SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth

Hello and welcome to SED News. This is a different format of software engineering daily, which we do monthly, where we just take a spin through the latest news headlines, things like that popped up in the in the main news. We then dive into a deeper topic during the middle, and then we take a look at some hacker news highlights towards the end. So as usual, we just like to kinda have a catch up on what's been going on on our site. So I'm Gregor Vant, and with me is Sean Faulconer. Say hey, Sean. Hey there. Good to be back. How are you doing today? Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. So what's been going on over, I guess? I always lose track of months these days. So your September, Sean. How was your September? I was on the road a bunch. So I was gone to Europe for ten days. I did five cities in Europe for work while speaking, customer engagements was fun, but it was very, very exhausting. So I'm glad to be back in The US for a little bit, but I do leave again for Europe next weekend. So I'm into, like, kind of my heavy travel schedule for the year. So I'm just trying to survive at the moment. Yeah. Well, we managed to catch you flying in for this episode, so that's much appreciated. Yeah. On my side, yeah, it's just been, I guess, sort of ramping back up month and obviously conferences, etcetera, starting to tick back in. I mean, this week in in Singapore is what's called token week. I have nothing to do with crypto or tokens, so it's a bit of a strange week when a bunch of people that look different, shall we say, to the usual Singapore population descend on the city. But I went to a sort of enterprise. I wouldn't say the company, but I went to sort of like an enterprise AI conference. And, certainly, I think reception was quite muted, I would say. They were really pushing their agents. They have special name for those agents, but if I say the name, then you'll know the company. So they were pushing their agents and really trying to sort of bring up their customers on stage to talk about what they've been doing with them, which just wasn't a great reception. We're talking sort of some quite basic RPA type things. So it was certainly interesting. And I do think that's maybe just over this side of the world. We're not quite pushing out the that said, it's an American company. Again, I won't say which one, but it was an American company. I'm just not sure if that's sort of the level we can be expecting of agentic conferences right now. Yeah. Do you think based on your experience that at least the part of Asia that you live in is maybe a little bit behind The United States or other …