Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic:
Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is “charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments”  —  Sadly, Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025 as promised. Apple was required to open up iOS to competing stores today, and instead of doing so honestly, they have launched another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people [image]

Financial Times:
In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices”  —  Shareholder's claims of impairments put billionaire investor Oliver Samwer's stewardship back in the spotlight

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20%+ MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M  —  Singapore-based AI pioneer Manus said its annual run rate for revenue is over $125 million, eight months after it released artificial …

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
SoftBank Group was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on December 18, as Wall Street' AI infrastructure spending worries crossed into the Asian markets  —  Japanese tech stocks took a tumble on Thursday as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed the ocean into the Asian markets, with AI-related stocks declining.

Dakin Campbell / Business Insider:
Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on December 12 after saying a tenant canceled  —  - Amazon has been in talks to become the “first tenant” at Fermi America's Texas data centers, Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told BI.