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SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War

Software Engineering Daily

Software Engineering Daily

Technology, News, Tech News

4.2653 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the wider tech industry. In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, discuss the strategic implications of Meta’s

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SED News. I'm Gregor Vand. And this is a slightly different format of SE Daily podcast where we basically take a

0:22.4

spin across the last few weeks in terms of big headlines. We have a main topic in the middle.

0:28.0

We look at hacker news highlights. And we just kind of give our little thoughts on what's been

0:33.0

going on in the tech and predominantly software world. So how has your few weeks been, Sean?

0:38.6

What's been going on?

0:39.5

It's been good.

0:40.2

I mean, I think last time I chatted, I was in the thick of coming off of snowflakes,

0:45.7

big conference and Databricks, big conference.

0:48.2

And then the challenge with going back-to-back conferences is that then I come back

0:53.3

and I have like a mountain of work to

0:54.8

actually catch off on because it's hard to do the work while you're at the conferences. So I think

0:59.2

the last chunk of time has been essentially just trying to recover from a work perspective

1:04.1

on all those things that were piling up. And then getting ready for a personal trip to Hawaii soon.

1:09.7

Oh, awesome. Nice. Yeah, like Hawaii.

1:12.3

What have you been up to? Yeah, it sounds like we've had sort of opposite schedules then.

1:15.9

I was sort of heads down for a while and then, yeah, the last couple weeks have been quite busy

1:19.8

from a sort of events perspective. Yeah, we had super AI, which is like this big conference

1:25.6

that got put on over here in Singapore. It was a bit

1:28.4

weird. I'm not going to lie. It was a sort of like going into a nightclub for like two days

1:32.3

straight. So I had to sort of take breaks. But it was interesting. Just a lot of agentic,

1:36.7

agentic stuff. I would say it was more sort of corporate leaning perhaps. But good keynotes.

1:42.9

There was Dwarquish Patel, another AI podcast that's

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