Susanne Barton / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut  —  Microsoft Corp. said on Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut.

Final Fantasy Tactics remake director Kazutoyo Maehiro loves a truly deep-cut NES game starring a '90s Disney duo.

Christian Catalini / Forbes:
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more  —  Stripe just pulled back the curtain on Tempo, its corporate blockchain, and the pitch is a classic.

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:

And so you can’t help but wonder if part of the equation in this settlement wasn’t decidedly more cynical. Fresh off a new massive fundraise — one in which they raised far more than they were initially targeting, I might add — Anthropic has a lot of money. More than perhaps all but one of their competitors on the startup side. By settling for $1.5B, is Anthropic sort of pulling up a drawbridge, making it so that other startups can’t possibly come into their castle? I mean, am I crazy?

I’m not so sure I am. At $1.5B, there are only a handful of companies that could afford to pay such fines. Certainly OpenAI is one. Maybe xAI. And of course all the tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. But could any other startup that has done any level of model training with such data? Probably not.

Kind of dastardly when you think about it this way.

As a Dungeon Master, sometimes you'll have to take stuff away from your players. How do you handle something that could shatter your DnD group?