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— Dispatches on Gaming, AI & Tech —
THURSDAY, 30 JULY 2026

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Nº 066
13 MAY 2026
The OpenAI Trial Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
Week 2 of Musk v. Altman produced testimony that no legal brief could have written better — Musk's inner circle on the stand, a story about inheritance, and closing arguments Thursday on a $1 trillion IPO.
AI GOVERNANCE ALTMAN ELON MUSK
3 MIN READ
Nº 065
13 MAY 2026
Nintendo Handed You the Bill for the AI Memory Shortage
The Switch 2 just jumped from $449.99 to $499.99. Nintendo says the AI data center boom is eating global memory chips. The stock market answered with an 8% single-day drop and a lowered sales forecast.
AI CHIPS CONSOLE PRICING GAMING HARDWARE
3 MIN READ
Nº 064
13 MAY 2026
Netflix Said “We Don’t Collect Anything.” Texas Just Filed 59 Pages.
The headline is autoplay. The actual lawsuit is 59 pages about Netflix collecting 5 petabytes of user data per day — including from children — and selling it to Experian and Google while Reed Hastings told investors "we don't collect anything."
DATA BROKERS DECEPTIVE DESIGN KEN PAXTON
3 MIN READ
Nº 063
09 MAY 2026
Nintendo Finally Took Star Fox Out of Storage
Nintendo's May 6 Star Fox reveal was not just a nostalgia play. It looked a lot more like catalog strategy for a console that needs a wider personality.
LEGACY IP NINTENDO STAR FOX
3 MIN READ
Nº 062
09 MAY 2026
Project Ethos Is Already in Reinvention Mode
2K's May 8 layoffs at 31st Union were not just another grim industry update. They looked like a familiar late-cycle panic: cut staff, rewrite the pitch, and hope the market has not already moved on.
2K LAYOFFS LIVE SERVICE
3 MIN READ
Nº 061
09 MAY 2026
Anthropic’s SpaceX Deal Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Anthropic's May 6 announcement was framed as higher Claude limits and a new compute partnership. The more honest version is that frontier AI still runs on industrial supply, not just model mythology.
ANTHROPIC CLAUDE COMPUTE
3 MIN READ