Welcome to episode 301 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt and Justin are bringing you a party no a BOULDER of news today – seriously. So. Much. News. We’ve got updates on Google’s legal woes, OpenAI’s new o3 and 04-mini, Nova Reel, and even some updates from KubeCon EU! It’s truly a global episode, and we’re glad you’re here with us in the cloud. Here’s to 300 more episodes!

• My Monopoly board says Google Goes to Jail, Does Not Collect 200 Million dollars
• ‍OpenAI confuses everyone with updates to 03 models… similar to Apple M3-Ultras being
• announced beside M4 chips
• ‍Github finally gets the good coding vibes
• We Are gonna PartyRock like it’s 1999
• Nova SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
• Azure gets 4 llamas

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13:55 Google holds illegal monopolies in ad tech, US judge finds

• The Department of Justice has won a ruling against Google, paving the way for U.S. antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products.
• Google was found liable for willingly acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges, which sit between buyers and sellers.
• Now, hearings will be scheduled to determine what Google must do to restore competition in those markets, such as selling off parts of its business.
• US AG Pamela Bondi called the ruling “a landmark victory in the ongoing fight to stop Google from monopolizing the digital public square.”
• Google says it will appeal the ruling, pointing out that it won half the case.
• The DOJ says that Google should have to sell off at least its Google Ad Manager, which includes the company’s publisher ad server and ad exchanges.
• This ruling is in addition to the recent ruling that they used monopolistic practices with the Chrome browser and would need to sell it as...