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Life is Strange director says her official adaptation will honor the game

Horror director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Jennifer's Body) shares her approach to bringing Don't Nod's narrative time-travel game to TV.

Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue  —  QuTwo, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million …

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the Voting Rights Act that required some states to draw a minimum number of majority-Black or majority-Latino legislative districts. The GOP justices’ decision has already kicked off another round of skirmishes in the gerrymandering wars.  Louisiana suspended its US House elections until […]

Sources: Denver-based, Blue Owl Capital-owned Stack Infrastructure is considering selling all or some of its Asia data center operations in an up to $30B deal (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Denver-based, Blue Owl Capital-owned Stack Infrastructure is considering selling all or some of its Asia data center operations in an up to $30B deal  —  Stack Infrastructure Inc., a data center company owned by Blue Owl Capital, is considering options including a sale of its Asia operations …

How Many NYC Jobs? State SNAFU Brings Confusion

When the Independent Budget Office and the city comptroller released their annual economic and budget review late last year, they projected that New York City would add about 40,000 jobs in 2025, mostly home health care jobs. But when the final numbers came out in the spring, the state labor department said the city had […]

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