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? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 516 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 Conferences DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th. KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking. Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking. Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day. NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Dope Thief on Apple TV Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update, all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts, they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription. Photo Credits Header