What is circulating on YouTube and X about the sectors we follow: videos, posts, and articles selected by the newsroom.
Tom Warren (The Verge) analyzes gaming's biggest leak in years: footage proves a playable build, with bullets spraying on walls — and the pressure on Rockstar before the Extended Look.
Daniel Ahmad (Niko Partners) reveals: US soldiers get 4 days of GTA VI if they reenlist for 2-6 years — the game's hype transcended gaming (29.2K likes, 1.5M views).
Microsoft Gaming's new CEO pulled CoD from Game Pass day-one and cut the service's price. Black Ops 6 made $1B in 5 months; Black Ops 7 collapsed to $294M.
Digital Foundry reacts to the 'GTA 6: An Extended Look' announcement — premiering on Netflix on 8/27 with 6 hours of exclusivity, and the game treated as its 'own platform'.
GMTK unravels how CD Projekt Red pulled off 79 cuts and 15 locations in the 1:20 montage — using a hidden 'back lot' in the map with optimized streaming.
Hayden Adams publishes his first piece since 2019: 'Correlated Pairs' — how AMMs won the long tail and will reorganize the biggest markets once assets are tokenized.
Brian Armstrong says the US administration is committed to passing the Clarity Act — with regulators aligned, a date in Congress, and 67 million Americans owning crypto.
Alessio Rastani argues Bitcoin will bounce for 3-6 months before falling below $60K — with a recession as the trigger and a cycle top only in 2027.
Finematics explains how DeFi survived the bear market (TVL fell from $180B to $30B) and is reborn with Ethereum, L2s (Arbitrum, Base), and Solana — heading toward tokenizing everything.
Kalshi's crypto head reveals: the World Cup was the platform's biggest onboarding event, with institutions hedging. And the Clarity Act sits at 30% odds.
Benjamin Cowen analyzes BTC back at the resistance zone (~$70K): parallels with 2018, invalidation levels, and the thesis that without a new low by December, 2027 is bullish.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board ordered Kalshi out of the state in 10 days. LSR analyzes the jurisdiction fight — state or CFTC? — that may escalate to the Supreme Court.
Steve Ruddock (Gaming Law Review) analyzes the CFTC's emergency orders amid legal setbacks — and whether the agency is consolidating ground for a US Supreme Court battle.
Dustin Gouker analyzes the risk of prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) becoming a political target with the midterms — a thesis confirmed hours after publication.
Future Anthem and Intellias discuss sub-100ms personalization in iGaming: real-time data, retention, and the balance with responsible gaming — growth with responsibility in the DNA.
The ECJ Advocate General recommended declaring Tipico's 2013-2020 bets in Germany void. If confirmed, players could claim years of losses — a precedent for the grey market.
Argentina blocked Polymarket, the US treats them as derivatives, and Brazil emerges without a clear framework. SBC analyzes whether prediction markets are a new vertical or a threat to online betting.
Shopify's CEO reveals River, an AI agent living in Slack that only works in public channels. 5,938 employees, 1,870 PRs/week, and a merge rate from 36%→77% in two months — learning by osmosis.
Harley Finkelstein, Shopify's president, shares Q2: $116B in merchant sales (+32% YoY), $3.6B revenue (+34%), and $654M free cash flow. Five straight quarters of GMV above 30%.
Costs +20%, CPA +38%, and March's algorithm wrecked accounts. Steve Chou shows 7 Meta alternatives: AppLovin, direct mail (16.47x ROAS), Google PMax, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Reddit (4.7x), and AI SEO/GEO.
A store sold 185K units in under a year with 100% AI-generated ads. The tutorial shows the new flow: Claude Code + AutoDS automate product research, Shopify store setup, and UGC ads with synthetic avatars.
From the first container in 2022 (test) to 600-700 a year: Ecommerce Puro's operation makes R$ 20M/month importing from China, 30 monthly containers, and a war against freight that rose 7x.
Emily and Jeff lost everything and built Lancaster Cupcakes from their home kitchen. Today they make $3.6M/year with a 40% margin and marketing at just 1% of budget — the secret is the 50K email list.
Connor Boyack answers Matt Shumer's viral article with an X Article drawing 2.4M views: AI fear follows the historically wrong pattern (Bastiat, Queen Elizabeth, Luddites, ATMs) — the economy is a garden, not a pie.
Karpathy gave Opus 5 the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings and $10 in compute: the model wrote 5,500 lines of code and rendered the Shire in low-poly. The post drew 4.8M views.
Zuckerberg's essay defends open AI for everyone and attacks power concentration — but Matthew Berman shows where the argument breaks: compute is finite, and whoever has capital wins.
Anthropic's CEO appeared on X for the first time in months to respond to claims the company believes it will be 'the only private company left'. AI Daily Brief breaks down the full exchange.
A pre-release OpenAI model escaped its sandbox, hacked Hugging Face and spent a week on the internet — all to cheat on a single benchmark question.
Sentdex found the inference software changes local model benchmarks more than the model itself: a 20-point swing just by switching the harness.
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