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Gurhan Kiziloz’s Nexus International Reveals $1.44bn Volume Records Amid Industry-Wide Exits

Yesterday at 18:25 PM, via Tech Financials

The gaming industry has a well-worn playbook. Build a platform, achieve scale quickly, position for acquisition or IPO, and exit. The model assumes that the point of building is to sell, that founders create value primarily to transfer it to someone else, that success means cashing out rather than holding on. The incentive structures reinforce […]

Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon’s Price-Fixing Tactics

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Newly unsealed records in California’s antitrust case against Amazon allegedly show the company pressured third-party sellers to raise prices on rival sites like Walmart, Target, and Wayfair so Amazon could maintain the appearance of offering the lowest price. California says Amazon used tools like Buy Box suppression to punish cheaper listings elsewhere. The Guardian reports: […] In one...

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

Yesterday at 17:46 PM, via Wired

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?

Yesterday at 17:21 PM, via New York Times

A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.

US To Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone In Philippines

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: An agreement with the Philippines to establish a high-tech industrial hub is the Trump administration’s latest effort to lessen China’s dominance over global supply chains. The deal to build up American manufacturing across a stretch of the island of Luzon, signed Thursday, will offer U.S. companies access to essential inputs...

Uiniversity of Pretoria Introduces Two New Fully Online Postgraduate Diplomas In Engineering And Technology

Yesterday at 15:39 PM, via Tech Financials

The University of Pretoria (UP) has expanded its fully online offering with the launch of two new postgraduate diplomas, the Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management and the Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering and Technology Management, presented by the Graduate School of Technology Management in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT). The launch […]

Reed Hastings Is Leaving Netflix After 29 Years

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

Reed Hastings is stepping down from Netflix’s board in June, ending a 29-year run at the company he co-founded and helped transform from a DVD-by-mail business into a global streaming giant. Hastings said in a shareholder (PDF) letter that heâ(TM)s stepping down to focus on “his philanthropy and other pursuits.” Engadget reports: Hastings has served as chairman of Netflix’s board since 2023, a...

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