Lobbying Against Free Tax Filing and Software Alternatives Discussion

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

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.

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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.

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