Daring Fireball

The European Commission, last week:
Today, the European Commission has issued two sets of bindingspecification measures to Google under the Digital Markets Act.
The aim of the first specification measures is to ensure thatcompetitors’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) services can competewith Google’s own AI services, such as Gemini, by having equalaccess to features on Google’s Android devices....

Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive.
The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same access as your dashboard login. Hundreds of operations, discoverable at runtime. Connect in one command via OAuth, with scoped tokens instead of a master API key. Pass a screenshot of your marketing site and...

Ben Thompson, on the hype regarding Kimi K3, at Stratechery:
This is a point that bears repeating: because U.S. open weightmodel makers must follow the frontier labs’ terms of service, they(1) are worse than Chinese alternatives and (2) end up distillingthe distillation, just with a detour through Chinese labs...

My thanks to Paper for sponsoring last week at DF. Paper is a new professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs, translations, and layers of abstraction between what you design...