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Microsoft's gaming ambitions are taking a serious hit. The Economist reports the company's strategy has misfired badly, raising hard questions about the Activision Blizzard acquisition and whether spending nearly seventy billion dollars on gaming can actually translate into sustainable growth. The trade-off between scale and execution is proving costly.
Shifting to something with real-world stakes, researchers have found that spider venom can kill varroa mites, one of the most destructive threats to honeybee colonies globally, without harming the bees themselves. If this holds up at scale, it could be a meaningful breakthrough for agriculture and food security, where chemical treatments have long been a blunt and risky instrument.
And in the world of capital, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek, managing over four hundred billion dollars in assets, says it plans to dramatically expand its AI investments over the next five years. Around six percent of its portfolio already sits in AI companies including OpenAI, and the fund is signaling that number is heading much higher. When patient, long-horizon money moves this decisively, it tells a story.
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