The numbers are more complicated than the headlines suggest. They are not, despite what some CEOs would have you believe, a clean story of robots replacing humans wholesale.
Bungie's extraction shooter *Marathon* is currently in players' hands — at least for a long weekend — and the results are about what you'd expect from a genre that has never quite figured out how to be fun for everyone.
Riot Games has never been a company content to sit still. For better or worse — and I'd argue frequently the latter — they've spent the past seventeen years turning League of Legends from a game into an entire cultural apparatus.
There is a number worth sitting with for a moment: 426 terawatt-hours. That is how much electricity U.S. data centers are projected to consume by 2030.
There is a sentence buried inside a Pentagon memo from January that may determine the future of one of the most valuable artificial intelligence companies on earth.