Might Meta step back from foundation model development? Last week, The New York Times reported that Meta will delay the rollout of its next frontier foundation model, Avocado,… March 16, 2026
Platforms and native agent proximity This week, Perplexity's CEO uploaded a video to LinkedIn, showcasing the power of its new tool, Perplexity Computer, to automate… March 11, 2026
Agentic commerce is a mirage (part 2) OpenAI appears to be deprioritizing, if not abandoning, its Instant Checkout product within ChatGPT. From The Information (emphasis mine): OpenAI… March 5, 2026
Can LLMs be used for ad ranking? One interesting quirk about the ML research being conducted at the largest technology companies is how open much of it… March 3, 2026
AI Tracking Transparency On November 13th, 2025, Apple updated its App Store developer guidelines -- specifically, guideline 5.1.2 (i) -- to require developers… February 24, 2026
The Prosperous Society, Part 1: The Primacy of Distribution https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IiqN6F6Dpe0n36cBnTvmG?si=d61e52665cbf4aca The Prosperous Society is a podcast series by Mobile Dev Memo that articulates an AI Bull Thesis for the… February 24, 2026
What is Meta’s GEM? In a blog post published in March 2025, ahead of the company's Q1 2025 earnings release in May, Meta highlighted… February 18, 2026
Podcast: Ads in ChatGPT (with Rishabh Jain) https://open.spotify.com/episode/7a1DtNqSncQLyknOMP8stb?si=02dddf9c6e99452f My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Rishabh Jain, the CEO and co-founder of FERMÀT Commerce, an… February 3, 2026
Amazon-OpenAI: advertising, not agentic commerce Amazon CEO Andy Jassy participated in an interview with The Information's Jessica Lessin at Davos two weeks ago in which… February 3, 2026
World models, interactive entertainment, and the primacy of structure in game design (I shared these thoughts on X over the weekend. I'm re-posting a lightly-edited version for Mobile Dev Memo subscribers as… February 2, 2026
