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Tech Brew Ride Home

Google and Epic Settle

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Google and Epic Games settle their beef. Ripple wants to claim the stablecoin crown. Hyperscalers are about to claim the power generation equivalent to 40 million homes. And the wonkiest analysis I’ve seen in a while on whether or not AI can scale productivity in some sort of up and to the right way. Google proposes app store reforms in settlement with ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games (Reuters) Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal (The Verge) Citadel Securities and Fortress take stakes in Ripple at $40bn valuation (FT) How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far? (Financial Times) Amazon Sues to Stop Perplexity From Using AI Tool to Buy Stuff (Bloomberg) Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics (Windows On Theory) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the TechBoo Ride Home for Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Google

0:09.1

and Epic Games settle their beef. Ripple wants to claim the Stablecoin Crown. Hyper-scalers are about

0:15.1

to claim the power generation equivalent of 40 million homes, and the wonkiest analysis I've seen in a while on whether or not

0:22.3

AI can scale productivity in some sort of an up-and-to-the-right way.

0:27.1

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1:28.7

Google and Epic Games have settled Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit with Android and Google Play

1:34.8

changes as concessions to expand competition and choice pending a U.S. judge's approval,

1:41.7

quoting Reuters.

1:42.9

In a joint filing in the federal court in San Francisco,

1:45.7

the company's asked U.S. District Judge James Donato to consider a proposal resolving Epic's

1:51.2

20-20 antitrust lawsuit, which accused Google of illegally monopolizing how users access apps

1:55.8

and make in-app purchases on Android devices. Google has denied any wrongdoing throughout the closely watched

2:01.9

litigation. The proposal requires Donato's approval. The judge oversaw a jury trial in 2023 that Epic

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