This week on Cloud Unplugged Season 3 Episode 3:
Can Europe build its own cloud for the price of a data centre car park? Is training AI on pirated books the Napster moment for the entire industry? And is 35% of the internet already written by someone who doesn't sleep, eat, or pay taxes?

- EU hands €180M sovereign cloud contract to European companies. AWS, Azure and Google didn't make the cut
- The €180M that has to rival hyperscalers who spend that much on a single data centre (spoiler: it's a statement of intent, not a war chest)
- Bartz v. Anthropic settles for $1.5 billion. The largest copyright settlement in AI history and the rules just got written
- Training on legally bought books: fine. Downloading from LibGen and PiLiMi: very much not fine

Plus: a Stanford study finds 35% of new websites are AI-generated, a wolf escapes a South Korean zoo, someone posts a fake AI image of it in their neighbourhood and the man is now facing jail.

Hosted by Jon and Salman, two industry veterans covering the real stories behind the hype in Cloud, Data and AI.

Chapters
00:00 Intro & episode overview
02:16 EU €180M sovereign cloud contract, US hyperscalers shut out
12:37 Bartz v. Anthropic, $1.5B AI copyright settlement
21:42 Salman's random: 35% of new websites are AI-generated
26:02 Jon's random: AI wolf image shuts down South Korean schools
27:44 Wrap up

This week on Cloud Unplugged Season 3 Episode 3:
Can Europe build its own cloud for the price of a data centre car park? Is training AI on pirated books the Napster moment for the entire industry? And is 35% of the internet already written by someone who doesn't sleep, eat, or pay taxes?

- EU hands €180M sovereign cloud contract to European companies. AWS, Azure and Google didn't make the cut
- The €180M that has to rival hyperscalers who spend that much on a single data centre (spoiler: it's a statement of intent, not a war chest)
- Bartz v. Anthropic settles for $1.5 billion. The largest copyright settlement in AI history and the rules just got written
- Training on legally bought books: fine. Downloading from LibGen and PiLiMi: very much not fine

Plus: a Stanford study finds 35% of new websites are AI-generated, a wolf escapes a South Korean zoo, someone posts a fake AI image of it in their neighbourhood and the man is now facing jail.

Hosted by Jon and Salman, two industry veterans covering the real stories behind the hype in Cloud, Data and AI.

This week on Cloud Unplugged: Is GitHub turning developers into addicts? Can Amazon really dethrone NVIDIA? Did an AI agent actually nuke a production database in nine seconds, or is someone covering their tracks? And what happens when an AI agent gets dumped and writes a smear campaign about it?

• GitHub Copilot ditches flat-rate pricing for mystery "credits" the free toothbrush era is over
• Amazon's Tranium 3 chips undercut NVIDIA by 50% but can anyone actually escape CUDA?
• Claude wipes a production database (and the backups) in 9 seconds — AI fail or human cover-up?
• The new "blame it on Claude" engineering rule, confused face optional, but recommended
• An AI agent gets its PR rejected on Matplotlib… and writes a discrimination blog post about the maintainer

Plus: would you trust a ChatGPT-powered robot dog that watches your every move? (Spoiler: it's basically a spy with fur.)

Hosted by Jon and Salman, two industry veterans covering the real stories behind the hype in Cloud, Data and AI.