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Sony's decision to end physical PlayStation game discs by January two thousand twenty eight is drawing serious pushback. A petition to reverse the move has gathered more than two hundred fifty thousand signatures, and second-hand retailer musicMagpie is warning that without a resale market, consumers will face higher prices and fewer ways to shop around. It's a familiar tension between convenience and control.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a new Google Cloud report finds that eighty-three percent of organizations say they need to overhaul their infrastructure before they can meaningfully deploy agentic AI. IT leaders are flagging hidden costs too, including power consumption and operational complexity. The ambition is clearly there, but the foundation underneath it is still catching up.
And on the regulatory side, the European Union is preparing to revise its MiCA crypto law in two thousand twenty seven to bring foreign stablecoin issuers under its umbrella. The push comes in part as a response to the Trump administration's embrace of stablecoins, with Brussels signaling it won't let non-EU players operate in European markets without oversight.
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