Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by James Governor of RedMonk fame.
In this episode:
* Scott Tolinski of Syntax.fm puts up a great podcast about the mental health crisis nobody is talking about in AI
* Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7 billion, while Ramp launches their own router
* Dev Ittycheria talks to Chamath about the build vs buy dynamics changing
* Omarchy Quattro is released, a desktop with AI at the center of personalization
* Google buys Spirit Airlines data for $10 million, should call Adam
* Wiz writes a blog post about a common vulnerability
* Vercel launches Fx, a minimal coding harness written in Zig, designed for embedding
* Dynatrace buys Arize, as observability expands into AI
* Soundslice adds a feature that AI hallucinated first
* Slack launches a coding agent
* Adam's talk about software factories, and numbers about their performance
For links and more, visit https://swamp-club.com/podcast/2026-08-24
