While U.S. anti-trust regulators keep losing ground, European regulators are growing more feisty.  The latest blow came from Spain, where the competition watchdog CNMC has fined Apple and Amazon a combined $218 million for limiting Apple resellers on Amazon Spain.  While the stated purpose was to reduce sale of counterfeit goods, the CNMC found the result was to restrict competition among authorized sellers and from competing non-Apple products.

Meta this week announced a round of performance-based layoffs likely affecting some 5% of its global staff. Zuckerberg is claiming to “raise the bar on performance management.” Meanwhile, employees are being encouraged to assist in the recruitment of machine learning engineers.