Apple has agreed to settle with the E.U. and the U.S. over App Store fee structures, and to bring its App Tracking Transparency rules in Germany into line with regulators' demands. Thompson's read: the lower fees were inevitable, the E.U. can reasonably call this a win, and arriving late doesn't make it wrong.
Marvell granted Google a warrant to purchase up to $12.2 billion of its stock as part of a custom silicon agreement. Google is effectively buying itself an equity position in its own chip supplier.
Modular released the Mojo compiler and toolchain under Apache 2, three years after promising an open source version and a week after shipping 1.0. Willison walks through what actually landed versus what was promised in 2023.
Seth Godin argues Amazon's search advertising — roughly a billion dollars of revenue a week — is a toll extracted from merchants and publishers for the right to appear in results people were already searching for. He calls it legal theft rather than a tax, since a tax at least funds something.