Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ  —  Google has added another 25 million paid subscriptions to its services over the past quarter, according to parent company Alphabet's first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Walmart is the exception in […]

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.09B, vs. $3.04B est., net income up 2% to $512M, GMV up 18% to $22.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates  —  The company logged a profit of $512 million, or $1.12 a share  —  EBay recorded higher profit and revenue in its latest quarter as gross merchandise volume climbed.

This thought came across my mind as I was reading Every’s philosophy on compound engineering:

The first three steps (plan, work, review) produce a feature. The fourth step produces a system that builds features better each time. […]

• Capture the solution. Ask yourself: What worked? What didn’t? What’s the reusable insight?
• Make it findable. Add YAML frontmatter to make sure it is tagged with the right metadata, tags, and categories for retrieval.
• Update the system. Add new patterns into CLAUDE.md, the file the agent reads at the start of every session. Create new agents when warranted.
• Verify the learning. Ask yourself: Would the system catch this automatically next time?

As virtuous developers we try to adhere to the boyscout rule: leave the campsite better than you found it. We do this so our codebase doesn’t start rotting because we slowly let the trash take over.

When agents are writing our code, these effects are multiplied. Every time we make an explicit improvement to the system, agents can pick the pattern up and apply it to both old and new. The campsite will slowly but surely start cleaning itself up, and fresh trash will be thrown straight into the bin.

Quartz:
AWS revenue rose 28% YoY in Q1 to $37.6B, vs. $36.64B est., its fastest growth in 15 quarters, as capital expenditure rose to $44.2B, up from $25B in Q1 2025  —  AWS revenue rose 28% to $37.6 billion, the fastest growth in 15 quarters, as total revenue climbed 17% to $181.5 billion