The first Death Stranding came out in 2019, and I reviewed it then. It’s a long game, and I spent a couple of weeks sunk into its world. It was a strange experience for several reasons: primarily that it’s a very strange game, both frustrating and hypnotic, lucid and obtuse. It was also eerily prophetic […]

Reuters:
Sources: JD.com and Ant are lobbying the People's Bank of China to authorize yuan-based, Hong Kong-issued stablecoins to promote the yuan and counter USD coins  —  China's tech giants JD.com and Alibaba affiliate Ant Group are urging the central bank to authorise yuan-based stablecoins …

Bhavya Sukheja / NDTV:
Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more”  —  The AI founder shared Soham Parekh's resume, which shows that the techie has worked at Dynamo AI, Union AI …

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
ASML, Mistral AI, and 40+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act for two years, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk  —  European companies including ASML Holding NV, Airbus SE and Mistral AI have called on the European Union to suspend the implementation …

Wall Street Journal:
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses  —  Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’  —  CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.