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In a landmark ruling from the US Federal Trade Commission, non-compete clauses in employment agreements are no longer valid and all existing non-compete clauses are null and void starting in 120 days. The government argues that non-competes stifle wages and reduce the talent pool for companies to draw from. Businesses counter that argument with the need to protect intellectual property. The ruling came after nearly 26,000 public comments. After the ruling was issued, the US Chamber of Commerce immediately filed suit, challenging the ruling and the standing of the FTC to decide it. Simliar action was expected from the National Labor Relations Board in the near future, with some saying the FTC action may have been a race to see who could get the news out the fastest.

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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown

1:00 - Supermicro Shows New X14 Servers at Intel Vision

4:46 - PuTTY SSH Security Vulnerability

7:37 - Micron to Recieve $6 Billion in Chip Funding

12:05 - BMC Set to Acquire Netreo

15:04 - IBM Closes In on Acquiring HashiCorp

18:01 - Security Exploit Targeting VMware EXSi

21:31 - FTC Bans Non-Compete Clauses

32:32 - The Weeks Ahead

35:33 - Thanks for Watching

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Our eyes were on Google Cloud Next last week, as the hyperscaler announced new ARM chips, lots of partnerships, and of course wall-to-wall AI. Google's Vertex AI Agent Builder allows no-code deployment of agents, Google Vids targets video editing, and the search giant is leaning into Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG.

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:40 - BREAKING: The Futurum Group Acquires Techstrong Group
2:23 - Commvault Acquires Appranix
4:53 - IBM Invests in $150 Million Fundin Round for Cohesity
7:20 - Meta Introduces New Chips for AI Hyperscalers
10:08 - Zscaler Acquiring Airgap
12:51 - SK hynix Gets Packaging and Samsung Gets Their Share
17:13 - VMware's Perpetual License Support Extended
21:32 - Google Cloud Next
33:25 - The Weeks Ahead
35:38 - Thanks for Watching

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In a historic move, key federal lawmakers, including Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers unveiled a sweeping proposal aimed at granting consumers extensive rights to manage the use of their personal data by tech giants like Google, Meta, and TikTok. The proposed legislation, titled the American Privacy Rights Act, establishes a national baseline for data collection, usage, and transfer on the internet, allowing users to opt out of certain practices such as targeted advertising. The bipartisan agreement also addresses long-standing issues surrounding federal versus state laws and outlines enforcement mechanisms through civil lawsuits for violations. However, its prospects in Congress remain uncertain amidst looming deadlines and complex negotiations.

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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown

2:47 - Amazon kills Just Walk Out Tech

4:56 - StorMagic and Acronis

7:01 - New CX Research from Contentsquare, Zendesk, and LivePerson

10:21 - Starburst Launches Managed Icehouse Implementation

13:45 - IPO Filed by Rubrik

15:48 - CHIPS Act Direct Funding Up to $6.6 Billion for TSMC

19:00 - New Online Privacy Protection Plan Revealed

24:45 - The Weeks Ahead

27:26 - Thanks for Watching

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The US and the UK have allied to make sure AI is developed safely. A new memorandum of understanding has laid out proposals for testing and information sharing to ensure that AI is being safely written and maintained to prevent harm to anyone using it. The ultimate goal, as stated by representatives from both governments, is harnessing the potential of AI while ensuring the risks are understood and mitigated.

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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown

1:04 - Intel Reveals Foundry Operating Model

5:04 - Backdoor Found in Popular Linux Utility

9:36 - Testcontainers Cloud from Red Hat and Docker

12:41 - Keysight Acquires Spirent for $1.5 Billion

15:54 - AI to Drive Microsoft's Stargate

21:05 - Redis to use Dual Source-Available Licensing

25:33 - US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety

37:00 - The Weeks Ahead

39:26 - Thanks for Watching

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NVIDIA GTC event was the big story last week, both on the Rundown and in the tech industry generally. NVIDIA is clearly the company to beat in AI and HPC and this has the entire industry on its toes. Every company in tech is emphasizing their partnership and joint offerings with NVIDIA. But there's a reaction from their competitors, too, with Google, Qualcomm, and Intel announcing their intent to undermine NVIDIA's dominance.

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:08 - New RISC-V Devices Revealed at KubeCon by Scaleway
4:21 - FCC Increases Broadband Benchmark
5:59 - Edge and Rancher Portfolio Updates by SUSE
11:10 - SIOS Lifekeeper for HA
14:28 - A Cautious Outlook on SoftIron's HyperCloud
18:57 - AMD and Intel Chips Blocked by China
22:25 - Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC
40:26 - The Weeks Ahead
43:43 - Thanks for Watching

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This week is NVIDIA GTC, or as Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman called it "the Woodstock of AI". There's been a lot of discussion about the ascendant NVIDIA and how they plan on capitalizing on a hot market.

NVIDIA unveiled Blackwell, their newest architecture. The chip was named after American mathematician David Blackwell and math is most definitely the strong suit of this product line. It has 208 billion transistors to power a second-generation transformer engine for accelerating inferencing. There is also support for fifth-generation NVLink and NVLink Switch connectivity for GPU clusters with speeds of up to 1.8 terabytes per second of bidirectional throughput, which means Blackwell could process the entire bandwidth of the Internet in just 11 units. Blackwell is being integrated into The GB100 and GB200 superchip systems which focus on Tensor core performance and can be combined into new clusters of water-cooled units of up to 72 Blackwell GPUs.

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown

1:18 - CHIPS Act Package is Worth $19.5 Billion

6:12 - Zscaler Acquires Zero-Trust AI Pioneer Avalor

9:05 - Broadcom and Astera Labs Competing in PCIe and Retimer Space

13:03 - Broadcom Announces First Co-Packaged Optics for Scalable AI Systems

17:35 - Mustafa Suleyman to Lead Copilot for Microsoft

21:50 - Selector AIOps Solution Integrates GenAI

25:22 - NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems

39:52 - The Weeks Ahead

42:22 - Thanks for Watching

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