Welcome to episode 298 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are in the house (and still very much missing Jonathan) to bring you a jam packed show this week, with news from Beijing to Virginia! Did you know Virginia was in the US? Amazon definitely wants you to know that.

We’ve got updates from BigQuery Git Support and their new collab tools, plus all the AI updates you were hoping you’d miss. Tune in now!

• The Cloud Pod now Recorded from Planet Earth
• ☕Wait Java still exists?
• When will java just be coffee and not software
• Cloudflare Makes AI beat Mazes
• Replacing native mobile things with mobile web apps won’t fix your problems AWS
• Turn your security over to the bots
• The Cloud Pod is lost in the AI labyrinth
• AI security agents to secure the AI… wait recursion
• Durable + Stateless.. I don’t know if you know what those words means
• Click ops expands to our phones yay!
• The Cloud Pod is now a data analyst
• ⁉️Gitops come to bigquery

00:46 Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions

• Manus is being described as “the first true autonomous AI agent” from China, capable of completing weeks of professional work in hours.
• Developed by a team called Butterfly Effect with offices in Beijing and Wuhan, Manus functions as a truly autonomous agent that independently analyzes, plans, and executes complex tasks.
• The system uses a multi-agent architecture powered by several distinct AI models, including Anthropic’s

• (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Week 298
• (00:00:56) - China's First Autonomous AI Agent Is Going Viral
• (00:04:12) - Cloudflare's 'Artificial Labyrinth' to Stop Bots
• (00:06:54) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.0 Image Generation
• (00:10:46) - Bay Bridge vs Golden Gate
• (00:11:26) - OpenAI's Speech Text and Text Speech Audio Transcription
• (00:12:28) - Redis vs Valky: The Cloud-Tools Fork
• (00:17:25) - Amazon AWS: More Geography on Regions and Availability Zones
• (00:22:05) - Amazon Q & Quicksight: New Scales capability
• (00:24:39) - Amazon OpenSearch OC2 and OM2 Instances Announce
• (00:26:11) - OpenJDK24
• (00:28:26) - AWS Mobile App: More Services, Less Adoption
• (00:33:17) - AWS Network Firewall: New Flow Management Features
• (00:34:43) - Google Next
• (00:36:43) - Google Cloud Backup: Data Protection Summary and AI Protection
• (00:38:59) - Google's AI Toolbox for Databases
• (00:41:17) - BigQuery Repos: Git Integration in BigQuery Studio
• (00:45:31) - Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Takes the Top L on the
• (00:48:46) - Azure Functions: Public Preview
• (00:52:13) - Nvidia Serverless GPUs: What You Need to Know
• (00:53:59) - Nvidia's Nim Microservices for Azure AI
• (00:57:16) - Microsoft Launches 6 AI Agents in Security Copilot
• (01:02:02) - Oracle Introduces AI Agent Studio
• (01:03:40) - Week in the Cloud: Google Cloud Next