Cloud Unplugged

Jon Shanks, Lewis Marshall

Each week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Salman Iqbal, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI. Alongside their insight, they invite frontline leaders, Chief Technology Officers and engineering heads from established, cloud-powered organisations to share candid lessons from running real-world workloads at scale. Together, they take the headlines and get to the facts, helping you keep track of the fast-paced Cloud market. Expect straight-talking conversation, sharp analysis as they explore how emerging technology reshapes business and society. Tune in each week to stay a step ahead of the future of tech.

  1. Should AI Have Ethics?

    −5 h

    Should AI Have Ethics?

    A UN report linked chatbot sycophancy to deaths. So Jon and Salman asked the question: should AI models be ethical? Jon and Salman sit with one of the hardest questions in AI: what does it actually mean for a model to be ethical, who's responsible when it isn't, and how do the major labs actually bake ethics into their training? Salman breaks down the three stages of model training, explains why human preference and ethical behaviour aren't the same thing. Chapter Timestamps 00:00 — Intro: should AI models be ethical?01:28 — Defining ethics (Salman's version, not Aristotle's)03:04 — Jon's counterpoint: humans haven't agreed on ethics either05:31 — Is it the model's job, or the product around it?07:59 — Sycophancy: why chatbots are trained to be liked, not helpful09:16 — The UN report: a 14-year-old, a chatbot, and a death15:01 — Grok gave a user instructions to break into a politician's home18:03 — The case for doing something — anything — over nothing20:11 — How models are actually trained: pre-training, SFT and RLHF explained23:53 — "These models are a mirror of ourselves"25:06 — Anthropic's Constitutional AI: philosophers, principles and RLAIF28:42 — "It's enough for Grok. It's enough for Elon."31:15 — "Broadly safe. Broadly ethical." Jon and Salman on that phrasing.34:11 — OpenAI's model spec: the hierarchy of rules42:25 — Jon's idea: mirror existing industry frameworks instead of starting from scratch45:37 — Wrap up: next ep will bring in a guest to answer the hard questions

    47 min
  2. AI Is Now Making Your MacBook More Expensive

    −6 d

    AI Is Now Making Your MacBook More Expensive

    Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to steal Anthropic's secrets. And your next MacBook just got 20% more expensive because of AI. Two stories this week, both pointing at the same thing: the AI arms race has consequences, and they're starting to land on real people. Chapter Timestamps 00:00 — Intro: two stories, one theme00:21 — Anthropic vs Alibaba: the distillation attack explained01:42 — 25,000 fake accounts, 20 million interactions with Claude04:58 — This isn't the first time: DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Minimax06:41 — The hypocrisy angle: Anthropic trained on other people's data too10:16 — Qwen costs 5 cents per million tokens. Claude Opus costs $5.13:21 — The geopolitical angle: why the US government got involved15:54 — The Scooby-Doo twist (you'll want to watch this bit)19:32 — MacBooks going up 15–20% because of AI chip demand20:34 — Hyperscalers are buying all the RAM. You're subsidising the arms race.25:30 — Next episode teaser: trusting AI agents — what are the real risks? #CloudUnplugged #AI #MacBook #Apple #TechNews #CloudComputing

    27 min
  3. Elon Just Bought the Tool Every Developer Uses

    23 juni

    Elon Just Bought the Tool Every Developer Uses

    OpenAI's financials leaked. Elon bought Cursor. Microsoft had to call Amazon for help. Standard week. Jon and Salman dig into four stories that all point to the same thing: the AI industry is moving so fast that even the biggest companies in the world can't keep up with it.

    41 min
  4. The Federal Reserve Is Scared of AI. Should You Be?

    16 juni

    The Federal Reserve Is Scared of AI. Should You Be?

    Is the AI bubble about to burst? Jon and Salman go full data mode. No news roundup this week. Instead, Jon and Salman ask the question everyone's dancing around: is AI genuinely transforming business? They dig into the numbers, and what they find is... not great. The Federal Reserve has now officially flagged AI as a top systemic economic risk.

    34 min
  5. Meta's AI Handed Over Obama's Instagram to a Stranger. For Free.

    8 juni

    Meta's AI Handed Over Obama's Instagram to a Stranger. For Free.

    This week Jon and Salman cover Anthropic calling for AI regulation while simultaneously IPO-ing for $1 trillion, Meta's AI support chatbot handing over Instagram accounts to complete strangers, whether Meta is about to become the fourth major cloud provider, and a chip that transmits data using light instead of electricity. Plus graduation students booing every mention of AI, and someone who named their Bluetooth device "bomb" on a flight to Majorca and turned the whole plane around.

    38 min
  6. GitHub Got Hacked, $500 Million Spent on AI in a Month & Bots Built Their Own Religion Cloud Unplugged

    8 juni

    GitHub Got Hacked, $500 Million Spent on AI in a Month & Bots Built Their Own Religion Cloud Unplugged

    This week Jon and Salman cover a  * GitHub breach from a single dodgy VS Code extension* Dutch civil servants accidentally exposed to the US Senate, and * whether EU cloud sovereignty is even real.  Plus token maxing is officially dead, and somehow a social network for AI bots ended up creating its own religion with 64 prophets and a manifesto calling for the total purge of humanity.

    41 min
  7. EU Cloud Wars, Copyright & Chaos

    2 juni

    EU Cloud Wars, Copyright & Chaos

    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. Chapters00:00 Intro & episode overview02:16 EU €180M sovereign cloud contract, US hyperscalers shut out 12:37 Bartz v. Anthropic, $1.5B AI copyright settlement21:42 Salman's random: 35% of new websites are AI-generated26:02 Jon's random: AI wolf image shuts down South Korean schools 27:44 Wrap up

    36 min
  8. EU Cloud Wars, AI Copyright laws and Chaos

    18 maj

    EU Cloud Wars, AI Copyright laws and Chaos

    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.

    27 min
Visa alla (59)

Om

Each week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Salman Iqbal, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI. Alongside their insight, they invite frontline leaders, Chief Technology Officers and engineering heads from established, cloud-powered organisations to share candid lessons from running real-world workloads at scale. Together, they take the headlines and get to the facts, helping you keep track of the fast-paced Cloud market. Expect straight-talking conversation, sharp analysis as they explore how emerging technology reshapes business and society. Tune in each week to stay a step ahead of the future of tech.

Information

  • Skapad av
    Jon Shanks, Lewis Marshall
  • Aktiva år
    2021 - 2026
  • Avsnitt
    59
  • Åldersgräns
    Vuxet innehåll
  • Copyright
    811232 © 2023 Cloud Unplugged
  • Leverantör