming to the legal field.

Techmeme: Sources: Legora, whose AI software helps lawyers draft contracts, review and analyze documents, and more, is in talks to raise $85M at a $675M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

By Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes. View the full context on Techmeme.

🤖 + 💰 Soon, the “Uhhh. What does this code do?” questions will be answered… but alas, the “But why does it exist?” will likely continue for eons.

Techmeme: Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

⚛️ + 🔮 Multiverse > Multicast amrite?

Techmeme: Cisco says it's made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade and opens a quantum lab (Sam Becker/Fast Company)

By Sam Becker / Fast Company. View the full context on Techmeme.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-07

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. 🙈

Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica

There’s a time and there’s a place. Federal court is neither.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-08

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — power and politics… no, the kind of power involving electrons.

Techmeme: Prepared testimony: Microsoft and other AI leaders urge US senators to streamline federal AI energy permits and open more government datasets for AI training (David Shepardson/Reuters)

By David Shepardson / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

Thinking back to days when power loss made the news…

2013… No Such AI

2006… the day the glitter backgrounds stopped

We’ve come a long way but there is a long road ahead to implicit resilience ubiquity.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-09

🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was actually the same AI success story through two different lenses.

Lens 1: Generic application of AI results in 25% success.

Techmeme: IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs from 33 countries: 25% of AI initiatives have delivered the expected ROI over the past few years, and 16% have scaled enterprise wide (Tobias Mann/The Register)

By Tobias Mann / The Register. View the full context on Techmeme.

Lens 2: Specific application of AI results in 70% better outcome.

Techmeme: How The Ottawa Hospital cut clinician burnout by 70% using Microsoft's DAX Copilot, which captures physician-patient conversations and generates clinical notes (Taryn Plumb/VentureBeat)

By Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-10

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: Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

By Reed Albergotti / Semafor. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

Techmeme: Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)

By Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

Techmeme: Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump's 2017 tax bill (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

By Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

Techmeme: President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US (Danai Nesta Kupemba/BBC)

By Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

Techmeme: Appfigures estimates Apple made $10.1B in revenue from US App Store commissions in 2024, up from $4.8B in 2020, $6.7B in 2021, $7.4B in 2022, and $8.8B in 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Note: Some images via Unsplash

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Cuthrell Consulting LLC
Attn: Jay Cuthrell
1903 Live Oak St #92
Beaufort, NC 28516-0092

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