317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One

Welcome to episode 317 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and an out-of-breath (from outrunning bears) Ryan are back in the studio to bring you another episode of everyone’s favorite cloud and AI news wrap-up. This week we’ve got GTP-5, Oracle’s newly minted AI conference, hallucinations (not the good kind), and even a Cloud Journey follow-up. Let’s get into it! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Oracle Intelligence: Mission Las Vegas
• AI World: Oracle’s Excellent Adventure
• AI Gets a Reality Check: Amazon’s New Math Teacher for Hallucinating Models
• Jules Verne’s 20,000 Lines Under the C
• GPT-5: The Empire Strikes Back at Computing Costs
• 5⃣Five Alive: OpenAI’s Latest Language Model Drops
• GPT-5 is Alive! (And Ready for Your API Calls)
• From Kanban to Kan’t-Ban: Alienate Your User Base in One Update
• No More Console Hopping: ECS Logs Stay Put
• Following the Paper Trail: ECS Logs Go Live
• The Pull Request Whisperer
• Five’s Company: DigitalOcean Joins the GPT Party
• WireGuard Your Kubernetes: The Mesh-iah Has Arrived
• EKS-tending Your Reach: When Your Nodes Need a VPN Alternative
• Buttercup Blooms: DARPA’s Prize-Winning AI Security Tool Goes Public
• From DARPA to Docker: How Buttercup Brings AI Bug-Hunting to Your Laptop
• Agent 007: License to Query
• Compliance Manager: Because Nobody Dreams of Filling Out Federal Paperwork
• Do Compliance Managers dream of Public Sector sheep?
• Blob’s Your Uncle: Finding Lost Data in the Cloud
• Wassette: Teaching Your AI Assistant to Go Shopping for Tools
• Monitor, Monitor on the Wall, Who’s the Most Secure of All?
• Better Late Than IPv-Never
• VPC Logs: Now with 100% Less Manual Labor
• CloudWatch Catches All the Flows in Your Organization
• The Organization-Wide Net: No VPC Left Behind
• SQS Goes Super Size: Would You Like to Quadruple That?
• One MiB to Rule Them All: SQS’s Payload Growth Spurt
• Microsoft Finally Merges with Its $7.5 Billion Side Piece
• From Hub to Spoke: GitHub Loses Its Independence
• Cloud Run Forest Run: Google’s AI Workshop Marathon
• From Zero to AI Hero: Google’s Production Pipeline Workshop
• The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drift

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General News 

01:17 GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down – Ars Technica

• GitHub will lose its operational independence and be integrated into Microsoft’s CoreAI organization in 2025, ending its separate CEO structure that has existed since Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition in 2018.
• The reorganization eliminates the CEO position, with GitHub’s leadership team reporting to multiple executives within CoreAI rather than a single leader, potentially impacting decision-making speed and product direction.
• This structural change could affect GitHub’s developer-focused culture and remote-first operations that have distinguished it from Microsoft’s traditional corporate structure.
• The integration into CoreAI suggests Micr...