yuijinx announced that it is shutting down after receiving serious pressure to shut down its operations from Nintendo.
Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch Emulator that will no longer be playable due to intervention from the video game company. The open-source emulator was used for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Ryujinx was used as a hardware or software program that enabled a computer system called the host to behave like another computer system which is called the guest.
The emulator’s creator, Gdkchan, was contacted by Nintendo this Monday and was offered an agreement, according to one of the developers who posted on X.
He wrote ”Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he's in control of," the announcement reads. "While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it's safe to say what the outcome is. Rather than leave you with only panic and speculation, I decided to write this short message to give some closure."
This event occurred after in March, Yuzu, Ryujinx’s main competitor, was sued out of existence. Even more so, Ryujinx’s download page no longer exists. With it, the social media platforms of the emulator are no longer in use.
“Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he’s in control of,” wrote Ripinperiperi, one of the main developers on X. “While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it’s safe to say what the outcome is,” he added. The rest of the message was a eulogy to the developers and the work that they have put into it.
However, even though emulators are not illegal, some legal theories suggest that Nintendo could have won a possible case against Ryujinx due to some copy protection mechanisms.
Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI Raises $6.6B and is Now Valued at $157B (Unsplash) OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in investment, leading to a company valuation of $157 billion. The artificial intelligence company closed one of the largest VC rounds of all time.
As of today, ChatGPT’ s mother company made a public announcement where they talked about the $6.6 billion investment that got them to a $157 billion post-money valuation. This investment round is led by previous investor Thrive Capital, leading to a total raise of $17.9 billion as of Crunchbase .
Even more so, Thrive Capital invested around $1.3 billion with an exclusive option of investing through 2025 up to $1 billion more at the same valuation. Along with Thrive Capital, at the fundraising Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBanck, Altimeter Capital, Fidelity, MGX, and Khosla Ventures also participated.
Sources from The Wall Street Journal show that Microsoft invested a little less than $1 billion, while Nvidia only came with $100 million, while SoftBank invested $500 million.
As a response, OpenAI wrote on their blog that “The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems,” and that “We’re grateful to our investors for their trust in us, and we look forward to working with our partners, developers, and the broader community to shape an AI-powered ecosystem and future that benefits everyone.”
Yet, The Financial Times revealed this morning that OpenAI asked investors to avoid the possibility of investing in rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI.
This investment brought OpenAI into a startup category of its own, putting the San Francisco company valuation above any other artificial intelligence company such as Elon Musk’s xAI or Antrophic.
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup raised over $6 billion earlier this year and got the artificial intelligence company to a $24 billion post-money valuation. On the other hand, Anthrophic, OpenAI’s rival obtained over $9.7 billion since its founding.
Amazon Faces US Labor Board Complaint Over 'Joint Employment' of Drivers (Unsplash) Amazon faces serious accusations after illegal denying of bargain with a union that represented drivers that have been employed by a contractor. The acquisitions were made by a U.S. labor board, claiming that Amazon discouraged union activities in a facility from Palmdale California.
The National Labor Relations Board also known as NLBR reported that Amazon allegedly is a “joint employer” of drivers that were employed by the Battle Tested Strategies (BTS).
BTS drivers voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union last year, ending up being the first Amazon delivery contractors to unionize. The allegations brought against Amazon by the NLBR complained about how Amazon Broke the Law when it terminated its contract with BTS after the drivers had formed a union, without first negotiating with the Teamsters.
As a response Eileen Hard, Amazon’s spokesperson reported that the NLBR was “misinterpreting facts” as they had not included many details. Eileen Hard said “As we’ve said all along, there is no merit to any of their claims. We look forward to showing that as the legal process continues and expect the few remaining allegations will be dismissed as well,"
It is also worth noting that Amazon has stated in the past that they do not have enough control over driver’s conditions in order to be considered their joint employer. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said as a response “This decision brings us one step closer to getting Amazon workers the pay, working conditions, and contracts they deserve”.
Ever since the Obama administration, the NLRB standards on whether or not companies are considered and qualify as joint employers have shifted. The case against Amazon will be heard next March by the administrative judge in Los Angeles.
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