Local vs. cloud model inference tradeoffs

This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner.

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Runner-up Titles

• The Podcasters’ Choice
• I was biding my time
• I just want to sell something I believe in
• What if you didn’t get chard
• Chard as a Service
• Let’s be cool
• The Human League
• Spinning tapes talking to each other
• Artisanal tape dispensers
• Buying into the Panopticon
• Why should only Facebook know where I am?
• Root access to your life
• The AirTag Family Circus comic
• Jar of Airtags
• Hold my beer open source
• The Value of AI is intuitively obvious
• OK, we’re done. Talk to you guys next week.

Rundown

• Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request From Anthropic - Laravel News
• Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — and it’s under $500 at Amazon
• Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture."
• Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
• Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability
• MFi Program
• Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life
• Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools
• AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

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