Performance gains justify acquisitions at scale

This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?

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Runner-up Titles

• Product Management Slot Machine
• We poisoned our own data
• As the resident hater of SDT
• I’m optimistic on this one
• I’ll check back when you call it Siri
• AI SEO
• The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts

Rundown

• Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
  • Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all
  • OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment
  • Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst
  • Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors
• Python and OpenAI
  • Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
  • OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI
• Security
  • TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
  • Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign
  • KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack
  • Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack
  • Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)
  • Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI
  • AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact
• Claude defaults
  • Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

Relevant to your Interests

• Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
• Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
• Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
• Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
• What Is the PARK Stack?
• Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
• Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
• FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
• Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
• Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
• Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
• Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
• Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
• Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
• Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
• Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
• Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude

Conferences

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• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
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