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Wizards of the Coast President Departs Amid Hasbro's Project Write-Downs; Databricks Manages AI Spend

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John Hight, the president of Wizards of the Coast, is departing the company after two years. This announcement follows a recent $56 million impairment charge taken by Hasbro, the parent company, due to canceled video game projects. Separately, Databricks is implementing Unity AI Gateway Budgets to manage its internal spending on coding agents as software development practices evolve. AI

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Wizards of the Coast President Departs Amid Hasbro's Project Write-Downs; Databricks Manages AI Spend

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🎮 Wizards of the Coast president is stepping down after just 2 years on the job John Hight's looming departure was revealed just a week after Hasbro took a $56

    🎮 Wizards of the Coast president is stepping down after just 2 years on the job John Hight's looming departure was revealed just a week after Hasbro took a $56 million impairment arising from cancelled videogame projects. 📰 Source: Latest from PC Gamer 🔗 Link: https://www.pcgamer…

    LINKS pcgamer.com/…/wizards-of-the-coast-presid…
  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📊 How Databricks manages its own coding agent spend with Unity AI Gateway Budgets At Databricks, the way we build software is changing quickly as we aggressivel

    📊 How Databricks manages its own coding agent spend with Unity AI Gateway Budgets At Databricks, the way we build software is changing quickly as we aggressively adopt... 📰 Source: Databricks 🔗 Link: https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-databricks-manages-its-own-coding-agent-spen…

    LINKS databricks.com/…/how-databricks-manages-i…

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