SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War

Hello, and welcome to SED News. I'm Gregor Van. And I'm Sean Faulconer. And this is a certainly different format of SEDaily podcast where we basically take a spin across the last few weeks in terms of big headlines. We have a main topic in the middle. We look at hacker news highlights. I would just kinda give our little thoughts on what's been going on in the tech and predominantly software world. So how's your few weeks been, Sean? How's it been going on? It's been good. I mean, I think last time we chatted, we were kinda I was in the thick of coming off of Snowflake's big conference and Databricks big conference. And then the challenge with going back to back conferences is that then I come back and I have, like, a mountain of work to actually catch up on because it's hard to do the work while you're at the conferences. So I think the last chunk of time has been essentially just trying to recover from a work perspective on all those things that were piling up And then getting ready for a personal trip to Hawaii soon. So Oh, awesome. Nice. Yeah. Like Hawaii. What have you been up to? Yeah. It sounds like you had sort of opposite schedules then. I was sort of heads down for a while and then, yeah, the last couple weeks have been quite busy from a sort of events perspective. Yeah. We had SuperAI, which is like this big conference that got put on over here in Singapore. It was a bit weird. I'm not gonna lie. It was a sort of like going into a nightclub for, like, two days straight. So I had to sort of take breaks. But it was interesting. Just a lot of agentic agentic stuff. I would say it was a it was more sort of corporate leaning perhaps. But good keynotes. There was Dworkish Patel, another AI podcast that's very popular these days. And so had a quick chat with him. And Edward Snowden was also a keynote speaker, but by video link for obvious reasons. Yeah. I haven't heard Edward Snowden in it's been a while since we've been. Quite. Yeah. So, yeah, it was a very interesting event, and lots of people had flown in from all corners of the Earth for this thing. So it's always nice just to meet a bunch of new people from around the world as well. Yeah. And, Fleet Forward Asia is happening in Singapore, I think, next week. Oh, yeah. It's coming out very soon. I guess that Singapore is like a hotbed for tech conferences. So Yeah. In this part of the world, for sure, it's kind of the place. We have facilities here kind of you can just go down to this place called Marina Bay Sands. I believe it's actually owned by Sands of Las Vegas. And, yeah, you just go down there any day of the …