friedmandave · TEXXR

Think this will become a big issue. A given platform has no incentive to let another platform's ai agents access it. We will need some sort of ai agent clearinghouse, akin to visa or swift or ACH to act as a tollbooth to allow these platforms to pay for access to other platforms.

2025-11-05 View on X

Bloomberg

Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf

Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …

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Think this will become a big issue. A given platform has no incentive to let another platform's ai agents access it. We will need some sort of ai agent clearinghouse, akin to visa or swift or ACH to act as a tollbooth to allow these platforms to pay for access to other platforms.

2025-11-05 View on X

CNBC

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”

The point of technology is to make life better for people. Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Comet's Agentic Shopping Capabilities M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : AI...

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Seems like these companies did the right thing for Windsurf's non-key employees. Kudos to all involved. Except of course the antitrust people.

2025-07-15 View on X

New York Times

Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”

techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsof...

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Always got bad vibes from this guy, but one has to wonder wtf the vcs who invested in him were thinking. Great to hold Breslow to account, but what about his enablers?

2024-03-12 View on X

Forbes

A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant

Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @friedmandave , @lukejohnsonrcp , @leomschwartz , @sarahnemerson , @dannygroner , and @alexrkonrad X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Ryan Breslow was danc...

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Interesting though not surprising. VCs and startups continue to have à significant liquidity problem. Hard to see how it remains a viable asset class if this isn't solved.

2023-12-19 View on X

Reuters

Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee

Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …

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Interesting though not surprising. VCs and startups continue to have à significant liquidity problem. Hard to see how it remains a viable asset class if this isn't solved.

2023-12-18 View on X

Reuters

Adobe and Figma terminate their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, after seeing “no clear path” to UK and EU regulatory approval; Adobe will pay $1B

Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma, pointing to …

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Gave it a quick scan. The negative reactions are predictable and, I think, rather juvenile. Regulation is inevitable. Better to have a dialogue about it than to pretend that crypto is immune to regulation or ought not be regulated. https://twitter.com/...

2022-10-21 View on X

The Block

DeFi proponents criticize Sam Bankman-Fried for a regulatory proposal suggesting websites facilitating trading on decentralized exchanges should be regulated

I probably am wrong about some! But in the end the most important thing is to keep commerce and expression free. Scott / @scott_lew_is : now is the time to get loud and fight Dave ...

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