Welcome to the pilot episode of SED News, a new podcast series from Software Engineering Daily.

Join host Gregor Van and Sean Falconer as they break down the week's most important stories in software engineering, machine learning, and developer culture.

In this episode, Gregor and Sean discuss the core weave IPO and the company's recent acquisition of weights and biases.

Dig into Anthropics Model Context Protocol, surface highlights from Hacker News, and reflect on Microsoft

turning 50. We'd love to hear what you think of the format. Reach out on Blue Sky at at at Software

underscore Daily, at Gregor Vanvan or at Sean Falconer.

Hi and welcome to SED Weekly News.

This is a new format that we're trying out at SE Daily,

where we're going to be sort of digesting some of the weeks events from software.

It's myself, and I've got Sean Falconer, who I'm sure you all know.

Say, hello, Sean.

Hey there.

Hey, everyone.

Hey, Gerger. So hopefully, as listeners, you all know, say hello, Sean. Hey there. Hey, everyone. Hey, Gerger.

So hopefully, as listeners, you've probably heard both myself and Sean normally interviewing

guests.

And today we're going to be really just talking about some of the things that we've been

seeing in the last couple of weeks in sort of the mainstream news around software and also

things like hacker news, kind of trying to bring to the

surface things that we see day to day, but don't quite make it into the sort of regular episodes

with our guests on software engineering daily. So yeah, I mean, just to roll into this,

how's your week being shown? It's been good. I was traveling at the head of this week. And also,

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