Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
…Unlike some of its biggest rivals, Substack takes a 10 percent cut of total subscription revenue. That tax may not seem substantial at first, but it quickly adds up as creators gain…
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Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
…With previously unreported changes at Amazon weighing on employees’ minds, and GitHub growing increasingly less independent, Microsoft is now changing up its annual rewards and performance programs to respond to the departures…
Google I/O 2026
…Google also announced it’s letting companies bundle Google Home Premium subscriptions and integrate more Gemini for Home features into their apps. The as-yet-unreleased Google Home Speaker could be getting…
360-degree cameras have a new superpower
…But Splatica is making it surprisingly easy to harness splats today — with nothing more than an off-the-shelf consumer 360-degree camera and a subscription service that handles everything else. [Image…
Amazon’s new plan for games: James Bond and AI Snoop Dogg
…acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises…
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to…
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…So if the users wanted its Claude AI to power their popular agents, they’d have to start paying handsomely for the privilege. “Our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage…
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
…More players are also choosing subscriptions and services as their primary way to play, with expectations set around instant access, ongoing value, and libraries that evolve continuously. > The industry is becoming global…
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…Google’s AI Ultra plan gets a price cut When it was introduced last year at I/O 2025, Google’s premium AI Ultra subscription cost $249.99 per month for access…
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