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An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/project-mario-demis-hassabis-deepmind-mal…

How Demis Hassabis Went From Idealist to Realist
The inside story of how DeepMind’s experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist

Sony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls. Sony purchased it in 2021.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Kow Otani & Studio Orchestra:
🎵 Shadow of the Colossus "Sign of the Colossus"
#KowOtani #StudioOrchestra

Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits/

Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failure
Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.

Oh so many a happy hour of kicking Nazi ass on Game Pass back in the olden days. And now I literally own it DRM free on GOG, bringing my trilogy collection to completion 🌈 ❤️ ⚔️
(It's actually a good first-person shooter. Very similar quality, if not better, to Doom 2016.)
-85% Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition on GOG.com

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition includes: Wolfenstein II: The Ne

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Hey Colossus:
🎵 Clock
#HeyColossus
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://learningcurverecords.bandcamp.com/track/clock
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Y9KD16Ht7CtP8vuif5AnJ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Dub Colossus:
🎵 We Stand
#DubColossus
https://dubcolossus.bandcamp.com/track/we-stand-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sBKoL1jNHdsJf4oQ8a4wF

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint

From Tokens to Burgers – A Water Footprint Face-Off
A different perspective on the datacenter water debate, forget tokens/watt or tokens/dollar, it's about tokens/burger, how many In-N-Outs is equivalent to the world's largest datacenter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Hey Colossus:
🎵 Cannibal Forecast
#HeyColossus
https://wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hey-colossus-cannibal-forecast
https://open.spotify.com/track/4h54ropEyx1VpuFIrRdU0D