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Elaine Beeman, Chief Leadership Officer at Accenture Federal joins the show to discuss her thoughts on what she believes are some of the top challenges for her Federal customers and how she is working to address them. We also discuss her responsibilities at Chief Leadership Officer, how she got into a career path that brought her to this position, and what trends are going to move the needle the most in this industry in the next few years.

Brian McCullough and Chris Messina are starting a new, $15 million fund for pre-seed through Series A investments in AI companies. They've already raised money from Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Dennis Crowley and join Big Technology Podcast for a special episode where they share their strategy and the opportunity they're going after. At the core of this question is whether AI companies are worthy of investment or will just be subsumed by larger players. Stay tuned for the second half where we cover AI + Hollywood strikes and AI + warfare.

Sarah Kunst is the managing director at Cleo Capital. She joins Big Technology this week for a recap of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Self-driving cars, Waymo & Cruise 2) Meta's new personalized chatbots 3) Threads' declining usership 4) Sam Altman's Worldcoin 5) DateMe docs 6) What Stripe's IPO means for the broader market.  

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Links from the show:

• Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Checkmark of Shame - https://gizmodo.com/twitter-x-gives-blue-users-option-to-hide-checkmark-1850699191
• PhpStorm 2023.2 Is Now Available | The JetBrains Blog - https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2023/08/phpstorm-2023-2-is-now-available/
• SEC: Public companies must report cyberattacks within four days | Engadget - https://www.engadget.com/sec-public-companies-must-report-cyberattacks-within-four-days-193713534.html
• Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider - https://futurism.com/the-byte/stanford-chatgpt-getting-dumber
• GitHub - sevidmusic/PHPJsonUtilities: The PHPJsonUtilities library provides classes for working with json in php. - https://github.com/sevidmusic/PHPJsonUtilities
• Prompts - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans - https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/prompts

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Twilio is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their blog, dig into their docs, or check out their Stack Overflow Collective.

This summer, Twilio announced CustomerAI, which applies the power of LLMs to the rich troves of customer data that flows through Twilio’s platform. Learn more here.

ICYMI: From the stage of WeAreDevelopers, Stack Overflow announced a roadmap for integrating GenAI into our public platform and paid offerings. Check out Stack Overflow Labs to see what we’re working on.

Also ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with Jody about his path from physics to sales to programming and what drew him to working at Stack Overflow.

Register for SIGNAL 2023, Twilio’s customer and developer conference, happening virtually and for free on August 23, 2023. Attendees can expect a deep dive into AI and how it’s revolutionizing customer experience technology.

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Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he thought was the coolest job in the world. He graduated from Waterloo, and became a data scientist - but eventually moved towards entrepreneurship. Outside of tech, he lives in Ontario and loves to rock climb and boulder. He enjoys the community aspect of the sport, and has access to gyms and outdoor boulders where he lives. He also passionate about food, enjoying Greek and Turkish food in Greek Town where he lives.

Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams.

This is the creation story of WFHomie.

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Matt Wood is the VP of product at Amazon Web Services. He joins Big Technology Podcast live at the AWS Summit in New York City for a conversation about Amazon's plan to compete — and thrive — in the AI race. In this conversation, Wood describes Amazon's plan to support all AI models, not just one, and support builders via its computing infrastructure. Tune in for the most extensive comments from Amazon on its AI strategy to date. Stay tuned for the second half were we discuss ethics, company culture, and Jeff Bezos.

You can read Alex's Substack story about the conversation here: Inside Amazon’s Low Key Plan To Dominate AI

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Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can be found shuttling kids to soccer or dance practices in his spare time. During COVID, he was able to pickup guitar, using YouTube to teach himself. His family got him a super nice Taylor acoustic that he plays on today.

Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on.

This is the creation story of ConductorOne.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• A Steering Council notice about PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython)
• Google's post-cookie world could turn into DRM for the internet
• How ruff changed my Python programming habits
• pathlib api extended to use fsspec backends
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/346