Coursera buys Udemy and the fate of online courses

This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate.

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Runner-up Titles

• It has CarPlay
• iPad Range Anxiety
• an Australian documentary
• Oracle got popped
• Intentions
• I don’t feel bad for them
• Open Source old folks home
• Spreadsheets love it
• Robots are going to take care of us
• The Median User
• Nobody feels bad for the whales
• I have a dog
• I have a Korean microwave
• We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts

Rundown

• Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
• AI Investment
  • Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave
  • Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending
  • OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
  • S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks
  • Inside The $1T AI Economy
• Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source
• Runners
  • Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners
  • GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
  • GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans
  • Why GitHub Why?
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

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• Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
• Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation
• Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Nonsense

• The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman

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