Wed. 05/08 – Bethesda Bloodbath

Multiple Bethesda studios are being shut down by Xbox and gamers are worried. The new Pixel phone announcement yesterday that probably nobody heard about. What if OpenAI decides to go after web search? And the surprising fact that FTX investors could be made whole, and then some. With interest!

Links:

• Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda (IGN)
• US revokes licences for supply of chips to China’s Huawei (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud (Reuters)
• Google’s New $500 Pixel 8A Smartphone Will Get 7 Years of Software Updates (Wired)
• OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban (NYTimes)
• FTX Has Billions More Than Needed to Pay Bankruptcy Victims (Bloomberg)

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