CNBC: SoftBank’s OpenAI bet and rising debt are raising liquidity crunch concerns. “SoftBank’s ascent to becoming Japan’s most valuable company has put the spotlight on the conglomerate, raising questions about whether it is taking on too much risk through its highly leveraged bet on artificial intelligence.”

New blog post: GTA 6 Devs Unionise: About Bloody Time

The hype for GTA 6 is off the charts, but news of developers unionising at Rockstar puts a different spin on the reality of massive game development. Makes you wonder about the cost of all that perfection.

https://rhodzy.com/blog/gta-6-devs-unionise-about-bloody-time

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Samsung shows first HBM5 mockup with Heat Path Block cooling — thermal race with SK hynix shaping up

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/samsung-shows-first-hbm5-mockup-at-computex-with-heat-path-block-cooling

Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts — luxury goods sales rocket nearly 150% in Gyeonggi Province semiconductor belt

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/korean-tech-workers-splash-cash-on-luxury-brands-after-bumper-bonus-payouts-luxury-goods-sales-rocket-nearly-150-percent-in-gyeonggi-province-semiconductor-belt

Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/trump-signs-ai-executive-order-seeking-30-day-government-access-to-frontier-models-before-release

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-unveils-project-solara-ai-a-chip-to-cloud-platform-built-to-power-a-new-generation-of-agent-first-enterprise-devices-hardware-designed-to-run-ai-agents-instead-of-traditional-apps

Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/github-copilot-customers-suffer-from-sticker-shock-as-microsoft-switches-to-usage-based-pricing-customers-report-up-to-100-fold-price-hikes

Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/toms-hardware-unfiltered-computex-2026-day-2-interviews-roundtables-and-the-first-day-at-the-nanggang-exhibition-center

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https://dofthings.substack.com/p/when-tech-realism-becomes-ideology?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I can't sleep. I can write. So I'm writing..

Let me tell you a story. About an engineer that's been in tech for 15 years, burned out three times, left the industry, started systemic training, and then realized what they had been taught in school was not only incomplete, it was actively misleading.

Not because of bad actors (although these exists, newsflash, I know). But from the geometry of composition. The structure of who talks to whom, when, in which order, produced properties that none of the individual parts had — the composed system's complexity exceeded the regulatory variety any single actor had been built to handle. Ashby's law, applied to alignment: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The parts were sized for themselves. The composition exceeded their variety.

(Are we talking about AI or are we talking about humans? Yes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

#TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineering #Burnout #TechBurnout #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #Cybernetics