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A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants — Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products?
More: New York Times and Financial Times
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| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who is expected to stay in the role, as Silver Lake's Egon Durban hails him for building EA's “crown jewel” sports business — He's a charming Aussie surfer who plays videogames and has a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
More: PC Games Insider and TheGamer
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A big portion of EA's cash flow will go toward servicing the $20B debt from the $55B sale, which even the most bullish analysts expect will lead to big layoffs — Leveraged buyouts almost always lead to cost-cutting in the form of big layoffs — Hi everyone.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Another look at Apple's executive succession, as it increases the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus; sources: Apple weighed hiring a senior Meta AI exec — Apple is intensifying the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus as executive succession looms.
More: AppleInsider, Wired, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Neowin, Digit, Benzinga, Appleosophy, iPhone in Canada, Wccftech, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, iThinkDifferent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, iClarified, and Forbes
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police — The parking police in San Francisco always seem to know when a car has stayed just seconds too long at a curb or a meter has gone unfed.
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
A look at cost and viability concerns over small nuclear reactors in the US, as the government, tech companies, and investors bet on SMRs to power the AI boom — Small reactors could prove too costly to be viable despite $9bn investment in power for AI boom| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800+ applications since January and has 20 finalist sites — It wasn't how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon … | Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The European Securities and Markets Authority plans to centralize the regulation of stock exchanges, crypto companies, and clearing houses at an EU level — Esma chair says move would help boost bloc's capital markets by removing supervision from 27 separate authorities| Nikkei Asia: |
SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and seven from Vision Fund 2 into new holding company SoftBank Robotics Group — TOKYO — SoftBank Group's decade-old Pepper robots have served as a mascot for the technology company, but the Japanese business … | Bloomberg: |
A basket tracking stocks of 10 European data center operators and infrastructure providers surged 23% in 2025, topping the Nasdaq 100, driven by the AI boom — As the artificial intelligence frenzy drives global equities to record highs, in Europe the momentum is flowing into industries critical to powering the technology.
More: Bloomberg
| Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Sources: Monzo is considering a new application for a US banking license, hoping for approval amid Trump's deregulation push, after dropping a 2021 attempt — UK neobank hopes fresh application will be approved amid Trump's push for deregulation — Monzo is considering a new application … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based Heidi Health, which is developing AI agents to assist doctors, raised a $65M Series B led by Point72, taking its total raised to $96.6M — Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon, and everywhere, he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change, so he set out to build it.
More: Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, NZ Herald, Heidi Health, and Sky News. LinkedIn: Heidi Health
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Veeam, which offers data backup and disaster recovery tools, is in advanced talks to acquire data privacy management software maker Securiti for ~$1.8B — Veeam Software is in advanced talks to buy data privacy management software maker Securiti for about $1.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Polars, the startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel — Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million … Sponsor Posts
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