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Nº 036
05 MAY 2026
AI Built a Smash Bros. Port in 25 Days. Who Actually Did the Work Is Another Story.
Developer JRickey shipped a native PC port of Smash Bros. 64 in 25 days by acting as project manager for Claude and GPT-5.5. The AI got the co-author credit. The humans who did the foundational work did not.
3 MIN READ
Nº 035
05 MAY 2026
The PS5 Is Getting More Expensive Again. Sony Doesn’t Care That You Noticed.
Sony raised PS5 prices across the US, Europe, and now Southeast Asia — and quietly jacked up the price of refurbished units too. Six years into a console generation, prices aren't supposed to go up. Sony did it anyway because nobody can stop them.
3 MIN READ
Nº 034
05 MAY 2026
Wall Street Shorted Child Safety. Roblox Paid the Tab.
Roblox cut its 2026 bookings forecast by nearly $1 billion and watched its stock fall 24%. The cause wasn't a bad quarter — it was making the platform safer for children. Wall Street's response was immediate and unambiguous.
3 MIN READ
Nº 033
05 MAY 2026
Netflix Is Airing Its First MMA Card. This Has Almost Nothing to Do with Fighting.
On May 16, Netflix airs Rousey vs. Carano — its first-ever live MMA broadcast — free to 300 million subscribers. The fight card is the least interesting thing about it. The ad-tier strategy behind it is the whole story.
3 MIN READ
Nº 032
04 MAY 2026
Anthropic Refused to Build the Terminator — So the Pentagon Found Seven Companies That Would
Anthropic got kicked out of a $200M DoD contract and labeled a "supply chain risk" for refusing to let Claude power autonomous weapons. Every other major AI company stood in line with their pens ready.
3 MIN READ
Nº 031
29 APR 2026
The $250 Million Prompt and the Death of the Publisher
Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to draft a hostile takeover of Unknown Worlds after his lawyers told him not to. Now he's losing the game, the studio, and his reputation.
4 MIN READ
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