Valve's Steam Machine: Pricing Set (Oof!), Preorder Lottery Open Now, Shipping Soon

The Steam Deck dominates gaming on the go, and the Steam Machine looks to conquer the living room. [...]

Most corporate transformations fail because no one agrees on a plan. Pandora did

Most corporate transformations fail because executives never truly agree on a plan. The fix is forcing disagreement into the open before executing [...]

SpaceX stock plunged below its IPO-day close, shedding $400 billion in market value

Anyone who bought SpaceX stock in the open market after its first trading day is now underwater on those purchases [...]

Rockstar finally reveals pricing for Grand Theft Auto 6

Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost $80 when pre-orders open on June 25th at midnight. [...]

How Shopify built an AI stack that doesn't care which models survive

Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, [...]

Google will open the Play Store to outside billing on June 30

Google will allow developers to offer alternative billing in the US, the UK and Europe starting on June 30. [...]

Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interac [...]

Peppa Pig Contract Backlash Is the Latest Over the Use of AI in Entertainment

A group representing child actors is criticizing contracts that would allow AI to reuse a child's voice. [...]

Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice

A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a window open. On 26 June, six months after the world-first measure too [...]