This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback?
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Runner-up Titles
Just Fine
The SDT “Fine” Scale
Callback
Asynchronous Friendship
I would love to get to know you better…over text
Send you Jams to the dry cleaners.
JSON
Take it xslt-easy!
Rundown
OpenAI
OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
The Cursor Mirage
AI is for Tinkerers
Vibe Coding is for PMs
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
Clouded Judgement 4.18.25 - The Hidden Value in the AI Application Layer
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
Relevant to your Interests
Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down
Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes
GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025
Old Fashioned Function Keys
Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions,
NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform
Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?
Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
CVE Foundation
The Cursor Mirage
There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There
Gee Wiz
Nonsense
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
A Visit to Costco in France
No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon
Metre, a consistent measurement of the world
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