Mika Games invests M in Punko.io developer Agonalea Games

Mika Games invests $2M in Punko.io developer Agonalea Games

Source: Venture Beat Mika Games Invests $2 Million in Hybrid-Casual Game Set to Surpass Plants vs. Zombies A gaming fund launched by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov invests in Agonalea Games, the Buenos Aires-based studio behind Punko.io, the hybrid-casual tower defense game that delivers the mid-core experience players crave. With the product model’s revenue surg… Read…

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Why DOGE is dismantling the CFPB

Why DOGE is dismantling the CFPB

Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years…

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The tariff apocalypse has not been canceled

The tariff apocalypse has not been canceled

Source: The Verge Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into…

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OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1

OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1

Source: The Verge OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the company’s plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what I’m expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o…

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