Sony’s PS5 sales plummet amid price rises and a memory crisis
… Sony blamed “continued pressures in the global economic landscape,” for the price hikes in March, amid an ongoing memory crisis and pressure from the war in Iran. …
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Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices
… Unfortunately, despite the Company’s efforts, the recent material increase in oil prices and other pressures on the business have significantly impacted Spirit’s financial outlook. …
Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech’s AI obsession?
… Ari Lightman, professor of digital media and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, described it as “spot on” to say it’s hard to square Apple’s public financial statements and Tim Cook’s description of its pricing as unsustainable. …
From Alan Shepard to Artemis, celebrating 65 years of Americans in space
… We’ve lived through enough mission delays, aborted launches, and funding cuts to know that anything we do in space is still constrained by the political and financial realities of what takes place here on the ground. …
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
… The pressure is now on Microsoft’s GitHub team to improve Copilot CLI and try to surpass Claude Code in the process. …
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
… Compared to dedicated AI companies under increasing financial pressure, it’s able to at least temporarily subsidize costs to attract users. …
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
… He refused repeatedly to answer questions like whether he knew cutting off OpenAI donations would create financial pressure, or whether he’d asked Karpathy to stay at OpenAI. …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… Oracle’s AI buildout doesn’t necessarily make a lot of financial sense; Ellison may royally piss off his shareholders by the time this is all through. But making financial sense has never been Ellison’s strong point. …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… In fact, it was so unsuccessful that when unnamed White House officials recently attempted to pressure certain red states into dropping pending AI legislation, claiming that they were going against Trump’s agenda, four GOP state lawmakers spoke on the record to The Wall Street Journal instead. …
Prediction markets are playing a dangerous game
… There’s a similar financial product, except the financial product underneath has to be a bet. …