The global video game business is bigger than ever, with an estimated $195 billion in revenue from game-related software, add-ons and content (but not including hardware). So why, with so many players, and so much money, are so many companies and people in the industry struggling? Two new annual studies on the state of the
In Brief Posted: 2:26 PM PDT · March 8, 2026 Image Credits:Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg / Getty Images ModRetro, the vintage gaming startup by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise funding at a $1 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in…
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the AI company said it would fight that designation in court. OpenAI, meanwhile, quickly announced a deal of its own, prompting backlash that saw users uninstalling ChatGPT and pushing Anthropic’s…
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The global economy looks resilient, but the energy shock from the Iran war could flip the script, including for the U.S., which is still battling inflation in the final stretch. In a sitdown interview with Bloomberg, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva dropped a …
Jean Chatzky wants you to succeed in planning finances for the long term. She’s got a way of putting her advice in a succinct way. “Get out of your own way,” she says. In my many years of reporting on personal finance challenges Americans face, that recommendation stands out as a blunt — but …
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Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is attempting to change that by allowing the general public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some of the most exciting private companies operating today.” To do this, the company that pioneered the commission-free brokerage model has secured access to eight…
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